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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
One of my pet peeves about Halifax (and I'm sure we're not unique in this respect), is the reactionary thinking that we have to create a problem before we solve it.
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It seems to depend on who is doing the planning. The province does pretty well with highways. They acquire land decades before it's needed, plan alignments, and adjust the construction schedule to the amount of growth that happens. Halifax should have had a plan laying out the path to higher capacity and higher frequency transit years ago, and that could have guided investments and where to do this kind of zoning and development. The infrastructure itself does not have to be built speculatively. It's also great to have these plans in place for when the federal government or province go through periods of infrastructure investment.
This mall development superficially looks like a bunch of others happening around Canada but there is no transit and the mall itself isn't really changing much. So it's a plan for a high density quasi-car-oriented suburb with so-so amenities and bad traffic.
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