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Originally Posted by alps
I'm not adverse to any and all road improvement but talk of an Arm bridge in particular seems pointless/wasteful to me.
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I think you are right if you are thinking in terms of Halifax not growing beyond say 450,000 - 500,000 people. This was the prediction from 10 - 15 years ago. However, if Halifax sees 15 - 20 years of strong growth (it has already seen 10 years of strong population growth) then these predictions will be discarded and new predictions will come out (statistical models are based on regressive models after all - the new regressive model will predict higher growth if based on a period of higher growth). The question might be better stated as; if the HRM grows to a much larger city of 600,000 or more people then where should the growth be located. Personally, I think a North West Arm crossing will be far cheaper than another harbour crossing. In other words, focus growth closer to the peninsula instead of in Dartmouth. It is possible to consider focusing growth in Dartmouth but major employment locations such as the hospitals and universities will continue to be on the peninsula.
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Good point, I hadn't thought of that issue -- but the idea they floated where a highway would be built alongside the CN trackage sounds more cost effective, and you could allow BRT routes to run down there too.
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Although this was the idea a couple years ago, it was found that such a solution would require increasing the width of the railcut which would mean replacing the Young and Tower street bridges. When this was taken into account, the cost estimates ballooned (it was around $280 million from what I remember).
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