Posted Jun 14, 2014, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
No, you're ignoring that Halifax's road capacity is already very robust for its population compared even to other cities in Canada. Vancouver's North Shore population of 177,000 is connected by 2 harbour crossing bridges containing 9 lanes in total (19,667 people per lane). Montreal's south shore containing about 752,000 is connected to the city by 20 road lanes (37,500 people per lane). By comparison, Dartmouth, Cole Harbour and environs is around 95,000 connected by 7 lanes, or only 13,571 per lane.
So sure, we're going to need more capacity at some point but we're nowhere near that yet. I agree that making small changes to improve traffic efficiency can be a good thing but only if we don't use it as an excuse to justify putting off making other more important, longer-term changes.
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Very interesting figures. How many more people should be added to include those in Sackville and Bedford who cross the bridge to Halifax?
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