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This culture can change over time though, and there will be pressure for it to change if population growth continues at the current pace. It's just too bad that infrastructure development is likely to be reactive, because it means many unnecessary years of travel delays.
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One can only hope. I think it's accurate to believe that it will be reactive, and that things will have to get worse before there is motivation to improve, unfortunately.
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Originally Posted by someone123
These old projects were enormously more ambitious than anything being built today. The proportional effort required for the ocean terminals project must have been well over 10x anything that HRM is looking at today. Also note that the rail cut went through a bunch of large estates and some houses were torn down for it.
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Yes. I think it's fair to state that projects like these would be much more difficult and expensive today because of labour and safety standards as well. But still, we aren't looking at doing anything even half ambitious today.
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