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Originally Posted by someone123
I'm not as familiar with traffic patterns in Halifax these days but I assume it's getting worse and it was already getting worse in the 2010's. I used to hear the trope that Halifax can't have traffic congestion as bad as in bigger cities but that's just wrong; tiny towns with bad infrastructure can have awful traffic. In practice, a lot of the bad areas in Halifax are as bad as what I've seen in many much larger cities, and there are lots of larger North American cities with more free-flowing traffic than Halifax.
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Traffic is still fine enough that the issue feels it can be punted, but on bad commuting days, or when there are major events in the city centre, the over-dependence on the automobile becomes very pronounced. There's no extra slack in the system either; Almon Street was shut down westbound for more than a month this fall as the street was rebuilt (bike lanes, utility and sewer replacement, paving, etc) and the result was that Young and North were both jammed up in ways they otherwise wouldn't have been. Any delay or accident or choke point seems to cascade through the whole traffic system.
It's not apocalyptic or anything. For someone like me, who doesn't regularly commute, traffic remains a minor annoyance. (Though there now seems to be a little midday, lunch-time mini-rush hour.) But the best time to deal with it congestion before it reaches some kind of crisis, and instead we're mostly just idly talking about it. Where's the JRTA report that was due in November?
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