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Originally Posted by hipster duck
I don't know Halifax too well so I'm armchair commenting, but Rainnie Dr. - the street that's slated to be pedestrianize - looks like it's very peripheral in nature. Based on apperances, it looks like it mostly serves as a slip lane for the occasional eastbound driver who wants to avoid the Cogswell-Gottingen intersection and free on-street parking for people who want to visit nearby things. Losing it doesn't sound like it will affect traffic patterns much.
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That's pretty much correct. It will infrequently see heavy traffic when there's some kind of big event happening downtown and a whole lot of people trying to cram in all at once (an event at the Scotiabank Centre, or a parade, or something) but it's a very minor street, in general.