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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
You are assuming I mean right away. once somewhere like Musquoidoibot Harbour gets to the size of Truro, and if it were served by a rail link, then people may look further for some "piece and quiet".
That is how all the smaller communities get bigger.
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I don't think Musquodoboit Harbour will necessarily ever be the size of Truro. Historically it hasn't been a major growth centre within the HRM and the Regional Plan would see some growth happen there but not much (25% of the pop growth in HRM over the next 2 decades or so is projected to be in rural centres, but distributed among them). Even if MH was the size of Truro, it wouldn't make much sense to me to run commuter rail out there. It would basically be a self-fulfilling prophecy of stretching infrastructure to the point of inefficiency, especially if such a system actively encouraged people to live somewhere like MH but work downtown. IMO this is pretty much exactly the opposite of what we should be doing. The only way it would make sense, to me, is if there were ~ 15 Truro-sized towns along the rail line between downtown and MH.
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