Halifax Transit

[someone123]

My point with the Switzerland example isn't that that's what should be built in Halifax, it's that the state of the art has moved far beyond what people in Halifax tend to discuss. The scale of public works in other places is also much larger, even on a per-capita basis, than what people consider possible in Halifax. Halifax is also far behind the times in terms of the transit vehicles and technologies that tend to be discussed. Basically, it's always 1982 in NS it seems, at least when it comes to transportation. $1B will always be scary and until the end of time the dream will be to reinstate 1970's-era passenger rail.

This wasn't always so. Around 1900 the city built a rail line through kilometers of supposedly difficult to deal with rock, and in the 1950's the city built one of the largest suspension bridges around. It's hard to imagine analogous projects happening today.