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Originally Posted by someone123
The highways in metro Halifax are pretty gross but then again are an example of the kind of thing people don't tend to imagine when they try to extrapolate what the city is like based on other small cities in Canada. Halifax has a more developed highway system because the provincial highway converge there and because the geography and age of the city make it harder to build arterial roads.
Many of the other metro areas with a similar or smaller population in Canada (or even moreso in the US) are minor cities. In Halifax however a lot of the infrastructure is more characteristic of what you'd find in a medium-sized city. The airport's about the same size as Winnipeg's, the new convention centre that's being built is comparable to Ottawa's, etc. A lot of things are built for a region of 2 million people or a province of 1 million people, not a city with 400,000 people.
Another difference is that Halifax became a developed city much earlier than any other English-speaking town in Ontario and points west, and the Maritimes predate the existence of Canada as a country. Any attempt to approximate the city based on places in Ontario or Western Canada is going to be rough, at least if our concept of differences between cities is based on Canada. It is kind of a different animal.
The last interesting one that other Canadians tend not to realize is that NS and the Maritimes are somewhat densely populated. NS has under 1 million people, but about two thirds live within an hour's drive of Halifax. The central part of the region takes about 4 hours to drive around and has maybe 1.5 million people so. It's not like, say, Saskatchewan, even though the overall population looks similar. Nova Scotia is less than 1/10 the size of Saskatchewan and the population is unevenly distributed in a similar, though less dramatic, way.
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Fascinated how Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia compare according to having a binary pair of cities in one province and a primary city in another province.
Takes about 7 hours to drive across each province, Sydney to Yarmouth and Lloydminster diagonal to Estevan. Most people in Nova Scotia live close to Halifax, Most people in Saskatchewan live in either Saskatoon or Regina and about 95% within 2.5 hour drive of either city.
As far as services and infrastructure go, main sight for health care like MRIs machines in NS seems to be Halifax (3) but also rural areas have the machines (~5), in Saskatchewan MRIs are consolidated in Saskatoon (~5) and Regina (2)/MooseJaw(1). STARS air ambulance is operated from both Saskatoon and Regina heli bases, In Nova Scotia, EHS LifeFlight provides rotary & fixed wing services for NS, NB & PEI.
Interprovincial airline flights in Saskatchewan are split through YXE in Saskatoon and YQR in Regina with ~3million passengers total, Nova Scotia its largely through YHZ ~3.5millions passengers. Government and Education seems centralized in Halifax with smaller universities in rural NS, In Saskatchewan, government & crown corporations is mostly centralized in Regina but largest university and main science/research is in Saskatoon.
As far as highway infrastructure, Halifax/Dartmouth seems to have a extensive expressway system skirting the urban area, Saskatoon has Circle Dr that loops around the inner city and Regina has Ring & Lewvan expressway that donuts the inner city, plus soon to be highway bypass for entire city..
Anyway, thats all I can think of to compare these two provinces with differing number of hub cities in each, & how infrastructure is split.
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