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Originally Posted by halifaxboyns
I'm a planner DMJ...not a traffic guy.
Did anyone make it out to this meeting?
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It's a brain-dead job if that helps
All you have to think at HRM Traffic is how do I make it not work effeciently? Also "CCF" is important (Cars Come First). You will have to remove the words bicycle, cyclist, pedestrian and active transportation from your vocabulary. I kid you not I have had many fights with this guy over the years (somehow my emails go ONLY to him) and my last one was summed up like this; North Street is NOT considered a main road, crosswalks are not installed on two-lane roads, and crosswalks are banned for 200 metres from signalized intersections. For rebutal I pointed out the congestion on North Street, crosswalks on similar streets, and that many signalized intersections have crosswalks nearby. He responded by saying not all streets are equal and because unmarked crosswalks are legal cars will magically start obeying all traffic laws and allow you to cross.
Back on topic I and Alps attended. I gave a short speech in support of this project. In all over fifty people showed up and it was a 2:1 ratio of naysayers to supporters. There was a lot of talk about St. Joseph's Square, 5552 Kaye and the Young Street Towers which went either way. As per typical almost everybody was in favour of development, just not density of this amount. One thing that probably helped was the Genivar developer at the meeting lives in the neighbourhood so he was making personal connections with the proposal and its (positive) impact.