Crossing Halifax Harbour

[DigitalNinja]

I don't think that the per lane use of measure is very good. Anyone in all of Halifax can use the bridges any time of day. Also I'm not too sure about those other cities that you mentioned but I would think that the way Halifax is laid out people cross from both sides to get to work. There is a lot of business in dartmouth and burnside but also in halifax peninsula. Also the metric for measure on a bridge like the McDonald would be different as well. It's a bridge that doesn't lead to any highways it goes straight to downtown streets that can't handle a high volume of traffic. Where as Vancouver bridges or montreal can mostly lead to highways Halifax bridges really don't besides one side of the Mckay. This aspect alone greatly reduces the amount of traffic each lane can handle.