Cogswell Interchange - Page 65

terrynorthend · #**1281** Posted **Sep 10, 2025, 6:01 PM**

I'm anxious for Nora Bernard to reopen to the roundabout. I usually take the Barrington route to head to the hospital district, because I don't like the long line waiting to turn left onto Gottingen from the Macdonald bridge. Currently I'm turning up Cogswell, but it will be nice to use Nora Bernard and avoid all the lane hopping down there.

someone123 · #**1282** Posted **Sep 10, 2025, 6:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by IanWatson

On a grand scale, yes I do think they're worth it. Somewhat like the bike lane network, they've histroically been limited in utility as they've been added on a piecemeal basis. However, as we get closer to having a proper network of them it's definitely starting to hit a critical mass where I see a real difference in my experience riding the bus (same with the bike lane network hitting a critical mass).

For the most part they seem to align with the transit plan routes which can evolve into BRT and LRT or streetcars.

I tend to think that transit only is better than transit and HOV. Cars vs. buses are very easy to identify and ticket. Towing is "free" from the municipality's perspective as it is at the owner's expense.

Keith P. · #**1283** Posted **Sep 10, 2025, 6:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Empire

If you are driving form Barrington north you will have to make three lane changes to reach Barrington south at the Delta.....

Sounds like typical HRM clean-sheet design.

MonctonDowntown · #**1284** Posted **Sep 11, 2025, 6:01 PM**

Would appreciate a photo or two of the work being done at Overlook Park. The webcam, as I posted above, only shows the SE corner of the work they are doing.

Thank you in advance.

ButterNutPecan · #**1285** Posted **Sep 12, 2025, 1:37 PM**

Who's going to the opening party?? I bet anyone who's anyone will be there! I expect everyone on this forum to make it!

https://haligonia.ca/street-party-planne...es-food-trucks-art-installations-313328/

Jstaleness · #**1286** Posted **Sep 16, 2025, 11:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by Keith P.

Sounds like typical HRM clean-sheet design.

IMO it's ridiculous. It creates at least 3 potential side swipe situations. In fact this morning a white truck almost wiped me and a motorcyclist out. Pay attention, put down the phone, and have your hand near the horn. It is a bad design. I don't know how anyone arguing unnecessary lane changes as a good thing.

Empire · #**1287** Posted **Sep 16, 2025, 12:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jstaleness

IMO it's ridiculous. It creates at least 3 potential side swipe situations. In fact this morning a white truck almost wiped me and a motorcyclist out. Pay attention, put down the phone, and have your hand near the horn. It is a bad design. I don't know how anyone arguing unnecessary lane changes as a good thing.

No one could go from Barrington North to Barrington South for the first time and not be totally confused. HRM is good at snarling traffic.

OldDartmouthMark · #**1288** Posted **Sep 16, 2025, 1:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jstaleness

IMO it's ridiculous. It creates at least 3 potential side swipe situations. In fact this morning a white truck almost wiped me and a motorcyclist out. Pay attention, put down the phone, and have your hand near the horn. It is a bad design. I don't know how anyone arguing unnecessary lane changes as a good thing.

on all points.

MonctonDowntown · #**1289** Posted **Oct 8, 2025, 4:28 PM**

Would greatly appreciate a few pics of Overlook Park as the webcam screenshot below is a big tease showing off just a small portion of it.

connect2source · #**1290** Posted **Oct 12, 2025, 10:10 AM**

Here's a couple from Barrington at ground level from Oct 10th.
Photos by me.

MonctonDowntown · #**1291** Posted **Oct 12, 2025, 3:48 PM**

Thank you very much for the photos @connect2source !!

I realize it is early, but Overlook Park looks disappointing. Not just in the execution but primarily due to the change in the design from having wide steps with a ramp built into the stairs to narrow steps and a separate ramp. If they had kept the original design with wide steps, it would have made it look grand and something that would draw people to want to climb. That design just looks like steps to nowhere.

Nouvellecosse · #**1292** Posted **Oct 12, 2025, 6:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by someone123

I tend to think that transit only is better than transit and HOV. Cars vs. buses are very easy to identify and ticket. Towing is "free" from the municipality's perspective as it is at the owner's expense.

I think that can go either way. Bus-only adds simplicity, but I can see it being more politically challenging since a lot most motorists can imagine themselves directly benefiting when carrying passengers even if they never use transit. Plus, depending on bus frequency at a given location, the lane could spend a lot of time looking empty and prompting nearby motorists to conclude that it's "a waste of space" even though it could easily be carrying more people per hour than an adjacent general traffic lane.

IanWatson · #**1293** Posted **Oct 14, 2025, 11:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonDowntown

Thank you very much for the photos @connect2source !!

I realize it is early, but Overlook Park looks disappointing. Not just in the execution but primarily due to the change in the design from having wide steps with a ramp built into the stairs to narrow steps and a separate ramp. If they had kept the original design with wide steps, it would have made it look grand and something that would draw people to want to climb. That design just looks like steps to nowhere.

Code and modern accessibility requirements make it extremely hard to do a “stramp”. Aligning the requirements for stair tread height with the required ramp slope is challenging. Then add on the fact that you need barriers to stop a wheelchair from rolling over the edge and it’s all but impossible.

Corker · #**1294** Posted **Dec 24, 2025, 5:23 PM**

Work appears to be completed at Cogswell. The last street to be finished, Amalamek Way which runs behind the wastewater facility is open. I couldn't tell if Nora Bernard is open but I suspect it is. The lot in front of the casino that was being used as a staging area has been cleared out in the last few days. I would guess they will wait until the spring to seed it like the other lots. If memory serves, this is the one already owned by Crombie, so it may be the first one to get actual construction activity.

Patrick Matthews · #**1295** Posted **Jan 14, 2026, 5:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Corker

Work appears to be completed at Cogswell. The last street to be finished, Amalamek Way which runs behind the wastewater facility is open. I couldn't tell if Nora Bernard is open but I suspect it is. The lot in front of the casino that was being used as a staging area has been cleared out in the last few days. I would guess they will wait until the spring to seed it like the other lots. If memory serves, this is the one already owned by Crombie, so it may be the first one to get actual construction activity.

I used NB former Cornwallis route between Christmas and NY. Nice option to have finally getting out of Scotia Square core.
The lights at Cogswell/Barrington cause gridlock getting out of SS between 4 and 6. Maddening. Obviously they want people taking busses, but standstill for several light cycles is avoidable.

Dartguard · #**1296** Posted **Jan 14, 2026, 5:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Patrick Matthews

I used NB former Cornwallis route between Christmas and NY. Nice option to have finally getting out of Scotia Square core.
The lights at Cogswell/Barrington cause gridlock getting out of SS between 4 and 6. Maddening. Obviously they want people taking busses, but standstill for several light cycles is avoidable.

Well Patrick they actually want you to take your Bike.

worldlyhaligonian · #**1297** Posted **Mar 24, 2026, 5:17 AM**

This streetscaping will probably look better in a few years when the grass is fixed and the trees have grown.

Source: https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/29504...rd-street-halifax-halifax?view=imagelist

someone123 · #**1298** Posted **Mar 24, 2026, 5:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by worldlyhaligonian

This streetscaping will probably look better in a few years when the grass is fixed and the trees have grown.

It is an improvement since it is replacing something very bad but so far the public space looks average to below average, with a lot of vague grassy space that's not appropriate for a downtown environment, not much effort or plan to improve these buildings that were designed to be located next to a traffic sewer. No sense of place; these new works could have gone in Clayton Park or Brampton or wherever.

Then there's the "own goal" of HRM putting a sewage treatment plant in the middle of its own large redevelopment area and putting an unnecessarily low height limit over the whole thing. They can still fix the height limit, but will they?

Keith P. · #**1299** Posted **Mar 25, 2026, 1:02 PM**

Posted this below in the ancient Spice development thread from 17 years ago, so providing the link here:

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=10573339&postcount=116

Fascinating to see how things have changed in this town over that time, where new builds are now popping up like dandelions.

ArchAficionado · #**1300** Posted **Mar 25, 2026, 9:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Keith P.

Posted this below in the ancient Spice development thread from 17 years ago, so providing the link here:

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=10573339&postcount=116

Fascinating to see how things have changed in this town over that time, where new builds are now popping up like dandelions.

Interesting how at the time there were mixed opinions on the facade look on this one. I'd reckon there still are. It's very 2000's chic, which is nostalgic for me as those were my childhood years, but admittedly it does not look great now.

I think the grey panel + glass curtain wall boxes will be looked back on with equal disregard 20-30 years from now.