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Originally Posted by Waye Mason
You are ignoring the fact that the population is growing at a good clip, so even if you drive modal split and it doubles and doubles again you still end up with more car drivers. The population of Halifax will hit 600K between 2023 and 2033. There will be more cars, even if half of all new residents start using transit that is still tens of thousands of new cars.
No one is more supportive of transit and cycle infrastructure than me. I'm not talking about new highways, but there to say "don't change anything" is silly. I for one as a cyclist look forward to the Cunard/Chebucto road realignment through the Needs parking lot at Windsor, this is just one example of a needed small fix that is good for everyone.
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No, you're ignoring that Halifax's road capacity is already very robust for its population compared even to other cities in Canada. Vancouver's North Shore population of 177,000 is connected by 2 harbour crossing bridges containing 9 lanes in total (19,667 people per lane). Montreal's south shore containing about 752,000 is connected to the city by 20 road lanes (37,500 people per lane). By comparison, Dartmouth, Cole Harbour and environs is around 95,000 connected by 7 lanes, or only 13,571 per lane.
So sure, we're going to need more capacity at some point but we're nowhere near that yet. I agree that making small changes to improve traffic efficiency can be a good thing but only if we don't use it as an excuse to justify putting off making other more important, longer-term changes.
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