[Dartmouth] 112-114 Wyse Road | 74 m | 22 fl | Approved

[someone123]

Why does the bridge even have a toll plaza these days? The toll bridges around here either go by transponder or they take a picture of the vehicle license plates. Traffic flows normally across the bridge and there are no special tie-ups created on either end.

Ultimately the bridge has 3 vehicle lanes and will be the bottleneck around that area. Having a toll plaza that fans out to 10 lanes will make traffic much worse by creating extra merging. Wyse is similar. It is possible to artificially create traffic tie-ups by adding lots of extra lanes that don't ultimately go anywhere, and Halifax is full of these because they were added around the 50's-70's for traffic expansion projects that were never completed. Another possibility would be to adapt the lanes to the flow on the bridge. There is no reason to have 1 lane of traffic from the bridge that is served at off-peak times by 7 lanes on the connecting streets.