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Originally Posted by KMcK
The completed Phase 1 looks good, although I noticed something unfortunate when looking at Halifax Transit's route map. Apart from two routes (1 and 29) turning in an out of the HSC driveway only two routes (8 and 28) currently use the new transit lanes and only 8 is a corridor route. This seems like a very expensive piece of infrastructure relative to its use, unless more routes are planned to use it (BRT, maybe?).
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The Purple Line BRT will use the corridor as well. That route will run from Larry Uteck West to Dartmouth Crossing.
Also the 330 - Tantallon MetroX uses the corridor. It just doesn't have any stops along this section.
The 8 is something like the 4th/5th busiest route in the system right now and it's long length makes this transit priority a major boost even if it's seldom used by other routes. Once Phase II is built the 8 will have a transit priority corridor from Robie/Quinpool outbound to Bayers/102 (minus a short gap at Robie/Young).
I'm interested to see what street gets the next transit priority corridor built. My hope is Herring Cove Road but other options might be easier to build first.
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