Funny, I got to Halifax in 1987, brought my crappy Canadian Tire 10-speed with me. I was biking home from my University Painters job, out Purcells Cove Road. Coming back to the south end, coming up Quinpool just after Armview when I was forced by traffic to ride into the parallel storm drain that ate my front rim and tire, then my back tire went in the gap, put an 8" dent in my rim, tore off my rear derailleur. I left my old bike where it died and I walked home.
Spryfield has substandard bicycle infrastructure and is on par with Sackville as probably some of the worst cycling communities in hrm. There's a new paved multi-use bike and pedestrian lane up next to where the new hospital is being built. It's ninety nine percent complete and connects the industrial park to blt chain of lakes trail .
For lower cost, lower exposure to whipping winds 50m above the water, and greater design flexibility (but possibly higher crossing time) I've been thinking about an urban gondola. An east end 'landing' could go at the corner of South and Oxford and leverage that little triangular park for space, and a west end landing could be put near Purcels Cove and Fleming, with corresponding bus route modifications on either end for transit connectivity. It would certainly make getting to Dal easier.
A tunnel might be a good solution both for visibility and to allow ships with any height to pass, I dont know how costs would compare against a bridge.
A tunnel would solve all the problems but be catastrophically expensive. This comes up with rail projects in larger cities: elevated rail is much cheaper than tunnels but there's political pressure to make projects invisible, which generally results in them being underground (expensive) or just not exist (common).
I thought the reason the bridge over the Arm never happened was because it would have been built in the most affluent neighborhood in the city, and they did not want the increased traffic a bridge would cause in their neighborhood.
That Dead Zone would be both easy (lots of open space!) and incredibly hard (all the roads are like six lanes wide, massive intersections). I probably can't just say "nuke it from orbit and begin again" in a video.
Funny, I got to Halifax in 1987, brought my crappy Canadian Tire 10-speed with me. I was biking home from my University Painters job, out Purcells Cove Road. Coming back to the south end, coming up Quinpool just after Armview when I was forced by traffic to ride into the parallel storm drain that ate my front rim and tire, then my back tire went in the gap, put an 8" dent in my rim, tore off my rear derailleur. I left my old bike where it died and I walked home.
Spryfield has substandard bicycle infrastructure and is on par with Sackville as probably some of the worst cycling communities in hrm. There's a new paved multi-use bike and pedestrian lane up next to where the new hospital is being built. It's ninety nine percent complete and connects the industrial park to blt chain of lakes trail .
For lower cost, lower exposure to whipping winds 50m above the water, and greater design flexibility (but possibly higher crossing time) I've been thinking about an urban gondola. An east end 'landing' could go at the corner of South and Oxford and leverage that little triangular park for space, and a west end landing could be put near Purcels Cove and Fleming, with corresponding bus route modifications on either end for transit connectivity. It would certainly make getting to Dal easier.
A gondola concept was *this* close to making it into the video.
A tunnel might be a good solution both for visibility and to allow ships with any height to pass, I dont know how costs would compare against a bridge.
A tunnel would solve all the problems but be catastrophically expensive. This comes up with rail projects in larger cities: elevated rail is much cheaper than tunnels but there's political pressure to make projects invisible, which generally results in them being underground (expensive) or just not exist (common).
I thought the reason the bridge over the Arm never happened was because it would have been built in the most affluent neighborhood in the city, and they did not want the increased traffic a bridge would cause in their neighborhood.
That probably doesn't help, but it stacks hard with "bridge fails cost/benefit" anyways.
Personally, as a resident of Klein Heights, I would like the designs to include some sort of bicycle escalator on Osborne Street
I have a hill I use nearby there that needs it's own fenicular
lol my work addled brain first read that as "Klan Heights" and I wondered if Halifax had some deep dark history that I wasn't aware of.
would be fascinated to hear about how to improve darmouth crossing, honestly
That Dead Zone would be both easy (lots of open space!) and incredibly hard (all the roads are like six lanes wide, massive intersections).
I probably can't just say "nuke it from orbit and begin again" in a video.