HALIFAX: New Downtown & Express Routes Plan

Downtown Halifax sucks, thankfully the City is expanding and doing a lot of new renovations with new huge buildings in several key areas including better more open space Casino access and new Hospital Parking Garages.

In the Hospital area new City intersections are going in around the VG Hospital and a new Parking Garage near Quinpool Road effectively open the new four city block expanded Hospital area...if they update the Hospitals with new buildings...I purpose building all new Hospital buildings FIRST in the new four block area, then LATER removing the old VG and other Hospitals in the area after the new ones open.

Then those areas will be demolished for new Hospital space in the old VG and IWK Hospitals lots once they are torn down.

I made this map of a new purposed City road map that will match downtown Halifax traffic flow with Aiport Traffic flow coming in on the MacKay Bridge to Halifax Shopping Center...this road will need to be expanded into new four lane highway access for traffic in the new Hospital and Halifax Shopping Center areas.

The same at the in town route at the McDonald bridge, this will be expanded into new four lane Hospital & Halifax Shopping Center Access and will probably remove The Scotia Square for a new expanded Casino and Traffic area near the Halifax Waterfront.

This closes downtown Halifax into two areas, beneath the Hospital area are the historical landmarks and government buildings, this will be then expanded into new waterfront and park areas.

On the other side the foundations for new intersections and corner buildings have already closed old downtown and redirected traffic in the map I made of the new purposed route.

This demolished the North End which will be a new four lane road from the McDonald Bridge to the Halifax Commons and then up Quinpool Road to Halifax Shopping Center probably reducing traffic congestion by at least 1000% making the trip form the Mcdonald Bridge to Halifax Shopping Center about two minutes by car after the North End is removed.

New proper bike lanes separate from car traffic and matching sidewalks will have to be implemented on the new access roads.

This will also drastically reduce bus wait times in the new downtown center.

This diverts the new downtown area into the Halifax Shopping Center Area which will also have to connect to Bayers Lake Shopping area so also expect new four lane access roads in the Fairview area as they connect the new downtown to Bayers Lake.

This is not a coincidence as the City is expanding into the Peggy's Cove Peninsula which is about the same size as the Halifax Peninsula but is just forest...so expect Peggy's Cover to be inside Halifax as that is a city expansion area and hold the same size as another Halifax city block area.

Also affordable housing is needed for everyone in all areas plus new rebate cheques to lower monthly costs at some point.

Halifax Metro has also now been connected to Windsor and Truro areas so expect new Halifax Transit bus routes in those areas.

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