Benefits
- Assesses cumulative impacts of multiple planned or proposed network changes.
- Identifies ways to better serve the needs of multiple modes of transportation.
- Provides recommendations to optimize the existing network on the Halifax Peninsula.
- Guides the design of transit priority measures that could support future Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service.
- Examines the efficiency and reliability of heavy trucks traveling to and from Halifax Port Authority facilities.
- Improves consistency in travel times.
Status
Link Nova Scotia released a request for proposal on December 10. In collaboration with HRM, the review will take a network-level view of key streets on the Halifax Peninsula and make recommendations to improve functionality. Proponents have until February 5 to submit their proposal.
The review will include detailed modelling work using the activity-based travel demand model owned by Link Nova Scotia and HRM. The tool simulates how, when and where people travel.
Action 1.1.3: Review the function of the Halifax Peninsula’s core streets and access corridors and implement suitable recommendations.
Completing a network level review of core streets on the Halifax Peninsula and transportation corridors connecting to it and provide a plan to help identify any changes to improve user safety, reduce travel time, and increase reliability to ultimately enhance the flow of people and goods through the most constrained areas. Findings could include recommendations to reconfigure the directional flow of key streets, reallocation of space within the right-of-way, prioritization of specific modes / uses, and further exploration of additional access points from the west. Monitoring and evaluation would be completed to measure peak-period travel times.
Goal 1 | Strengthen regional connections
Strategy 1.1 | Enhance the safety and efficiency
of the regional transportation system
Challenges Addressed
