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Originally Posted by someone123
The other simple fact which I already mentioned is that Halifax is already the sprawliest city in Canada and most of that sprawl happens to be occurring far North of the city where it is easy to get around and where there are minimal planning restrictions. This is much worse than having new sprawl in Southern Dartmouth, particularly since it's shifting the centre of the whole region away from the urban core.
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The reason we have so much sprawl is because we have three highways - 101, 102, 103 for growth to spread out along. As these highways get twinned more growth happens along those corridors - check out Tantallon since the 103 got upgraded.
Sprawl happens because it's easy too move around by car. There is no guarantee this bridge is going to "shift" sprawl into Dartmouth South but it's almost guaranteed it will substantially increase sprawl in all parts of Dartmouth. There's not x amount of sprawl ready to happen in some part of HRM that this bridge will magically shift into a new location, rather it will allow more sprawl in general.
1.1 billion dollars to move cars around. This bridge is about cars - otherwise we would not be talking about 4 or six lanes.