Spring Garden Rd Redevelopment

[someone123]

The whole street needs to be overhauled in a coherent way, from the Maritime Centre to at least South Park Street or preferably Robie. Now is an ideal time because there is so much other construction happening. Any public space in front of the new library for example should be tied in with the rest of the street. Now is also a good time to redo lighting if they are switching to LEDs.

Originally there was some kind of plan to do this but it got derailed by concerns over parking so now we have more indecision and half measures. Even if the parking was important it was not a valid reason to halt the whole planning process for years. Clearly other cities have managed to deal with this issue, because many of them seem to have executed one or more streetscaping plans. There are plenty of moribund rust belt cities with tumbleweeds blowing down main streets that are kept in better condition than the ones in Halifax. It's pretty sad.