Dear Short cutters,
I appreciate that you are in a hurry to get home. I understand you want to find a sneaky way to beat the crowd. However: Young street between Windsor was blocked off to stop you from cutting through young to get to connaught. (which did help a little). Between Windsor and Connaught on Young, it is a residential street, complete with children and pets playing near it. If you are one of those who believes Halifax is a courteous friendly city, then please respect that part of Young street is not meant for you to zoom past in rush hour mode and try to get into the bayer’s left turning lane before everyone else, thus causing a lot of unnecessary congestion, noise danger and grief. Thanks so much! —Calm Street
This article appears in Jan 19-25, 2012.
I grew up on Young & Connaught – shit, the traffic used to cut thru there in the 1960s – it’s so much better than it was so suck it up, honeybuns.
it was a four-way stop at oxford and bayers, i don’t know if the lights help or not. between windsor and connaught, it gets gridlocked at certain times of the day
Vroom, vroom….thanks for the short cut tip OB. I’ll pass it along.
I just can’t wait until they turn the stripmall at young n robie
into a huge apartment complex. You think there’s traffic now????
it’s gonna be ridiculous.
Personally, for the quickest routes, I just take that with the least lights…
that always seems to be the best way to get around in these parts.
They’re turning that into an apartment complex? What about my vidja games?!? 😛
it’s across the street from EB… don’t worry.
it’s places like Michael’s, pizza hut, etc… that place is proposed to be a high rise.
Interesting…
that *mall* is an interesting mishmash of stores, that i never shop at
I like the tattoo shop.. I don’t have any tattoos, have never been in there and never plan to but it looks so dirty and sketchy, a perfect fit for a strip mall. Do people actually go there?
I guess OB never took a short cut in their life, what a load of bunk. Get over it, people want to get home or where ever as quick as possible. As long as they are not picking off kids and critters suck it up, if they are going fast call the police and report it.
People are just in a hurry to get nowhere in particular OP, it’s just a fact of life.
Not enough planning.
take a look at how Calgary is built, every 14 blocks is a major road capable of moving thousands of cars per hour.
In Halifax, every 4 blocks is a parking lot during rush hour.
If you don’t believe me, try driving from BellAlliant building to Bayer’s road during rush hour. It doesn’t matter which way you go, they are all parking lots.
and you are going to stop them, how agan? with a bitch in the coast. newsflash there pallie, not everyone reads this paper, and if they do, they only get the hard copy version of it. and the only ones here to read are us bitch eaters, and you have been made toast as of now.
You’re in a city on a street near a major route in/out … you want a calm street … live in the country.