Some Halifax residents frustrated with proposal to widen Robie Street
“Nobody has seen a design. Not only does no one know about it, they don’t know how it’s going to impact them,” she said.
Howard Epstein, a resident of Robie Street and a former municipal councillor and MLA, said he refused to have the widening happen when he was in office and says that there are other priorities that should be looked at. “I think that they shouldn’t build or widen any more streets at all. They should take it right out of the city’s budget. They should maintain or repair the streets that we have now,” he said.Ryan Nearing, a spokesperson for HRM, said that the proposal will “improve transit reliability.”“It will ultimately encourage more people to use transit and support more compact and sustainable development,” he said.
Nearing said that the impacted property owners have been informed by municipal staff with the Robie Street Transportation Reserve. There will be a public hearing on the plan held by the municipality at Alderney Landing on Wednesday at 6 p.m.
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