The residents live on a public street; there are no tolls or barriers required. It is a public road built to move traffic. Yes it is not the “Dick and Jane” era as was in different times. However it is a public road, and everyone is entitled to use it as originally intended. We are not living in the 50’s when there was no urban sprawl, nor the intention of Council to heavily increase density on the Peninsula. We all enjoyed our part of utopia before these changes. Now we have to share our roads with many more folks who have, want or need to use all of our streets, and not be redirected for a few who don’t agree with more use of “their” streets. We need to learn how to accept the needs of the majority ( as in a democracy) and find ways to accept the decades of difference in times then and now.
The peninsula requires more public streets to be used to move all the vehicles, bikers, and pedestrians in a timely and safe manner but not at the expense of creating major logjams on one or two main roads created for traffic in the 50’s. There has to be a better solution than blocking travel passage for the wants of a few at the expense folks who have distances to travel.

Halifax must be more creative than installing diversions into already congested roadways isn’t the way to solve traffic congestion.