Armdale Rotary
The Armdale Rotary is a roundabout in the Armdale district of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The point at the headwater of the Northwest Arm had been the site of the old Arm Bridge, entrance to Halifax, where a stream that fed the Arm had run under a road bridge carrying the Herring Cove Road, on the old city boundary.[1][2]
The 1946 Master Plan for the redesign of the city called for reconstruction of this area, to be one of a number of modernized road intersections throughout the city, either traffic circles or cloverleaf junctions.[1]
(6) Your Commission recommends the improvement of the Arm Bridge entrance to Halifax and the installation of modern traffic controls. (See recommendation No7).
[…]
Your Commission recommends that :
(7) Improvements be devised for circulation and control of traffic at important intersections by 'clover leafs', 'traffic circles' or other means.
— The Master Plan for the City of Halifax[3]
In the end, the Rotary was the only such roundabout constructed.[1] The intersection was a perennial problem as it did not cope well with post-World War Two growth in automobile traffic.[1] Made a simple four-way at-grade intersection after the Plan, with the previously raised bridge lowered and the culvert carrying the stream mostly hidden from view, it was turned into the present Rotary form in 1958.[4][1] This saw the removal of the old Arm Bridge entirely.[1][2]
The Rotary had unusual traffic rules. Traffic both on the roundabout and on its approach roads was required to merge in turn, alternately yielding to other vehicles and proceeding.[5] This caused significant confusion, even for locals,[6] and some danger when people not local to the area treated it per the conventional rules for roundabouts elsewhere.[5] This was finally brought into line with the more widely used rules for roundabouts in 2006, with physical modifications in 2007 making the "rotary" finally into a true "roundabout" under the definitions of the Nova Scotia Motor Vehicle Act that had been amended in October 2005.[7][8][9]
References
What supports what
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Naftel 2015, p. 155.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 MacLeod 2014, p. 12.
- ↑ MP 1945, p. 28,29.
- ↑ MacLeod 2014, p. 10,12.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mills & Mills 2003, pp. 57–58.
- ↑ Orkin 2013, p. 83.
- ↑ CBC 2006.
- ↑ Bodley 2006.
- ↑ Bundale 2014.
Sources
- Civic Planning Commission (1945-11-16). "THE MASTER PLAN for the City of Halifax" (PDF).
- Bodley, Laurie (2006-03-23). "Circular logic". The Coast.
- Bundale, Brett (2014-03-24). "Armdale Roundabout safety probed". The Chronicle Herald. Halifax. Archived from the original on 2018-07-01.
- MacLeod, Malcolm (2014). "Down the Arm". A Halifax Boyhood: Growing up on the city's outskirts in the 1940s and 50s. Formac Publishing Company. ISBN 9781459503281. Search this book on
- Mills, Jean Helms; Mills, Kern (2003). Making Sense of Organizational Change. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780415369381. Search this book on
- Naftel, William D. (2015). Halifax: A Visual Legacy: 200+ iconic photographs of the city from 1853 to the present. Formac Publishing Company. ISBN 9781459500464. Search this book on
- Orkin, David (2013). "Halifax, Dartmouth, and Around". Nova Scotia. Bradt Travel Guides. ISBN 9781841624549. Search this book on
- "Province clarifies rotary rules". CBC News. 2006-06-28.
Further reading
- Lenters, Mark (2010). "Rehabilitation of the Armdale Rotary" (PDF). Annual Conference of the Transportation Association of Canada.
- Regan, John W. (1928). "At The Arm Bridge". Sketches and Traditions of the Northwest Arm. Halifax: McAlpine. Search this book on (Sketches and traditions of the Northwest Arm at the Internet Archive)
External resources
- "Aerial or Halifax Area, 1966". Nova Scotia Archives.
Coordinates: 44°38′30.04″N 63°37′13.18″W / 44.6416778°N 63.6203278°W
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