Halifax regional council voted unanimously on Tuesday to start a process to close a part of Summer Street in order to shift the location of a controversial proposed hospital parking garage. "It's an option to explore how we can make the province's QEII site a little bit larger to support having the power plant and parkade on that site." In its current proposal, the parkade would have up to 900 spaces and would be built south of the Museum of Natural History on Summer Street. The proposal also indicates a new power plant for the Halifax Infirmary would be constructed on the other side of the museum at Summer Street and Bell Road. "So that could be narrowing Summer Street or realigning Summer Street, or it could be making it a one-way," Mason told council.

Source: CBC News February 11, 2020 20:48 UTC