HALIFAX — One of Atlantic Canada’s three largest fleet owners says the city of Halifax should reconsider a plan to restrict port-bound trucks from the congested and pedestrian laden downtown core and move them to a new truck-rail corridor to the south of town.

"We have got drivers who refuse to go on (Lower) Water Street in the summertime," Wes Armour of Armour Transportation Systems told The Chronicle Herald. "They just say, ‘I’m not going to be responsible for killing somebody.’ "

He suggested the city revisit the idea of using the CN rail cut in the south end to accommodate trucks too.

Wes Armour, president and chief executive officer of, told Halifax Port Days delegates this week he is concerned that there is going to be a serious truck accident downtown.

Nearly 300 trucks a day go through the downtown core to the Halterm container terminal.

According to the newspaper, widening the CN rail cut from a point near the Halterm terminal to the west end near Bayers Road was a potential project former premier Rodney MacDonald had hoped to see happen under the Atlantic Gateway.

It would have trucks and buses, emergency vehicles and bicycles; and because of that the $225 million cost made it prohibitive.

Armour said that make sense just to look at widening the corridor to only allow trucks beside the rail track.