Image with a steering wheel icon and the message: “Aggressive driving puts everyone at risk. Stay calm behind the wheel.” It lists tips: "allow extra travel time to reduce stress; obey speed limits and avoid cutting through side streets; stop fully at red lights and stop signs, and don’t rush through yellow lights."

Aggressive driving puts everyone at risk. Speeding, running red lights and tailgating increase crash chances. Stay calm, leave early, follow speed limits, avoid shortcuts and stop fully at lights and signs. Be patient and aware. Learn more at halifax.ca/roadsafety

where he got out of his vehicle to verbally harass me with his phone camera in my face. I remained in my car until he left as to not escalate the situation. I was advised in the future to call 911 should such a situation happen again. I hope it doesn’t but given what could have happened, I will call

Experienced a very scary situation myself while driving to my MLA office when a driver felt I didn’t enter a 3-way intersection when it was my turn. He followed me the entire length of Baker Dr video taping me and holding down his horn to my office parking lot …/2

Every word of this is bang-on.

50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #UrbanTruth in @fastcompany.com

A square image of a halifax bus driving down barrington street with a teal rectangle with blue and white text overlaid in the top third. Text reads, "tell the houston government: Restore funding for the Student Transit Pass Pilot Program"

A teal square with blue and white text overlaid. A white graphic of a bus is in the bottom left corner and a white graphic of an arrow pointing right is in the bottom right corner. Text reads, The Houston government has abruptly cut funding for the Halifax Student Transit pass program. The program supports youth independence, social equity, affordable living, climate action, economic development and more. Cutting funding for this program leaves thousands of youth and families stranded, and means more cars on the roads – making traffic even worse."

A teal square with blue and white text overlaid. Text reads, "Our youth deserve support in how they independently travel to school, work, extra-curricular activities and more. See the caption for two ways that you can take action today."

‼️ In the long list of cuts the Houston government is pushing forward, funding for the Student Transit Pass Pilot Program has been abruptly slashed.

👉 Check out the Get On The Bus initiative: www.getonthebus.ca/take-action-...
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Is the Minister of Education who meets privately in Cabinet and bound to its rules to keep matters confidential letting the public know what HRM Council is discussing in camera?

from the City (of Halifax) Strings Program and is intended for Fine Arts. Library Services is not considered Fine Arts and a responsibility under Provincial Education.

Supplementary Funding (HRM is the only municipality in NS which provides this funding to its Centre of Education) is a contract needing renewal every 8 years I think must be up for renegotiation at this time. Supplementary Funding originates from the City (of Halifax) Strings Program…2

Reframing Road Safety: How Marketing Can Shift the Narrative on Road Violence  - Welcome/Bienvenue - Increasing sustainable transportation In late January, CapaCITY/É was pleased to support a public seminar, “Reframing Our Roads”, at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, featuring Tom Flood.

New @capacite.bsky.social blog post gives a summary of a recent seminar from @tomflood.bsky.social on 'Reframing Road Safety: How Marketing Can Shift the Narrative on Road Violence'. Read it here: capacity-capacite.ca/tom-flood/ #RoadViolence #SafeStreets

N.S. cuts its share of transit pass program for Halifax students Students and councillors say the loss of the free transit pass program is bad for affordability and traffic congestion. One councillor says HRM can't carry the program on its own. The CBC's Haley Ryan...

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Two pie charts labelled "School travel models before/after free transit pass." The first pie chart shows that after the pass was implemented that 33.7% of students took transit, while the second shows that before the pass it was only 11.5%

Education Minister Brendan Maguire speaking at a podium. Quote: "It's a 20% increase in usership. That's what it is."

Education Minister Brendan Maguire at a podium. Quote from journalist (off-camera): "It's a 200% increase, Minister."

Education Minister Brendan Maguire at a podium. Quote: "Um, yes, sorry, I'm not the best at numbers."

Nova Scotia's Education Minister, folks. Not exactly making the grade.

I can’t emphasize enough how imperative it is to continue the student transit passes! Students are the future and future transit users.

I can’t emphasize enough how imperative it is to continue the student transit passes! Students are the future and future transit users.