In Halifax free transit for kids led to 52.4% reporting using transit as one of their primary ways to get to school, & 75.8% using transit for non-school related travel at least once per week.
Over 85% said the transit pass made them feel more independent.
The PC government is cutting it anyways.
“Despite what we’ve always been told, it’s not really about jobs. It’s not really about the economy. It’s not really about the deficit
It’s about values. And it always has been.
It’s more evident than ever what this government is “defending,” and it’s not our way of life, our land or even our jobs.”
More cities are putting in place Tenant Right to Organize laws, which can be useful in dealing with maintenance and other issues.
Berkeley's has been in place for a little over a year now, learn how ours works at rentboard.berkeleyca.gov/rights-respo...
I’m really impressed with all the HaliSky folks who’ve come together to advocate for fiscal sustainability in Halifax.
Unlike the astroturf landlord group with their clickbait facebook survey, we now have a website with facts & tools for folks to contact council. Send those emails!
#TaxMeDaddy
Poster advertising the rally: Shoulder to Shoulder, We are all Treaty People. The rally is Tuesday, March 3rd at noon, meeting on Granville, behind the N.S. Legislature.
Join HCC in solidarity with many other groups to protest Tim Houston selling out everything we stand for in NS. The environment, the climate, the arts, cycling, active living, treaty rights, and our democratic rights are all under attack. Tue, March 3rd at noon on Granville behind Province House.
Kevin could you please you remind us what the municipality’s annual pothole repair budget is?
Car culture helped bring about Nova Scotia's projected $1.4-billion deficit and congestion crisis. The province's response is to dump more money into highway widening while transit stares down service cuts (despite high ridership) and the loss of bus lanes (to car congestion).
HRM Call to Action! ☎️ 💻📨 Phone/email script below ⬇️
Andy Fillmore wants to take away dedicated bus lanes by opening them up to “high occupancy vehicles” (HOV).
That’s any vehicle with just 2+ people! 🚗🛻🚚🚙🚗🛻🚚💨
globalnews.ca/news/1166132...
Whether you drive, bike, or use transit, this is bad news.
Bus lanes aren't empty
something this lovely could never be spam
That sounds rad, though! Did you have a scenario you’re looking to run? There’s some neat stuff, there’s an orient express scenario that’s on my someday list
Don’t let your dreams be dreams! what do you want to run?
Anakin meme. Canada’s doing EV rebates again. We’re doing e-bikes too, right?
The bike network is expensive because we didn’t do it ten years ago like we were promised. Stop dicking around and build it!!!
As many cities get smarter at evidence-based city-building, positioning themselves for greater success in every way we can count, and many ways we can’t, some cities seem obsessed with self-sabotage. Case-in-point: city “leaders” arguing for the removal of safe bike infrastructure. #OwnGoal
A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority.
The “silent majority” for #ClimateAction needs to get loud.
People want action. Smart cities need to go much further, much faster.
“If you care about the bottom line, budgets & taxes, then you should care about urban biking, because it’s a money saver. It’s ironic when so-called fiscal conservatives attack biking, when their efforts just show a lack of understanding of math.” My interview with @modacitylife.com #CityMakingMath
Front cover of “The Urban Cycling Survival Guide” by Yvonne Bambrick
T-shirt with an image of a bike, which reads: “don’t get stuck in traffic, get a bike and break free”
Happy new year Halifax, 2026 is the year I become an ideological menace on your city streets. #hfxbike #halifax
Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
If people are still being killed just trying to get around, TSC should be meeting until the fatalities are reduced to zero, which we know is achievable.
At the invitation of Mi’kmaw land defenders and water protectors, we’ve planned a rally stand up together, shoulder to shoulder, to say a mighty Nova Scotia NO to Houston’s extraction agenda.
TODAY AT NOON!
Rachel please have Gareth on for a trains episode!
Highlights For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement. Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design. Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically. Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street. There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.
"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"
We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Halifax has launched a new civilian team to help people in distress in the Dartmouth area as an alternative to calling police.
The 2-year pilot project called CARE — Crisis Assistance & Response — began Monday
#NovaScotia
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Oh shit, that’s a good one
Sorry, it’s wasn’t meant as a subtweet, I was riding a wave of several similar comments and felt inspired. Your point is a good one!
Bollards.
Haligonians, you should watch Siege.
