The download link on the information panel gives you all the summary data that the city pulled out of the reports for the map. But there's also a lot of missing summary data, and that would take a lot of time/wizardry to pull out of the raw reports.
The correct action here is for Fillmore to resign, since a Harvard educated planner and former Halifax senior staff member should know the basics of how the city/council operates.
GDQ is on, so 'tis the season.
Amtrak runs more service in Canada (28 trains/week) than all VIA routes not on this map (22 trains/week).
Absolutely, it's just something I started poking at because I though it would be an interesting aspect to look at.
Significantly more people live within a km of their BRT line than an Edmonton LRT stop. Or Atlanta's MARTA.
I've been armchair poking around at population data and transit maps, at it really drives home how underbuilt some cities and systems are.
It's only one factor, and I don't really expect to see rail in our future, but "we're too small for good transit" is very quickly becoming a very bad argument against it.
I've been looking at transit walksheds to compare cities recently, and I found that if the BRT network were built as light rail, it would be similar in scale and captured population to Edmonton's LRT, with any one line easily matching Waterloo's.
Heck, get rid of both parking lanes on some streets, and they could probably be switched to two-way streets *and* have wider sidewalks or patios.
As an aside, it is absolutely insane looking at our one-way streets with parking on both sides. Reclaim even just one side for AT/Placemaking, and we could have nice pathways to draw people through downtown (and probably improve traffic flow as well).
Montreal has businesses complaining about pedestrianized streets - because they're too popular and pull people away from the business *not* on those streets.
We have some great bits of downtown, but we need far better connections between the waterfront, Granville, Argyle/Grafton, and Spring Garden.
I put all the Heritage Minutes in chronological order by event so you don't have to. 🇨🇦
(I was looking for this and couldn't find it, so it became a weird hobby. It genuinely may be of interest only to me.)
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This is the bus I take probably every couple months, though all the way to Halifax (even when the Ocean is running, the bus is just so much more reliable heading East).
While Maritime Bus has never had the same reach as the old Acadian Lines (owned by Keolis in its later years), I have found them to generally be a better/more reliable service than the old company.
But the lack of rural routes routes these days, and connections to Quebec/Maine, really honks.
This meeting could have been a nap
I've lived in 4 provinces, and have never traveled further west than Toronto in Canada.
Take the Orléans Express to Pointe-à-la-Croix, and walk across the river to take the Maritime Bus from Campbellton the next morning. The bus stops are only a couple km apart.
A view of Halifax's waterfront and boardwalk.
This is a nice city sometimes.
Living next to Parkland, I'm *very familiar with overbuilt streets. They have fully half of it closed for some sort of roadwork, and it's still operating as normal (probably safer than normal).
Actually I should cross-reference the traffic study dataset against the street classification list to start finding outliers. I'm sure there would be some interesting ones.
Since I now have the traffic study database at hand - by the ballparks, the city recorded daily traffic counts of ~5800 (fair for a neighbourhood collector) and an 85th percentile speed of 61km/h (not fair for a neighbourhood street).
A suburban road with one side blocked off for road work, maintaining free-flowing two-way traffic in the space of one lane.
It's funny how obvious it is we massively over build our road infrastructure. But reclaiming even the tiniest bit of space for AT or other uses is somehow "too expensive".
#halisky
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Most of the maps the city publishes have a "View Data Table" button, or you can download it as an Excel file.
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You can download the data as an Excel file besides just poking around the map.
Now I know that hard, verifiable, data collected directly by the city pales in comparison to the "common sense lived experience" of our rural councillors, but...
I'm too tired to make sarcastic remarks about how today has been a middle finger to all the process and work that's been done to this point. All I can do is stare at the tabs of staff reports that were done years ago and sigh.
Steele really doubling down on going for the "Most Disappointing New Councillor" award.
So many people don't understand that insurance is just a risk mitigation strategy.
Played a single run of "Elden Ring: Nightreign", and I think my key takeaway is that there should be like a 0.005% chance that one of the nightly bosses is the Autonomous Planetary Closure Craft AAP07: BALTEUS