The Cogswell Lands plans have toured around the city for the past two weeks in an effort to get some public input on the greenspaces that will be part of the plan. (Not where the greenspaces are, mind you, but what might go in them. You can check out the plans and weigh in online...
Bureaucratic oversight and other misdemeanours
Morning File, Tuesday, April 10, 2018
I’m Erica Butler, your Examiner transportation columnist, sitting in on Morning File today. News 1. Randy Riley case “Last Tuesday, there was dramatic moment in Supreme Court, worthy of its own Law & Order episode,” reported Tim yesterday: In the course of its prosecution of Randy Riley for the 2010 murder of Chad Smith, the […]
Transit passes coming for 16,800 people on income assistance, but for some, this means already paltry incomes will go down
The province and the city are cooperating on a plan that will put transit passes into the hands of 16,800 people with some of the lowest incomes in Halifax. That’s great news. The potential deal includes everyone within range of a bus stop receiving income assistance, including those currently disqualified from the city’s Low Income...
Sam Austin makes case for extended ferry service
Regional council to decide Wednesday on ferry and rural transit funding.
On Wednesday, Halifax council will discuss its “parking lot” budget items — about $2.6 million in additional costs or programs that city staff have not included in department budgets, but that councillors felt should be considered for the 2018-19 budget. Two items on the list will impact the future of the publicly funded transit network,...
Mind the cap: why council should open up the low income transit pass program to all who need it
Halifax Transit wants to limit participation in its Low Income Transit Pass program to protect the agency from an outlandishly argued worst-case scenario. Here’s hoping councillors, starting with the Transportation Standing Committee on Thursday, can see through the absurdity.
In principle and out of practicality, councillors should tell Halifax Transit to lift the cap on low income bus passes. In a report coming Thursday to council’s transportation committee, Halifax Transit recommends against lifting the participant limit for its low income bus pass program, with a flimsy, alarmist claim that doing so could cost them...
Health Authority craps on healthy transportation
The Nova Scotia Health Authority sent a letter to Halifax council opposing the South Park Street bike lane.
The Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) has taken a surprise position on the expansion and improvement of the South Park Street bike lane: they’re against it. At least they are against the disruption to available on-street parking that it might cause. In a letter to city council dated March 5, 2018 (the day before council...
Don’t say that again: Morning File, Thursday, March 8, 2018
Hi folks. Erica Butler here again, filling in for Tim while he’s off preparing the next edition of Examineradio. News 1. Abdi deportation proceeding paused until March 21 Abdoul Abdi is one step closer to having a Federal Court consider his future instead of the Immigration and Refugee Review Board (IRB), reports the CBC’s Anjuli Patil. […]
Halifax council OKs South Park Street bike lane
Halifax is going to build its longest protected bike lane sometime in the next year on South Park Street. The 1.2 kilometre lane will run from Sackville Street all the way to Inglis Street in the south end, near Saint Mary’s University. With council’s approval yesterday, staff will move on to detailed design, and plan...
If it were up to me: Morning File, Thursday, March 1, 2018
Hi folks. Erica Butler here, filling in for Tim today. Here’s your Morningfile: News 1. P3 or not P3 “The provincial government is paying Deloitte half a million dollars to recommend whether the Province should use some type of a public-private-partnership (P3) to finance, build, and maintain two new outpatient centres,” reports Jennifer Henderson. But […]
Pacification by cappuccino
Vikas Mehta asks: Who benefits from the New Urbanism, and more importantly, who doesn't?
Leave it to those pesky university students. Just when Halifax staff and council seem all prepared to fully embrace the concept of Complete Streets, Dal planning students are bringing Vikas Mehta to Halifax to remind us that the popular new urbanist concept might have a weakness or two of its own. Mehta will be here...
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