• City Hall
  • Province House
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Investigation
  • Journalism
  • Commentary
  • @Tim_Bousquet
  • Log In

Halifax Examiner

An independent, adversarial news site in Halifax, NS

  • Home
  • About
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Commenting policy
  • Archives
  • Contact us
  • Subscribe
  • Donate
  • Manage your account
  • Swag
You are here: Home / Commentary / Halifax Transit – Boldly Moving People Somewhere They’ve Never Gone Before: Examineradio, episode #54

Halifax Transit – Boldly Moving People Somewhere They’ve Never Gone Before: Examineradio, episode #54

March 25, 2016 By Russell Gragg 1 Comment

Erica Butler

We welcome Halifax Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler to the show this week to talk about the recently released Moving Forward Together report. Will this plan to revamp Halifax Transit better serve transit users, or just piss people off?

Also, the Yarmouth Ferry was officially greenlit this week. Almost $33-million has been set aside by the provincial government for the first two seasons. That sounds like a huge chunk of cash, but bear in mind the government coughed up far more than that so American shoppers can feel better about trying on jeans.

And if we sound a little echo-y this week, it’s because the Examineradio hosts are hiding in an underground bunker, trying to avoid detection by notorious comic book villain General Mayhem.

 

General Mayhem3

Message Board supervillain General Mayhem displays his fearsome power

And to appease this online powerhouse, we’re making t-shirts in his honour. We’ll let you know when they’ll be available for purchase.

yankee-tim-and-the-cfa-henchfolk-tee (1)

 

(direct download)
(RSS feed)
(Subscribe via iTunes)

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Bay Ferries, Erica Butler, Examineradio, NSBI, podcast, transit, Unique Solutions, Yarmouth

Comments

  1. Sarita says

    March 28, 2016 at 8:44 am

    Everybody likes the #1? Definitely not!
    -it may come more often than other routes but does NOT qualify as frequent service
    -same problems as all buses on the overcrowded corridors. Need to slove those problems AS A NETWORK. Isolating one route from discussion does not allow for improvement on the route or for the network.
    -make it so the #1 can go southbound on gottingen! They changed the intersection at rainie drive, they’re changing Cogswell interchange, DON’T TELL ME you can’t change an intersection to accommodate a left-turning bus. It is not ridiculous to change intersections here and there that would allow improving an ENTIRE TRANSIT NETWORK

    Log in to Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

The Tideline is advertising-free and subscriber-supported. It’s also a very good deal at just $5 a month. Click here to support The Tideline.

Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

Sign up for email notification

Sign up to receive email notification of new posts on the Halifax Examiner. Note: signing up for email notification of new posts is NOT subscribing to the Halifax Examiner. To subscribe, click here.

Recent posts

  • Zero cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia on Monday, Jan. 18 January 18, 2021
  • Self-help groups seek essential service status January 18, 2021
  • Jen Powley: Turn the convention centre into affordable housing January 18, 2021
  • The more things change, the more nothing changes January 17, 2021
  • 4 new cases of COVID-19 are announced in Nova Scotia on Sunday, Jan. 17 January 17, 2021

Commenting policy

All comments on the Halifax Examiner are subject to our commenting policy. You can view our commenting policy here.

Copyright © 2021