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Beyond affluent white males: Making bike-share programs more equitable and accessible

December 29, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 4 Comments

This is the second of a two-part series on bike shares. Part 1 looked at whether the time is right to bring bike share to Halifax. Do bike- and-scooter share programs provide a cheap way to get around town? Or do they just cater to tourists and affluent residents while ignoring the needs of people […]

Filed Under: Featured, Transportation Tagged With: aVelo, Ben Wedge, Bixi, David MacIsaac, Detroit, e-bikes, electric assist bikes, Halifax Cycling Coalition, Indego, Jillian Banfield, Mobi, MoGo, Nicholas Scott, OPUS, Philadelphia, public transit, Quebec City, RTC, Shaw, Vancouver, Washington DC

Is the time finally right for a municipal bike-share program?

Cycling advocates say with protected bike lanes, a connected network, and enough bikes, a bike-share program can be built to succeed in the city.

December 21, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 1 Comment

This is part 1 of a two-part series on bike-share programs. Here, Philip Moscovitch looks at bike-share programs in Nova Scotia and across the country and speaks with cycling advocates what needs to happen in the HRM to make a program work.  A mandatory helmet law, hilly streets, winter weather, and a lack of bike […]

Filed Under: Featured, Transportation Tagged With: Angela Reynolds, Annapolis Valley Regional Library, Ben Wedge, Bike-share, Bixi, Calgary, David MacIsaac, Derik Sauve, Halifax Cycling Coalition, Kelowna, Mark Oakley, Mobi, Montreal, Nicholas Scott, Shawn Cleary, Transportation Standing Committee, Vancouver

Is Gottingen the right street for a bus express lane?

Because the ramp from Barrington Street to the Macdonald Bridge is too tight a turn for buses, the north end business district could be turned into a bus expressway.

February 22, 2018 By Erica Butler 4 Comments

This afternoon, city council’s transportation committee will consider whether or not to continue planning for a north-bound bus lane along part of Gottingen Street. The plan would see 51 parking and loading spaces removed from both sides of the street, to make room for two vehicle lanes and one northbound bus lane starting at Cogswell […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: Barrington Street ramp to MacDonald Bridge, Ben Wedge, Erica Butler, Gottingen Street bus lane, Halifax Transit, Integrated Mobility Plan, It's More Than Buses, North End Business Association, Patty Cuttell-Busby

Rethinking the Willow Tree

Could closing off a street actually make traffic move faster? We're missing out on an opportunity to find out.

October 4, 2016 By Erica Butler 9 Comments

The Willow Tree intersection at Robie Street and Quinpool Road is one of Halifax’s craziest crossroads. While it’s not on the city’s immediate list for a fix, it represents an amazing opportunity to make improvements that could benefit drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians simultaneously. And we could even reclaim some public space in the Halifax Common while […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured Tagged With: Ben Wedge, Halifax Cycling Coalition, NACTO, National Association of City Transportation Officials, roundabout, Tiffany Chase, Traffic, Willow Tree intersection

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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