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Update on ongoing bike projects, Part 2

December 20, 2018 By Erica Butler 18 Comments

At long last, and in the shadow of a proposed capital budget which significantly underfunds HRM’s active transportation transformation, here’s part two of your update on some of the many bikeways projects underway right now in the city. You can find part one here. Brunswick Street & Spring Garden Road:  functional design (early and late […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Bedford Highway Functional Plan, bikeways, Brunswick Street bike lane, David MacIsaac, Erica Butler, Forest Hills Parkway, local street bikeways, Macdonald Bridge Bikeway

Proposed city budget pulls the wheels off bike network

December 5, 2018 By Erica Butler 8 Comments

I really, really wanted to write part two of the update on bikeway projects this week. But perhaps it is wiser to step back for a moment from documenting the planning progress around bike infrastructure, to consider whether or not this municipality actually has the intention to follow through and build what’s being planned. This […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: AAA bikeway network, bike infrastructure, bikeways, CAO Jacques Dubé, Erica Butler, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), Kelsey Lane

Update on ongoing bike projects, Part 1

October 18, 2018 By Erica Butler 4 Comments

I first wrote about bikes in Halifax back in 2003 when the city’s first bike plan, the “Blueprint for a Bicycle Friendly HRM,” was released and approved. Fifteen years and a half-dozen plans later, there is something that looks like momentum in the building of bike infrastructure in the city. There has been a slow […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: bikeways, David MacIsaac, Erica Butler, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP)

Lengthy, limited local street bikeways policy coming soon to a city near you

November 1, 2016 By Erica Butler

The good news is Halifax will be getting into the local street bikeway business. The bad news: the process we have created to get there could put our first actual local street bikeway years away. Local street bikeways are designated bike-friendly routes through a city that make use of less busy, lower speed streets to...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: 2014 AT plan, bikeways, transportation

The Wrongful Conviction of Glen Assoun

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.

Click here to read the Halifax Examiner's extensive reporting on the case.

DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a police coverup shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

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