Halifax is hoping to try out some new ways to move cyclists and pedestrians with two new local street bikeways proposed for the north and west ends of the peninsula. The Halifax and West Community Council voted unanimously in favour of the plans at a meeting on Tuesday, recommending regional council approve 4.4 km of...
Update on ongoing bike projects, Part 2
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 […]
Proposed city budget pulls the wheels off bike network
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 […]
Update on ongoing bike projects, Part 1
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 […]
Lengthy, limited local street bikeways policy coming soon to a city near you
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...