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What’s wrong with the Barrington Street bridge ramp, and can we fix it?

April 26, 2018 By Erica Butler 8 Comments

Last week I wrote about the new street network being proposed for the land currently occupied by the Cogswell interchange, and asked why the city was proposing not to include a transit priority corridor along the full stretch of Barrington Street that’s being re-designed. The current plan does include some transit priority lanes on Barrington […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: Barrington Street bridge ramp, Cogswell Interchange demolition, Cogswell redesign, Dave Reage, David McCusker, Erica Butler, Erin Blay, Gottingen bus lane, Halifax Transit, Harrison McGrath, Marcus Garnet, Patricia Hughes, Patty Cuttell-Busby

Happily, Halifax will see transit priority sooner rather than later

Bridge Commission approval still required on Macdonald Bridge measure

February 15, 2017 By Erica Butler

Halifax streets could see fewer buses stuck in traffic sooner thanks to the expedited implementation of a list of Transit Priority Measures (TPMs) originally planned to stretch into 2021. With new matching funds coming from the federal Public Transit Infrastructure Fund, eight of the 11 TPMs on Halifax’s list are “tentatively scheduled” for our next...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Alison MacDonald, Bridge Commission, David McCusker, Halifax Transit, MacDonald Bridge, TPM, Transit Priority Measures

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