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Monday’s big changes to bus routes could be good news

Increased frequencies in Clayton Park corridor routes could mean another bump in ridership

August 17, 2018 By Erica Butler 2 Comments

On Monday, bus routes in Halifax will undergo their biggest change “in at least 30 years,” says Patricia Hughes, manager of planning and scheduling at Halifax Transit. Mostly affecting Clayton Park and Fairview (all but one route at the Lacewood terminal), the Monday route changes are part of the five-year-long implementation of the Moving Forward […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: Erica Butler, Halifax Transit, It's More Than Buses, Moving Forward Together (MFT), new bus routes, Patricia Hughes, Scott Edgar

Another day in Halifax: resignations, engtanglements, and delays

Morning File, Tuesday, July 31, 2018

July 31, 2018 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

Hi folks, Erica Butler here filling in for Tim today. News 1. Halifax to lose another director: Bruce Zvaniga resigns Director of transportation and public works Bruce Zvaniga has resigned, reports Zane Woodford of The Star/Metro. Zvaniga has only been at the helm of the massive public works department since 2015. Zvaniga is the third […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ambulance availability, Bruce Zvaniga, Carolyn Ray, Cheryl Thompson, Community Services, Councillor David Hendsbee, entangled right whale, Erica Butler, Fiona Traynor, Kolten MacDonnell, medical transitioning, Michael Nickerson, Nuisance Bylaw, paramedics union, Robert Devet, Sam Austin, Tim Outhit, Tom Ayers, Zane Woodford

The first transit passes for people on social assistance arrive this week: a great start that still needs some tweaks

July 26, 2018 By Erica Butler

Starting this week, Community Services will be mailing out about 3,300 new annual transit passes to Halifax residents who are on income assistance, along with their spouses and dependents. The passes will be good for all buses, including MetroLink and MetroX routes. Another approximately 7,700 people are currently eligible to receive the passes, and over...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Brandon Grant, Erica Butler, income assistance, transit passes

One small step for tidal power, one giant leap for BP

Morning File, Tuesday, July 24, 2018

July 24, 2018 By Erica Butler 8 Comments

I’m Erica Butler,  filling in for Tim while Tim keeps right on working. We both bring you today’s Morningfile. News 1. BP approved to resume drilling The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board has given the green light for BP to resume drilling the exploratory well which was the site of an accidental spill of thousands […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Halpern, Amazon, BP drilling Scotian Shelf, Bruce Wark, Cape Sharp Tidal, Erica Butler, Gayle Colicutt, Gottingen bus lane, Houssam Elokda, King of Donairs, Knowledge House sentencing, librarians, lost fishing gear, Lynn Sawyer, Mairin Prentiss, Mayor Mike Savage in the Big Apple, Michael Bloomberg, MLA Hugh MacKay, Offshore Alliance, Panos Mourdoukoutas, Paul LaFleche, Shane Ross, social determinants of health, tidal power, Yarmouth Ferry totals

Like a turtle crawling out of a mulch pile

Morning File, Tuesday, July 17, 2018

July 17, 2018 By Erica Butler 7 Comments

Hi folks. Erica Butler here, filling in for Tim today.   News 1. Al-Rawi asks for second assault charge to be quashed Reporting for the CBC, Blair Rhodes recaps the history of sexual assault investigations and charges against former Halifax cab driver Bassam Al-Rawi.  While his first charge from a 2015 incident will be re-examined in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Africville Reunion, Andrew Rankin, Bassam Al-Rawi, Blair Rhodes, Danielle d’Entremont, Emma Davie, Erica Butler, HRM’s financial statements 2017-2018, Lunenburg Harbour pollution, Purcell’s Cove Backlands sale, Robert Devet, Shambala allegations, snapping turtles, Turtle Patrol, Yvette d'Entremont

Red hands on green lights: why we see them and why we shouldn’t

July 13, 2018 By Erica Butler

You know that feeling when you arrive at an intersection just as the light turns green? That feeling like the traffic gods have smiled upon you, and that maybe you won’t be late for work after all? Well, it happens way less often when you are on foot, and at some intersections, unless there’s another...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: councillor Waye Mason, Dhiru Thadani, Erica Butler, National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), pedestrian walk signal, Roddy MacIntyre, TJ Maguire, traffic signals, Walk and Roll Halifax

Vision Nothing Much: Halifax’s new road safety plan ignores the experts and embraces more of the same

On average, 14 people die on HRM streets every year; if the city meets its lacklustre goals, that number will be reduced to .... 11 in five years.

July 3, 2018 By Erica Butler 5 Comments

There are on average 1,400 personal injuries and 14 fatalities per year due to vehicle collisions in HRM, according to the new Strategic Road Safety Plan (SRSP), recently approved by city council’s transportation committee and now on its way to full council for debate and approval. If all goes according to the new SRSP, by […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Bruce Zvaniga, councillor Shawn Cleary, councillor Waye Mason, Erica Butler, Matts-Ake Belin, Sarah Goodyear, Strategic Road Safety Plan (SRSP), Taso Koutrolakis, Towards Zero, Vision Zero

Hospitals, harassment, and a helluva lot of garbage

Morning File, Tuesday, June 26, 2018

June 26, 2018 By Erica Butler 5 Comments

Erica Butler here, filling in for Tim while he’s off learning stuff. News 1. Cape Breton Hospitals: two down, two expanded The province has announced a plan to close two Cape Breton hospitals, replacing them with community health centres. Emergency room services and acute care beds will be absorbed by expanded facilities at two other […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Winn, beach trash, Brittany Paquette, Cape Breton hospitals closing, Danika van Proosdij, Dave Seglins, dine-and-dash Athens Restaurant, Efficiency Nova Scotia, Erica Butler, Friends of McNab’s Island beach cleanup, Gary Burrill, George Mortimer, Halifax office vacancy rate, Josh Healey, laura Parker, lemmings myth, Lindsay Jojnes, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia rental market, Project Sunshine report, Rachel Houlihan, RCMP harassment lawsuit, Sakyong Mipham apology, salt marsh restoration, sexualized violence in Shambala community, Solar City program, Tim Arsenault

Stop the Cogswell misfire!

A group of 23 organizations is asking the city for a reboot of the Cogswell District plan.

June 4, 2018 By Erica Butler 5 Comments

On Tuesday morning at 10am, city councillors will convene to decide on what will take the place of the Cogswell Interchange. They will have spent the weekend with a staff report featuring this drawing of a 60 per cent complete design of the new street network, including two multi-lane roundabouts, separated bike facilities, two green […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Cogswell Interchange Renewal project, Erica Butler, Jen Keesmat, Ken Greenberg, Urban Development Institute

How would you change the rules of the road?

May 25, 2018 By Erica Butler

The province has put out an open call for input on a new Traffic Safety Act to replace the much-amended and much-maligned Motor Vehicle Act (MVA). The call-out is remarkably open ended, simply asking people to read over the current MVA and “tell us what changes we should consider to the rules of the road,”...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: bicycles, cross-riding, Erica Butler, Halifax Cycling Coalition, Michael Croft, Motor Vehicle Act (MVA), Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal, Special Events Task Force, speed control, speed limits, traffic control persons, Traffic Safety Act, William Mathers

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