Listen, I wouldn’t blame you if you were done with discussing the future of transit in Halifax. We had the Moving Forward Together (MFT) plan, for which thousands of folks chimed in with their hopes and dreams for buses in the region. Then we had the Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), and everyone played ball again, […]
If it were up to me: Morning File, Thursday, March 1, 2018
Hi folks. Erica Butler here, filling in for Tim today. Here’s your Morningfile: News 1. P3 or not P3 “The provincial government is paying Deloitte half a million dollars to recommend whether the Province should use some type of a public-private-partnership (P3) to finance, build, and maintain two new outpatient centres,” reports Jennifer Henderson. But […]
Frank Palermo on “five years of doing an experiment” with Switch: Open Street Sundays
"Every time it does succeed, all it does is buy us one more experiment."
Frank Palermo is a professor of planning, director of the Cities and Environment Unit at Dalhousie, and founding board member of the Planning and Design Centre (PDC), the originators of Switch: Open Street Sundays. Though he grew up in Toronto, he has been in Halifax for over 30 years, and loves it here. I’ve heard […]