This afternoon, city council’s transportation committee will consider whether or not to continue planning for a north-bound bus lane along part of Gottingen Street. The plan would see 51 parking and loading spaces removed from both sides of the street, to make room for two vehicle lanes and one northbound bus lane starting at Cogswell […]
Halifax Transit pitches Bus Rapid Transit
Alternative headline: Halifax Transit isn't pitching Bus Rapid Transit.
Citizens gathered Monday afternoon and evening to look at preliminary sketches of what a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) network might look like for Halifax. Or did they? The citizens were there, but I’m not entirely sure what they were looking at amounts to BRT. Here’s how the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), an...
IMPing along: under Halifax’s new transportation plan, what will change?
Highlights from council's opening budget talks on transportation and the Integrated Mobility Plan.
Last week, Halifax council met with city staffers to talk budgets, big picture style, in advance of nitty-gritty budget deliberations in the coming months. It’s worth recapping some of the highlights from the discussions for the city’s two big transportation departments — Transportation and Public Works (TPW) and Halifax Transit. (You can check out the...
The Herald’s news reporting on Northern Pulp Mill looks like a packaged advertising deal: Morning File, Tuesday, January 16, 2018
1. Fracking “On the same day that Nova Scotia’s governing Liberals introduced legislation to ban high volume hydraulic fracturing in the province, I happened to be on a ‘fracking tour’ in the U.S. with a bus load of other environmental journalists in a place that had instead embraced it,” writes Linda Pannozzo. That news was […]
2018 should be the year we fix accessible transportation in Halifax
Gerry Post thinks Halifax Transit should start contracting accessible taxis to take on Access-A-Bus service.
UPDATE: (7:50am, January 12, 2018) This story has been edited to reflect improvements to bus stop accessibility, potential changes to tie down systems, and comments from Councillor Waye Mason. On one of the first cold days of this winter, I was leaving the Central Library at closing time, bundled up for a chilly walk home. A...
Here’s what we need for a great new Mumford Terminal
The city must first make big decisions on commuter rail and transit lanes in order to get the bus terminal right.
It’s finally happening. The city has started planning its redo of the ghastly, despised Mumford Terminal. The city has hired Dillon Consulting for phase one: figuring out where the heck to put the thing, designing how it will work, and giving a rough guess at how much it will cost to build. Dillon needs to...
Why are we holding back on low income transit passes?
Let's lift the participation cap on this important program for poorer residents
You will, I hope, be happy to know that 717 people in this city who make less than $33,000 a year were able to purchase a bus pass at a discount this September. Some of those 717 people are newly able to afford a pass to help them get to work, school, the grocery store, […]
Transit data: the gift that keeps on giving
Transit riders may think that they are already reaping the benefits of our latest bus technology upgrades, what with next stops being called out on board, and real time data being pumped out to the likes of Google Transit and Transit App. Sure, we are now more accessible, less prone to miss a stop, and...
People are really upset about this Armco thing: Tuesday, March 21, 2017
It'll be a heated council meeting today
This is Katie Toth, GIF queen and gal-about-town. Follow me on Instagram and Twitter and send me your best memes. News 1. How many people of colour go to Dal? The school can’t say. A CBC investigation has found that many universities in Canada don’t collect information on students’ race, which can be a problem if schools […]
Bringing bus lanes to Bayers Road
Transit corridor options study will be analyze impacts on all modes of travel, a first for HRM
The city has set in motion an ambitious timeline to study and come up with functional design options for 2.5 to 6.5km of “transit priority corridors” on Halifax streets. That’s good news for transit riders, and ultimately for anyone who is getting stuck in vehicle traffic on the peninsula. In a request for proposals released...