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Is Gottingen the right street for a bus express lane?

Because the ramp from Barrington Street to the Macdonald Bridge is too tight a turn for buses, the north end business district could be turned into a bus expressway.

February 22, 2018 By Erica Butler 4 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: Barrington Street ramp to MacDonald Bridge, Ben Wedge, Erica Butler, Gottingen Street bus lane, Halifax Transit, Integrated Mobility Plan, It's More Than Buses, North End Business Association, Patty Cuttell-Busby

Halifax Transit pitches Bus Rapid Transit

Alternative headline: Halifax Transit isn't pitching Bus Rapid Transit.

February 14, 2018 By Erica Butler

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...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bus Rapid Transit proposal, Erica Butler, Erin Blay, Halifax Transit, It's More Than Buses, Scott Edgar

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.

February 1, 2018 By Erica Butler

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...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bruce Zvaniga, Councillor Sam Austin, councillor Shawn Cleary, Councillor Tim Outhit, councillor Tony Mancini, councillor Waye Mason, Dave Reage, Erica Butler, Halifax Council opening budget talks, Halifax Transit, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), Mayor Savage, Transportation and Public Works (TPW)

The Herald’s news reporting on Northern Pulp Mill looks like a packaged advertising deal: Morning File, Tuesday, January 16, 2018

January 16, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Aly Thompson, Chronicle Herald advertorial, Cindy Day, Eagle chicken meal, Gary Standing, Halifax Transit, late buses, Nikki Sullivan, Northern Pulp, Saltwire's Northern Pulp series, Sam Macdonald, sponsored content, Yvette d'Entremont

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.

January 11, 2018 By Erica Butler

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...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Accessa-A-Bus, accessible taxis, councillor Waye Mason, Gerry Post, Halifax Transit

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.

September 26, 2017 By Erica Butler

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...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Erica Butler, Halifax Transit, Integrated Mobility Plan, new Mumford Terminal, Nick Ritcey, Paul Dec, Tristan Cleveland

Why are we holding back on low income transit passes?

Let's lift the participation cap on this important program for poorer residents

September 19, 2017 By Erica Butler 6 Comments

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, […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Erica Butler, Halifax Transit, Low Income Transit Pass, SmartTrip, UPass program

Transit data: the gift that keeps on giving

September 5, 2017 By Erica Butler

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...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Erica Butler, Halifax Transit, Patricia Hughes, transit data

People are really upset about this Armco thing: Tuesday, March 21, 2017

It'll be a heated council meeting today

March 21, 2017 By Katie Toth 14 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Dalhousie University, diversity, Halifax campaign finance rules, Halifax Transit, local tenders, measles, minority students, SPCA

Bringing bus lanes to Bayers Road

Transit corridor options study will be analyze impacts on all modes of travel, a first for HRM

March 14, 2017 By Erica Butler

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...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Halifax Transit, Integrated Mobility Plan, Moving Forward Together, municipal Red Book, transit priority corridors

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