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Hard to ride a bike in Halifax because drivers think they own the road
Bicycles are part of the solution, not the problem, and yet last week our myopic civic leadership voted against bike lanes.
Who rides the bus in HRM
The transit system in Halifax is probably the best in the province but it still isn’t very good — just ask anyone who uses it regularly.
Cycling to work way of future in Halifax?
Bike Week entices Haligonians onto their cycles using a well-worn technique: rewards.
HFX Sprawl Watch: Moving Government Services Away from Core
Government move called a blow to public access
Access Nova Scotia relocating to business park
New Transit Corporation for Nova Scotia
NS Think-tank proposes better busing in rural areas, public auto insurance.A new Crown transit corporation that would develop affordable transportation to link Nova Scotia’s rural communities with Halifax is one of the major items in an alternative provincial budget released earlier this week.
Sprawl Spending: Funding may dictate Hammonds Plains Rd fixes
The high costs of sprawl should not come as a surprise to HRM officials. There is a high service cost to low density development in the periphery of the city.
NS Spending: 10 million for unwanted road
Highway 103 connector road would damage environment, ‘Estabrooks hears.
Halifax Struggles To Service Sprawl
Residents near Hammonds Plains Road say the thoroughfare’s fast-moving traffic and lack of streetlights and sidewalks makes it extremely dangerous.
NewStartNS.ca wants to make the rail cut a better place
Bill Black has ideas for the Rail Cut.
Active and Safe Routes to School Newsletter NS: Winter 2010
Active & Safe Routes to School in Nova Scotia encourages more children, youth and their families to use active transportation – such as walking and cycling – for the environment, physical activity and traffic safety. It is coordinated in Nova Scotia by the Ecology Action Centre in partnership with the Nova Scotia Department of Health Promotion and Protection as part of the Active Kids Healthy Kids Initiative.