Sara F.L. Kirk

❤️ Jillian @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social is an extraordinary friend and advocate. Proud to share her powerful reflection on cycling as a mobility aid and how it shaped her understanding of disability.✊🏾📢

h/t @sflkirk.bsky.social
Cc: @bikesky.social
activetravelstudies.org/article/id/1...

Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Is That Always A Good Thing? Decades ago, kids were encouraged to play outside and explore the outdoors. Nowadays, protective parents have reined in their children, leading to strictly structured (and supervised) playtime. The ki...

Vicky said her son was ‘driven the few minutes to school, is taken by car to a safe place to ride his bike and can roam no more than 300 yards from home.’ Basically, he stays on the block…he prefers the family yard to the street outside. ‘He doesn't tend to go out because the other children don't.’

Big thanks to @danp.net for sharing these clips. Every speaker shares a love for their community in @hfxgov.bsky.social. This is democratic participation 👏

Thanks @davidwtrueman.bsky.social for a thorough, evidence-driven contribution... and the relative share of the transportation budget! Phew.

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Next, Jamie Melrose, 1/2:

Andy: well if the federal and provincial governments are cutting and making people's lives worse, we should do the same

A blue t-shirt that says tax me daddy proud supporter of public services in yellow text

Tax Me Daddy update!

We sold 49 t-shirts! And thanks to @hfxshippingnews.bsky.social providing the shirts at cost and volunteering their labour AND a donor matching every dollar raised we were able to raise $1750 for African Nova Scotian Road to Economic Prosperity anseconomicprosperity.com

Exactly that!

My bike is my mobility aid, my mental health aid, and my “let’s recapture the fun of being 12 years old again” coach. Multi-solving at its best!

"I don’t know the moment it happened; it must’ve been a slow realization. ‘My bike is my mobility aid’." Great article from @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social published In Active Travel Studies activetravelstudies.org/article/id/1...

Imagine seeing multiple days of protest at the provincial legislature and thinking “yeah, that seems like a good idea.”

New paper is out tomorrow!

On the front @landofsticks.bsky.social has a story about the HRM's debt crisis. After four years of warnings from the CFO it has finally arrived.

On the back: How council is trying to swindle @fcm.ca for $1 million & another on council's mixed messages on Transit.

'Beware Tim Houston, we're coming': "Special interests” rally held in Halifax - Halifax Examiner Mi'kmaw activists, social justice, labour, and environmental groups organized event to oppose changes by government.

So, this Brandon Blades used the below photo from a story about the "special interests" rally I reported on March 5, 2025 and used it in a Facebook post he wrote last week.

We politely asked him to at least give us credit and then he blocked me.

Flemings are cycling to work more than ever before! | VRT NWS: news One in every four Flemings cycled to work in 2024, which is twice as many as 20 years ago. The figure comes from a large-scale study looking at the mobility habits of almost 1.8 million employees in B...

“One in every four Flemings [residents of Flanders in Northern Belgium] cycled to work in 2024, which is twice as many as 20 years ago. Figures for Brussels too are astounding!”

“Cycling infrastructure in Flanders has improved significantly over the past 20 years, that's where it starts.”

A little more info in this post. The driver seems to have been driving a light brown-coloured car.

Same!

Me too. That's a busy pedestrian area.

Crushed salt bin

Damaged curb leading to a damaged building

It looks like they just hopped tge curb and drove into a building.

Battle of The Bollards Drivers keep moving the temporary bollards at the Oak–Allen diverter in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), a key segment of the AAA bicycle network that has already been been delayed by several years. Advocates ...

I made a short video explainer of the Allen-Oak diverter debacle.
A case study of #CarBrain & driver entitlement. Of political pussyfooting. If infrastructure only works when drivers choose to follow the rules, it’s not safe infrastructure #ZeroVisionHFX #SafeStreets urbanists.video/w/jSp8sSpyiX...

*looks out window*

Ooop, need that for a thumbnail in a couple of months.

I may end up going with something more generic in the end, but collisions are so frequent in the area the getting a notification and walking to the scene is a totally viable way to grab a thumbnail base image.

(Unfortunately).

SUV being towed away from a building after impacting it. Frantically end crumpled.

Ambulance leaving a crash site.

Car vs building

"Unsafe streets are a policy choice". Yup.

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“We” have been doing it since birth.
In order to survive.

And then, at some point, to laboriously unlearn it again.

Because we understand that it only protects patriarchy. Not us.

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I have less and less desire to empathize with these men who feel it is more important to emphasize that “not all men” and claim that I am excluding all progressive men when I talk about *feminism* and *intersectionality*.

Get to work on yourselves asap!
It is easy to learn, books you know?

Adding alt text for this important slide:

I didn’t become a #SafeStreets advocate through ideology, but through experience. Drivers like this one parking on footpaths forcing me to push my kids in a stroller onto the road. Women are constantly told to think about safety in public spaces. Unsafe streets are a policy choice #VisionZero #IWD

It’s men who caused the climate crisis – but it’s women who will suffer the most Women across the world are having their lives torn apart by the climate crisis – and the UK government is turning its back, writes co-leader of the Green Party Carla Denyer

Happy #IWD. Women bear the brunt of the climate crisis. But men dominate climate decision-making, and mega-rich ones like Farage, whose party is backed by oil and gas, set the climate back.

I wrote this last IWD, but it's still relevant…👇

www.independent.co.uk/voices/clima...

Analysis: UK emissions fall 2.4% in 2025 as coal hits 400-year low - Carbon Brief The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.4% in 2025 to their lowest level in...

The UK used less coal in 2025 than in 1600 when Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, according to CarbonBrief. Meanwhile Trump is taking the US in the opposite direction.

UK emissions fell by 2.4% in 2025.