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Fact Checking Fillmore: Mayor told town hall Halifax's bike lane network will cost $165 million - Halifax Examiner At a recent town hall, Andy Fillmore said there's a phase two to the AAA bike lane network that will cost an extra $65 million. But that's not correct.

Fact Checking Fillmore: Mayor told town hall Halifax’s bike lane network will cost $165 million

reported by @suzannerent.bsky.social

Everywhere is a park and ride given there is so much free parking. Pick your parking lot or space and your best bus stop and enjoy the chauffeur driven ride

Should be a brief segment on this in Global News tonight at 6pm (high visibility crosswalks)

Not seen that for many years. Where can we find this entertainment?

Yiiikes sorry

N.S. government website streamlines info about mine permitting process | CBC News A new Nova Scotia government website will make it easier for mining companies to track the progress of permit applications, but for now there are no plans to give the public access to that information...

In 2018, I asked an Australian Atlantic Gold exec why they weren’t mining gold in Australia. He said his boss liked living in Vancouver. So I asked why they were mining gold in NS, not BC. His reply: “Because the rules in NS are even more lax in N.S. than they are in BC.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Never had it. I always thought it was pretty rare. COVID however....

I see children walking to school or to bus stops on roads without sidewalks.
Using wide crosswalks with known serious safety issues.

The best way to support children walking & cycling to and from school is by supporting them with the essential safety they require
But this looks like a great program

‘If there is no demand, we can’t operate’: Small landlords ponder future after foreign student cuts The case for investing in student housing isn’t as obvious as it once was as the federal cap on international students enters its second year

I could pay the finest scientists and engineers in the world to spend the rest of their lives pushing the limits of nanotechnology and still not be able to produce a violin small enough for these landlords

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Oh dear. Glad I was inside working all day

This is actually a very good short and sweet summary of the sustainable transportation alternatives

Ditto for every journey to and from downtown, for any reason
www.halifax.ca/transportati...

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

What bliss!

"cities where you can move and breathe are much more productive”
Shame we can barely move actively due to transportation priority no. 1 (shifting and parking a lotta cars)

Palestinian children in Israeli military detention report increasingly violent conditions Rising numbers of Palestinian children detained without charge in the Israel military system since 7 October have reported that they are facing violence and abuse.

Hundreds of children are reported to be held by Israel, reporting starvation and torture, with visits from parents and lawyers blocked.
Yet the mainstream media focus today is wholly upon the release of Israeli hostages.
www.savethechildren.org.uk/news/media-c...

Joyous scene
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Headlines in western media entirely focus on release of Israeli hostages. Without diminishing the significance of that, multiple times more Palestinians including children have been held without charge in well-documented appalling conditions, facing torture and abuse
www.bbc.com/news

A look at Palestinian prisoners and how are they being released in exchange for Israeli hostages BEITUNIA, West Bank (AP) — Under a ceasefire deal many hope will finally turn the page on a two-year war, Israel has been preparing to exchange nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners for the 48 hostages —...

the release of 2000 Palestinian prisoners today include "some 1,700 of the several thousand Palestinians that Israeli troops seized from Gaza during the 2-year war and have held without charge"
Extremely limited media focus on those.
halifax.citynews.ca/2025/10/13/a...

Didn't and will not eat Turkey.

Town of Bedfood? Were you hungry after that archiving

Caught on Dashcam Nova Scotia | Near miss with a pedestrian | Facebook Near miss with a pedestrian

Plenty of pedestrian drama on the local fb dashcam groups, reflecting reality
www.facebook.com/groups/33150...

Making highways safer without twinning - Halifax Examiner With the newly re-elected Liberals promising to twin 70 more kilometres of 100 series highways despite the enormous financial costs and the ensuing increase in number of vehicles on our highways (whic...

they are just so astronomically expensive and damaging to the environment. It's a huge area impacted by the current twinning.
Given 2 + 1 highways are supposed to be just as safe, these are surely more economic. Thanks @ericabutler.bsky.social for this
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/p...

for sure

Photo of tram crashed into Boston Restaurant on Brunswick Street, 1945

So this has been a Halifax tradition for longer than I thought

Best we can hope for is a toll revamp/relaunch something like the automated camera bridge systems seen elsewhere. Pay with an app.
For sure physical tolls will not return

Surely London made a grave mistake with that congestion charge. Think of the traffic flow benefits missed

Isn't it still officially our strap line?

Unfortunately the traffic doesn't evaporate once it is off the bridge. So the Province would need to evaluate the knock on impact on congestion throughout the peninsula

I get zero responses from staff to issues raised by 311 about sidewalk issues like this, other than the initial acknowledgment from 311 staff who are always great