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“The [Copenhagen] modal split in 1970 was about 10% biking. But then we got the oil crisis…So that was the changing point and now there’s more than a 30% bike modal split.”
We can change our cities. Because of the high price of gas, or just because it’s clearly the smart thing to do. #UrbanTruth
There's a difference between feeling unsafe and uncomfortable.
MLAs are not unsafe in Province House. Closing down the second floor to the public is a cowardly move. They did it because some of the MLAs feel uncomfortable with the cuts, and won't admit it.
The decision to keep pushing fossil fuels, cars & road expansion instead of transit & active travel isn't just bad climate policy, it's looking increasingly disastrous to the economy. Who could have guessed? 🤷♀️ Time to reject car dependency #ClimateActionNow www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs.
This video is lowballing it.
The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.
"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...
❤️ 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...
If you have any kind of disability and take the bus (even if just a few times a year!) please fill this out Halifax folks :)
Also, realizing how I phrased this, fatness is not a “problem” nor rooted in car dependency culture. Fat people existed before cars and will continue to exist in walkable/bikeable communities; a physically active lifestyle does not always result in a smaller body.
All of this!! Public transit can and should be greatly expanded and made much more accessible than it currently is, *and* there will still be some people whose access needs require individual vehicles of some sort.
A playful poster graphic featuring flat illustrations of national postal services around the world that use bird logos. From March 2022
Postal services around the world that use birds as logos. One of my favorite poster graphics I've made! 🐦✉️
cars as the default mode of transportation are an essential tool of hyperindividualism, effectively creating a way of life where we go to work, buy stuff, and go home, never connecting with community, never exposed to people unlike ourselves and, most crucially, never engaged in collective action
cars and car-centric infrastructure isolate people from community in many ways, including when highways are built that raze and separate neighbourhoods; when children have no safe way to get anywhere until they start to drive; when non-drivers are excluded from businesses, public spaces, workplaces
cars are nice in some ways, but we should be so much madder about this
cars are expensive to buy, insure, maintain, and fuel
cars are not accessible to all people, and many lose the ability to drive with age, injury, or illness
cars are massive polluters via emissions and tire/brake particulate
a car is not a symbol of freedom; it's a symbol of your government's dereliction of duty to provide basic infrastructure that produces a social good (which most comparable countries have in spades) bc it's not really a government, but rather the functional sockpuppet of a greedy, reckless industry
It's literally raining oil in Tehran. This is eco-terrorism.
Begging cycling/walkable community advocates to stop throwing fat people under the bus. The fact that my body type exists is the least of our problems from car dependency culture I promise 🫠
Kathryn Morse on facebook BUDGET UPDATE; FUTURE OF HALIFAX FORUM; PROVINCE DRIVING HIGHER TAXES FOR HRM?; DUTCH VILLAGE ROAD; YOUTH SERVICES SURVEY HRM BUDGET: TEN NEW BUSES AND BETTER ROAD SAFETY The HRM budget is almost done. As we do every year, Council listened to residents before making budget decisions. We heard many residents are struggling to pay their bills right now and many residents asked us not to raise property taxes. On the opposite side of the equation, many residents asked us not to cut tax-funded municipal services that make life more affordable, such as transit. Slowly, carefully and transparently, Council has worked through the budget, cutting spending in some departments and increasing spending in others, trying to find a balance for our growing municipality. HRM has a $1.3 billion annual operating budget. Most of that budget pays for essential services such as policing, fire protection, transit service, garbage collection, snow clearing, and road maintenance. In terms of new spending there is very little this year, but here are a few highlights: -there will be new spending to improve road safety (fast-tracking improvements for problematic intersections; more coordination around enforcement; increasing crosswalk upgrades); -there will be $14.5 million in new spending for 10 articulated (extra long) buses to improve key transit routes; -and there will be new spending to add firefighters in Sackville.
To help offset these and other costs, parking fees will be going up and drivers will have to pay for on-street parking downtown on Saturdays. Transit fares will also be going up by 25 cents, likely sometime in the fall. Property taxes are still to be finalized but they will also go up, however not by the 10-11% initially proposed. Here are some of the items that were suggested for budget cuts that Council did NOT approve: -we did not eliminate Sunday and holiday transit service -we did not cancel transit service after 10 pm -we did not reduce ferry service -we did not lower bus stop snow clearing standards -we did not lower sidewalk snow clearing standards -we did not eliminate curbside collection of larger items -we did not cut the library collection by $300,000 (HRM residents use their libraries more than the national average) -we did not raise property taxes on non-profit organizations -we did not cut arts, affordable housing, heritage, and low income grants by 10% Council received more emails about the 2026/27 budget than we usually do, many prompted by a social media campaign spearheaded by HRM's largest rental property owners. The rental landlords were demanding Council cut municipal jobs and services to reduce taxes. However there were residents who argued they would rather pay slightly more this year for the services that keep the city liveable and affordable. As one resident put it to Council: "Please just bite the Bullet of Unpopularity and increase taxes to the level required. We must all pay for a healthy, functioning community." The budget numbers will be finalized next week.
HALIFAX FORUM DECISION There is one more step in the budget process before Council can confirm the amount of the upcoming tax increase. On Tuesday, Council will consider the capital budget which includes major projects like the Windsor Street Exchange, the Mill Cove Ferry and the Halifax Forum. It's expected that Council will decide the future of the Halifax Forum as part of the capital budget. The Forum is almost 100 years old. Councillors had a tour of the building a few months ago and saw firsthand how the bricks are crumbling. The Forum doesn't meet modern standards and the building is in such poor condition it has to be closed temporarily when the snow load on the roof gets too heavy. Mayor Fillmore has stated his wish to see the Forum torn down and the site sold to a private developer for higrise housing. Others on Regional Council believe the Forum should be rebuilt and modernized on its historic site, a plan approved by the previous Council. Whether you play hockey there, attend graduations there, go to craft shows there, or remember Kiss concerts there, the Halifax Forum is an important landmark and a valuable public space in the city's North End. I don't think the Forum should be seen as just another piece of real estate that could be developed. If we start selling our municipally-owned public spaces and heritage sites, what will be left of Halifax? Public buildings and common land should be safeguarded for the common good.
NEW PROVINCIAL POWERS MAY DRIVE HRM TAXES HIGHER The Houston government introduced legislation last week that will give provincial ministers new powers over HRM. Some of these new powers may increase property taxes for all HRM residents in future years. The powers in the bill (Bill 212 - An Act Respecting Administrative Measures for Housing) will allow the Province to expand HRM's service boundary and dictate where new suburban housing development will happen. This will force HRM to set up new water, sewer and other services outside the existing municipal service boundary. Here's the downside of Bill 212 for HRM residents: by cherry-picking the locations of new housing developments and ordering HRM to expand suburban sprawl, the provincial government will create a situation where HRM property taxes will have to go up to pay for the infrastructure. By green lighting development on the edges of the city the Province will force HRM to raise taxes higher than if the housing had been built inside the municipal service boundary. Sprawl costs us all, as the saying goes. Here's why: it's expensive for HRM to build new infrastructure like water and sewer pipes to serve low density housing in more remote areas. These new subdivisions will also require additional municipal services such as police, fire, transit, garbage collection, and snow removal. Typically it is much more cost-effective to add new and denser housing inside the service boundary, where municipal infrastructure already exists.
Councillor Kathryn Morse doesn’t post on here, and I know some of you aren’t on facebook, so I’m sharing this informative post from her.
Rally up! He really is trying to break our communities so he can frack, mine, deforest the f out of this place. He’s working fast , so must we!
Nova Scotia United: New Budget Now! Rally with us Tuesday March 10 at Noon, Province House, Halifax Culture is Critical
We're not even remotely done holding this government to account. Back at it on Tuesday! #nspoli #halisky
Halifax high school student Teddie Rofe says the Nova Scotia government has just made a decision that will strip away some of her independence.
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
hey look a fun history lesson!
I keep thing about how when white people talked to the Premier on the second floor it was fine. But black people on the second floor is a security risk. This is overtly racist.
A screenshot of youraislopbores.me showing a prompt “woodchuck, chucking wood” and a response drawing which belongs in the louvre
Okay I LOVE this youraislopbores.me
people who insist that trump is the whole problem are super dangerous because they will prevent us from addressing root causes
The Minister of Education could probably use a math lesson
If you thought food was expensive before wait until this cycles through the farming industry
US and Israeli missiles have just hit a 4th school in Tehran.
This is an intentional massacre of children
People should not be concerned, says the people giving our health records to AI run by Larry Ellison (oracle)
