Today: it’s been a busy day at City Hall with budget deliberations and we’re not done yet. Some big decisions around transit and road safety. Still lots more to go through tonight and tomorrow
Well spoken today
Today: It’s going to be a busy week at City Hall. Budget deliberations resume with the budget adjustment list. This week Council will decide on cuts, additional spending and set the tax bill. Lots of folks signed up for public participation today. Busy at security and gallery filling up
I did get a note back from staff and Jillian is correct. No bikes allowed in the bus lane since there is separate bike space. HRM did adjust the phasing so that the two-stage crossing only involves waiting for the advance green for traffic coming off the Bridge before the bike signal comes on
I'm honestly not sure. I'll have to ask. A regular arrow couldn't work here because 3 lanes are feeding into 2. Transit needed its own signal to make the new layout work. The timing is short so it's likely that cyclists in the bus lane are going to causes buses to miss their light.
Some of the small victories can turn out to be incredibly hard to do! :) Cold outside but warm inside seeing this finally work again.
It's back! Signal timing should be adjusted to clear 3 buses at once and some bus drivers were still using the car lanes, but the Bridge bus lane is operational again! youtu.be/6evc0ZV6Fm8
My Council blog from this week's meetings. Budget deliberations, North Woodside Park Plan, Wyse Road development and M District public hearing scheduled. Read it here samaustin.ca/council-upda...
I don't think anyone has said it's life ending. That might be a touch hyperbolic. Its loss though will be felt and there will be negative repercussions. Meanwhile, the cost of $1.2 million to the Province is a rounding error and about the same as what they plan to spend on AI traffic lights.
What I don’t think is a solution is getting rid of all the teenagers. We wouldn’t use that kind of collective punishment against any other group
HRM has been building up more capacity on the transit supervisor side and we’re deploying them to the most problematic spots. There has been work on operator training too. If you note something like an operator not responding to an issue note the bus and time and call it in
Good job by CTV putting voice to students that are potentially losing their bus passes www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/vid...
Today: Transportation Standing Committee meets at 1:00 at City Hall. Emails and blog with the rest of the day www.halifax.ca/city-hall/st...
Navy blue background with red square and bus lane symbol with a check mark. Caption reads "Wyse Rd. bus lane reopens March 2, 2026."
The Halifax Regional Municipality is advising residents that the bus lane on Wyse Road at Nantucket Avenue will reopen on Monday, March 2. Details: buff.ly/FPgteok
2025/26 student transit pass Halifax
The student bus passes offer GR 7-12 kids independence and shapes their lifelong transportation habits. ❤️🚍
NS gov plans to withdraw financial support ($1.2M) for this program in the next fiscal year. You can contact the education minister & premier with your thoughts.
Free parking, remove tolls, back to work orders, remove student transit passes.
What... what would you do differently if you were the province and wanted to create the maximum amount of traffic humanly possible?
What a dumb move by the province!
I would encourage folks to write their MLAs!
Provincial budget fallout begins... The Province is walking away from funding for the student transit pass program. This is creating a $1.2 million dollar hole in HRM's budget and means the program where students get transit passes may not continue
Yes. Councillor Cuttell has a motion of rescission. Will require 2/3rds to pass as a result, but we get to debate it again. After all, it wouldn't be a Council meeting without talking about bike lanes in some way.
It's currently a bylaw investigation. HRM could fine, or could even order the building vacated. The investigation is ongoing and whatever HRM does we need to be able to defend in court.
Today: Council resumes budget discussions, followed by Regional Council. A lot of District 5 on the agenda from Micmac Mall development, to Highfield bike lane, to extra floors illegally built at 168 Wyse and North Woodside Community Centre Park Plan pub-halifax.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx...
Hmm rainbow snow is a new one to me!
Sorry for the snow folks. It my fault. I have had the same meeting rescheduled three times now because it’s always storming on that day. Mark your calendars for March 6. Guaranteed snow day. Better bet than any weather forecast
Wide protected bike-lane in Downtown Vancouver filled with people on bikes.
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
heh. I like my current role just fine, but thanks :) Cathy Deagle-Gammon has done a stellar job chairing this lengthy and turbulent process
Volunteerism is something that has a place. We do have volunteers doing stuff in the Libraries for example and HRM is trying to foster more volunteering in our Parks with the new stewardship program. We're not a small town though anymore. Volunteering can't replace the basics at our scale
haha no annoyance. Jean is active. He doesn't lean heavy on the mic. If he has something to add he buzzes in but he doesn't buzz into say something that's already been said. He's very calm, very data driven, very analytical. An asset in the room.
Busy arterial street filled with congested cars
Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion.
Car dependency, dumb land-use sprawl, too many (& bigger) cars being driven too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion.
Think about it. THAT’S common sense.
