What has made HRM such a lawless place in favour of cars? Genuine question. Why is it like this here? I don’t understand it at all.
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What has made HRM such a lawless place in favour of cars? Genuine question. Why is it like this here? I don’t understand it at all.
Agree, not enough.
Every single regular pedestrian experiences frequent close calls due to infrastructure enabled left turns on green during the walk sign, also right on green and red. Many are struck. This is an unacceptable hazard and normality that must be addressed, system-wide.
Thank you. Had a shaky day yesterday, knowing how it might have turned out. But it didn’t, and today is a new day.
There are rumours…
Thank you.
A car grazed me, full body,turning right on red from Cogswell to Upper Water.I had the green man. I fell backwards. He drove on and away. That was as close as I’ve been to being hit by a car and I’m very shaken.
Image of a city skyline with the Halifax harbour in the middle from a tall vantage point
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FULL MOON JUST ROSE OVER DARTMOUTH, CAN YOU SEE IT??!!!
The cost of urban sprawl in HRM is playing out in real time with peninsular car infrastructure needs outstripping physical possibility. Investment in alternative travel would enable sustainable growth in this town. I’d call it a city, but with current transit options, it’s an impossible label.
Bus stop this morning. That was bout 1.5 ft to step over. Was with someone who couldn’t manage it. We waved down bus from a busy nearby drive way. A full 24 hours after the storm. Really is this good enough? #halisky
It was really that bad... and now a little more coming tonight and tomorrow
Still life, with bus stop.
#GottaGetToWork
Seen on FBook. @halifaxnoise.bsky.social
I love this and so wish HRM had anything passing for a similar vision for Halifax.
Last year, five pedestrians were struck and killed in HRM within the first six months, & over 20 fatalities were reported by August (total for year tbc)
Follow-up joint advocacy with HRM requesting a detailed action plan was unsuccessful. This is the response from the Province (thread)
That’s giving Scarfolk Council vibes. @scarfolk.bsky.social
… ‘had’ just come on. Whoops!
Day before yesterday was almost struck by a vehicle while crossing Lacewood at Willet. The crossing light has just come on, I stepped out and a pickup truck nearly ran over my feet turning right on red.
Right on red is dangerous.
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British values
Can you visualize sailors finding their sea-legs on snowshoes in the middle of New Brunswick’s wilderness?”
knowing the “why” behind things is pretty key for stuff
Hello, Saturday!
Oh my gosh, this!
I assert that every museum should have at least one inexplicably sketchy room. It may have just normal museum things in it or have something off like a reconstructed 1880s town¹, but it should just be...strange feeling.
… and we’re through. A local hero pulled it up and secured it with bare hands! ⚡️
The bus on route 2 from Fairview into town, currently stationary on Main Street due to down power line. That’s in both directions. No resolution in sight. #Halisky.
... but of course that would be the "English Yew Tree Project", an entirely different subject. :-)
This reminds me of something I read about yew trees in churchyards, often pre-dating the built church itself. Apparently Druids saw them as linked to life and death.
Look it up, fascinating stuff!
“… their song while quite fleeting is a lovely droopy descent down a simple scale of notes. It's very similar to the chaffinch song, only purer, and without the musical somersault that the chaffinsh seems to finish on”
Current mood….