California changed their laws so that people on bikes can follow pedestrian signals. velo.outsideonline.com/urban/urban-...
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California changed their laws so that people on bikes can follow pedestrian signals. velo.outsideonline.com/urban/urban-...
Some cities legally allow cyclists to go on the LPI as well. I figured these bike lights were put in to allow that since it technically not allowed in our MVA, not to give us a weird short window to cross.
Month review: 69,945 #BikeHfx bikes counted in Aug 8,136** Almon 6,110 Barrington (last Aug 26) 2,140 COLT 6,273 Dart Cove 5,554 Gottingen 5,980** Hollis 3,620* Lwr Water 16,189 South Park 10,668 Vernon 5,275** Windsor ** all-time record * year-to-date record Missing: Uni Arts (May 1)
Iād allow for transit, emergency, and service vehicles. Just no personal ones.
Totally normal response to a person getting injured š
Wuhhhhh? How?
I feel like it used to be secured? That was our usual grocery by bike spot in 2012-2013 from our last apartment before we moved out here
Human beings arenāt ever entirely neutral and objective. Nor should we be.
THIS!
Thatās the whole point of asking political leadership to put themselves in the place of someone who canāt drive, even if just for a day or a week. They may have to walk, they may have to ask someone to drive them. Plenty of HRM residents arenāt given great transportation choices.
Like she said, there are people there that donāt drive, and donāt have a car, and have no choice but to figure it out.
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Home to the West Coast to visit some family. The week after youāre there. Wish weād booked for a few extra days so we could sneak in some Gros Morne time.
Absolutely!
That would be neat to see. I think 3 or 4 of them live in districts with little or no Halifax Transit service. Iām not sure what the state of AT infrastructure is in those districts
I canāt wait to see the pics. Hopefully hurricanes donāt interfere with either of our trips to Newfoundland.
Did this trip for the 3rd time today and I love it so much. It feels like a bit of faff to load/unload my wheelchair to go for a short stroll, but itās also nothing compared to the headache of driving downtown and looking for parking. I love my mobility options!
Iām jealous of your Gros Morne plans! How long are you there?
What!?!! I made almost twice that TAing in Ontario 20 years ago.
Fair. Some communities may have to get a little more creative than others.
Upside down cakes are your thing now
lol
Bring! It! Back!
Traveling on an electric train at the moment wondering about the thought process behind āletās not invest in rail but put people in inefficient individual metal boxes that are parked 90% of the time.ā
Iād love to see a āMain Streetā closure for each major neighbourhood, not just in the core.
Amazing!
Last year London closed 200 streets www.bbc.com/news/article...
I like it
Free Halifax Transit? Bird ebike/e-scooter promos? Something youāve seen done in another city? Throw out your wildest idea. #WorldCarFreeDay
World Car Free Day is coming up in 3 weeks on Sunday, September 21st. Last year I bugged @hfxgov.bsky.social (on twitter) about doing something to promote it. Iām going to email them a reminder, but first any Halisky folks have any good ideas of what theyād like to see that day?
Yup, at least provincial taxes are set up in a way thatās generally far less regressive than our current property tax system
We lost access to the only off leash dog park in Spryfield during the woods ban. People with young dogs that need socializing are very glad to see it reopen.
The province has been slowly unloading responsibility for some roads in the burbs to the city, which likely makes the cityās budgeting more difficult. www.halifax.ca/transportati...
For example, in district 11 there are zero municipal roads south of Lieblin Park or south of Herring Cove.
There are fewer pink dots in the suburbs than I was expecting
Private roads are rare, but some exurbs are on provincial roads, so the costs obviously still exist, but arenāt being funded by property taxes.
Do these base the pink vs green on the actual road the property is on or just a broader calculation? Does it take into account private roads or provincial roads?
Congratulations!
Whereās the new paved MUP?
Eek. Hopefully itās a not too expensive fix.
Oh no. What happened?
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Drivers have more responsibility to keep others safe because of the disproportionate amount of harm they can do. Pedestrians and cyclists both cannot do that kind of harm, if they do something dangerous they only endanger themselves, unlike drivers.
No, I am just aware of the setup of that bike lane that sees hundreds of cyclists a day and has car parking on one side of it, and can imagine based on your post history that it that person yelled at you, it was more likely that you gave them a good fright and good reason to do so.
Great link! Also if itās scary to have a person on a 30lb bicycle come close to colliding with you just imagine if they were operating over 100 times that weight in steel, in a vehicle capable of travelling at speeds over 100km/h faster š¬
For future reference you should always look before opening your car door.
So what youāre saying is that you came very close to dooring a person riding a bike in a bike lane from the sounds of it. Iām really happy that person is okay!! Dooring can cause serious harm.
HAHAHAHAHAA
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It starts to become a pain in the ass after a while (we had our friendsā car for 3 weeks this summer while they were in Europe too, and moving two cars around was exponentially worse somehow). At least @girlfriday.bsky.social knows she only has to do it until January.
Yeah, we have a reminder set to move our car on Sundays just in case we havenāt all week. Sometimes it feels silly because we needed it multiple times that week, but other times without the reminder weād probably go 3 weeks without using it.
Yes, if you understandably canāt decide what you want to do with it now, youāre going to have to try to drive it once a week or so until you make a decision.
Thereās nothing like seeing two subway trains leave the station, looking at the ānext trainā signs, and seeing ā2 minutesā and ā3 minutesā. Oh, and this was 11am on a Sunday. Frequency is freedom.
Glad you get to go home and get some sleep at least
Hey #BikeHfx weāve totally learned from history with our bike lanes, huh? Weāre doing sparse public engagement, piecemeal implementation, mismatched contexts, AND poor design!
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Yeah, clearly healthcare is all āfixedā in Nova Scotia now so he has all the time in the world to concentrate on micromanaging Halifax streets.
Pity that @hfxgov.bsky.social didnāt use the last five decades to learn these lessons, instead implementing a half arsed bike network so slowly & badly it has made things worse for everyone #ZeroVisionHFX
14!! Thatās way too long! I hope you get to go home soon.
Is there a place to give feedback within the app?
Jack is usually scared of the frogs. Today was the first time Iād seen any along the creek, which has mostly just been mud, all summer.
Jack was really intrigued by the happy jumping frogs we saw on our walk in the rain earlier this evening.
Arenāt fireworks banned?
Itās just the second part thatās lacking. No way to go around unless one is comfortable biking in the road. Whenever thereās an event at the Halifax Commons it leaves all the bike infrastructure disconnected since itās sort of a hub in the centre of the peninsula.
He seems like a real treat
They very clearly donāt test any of our āAAAā infrastructure to see if itās usable on a cargo bike with kids on board
Itās not my post! Is Colin the person who regularly shows up to speak to council about the Dartmouth Commons?
Yes, exactly. Dogs and toddlers absolutely should get to enjoy public spaces! I just want a bike network that connects us to the commons but doesnāt necessarily force us to go through the commons every time.
At least on many other MUPs people are generally moving too & they understand bikes are allowed to be there. Park spaces where people gather and not necessarily just walk or run can be trickier in my experience, especially once you throw in dogs and toddlers.
And hereās a good example of why our bike networks shouldnāt rely so heavily on pedestrian-filled park spaces like the Hfx/Dartmouth Commons:
It would be neat to see a new rec facility with multifamily housing on top. Like the YMCA building at Sackville & South Park, but with municipal facilities.
Grrrrr š”
I think it would be a good fit!
I still have the knee scar from my BLT wipeout.
I would love it if they made it mandatory (or even just available) in my area.
Iāve seen plenty of bad driving from Communauto drivers, but not any worse than just drivers in general.
Motorcyclists seem to be the bulk of the road fatalities lately. Every death on our roads is sad and largely preventable š
Someone needs to tell the cons that now isn't the time to double down on oil and abandon clean energy....
The news media keeps dragging him back onto the stage for us to throw no name brand tomatoes at. Who knows why.
How did Tony Mancini put it? It was something like āthey may call themselves āFriendsā, but as far as Iām concerned theyāre not friends of HRMā
Another Nova Scotia road death
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I avoided the comments since my phone is plugged in to charge and harder to throw across the room in frustration
The title on this video from a Quinpool road is āPedestrian almost get hit in crosswalkā By who, facebook, by who? (Why doesnāt Bluesky have the goose chasing meme?) www.facebook.com/share/v/16Hb...
Is there work going on on your end of Dunbrack too? I noticed a bunch of pylons and a wall of jersey barriers when I was on the greenway last night.
The teeeeny traffic cones. There were some that small on Barrington when I was there a few weeks ago, just blowing about in the wind.
Good! Iām glad itās safe and youāll be getting medical attention.
Did they take your bike?
(Just not this weekend)
My spouse does not believe in sharing his fries, so I might need someone else to ride to Costco with me š
Oh no! Iām sure youāre in good hands with EMS, but do you need anything?
Next question, how is the Costco poutine?
I donāt know, but once we find them, weāll be unstoppable!
I thought I remembered 850, but mostly I just remembered āa lotā
Sheās a great kid! Weāre definitely going to have to get together for another meal some time.
The fact that they print the calorie count on the menu makes me second guess the cookie every time. I want the cookie, I just donāt want to know that each cookie has 9million calories, okay Costco?
š„ŗš„ŗš„ŗ I adore this. We are going to have to arrange a time for her to come over and make ice cream now. Also the āfinallyā kills me, Iām in my 40s and not entirely sure what I want to be when I grow up š
