HCC Response to Region Centre “AAA” Bikeway Report
The Report lists financial costs but completely ignores the costs in terms of lives lost, injuries, and traumas suffered by people cycling on our streets due to a lack of…
Letters and Press Releases
Letter to Fred Tilley, Minister of Public Works re: Bill 24
Bill 24 that was just passed in the NS legislature gives strong executive powers to the minister of public works on all matters of transportation, including within Halifax. We have…
Letter to Transportation Standing Committee by Martyn Williams
A call for external consultants to develop a Vulnerable Road Safety Action Plan and other urgent actions.
Windsor Street Exchange: Jan 2025 Letter to Council
It is sad that staff have spent so many years developing a design that does not meet the original objectives given by Council nor the principles of the Integrated Mobility…
Support for Coburg Rd Multi-Use Path
Talan Işcan presented to the Transportation Standing Committee on July 25, 2024 in support of the Coburg Rd. multi-use path west of Oxford St. This project will form a vital…
Support for University and Morris Cycling Infrastructure
HRM staff preliminary design for cycling infrastructure on University and Morris passes at Transportation Standing Committee but passing full Council should not be taken for granted.
Letter to Council Re: Capital Borrowing
Why is HRM borrowing to finance road construction but not to accelerate cycling infrastructure?
Open Letter to Mayor Savage and CAO O’Toole
Substantive errors in HRM’s Strategic Plan Updates Report make us wonder who is paying attention? They cannot be dismissed as simple clerical errors as they reflect a deeper malaise indicative…
PRESS RELEASE: UN Road Safety Week
Summary: The Halifax Cycling Coalition, The Bicycle Mayor of Halifax and the Healthy Populations Institute have written to Municipal and Provincial decision-makers to request urgent action on vulnerable road user…
PRESS RELEASE: Don’t delay Almon St Protected Bike Lanes
Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 26, 2023 – The 2017 HRM Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP) put people who are pedestrians and cyclists before all other road users in a plan to…