By Sean Gillis
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Transit First – What Halifax Transit needs to deliver
In September, It’s More than Buses, a grassroots advocate for better transit, launched our idea for a frequent network to show how our principles could...
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Transit First – Give Transit Priority
A route 1 bus is traveling along Bayer’s Road at o km/hr. A route 52 bus is stuck on Joseph Howe Drive, also traveling at 0 km/hr. When will they...
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Transit First – Straight Routes Please
The shortest path between any two points is a straight line. That’s pretty basic geometry. So why do so many of Halifax’s bus routes twist and...
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Transit First – Ridership or Coverage
HALIFAX – Transit offers communities and residents several benefits. Three of the most important benefits are mobility, less congestion and lower...
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Public places, not leftover spaces
What makes a place like the Campidoglio in Rome, pictured above, inviting and memorable? While elegant Renaissance buildings and a design by Michelangelo...
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Transit First: How much service? Where?
HALIFAX – Metro Transit is busy redesigning HRM’s transit network, based on the Moving Forward Principles that were approved by Regional...
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Transit First – What’s next for Metro Transit
HALIFAX – On Wednesday January 8th, HRM Council approved a complete overhaul of Metro Transit’s confusing network and set bold, transformative...
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Don’t like Downtown? That’s okay.
HALIFAX – The editor of the Halifax Magazine apparently got a rough reception for his article about how many parking spots are available most days...
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Transit First – Big changes for Metro Transit
Editor’s Note: On January 8th, Committee of the Whole unanimously endorsed a review and redesign of the Metro Transit Network, based on the Moving...
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Transit First: New Column, Jan. 2014
Transit First, Spacing Atlantic’s new column on urban transportation, will launch in January 2014. As the name implies, Transit First will be...
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Transit: Let’s think beyond commuting
HALIFAX – There’s definitely a new, positive attitude in town. Saturday’s Herald Magazine feature – Love this town: A new outlook for Halifax...
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Atlantic Canada’s Densest Neighbourhoods – Spring Garden / Queen Street
EDITOR’S NOTE: Based on feedback from an earlier post on urban density, Spacing Atlantic will feature one of the top five dense residential...