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HALIFAX –\u00a0<\/strong>This Sunday will offer Halifax the opportunity to uniquely engage with the city while encouraging alternative modes of transportation, walking, biking, skating, etc. Inspired by the sheer number of “open street” type events elsewhere (e.g. Bogota\u2019s Ciclovia<\/a>)\u00a0Switch<\/em>\u00a0is primarily about reclaiming streets as more than just a vehicular transport artery, but as public space, as a place for community.<\/p>\n

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While in other Canadian cities like Montreal or Ottawa, it is routine to close down kilometres of streets to motorized vehicles for urban festivals and gatherings, Ross Soward and the Planning & Design Centre<\/a>\u00a0didn’t have an easy time getting permission to open<\/em> up a 2km stretch as recounted by Chris Benjamin for The Coast<\/a>\u00a0and Lisa Roberts for Halifax Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SwitchHFX has the potential to be “transformative” in how urban residents start seeing, interacting and engaging with streets.\u00a0The success of Switch will also be felt in supporting the North-South Peninsula Bicycle Corridor route to be located on Agricola versus local street bikeways, but that’s a topic for another day.<\/p>\n

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Bring a helmet, bring a friend. Let’s make this a success.\u00a0You’ll want more of this type of thing in Halifax, I promise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What:<\/strong>\u00a0Switch: Open Street Sundays
\nWhen:<\/strong>\u00a0Sunday, September 9, 2012 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
\nWhere:<\/strong>\u00a0South Park Street, Bell Road, Ahern Avenue, North Park Street, Agricola Street<\/p>\n

For more information on Switch,\u00a0click here<\/a>.
\nFollow Switch on:\u00a0Facebook
\n<\/a>Twitter:\u00a0@SWITCHHFX<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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