{"id":6678,"date":"2010-11-03T09:16:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T12:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingatlantic.ca\/?p=6678"},"modified":"2013-01-21T04:40:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T08:40:44","slug":"crosstown-connector-to-public-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/11\/03\/crosstown-connector-to-public-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosstown Connector approved for public consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6679\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/11\/03\/crosstown-connector-to-public-consultation\/ctc_sim\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6679\" title=\"CtC a Bike Lane\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/CtC_Sim-600x776.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/CtC_Sim-600x776.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/CtC_Sim-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/CtC_Sim.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>HALIFAX<\/strong> &#8211; In March of 2010, the Halifax Cycling Coalition (HCC) began a petition supporting a new active transportation corridor to be established in a high impact area on the peninsula. After six weeks of touring with the petition and some help from our membership \u2014 as well as everyday HRM residents \u2014 I am proud to say that our petition of over 1400 signatures has finally made some headway.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Halifax Regional Council was presented with a staff <a href=\"http:\/\/halifax.ca\/council\/agendasc\/documents\/101102ca1113.pdf\">report<\/a> supporting continued development of a new active transportation corridor \u2014 which the HCC has dubbed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclehalifax.ca\/content\/CrossTownConnector\/CTC.htm\">Crosstown Connector (CtC)<\/a>. In its simplest form, the CtC would be a single, connected bike lane that would span the north and south ends of the peninsula and eventually connect to the Bedford Highway Bike Lane. Not only would this serve the existing cycling population of Halifax, but it would also reduce one of the major barriers between non-cyclists and the old 10-Speeds stored in their garages: a lack of practical infrastructure. At the end of the discussion, council voted unanimously to send this plan to community consultation. That said, community consultation can either make or break the CtC.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest sources of resistance to cycling infrastructure in HRM is input from businesses who are afraid of loosing customers due to a trade-off between on-street parking and bike lanes. Although businesses would likely see a change to their bottom line, Lauralee Sim \u2014 Co-Chair of the HCC \u2014 indicates that the change could be in the favour of local businesses. &#8220;It&#8217;s sort of this knee-jerk misconception that businesses have towards loosing on street parking,&#8221; Sim explains. &#8220;Businesses think that their customers will feel inconvenienced by the change. The evidence we&#8217;ve found seems to indicate the opposite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to new studies from all across North America \u2014 and even Canadian communities such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanairpartnership.org\/files\/BikeLanes_ParkingandBusiness_Year1Report_Feb2009_Final.pdf\">Toronto&#8217;s Annex neighbourhood<\/a> \u2014\u00a0the majority of patrons who visit local businesses tend to be pedestrians and cyclists. Not only do they patronize local businesses more often, they tend to spend more on the goods, services and food when they&#8217;re there. Couple these findings with a new survey from Halifax&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.halifaxcycles.com\/\">Cycle Gallery<\/a> indicating that cyclists tend to have a higher discretionary budget, it&#8217;s no stretch of the imagination to think of cyclists as the powerful consumer group that they are.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you cycle or not, the HCC&#8217;s Crosstown Connector \u2014 should it be created \u2014 will definitely impact the transportation diversity of Halifax. As community consultations and meetings are established, I urge you all to come out and talk about how a bike lane may affect your day to day lives \u2014 whether it be positively or negatively. This is an exciting step for us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX &#8211; In March of 2010, the Halifax Cycling Coalition (HCC) began a petition supporting a new active transportation corridor to be established in a high impact area on the peninsula. After six weeks of touring with the petition and some help from our membership \u2014 as well as everyday HRM residents \u2014 I am<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/11\/03\/crosstown-connector-to-public-consultation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Crosstown Connector approved for public consultation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5857],"tags":[2192,1063,339,669,2722,351,531,703,3290,3289,1670,689,381,2197],"class_list":["post-6678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","tag-active-transportation-corridor","tag-co-chair","tag-cycling","tag-food-2","tag-for-us-all","tag-halifax","tag-halifax-cycling-coalition","tag-halifax-regional-council","tag-halifaxs-cycle-gallery","tag-hccs-crosstown-connector","tag-lauralee-sim","tag-north-america","tag-toronto","tag-transportation-diversity"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Crosstown Connector approved for public consultation - Spacing Atlantic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/11\/03\/crosstown-connector-to-public-consultation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crosstown Connector approved for public consultation - Spacing Atlantic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HALIFAX &#8211; In March of 2010, the Halifax Cycling Coalition (HCC) began a petition supporting a new active transportation corridor to be established in a high impact area on the peninsula. 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