cyclocross skills come in handy for a variety of situations

One of the things I still can't wrap my mind around is people who are not urbanists inability to recognize "luxury" is purely a marketing term applied to new housing to denote its newness.

Save the date! THURSDAY October 30 🎃 will be the next Critical Mass AND Bike Party! 🚲🎉

Hey #bikeHFX: come celebrate my birthday with me at the next @criticalmasshfx.bsky.social, combined this time with Bike Party! I promise to be wearing a costume (and also riding a bike with a light this time 😬).

Critical Mass Ride FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 26 🗓 Meeting at 6:00pm, and ready to roll out at 6:30pm. Location: Starting at City Hall (Grand Parade Square), ending at the Commons.⚾️ We will ride on paved city streets. The length of the route is around 7.5km 🌆

the fact that camera enforcement doesn’t rack up demerit points is a downside. this guy needs a limiter installed.

I’m at Graham Grove Park in #Dartmouth for Deputy Mayor Tony Mancini’s #Bike Ride. Mayor Andy Fillmore (sort of) made an appearance. #Halifax

Look who is doing a town hall right on the peninsula, in fact right on the bike network! #BikeHFX

was listening to American Idiot last night, wondering what the response from Trump would be if that album came out today

one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life

it’s fall, that means it’s time for me to nag you into putting fenders on your bike

Thinking I may start sharing more here as other platforms get worse and worse. --- Found this little snail crawling along the other day. Rewilding the front yard is getting to be a rewarding process. --- #snail #photography #fucklawns

I'm really excited for tomorrow's ride. I hope #BikeHFX folks are able to attend

FROM OUR COLD DEAD HANDS

Attn #BikeHfx & #Halisky & #KidicalMassHfx, especially if you live in District 8 (Halifax Peninsula North). There is a Participatory Budgeting event in D8 on Thursday, 6-8pm in Maritime Hall at the Halifax Forum, and we need your votes to get new bike racks for St Catherine’s School! 1/3

I've shared the full study previously but here's a more user-friendly summary of research from Montreal, busting the myth that bike lanes remove space for cars. One for our more #CarBrain infected councillors in #HaliSky via @ca.theconversation.com theconversation.com/montreals-bi...

Did you know most fatal and injury-causing traffic collisions in our municipality happen around intersections. Crosswalks exist at all intersections, whether they are marked or unmarked. Drivers must always yield to pedestrians. halifax.ca/transportati...

The first official #coffeeoutside of fall will be at the Point Pleasant Park Gazebo! Thursday, September 25, 7:00am.

it’s fall, that means it’s time for me to nag you into putting fenders on your bike

This Sunday afternoon! Visit HCC to talk cycling infrastructure, or learn about the Cycling Guide app. Drop off your bike for safekeeping at our bike valet, get some bike maintenance from 12-2pm, get a bike fit from physio Adrian Wong from 2-4pm. HCC members can pick up their free anti-theft shield.

Draw The Line to.350.org/Z4LgS : Halifax, Sep. 20th, Grande Parade 1-4pm.

finally getting around to watching the Not Just Bikes video on the Ocean, and this Intercolonial Railway logo has got to come back

HRM data showing both pedestrian and cyclist crashes are up in the first six months of 2025 vs first six months of 2024, cyclist/micro-mobility crashes up by nearly one quarter. A direct outcome of caution and delay over crucial infra, at heavy cost to users docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

#BikeHfx, use extreme caution at Cogswell & Barrington. I discovered this evening while proceeding eastbound on the bidirectional bike lane that the EB green for cars is combined with a right signal SB from Barrington onto Cogswell, putting you in immediate conflict with drivers.

Don’t miss this on Sunday afternoon #bikehfx

ATLANTIC JEWISH COUNCIL: DO THE RIGHT THING! DO THE HONOURABLE THING! APOLOGIZE! Independent Jewish Voices - Halifax condemns hateful opportunistic smears

@hfxtransit.bsky.social this would be a good opportunity to maintain more frequent ferry service this weekend !

THESE EXIST IVE SEEN THEM

Supporting & inspiring hyper-local bike advocacy is the #KidicalMassHfx dream. I’m so very pleased to see folks building community around cycling in their own neighbourhoods & schools. Thanks to all of you for being a part of something amazing! We can't wait to see you again on October 19th. 6/6

A 🧵 of my reflections on #KidicalMassHfx. In 2022 (our first season) our Dartmouth ride had ~12 participants. In 2023 we had 76, and in 2024 we had 90. Yesterday, 130 people rode bikes with us in Dartmouth, in support of our kids safety and independence in their communities. 1/6

We had a blast at #KidicalMassHFX this morning. There were bubbles! There were tunes! I got to borrow a cargo bike from Halifax Cycles for demos and to carry Wee Raccoon across the harbour. Thank you to everyone that makes this happen!

A nice morning for a Dartmouth ride. Over 100 parents and kids rode from the Findlay Community Centre down to the playground at Ferry Terminal Park. Happy to have tagged along as part of kidical mass!

we had several blocks of joy, #kidicalmass. always love seeing #hfxbike come together, and even more when councilors come out to join us.

ok so we are actually a city that can take half a street for pedestrians and cyclists and still maintain 2 way car traffic.

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

And there’s the smoking gun: Tennis Canada collaborated with Israeli intelligence to ban spectators from the Davis Cup match. (Obviously in order to prevent images of anti-genocide protest spectacle that would have been broadcast around the world.) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

my predictions (most to least likely): 1) inter-maga groyper (or Epstein truther) 2) terrorgram/O9A 3) rando with incoherent politics 4) rationalist cult of some variety 5) ai psychosis 6) inside job 7) an actual liberal / leftist

Usually the mayor leads this event but not this year! Maybe Andy Fillmore doesn't want to ride without bike lanes?

charlie kirk leaves behind a dangerous legacy of misinformation, mostly the bizarre idea that undergrads are capable of complete thoughts and are worth talking to about major issues

what if his neck just did that

sharrows are the “non-smoking section” of this

Found this pic from another angle on FB. That's like 50m past the bus stop

My complaint. In which I am an angel and the cop is foaming at the mouth. But really everything about the incident after the cop passed me within a few inches is hardly relevant.

every day there is a genuine deluge of content about Halifax drivers causing (or nearly causing) traffic-snarling crashes. the comments are filled with people agreeing that drivers here are unhinged. somehow, traffic manages to get blamed on bike lanes, instead.

Via Facebook, this happened on Barrington this morning - the level of car-brained entitlement is astounding. 🤬 #hfx

Hendsbee just said he had recieved funds from one of the companies in question with dartmouth infilling and then Morse read out that Fillmore recieved the maximum donations of $6000 from two of the people who run one of the companies that (reportedly) wants to infill the Cove last election

Council supported Sam Austin’s motion to get more information from staff in two weeks time to look at protecting Dartmouth Cove nearly unanimously with only Fillmore and Hendsbee voting no.

Brunswick and Sackville was open today and you can already see how much nicer the sidewalk experience is going to be

Halifax drivers love to complain about traffic and then back up traffic for a block trying to make an unprotected left turn

It’s back to school season. Crosswalks exist at every intersection, marked or not. Drivers must always stop for pedestrians. Learn more: halifax.ca/transportati...