Here’s a handy tool to help you email all of Halifax council! hfx.bike/email-council/

Right now there are 0.41 registered vehicles for every resident of HRM. Any policy that forces more car dependency takes us towards the provincial number of 0.67 vehicles per person. That’s a potential of adding up to 135,000 more vehicles to our roads. Sound like a good idea, Parker?

Four districts are sustainable without commercial taxes. If you can make time to speak to the budget committee on Wednesday or March 4, you should. Tell council the only way out of this hole is targeted fees to bump up the revenue of unsustainable districts and/or recoup costs from expensive service

Please join us to share your views about any business unit topic (not just the ones listed) on Wednesday.

I want to see a pie chart of budget operating costs showing the infinitessimal slice that is library/ transit/ bike network completion. Then I want the time spent debating converted to cost in salaries on the nearly invisible slice. Maybe include the salary costs of redundant staff reports.

This! I would rank both dark and wind as bigger problems than cold. Un- or under- cleared routes area non starter

Halifax! There is a trial of an inhaled vaccine for COVID that you can enrol in right now!

Today in #bikehfx takes care of each other: We rode today because @olliebikes.bsky.social shoveled out the snow berm parts that were too high and narrow for us to pass. ❤️

This is not a battery problem, this is a supply problem. No one is making these packs for bikes. JPL has been running lithium ion batteries at -20C since the early '00s. Modern batteries are better. Someone make a winter pack!

The ground is still surprisingly frozen. So there's lots of water around. Fast moving water. Scraping up the storm drains is very fun

All Cogswell bikeways are now open! I updated the Halifax bikeway map on Wikipedia, marking Amalamek Way, Brunswick Street, and Dutch Village Road as complete. #BikeHfx

Made it! with nine days to spare

Attn #BikeHfx & #KidicalMassHfx. My thrifting-luck was strong today. I found another set of dog saddle bags which can be converted into child-sized panniers. Got a kid who might like these? If needed, I can help with sewing/adaptations to make them fit your kid’s bike (rear rack required).

Homelessness in Halifax has increased by 400% since 2018 and it’s expected to continue to increase. Sam Austin said he has “a lingering reluctance around the politics around the issue, and cautioned that closing encampments to meet political objectives would go awry.” (by @jentaplin.bsky.social)

I say again. Beloved holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life is about affordable housing. "Is it too much to ask that [the poor live, work, die] in a decent house, with a decent roof, and a couple of decent rooms?" - George Bailey

What is up democracy superfans today is the day where we decide the future (next fiscal year) of our fair city. It's a packed house in chambers and I am on a comically large laptop used for D&D. If you're DM here's the link to the world www.worldanvil.com/w/nd26dp-lan...

Reminder #bikeHFX! Submit your kidical mass feedback by tomorrow to be entered in really excellent prize draw! kidicalm.l.rch04.me/go/WacmDBZ9U...

Is there a #WayfindingBikeHFX ? I know people have discussed how to get to the Joe Howe end of the COLT, but can't find the thread

About 110 people on their bikes had a great time at I Light HFX 2025, jointly organized with Dal/Kings Bike Centre. Big thanks to our sponsors, Wagners Law, Halifax Cycles, Giant Halifax and Long Alley Bicycles. Also thanks to the ride marshals, Halifax Bike Party, and all the organizers.

So many #BikeHFX folks showed up for the I Light Halifax ride tonight. The marshals did a fantastic job keeping everyone safe. The organizers pulled off a great event. Thanks @cyclehalifax.ca and everyone that made this happen!

Absolutely delightful I Light Hfx tonight. A little dampness can’t keep Haligonian cyclists from a shiny party. It was lovely to see so many #BikeHfx people tonight! I managed to chat with more folks than usual tonight but I still missed a bunch of you. Hi!!!

Becky Kent wants staff report on licensing, insuring micromobility devices in Halifax Story by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

Here are the #BikeHfx accommodations during construction over the Almon bike lane. Note it is now a shared space with pedestrians. Still, excellent to see!

I’m working on a story about an event in #Halifax today. It’s becoming more frequent that I’m the only reporter at some events such at the recent town halls with Mayor Andy Fillmore. I really enjoy covering these stories. They’re produced by a real reporter (me) and not AI!

Look at this! LOOK at this! Bike-specific construction mitigation on a designated local street bikeway! I don't think I've seen anything of the sort anywhere in Halifax before? Do I call 311 to say I'm thrilled?!

Our #kidicalmasshfx ride today was a comedy of errors. Our kidical mass season was uplifting, inspiring. One kid flexed his wings and ditched the parents to ride at the front of the mass. One kid went from a bike seat, to riding training wheels, to riding two wheels. Representation really matters

I forgot my phone this morning so you'll just have to take my word that we had a beautiful #KidicalMassHFX ride in Bedford today. The fall colours are really poppin'! Lots of kids and their adults had costumes. Big thanks to the organizers and volunteers for making this happen!

Last #KidicalMassHfx ride of the year with a great group of volunteers and participants. This #bikehfx event is always one of my favourites.

Ekko instructor Brad McGoey will join for interactive musical programming at Dewolf Park, after the ride. Wear your costumes or decorate your bike: it's our Halloween ride! We hope the homes along Shore Drive are decorated for the season. See you Sunday morning! 2/2 hfx.bike/kidical-mass...

#KidicalMassHfx is excited to ride in Bedford this weekend. We'll be bringing everything you need for a great Sunday morning on bikes: volunteer ride marshals to keep us safe; snacks & drinks to keep us going; and post-ride entertainment from our friends at Ekko Music! 1/2 ekkomusic.ca/about-ekko

Meanwhile, Sobeys and Aquaterra are pulling hundreds of millions of litres of water from wells in Colchester County which they sell as bottled water. For that water, the companies pay the province a total of $769 annually. That's not a typo. It's $769. (Exactly, $768.85.)

Oh my goodness. You beautiful, brilliant people #bikehfx I love you all so much

I'd like to thank @samdraws.bsky.social for making a fantastic Andy. Her work held up very well for most of the ride (we won't talk about the pump track incident). And for asking me to be the spokes-person to get Andy around today.

Two mayors at Halifax's first annual deputy mayor's bike ride

The 2022 Dartmouth kidical mass has a special place in my heart. It was our first ride. We rolled up with a trailer we'd borrowed from someone we'd just met (thanks @envirojen.bsky.social !), test rode a "stranger's" e-cargo bike, and totally changed our bike trajectory

“Riding on the hilly streets of downtown Dartmouth is also a demonstration that the limitations to what kids can do on their bikes are not about the geography or their physical abilities, but about the infrastructure needed to enable safe cycling.”

Just riding bikes with all my friends ❤️ #kidicalmassHFX

Effective 4 p.m. today, Friday, Aug. 29, the province has lifted restrictions on access to woods within the Halifax region. The provincial burn ban remains in place for the entire province. More details: www.halifax.ca/home/news/re...

I want to speculate traffic, and Mayor Fillmore, were stopped on Barrington. Which gave the opportunity to snap a heavily-zoomed photo of the buses stuck midblock on Morris. It was frosh move in day. There were a zillion out of town families trying to navigate the city

It’s baffling to me that so much of the U.S. (and the world) has decided that letting their kids get sick at school all the time (and spread illness to their parents and everyone else) is preferable to just … adequately cleaning indoor air

Bike friends we saw today: the same neighbour, a friend of a friend, @sarah-bikes-hfx.bsky.social, and a the bike friend we normally park beside

This is a fun thread about setting up an urban scavenger hunt for 9 year olds in downtown Halifax. Thanks for sharing @justbartek.ca !

The first #BikeHfx (and allies) pizza party was so great! It was a real mingle in the Dingle with so many Halisky friends. Thanks to the organizers!

Both Halifax Fire and the company that runs ambulances approved a one-way Morris Street, but then the ambulance company, which is paid by the province, changed its mind by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social Note also that Philip parses the data on Southwest Properties' claims and finds them wanting.

This has changed the Slayter connection to through the Dartmouth Commons, and not on Maple. They're not building bike infrastructure, they're building driver-convenience infrastructure