1 When the Macdonald Bridge was built 60 years ago it linked two distinct cities. Nowadays, it’s a part of the Halifax Regional Municipality but our two harbour bridges are still run by a strange authoritative body in the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission. As the Big Lift lifts off, this week’s Coast cover story looks at […]
Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission
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Joyce MacIsaac, bridge ambassador
Joyce MacIsaac has the blinds open in her toll booth on the A. Murray MacKay Bridge. She’s doling out quarters and counting the axles on semi-trailers and watching, watching, watching…always watching: cars, passengers, lanes, drivers pulled over talking on cell phones, cargo vans rumbling at her down Highway 111, dogs popping their heads out of […]
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The Feds buy half a bus
In the grand scheme of things, it isn’t much—the $105,000 Transport Canada awarded the Halifax Regional Municipality this month through its ecoMOBILITY program, plus $140,000 from the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission and Conserve Nova Scotia, could only buy half a bus. But it’ll help. The ecoMOBILITY program gives money to cities and towns that have what […]