I n Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth Century Halifax, author Ted Rutland says that in 1970, the city’s view was that construction of the “dystopian” Cogswell Interchange was slum clearance in the name of urban renewal. A similar official view prevailed about a decade earlier with the relocation of Africville residents. With […]
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Light Rail Alliance is full-steam ahead
If HRM wants to get on the right track for transit, Ben MacLeod and Steven Lee say it needs to think light. The two urban planning advocates are the brains behind the new Halifax Light Rail Alliance, which asks Halifax to rethink its transit-oriented development and build a “holistic mode of sustainable urban growth” focused […]
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Bus Rapid Transit is key to Halifax’s infrastructure reform
[Image-1] Halifax’s bus network is slow and unreliable. This fact is apparent to anyone who contends with peak-hour commutes in the city. But there are limits to what can be done by reforming the bus system in its current form. Congestion plagues buses, and unless the “spine” of the transit system is moved out […]