The Halifax “road train” will have to conduct its business without any funding from city hall. A vote at council to provide $50,000 in municipal money for the downtown people-mover was defeated by an 8–8 tie on Tuesday. Councillor Waye Mason, a member of the Halifax Community Road Train Society, recused himself from the vote. Ambassatours […]
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Train rides to ease Queen’s Marque construction pains
A “community road train” could be jauntily chugga-chugging through downtown traffic come this summer. On Tuesday HRM council asked for a staff report on funding Ambassatours’ answer to the city’s Queen’s Marque construction woes. The three-carriage road “train” will shuttle folks along Lower Water Street—from the Discovery Centre to Historic Properties—and then back on Hollis […]