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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 8h

This is actually a very good short and sweet summary of the sustainable transportation alternatives

Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 8h

Ditto for every journey to and from downtown, for any reason
www.halifax.ca/transportati...

Whether you’re walking, biking, rolling or riding transit – there are so many ways to explore this year’s art at Nocturne.

www.halifax.ca

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 10h

What bliss!

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 11h

"cities where you can move and breathe are much more productive”
Shame we can barely move actively due to transportation priority no. 1 (shifting and parking a lotta cars)

Ralph Martin @ralphmartin.bsky.social · 11h

“Stern said the growing economies of scale of climate technology, more efficient use of resources and healthier populations – fossil fuel air pollution kills millions a year – would all boost productivity and economic growth” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

www.theguardian.com

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 21h

Hundreds of children are reported to be held by Israel, reporting starvation and torture, with visits from parents and lawyers blocked.
Yet the mainstream media focus today is wholly upon the release of Israeli hostages.
www.savethechildren.org.uk/news/media-c...

Palestinian children in Israeli military detention report increasingly violent conditions

Rising numbers of Palestinian children detained without charge in the Israel military system since 7 October have reported that they are facing violence and abuse.

www.savethechildren.org.uk

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 21h

Joyous scene
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22h

Palestinian prisoners released from Israel have been greeted by huge crowds in the occupied West Bank, as a prisoner and captive exchange took place on Monday as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal.

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 22h

Headlines in western media entirely focus on release of Israeli hostages. Without diminishing the significance of that, multiple times more Palestinians including children have been held without charge in well-documented appalling conditions, facing torture and abuse
www.bbc.com/news

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Visit BBC News for the latest news, breaking news, video, audio and analysis. BBC News provides trusted World, U.S. and U.K. news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, climat...

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 22h

the release of 2000 Palestinian prisoners today include "some 1,700 of the several thousand Palestinians that Israeli troops seized from Gaza during the 2-year war and have held without charge"
Extremely limited media focus on those.
halifax.citynews.ca/2025/10/13/a...

A look at Palestinian prisoners and how are they being released in exchange for Israeli hostages

BEITUNIA, West Bank (AP) — Under a ceasefire deal many hope will finally turn the page on a two-year war, Israel has been preparing to exchange nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners for the 48 hostages —...

halifax.citynews.ca

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 1d

Didn't and will not eat Turkey.

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 1d

Town of Bedfood? Were you hungry after that archiving

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 1d

Plenty of pedestrian drama on the local fb dashcam groups, reflecting reality
www.facebook.com/groups/33150...

Caught on Dashcam Nova Scotia | Near miss with a pedestrian | Facebook

Near miss with a pedestrian

www.facebook.com

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 1d

they are just so astronomically expensive and damaging to the environment. It's a huge area impacted by the current twinning.
Given 2 + 1 highways are supposed to be just as safe, these are surely more economic. Thanks @ericabutler.bsky.social for this
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/p...

Making highways safer without twinning - Halifax Examiner

With the newly re-elected Liberals promising to twin 70 more kilometres of 100 series highways despite the enormous financial costs and the ensuing increase in number of vehicles on our highways (whic...

www.halifaxexaminer.ca

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 1d

for sure

Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 1d

So this has been a Halifax tradition for longer than I thought

Photo of tram crashed into Boston Restaurant on Brunswick Street, 1945

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 1d

Best we can hope for is a toll revamp/relaunch something like the automated camera bridge systems seen elsewhere. Pay with an app.
For sure physical tolls will not return

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 1d

Surely London made a grave mistake with that congestion charge. Think of the traffic flow benefits missed

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't it still officially our strap line?

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately the traffic doesn't evaporate once it is off the bridge. So the Province would need to evaluate the knock on impact on congestion throughout the peninsula

The Chronicle Herald @thechronicleherald.bsky.social · 1d

Congestion on Halifax bridges needs more work, while crashes drop with no tolls

Preliminary data shows that the removal of toll plazas on Halifax's bridges has been positive, but there is still work to be done to improve congestion, said Fred Tilley, the province's Minister of Public Works.

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 1d

I get zero responses from staff to issues raised by 311 about sidewalk issues like this, other than the initial acknowledgment from 311 staff who are always great

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Nick Piers @nickpiers.bsky.social · 1d

Y'know, if your construction sign gives a specific date when the sidewalk reopens, I expect it to, well, reopen around that date. Not remain closed two weeks later. Especially when it's a well-used, shared path that passes an elementary school. (end of Leaman Dr)

#BikeHfx #Dartmouth #Halifax

Construction blocking the shares path at the end of Leaman Dr in Dartmouth. A sign says, "Sidewalk closed July 28th to September 28th."

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 1d

that increased traffic pretty much starts at Liverpool and gets a bit busier still from Bridgewater. How much would it cost to twin that whole section I wonder, and what could we have instead for the same $ ? I'm used to busier non twinned highways and don't see the issue, I use that Highway loads

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 1d

I'm familiar with the mess created from combining everyone together in the same space at the same time. Awful

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 1d

and if yours are like ours, the LPI's are on two of four crosswalk legs only (the ones that disrupt traffic the least)

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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 1d

nope, and the incident stats and analysis confirm this.

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