Sara F.L. Kirk
@sflkirk.bsky.social
Health Promotion Prof @dalhousie.bsky.social. Posting mainly about pop health, climate anxiety & advocacy for safe streets. UK export now physically located in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Canada. Volunteer board member of @velocanadabikes.bsky.social. She/her.
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Sara F.L. Kirk
@sflkirk.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Thought I'd better crack on with a pinned intro. I'm an applied health researcher, using primarily qualitative methods & focus on how policies & environments shape health behaviours like healthy eating & active living. I ❤️ bikes & volunteer with Velo Canada Bikes to promote a #BikeFriendlyCanada 🚲
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and this not only about Bike users These decisions put me a pedestrian, and mobility device users, in more danger:
-More Drivers with their assault car on the road at every intersection;
-More cyclists sent directly onto our path to appease Carbrain councillors.
-More Drivers with their assault car on the road at every intersection;
-More cyclists sent directly onto our path to appease Carbrain councillors.
February 11, 2026 at 10:45 AM
and this not only about Bike users These decisions put me a pedestrian, and mobility device users, in more danger:
-More Drivers with their assault car on the road at every intersection;
-More cyclists sent directly onto our path to appease Carbrain councillors.
-More Drivers with their assault car on the road at every intersection;
-More cyclists sent directly onto our path to appease Carbrain councillors.
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Not to bring everything back to bike lanes, but someone explain to me why it’s unacceptable that only those costs have escalated when roadwork costs have also ballooned and the price of a concrete pad for a bus stop went from $4k to upwards of $800k?
$150,0000-$800,000 per year to build a bus stop when before they could just pour a concrete pad for like $4k because now the work has to involve ditches, culverts, other upgrades.
February 11, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Not to bring everything back to bike lanes, but someone explain to me why it’s unacceptable that only those costs have escalated when roadwork costs have also ballooned and the price of a concrete pad for a bus stop went from $4k to upwards of $800k?
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✨ introducing… ✨
🌇 Transportation for the Abundant Society 🚅
"Abundance" says our problem is artificial scarcity—especially housing. But you can’t build your way out if transportation policy still treats traffic flow as sacred.
Transportation is the binding constraint. ssrn.com/abstract=538...
🌇 Transportation for the Abundant Society 🚅
"Abundance" says our problem is artificial scarcity—especially housing. But you can’t build your way out if transportation policy still treats traffic flow as sacred.
Transportation is the binding constraint. ssrn.com/abstract=538...
February 11, 2026 at 4:27 PM
✨ introducing… ✨
🌇 Transportation for the Abundant Society 🚅
"Abundance" says our problem is artificial scarcity—especially housing. But you can’t build your way out if transportation policy still treats traffic flow as sacred.
Transportation is the binding constraint. ssrn.com/abstract=538...
🌇 Transportation for the Abundant Society 🚅
"Abundance" says our problem is artificial scarcity—especially housing. But you can’t build your way out if transportation policy still treats traffic flow as sacred.
Transportation is the binding constraint. ssrn.com/abstract=538...
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Transit: bringing things in house and doing preventative maintenance saved us a bunch of money.
February 11, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Transit: bringing things in house and doing preventative maintenance saved us a bunch of money.
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Rip access a bus expansion, first casualty of low taxes this year (can still be added back)
February 11, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Rip access a bus expansion, first casualty of low taxes this year (can still be added back)
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from Halifax city council: maybe you will be able to pay for the bus by tapping your bank card by the summer. check out this article by Elena Neufeld from 2025 about why Halifax had to replace their bus payment modums like, right after getting them. signalhfx.ca/halifax-tran...
Halifax Transit skips smart cards; goes straight to tap payments
signalhfx.ca
February 11, 2026 at 6:29 PM
from Halifax city council: maybe you will be able to pay for the bus by tapping your bank card by the summer. check out this article by Elena Neufeld from 2025 about why Halifax had to replace their bus payment modums like, right after getting them. signalhfx.ca/halifax-tran...
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Cops, children being taken into custody of the state and jail are all free, so, that'll help lower taxes.
February 11, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Cops, children being taken into custody of the state and jail are all free, so, that'll help lower taxes.
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Still can’t believe how many people I had to listen to arguing that we should lock up parents for stealing baby formula and then not allow them out on bail while they’re legally innocent and waiting for a trial.
February 11, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Still can’t believe how many people I had to listen to arguing that we should lock up parents for stealing baby formula and then not allow them out on bail while they’re legally innocent and waiting for a trial.
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The disabled have had it too good for too long!
Tax savings alert! We can not let disabled people use the bus on Sunday.
February 11, 2026 at 6:48 PM
The disabled have had it too good for too long!
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Tax savings alert! We can not let disabled people use the bus on Sunday.
February 11, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Tax savings alert! We can not let disabled people use the bus on Sunday.
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Budget season in Halifax again.
February 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Budget season in Halifax again.
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who must be consulted on issues ranging from planning to spending to transportation and more with tons of questions that must be asked, but all other speakers get dismissed as soon as they’re done speaking.
Do these regular people who gave of their time feel like they’re being heard?
Do these regular people who gave of their time feel like they’re being heard?
February 11, 2026 at 5:01 PM
who must be consulted on issues ranging from planning to spending to transportation and more with tons of questions that must be asked, but all other speakers get dismissed as soon as they’re done speaking.
Do these regular people who gave of their time feel like they’re being heard?
Do these regular people who gave of their time feel like they’re being heard?
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Before public participation picks up again in a few minutes, I just want to say that it’s frustrating that council seems to treat people who speak to them on behalf of a business organization, police organization, or landlord organization as though they are experts on everything …..(1/2)
February 11, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Before public participation picks up again in a few minutes, I just want to say that it’s frustrating that council seems to treat people who speak to them on behalf of a business organization, police organization, or landlord organization as though they are experts on everything …..(1/2)
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The original sin of municipal finance in Halifax is that the city provides low density, essentially empty space, as a service that has real, material costs, but doesn't have a way of entering it in the budget.
So it just shows up in higher costs of everything and everyone is mad.
So it just shows up in higher costs of everything and everyone is mad.
February 11, 2026 at 4:09 PM
The original sin of municipal finance in Halifax is that the city provides low density, essentially empty space, as a service that has real, material costs, but doesn't have a way of entering it in the budget.
So it just shows up in higher costs of everything and everyone is mad.
So it just shows up in higher costs of everything and everyone is mad.
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A lot of people don't know how the city works. In Halifax, we put them on council.
February 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM
A lot of people don't know how the city works. In Halifax, we put them on council.
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On and on and on.
February 11, 2026 at 3:30 PM
On and on and on.
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2 unhoused community members have died this week while trying to survive outside, unsheltered. Two. In just few days. One in Amherst and one in Halifax.
February 11, 2026 at 3:24 PM
2 unhoused community members have died this week while trying to survive outside, unsheltered. Two. In just few days. One in Amherst and one in Halifax.
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This is an example of how density brings down service costs. jk
February 11, 2026 at 2:57 PM
This is an example of how density brings down service costs. jk
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Suspected intoxicated driver attempts to park at police headquarters, gets stuck in snowbank
Just another day in car crazy HRM
haligonia.ca/man-arrested...
Just another day in car crazy HRM
haligonia.ca/man-arrested...
Man arrested for impaired driving after getting stuck in snowbank at Halifax Police HQ – haligonia.ca
haligonia.ca
February 11, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Suspected intoxicated driver attempts to park at police headquarters, gets stuck in snowbank
Just another day in car crazy HRM
haligonia.ca/man-arrested...
Just another day in car crazy HRM
haligonia.ca/man-arrested...
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In a week of grim revelations, perhaps the darkest of all was that the attitudes the dead millionaire represented – misogyny, control, abuse of girls – are embedded in power structures throughout our culture, writes @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cad...
www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cad...
February 11, 2026 at 4:32 PM
In a week of grim revelations, perhaps the darkest of all was that the attitudes the dead millionaire represented – misogyny, control, abuse of girls – are embedded in power structures throughout our culture, writes @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cad...
www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cad...
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Just a note on the lede of this story. Gabrielle can't find parking because it's priced too low, so people are incentivized to use it, which means they are, which means no spot for Gabby.
Circling the block: What's the parking situation in downtown Halifax and Dartmouth? www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
Circling the block: What's the parking situation in downtown Halifax and Dartmouth?
How Halifax Works explores parking frustrations and changes on the way
www.saltwire.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Just a note on the lede of this story. Gabrielle can't find parking because it's priced too low, so people are incentivized to use it, which means they are, which means no spot for Gabby.
This article should be sent to every councillor. Have it in the public record that they are STILL condemning residents to death and destruction. Not hyperbole - more traffic deaths & more damage from #CarBrain decisions will follow as surely as night follows day. #ZeroVisionHFX #WorldClassShitty 1/
Transit advocates decry Halifax mayor's autocentric plan to address traffic congestion by providing more space for cars
"If transit is to work it must be freed from having to compete with cars for existing road space. That means bus lanes or other forms of separated rights of way"
– February 1974
"If transit is to work it must be freed from having to compete with cars for existing road space. That means bus lanes or other forms of separated rights of way"
– February 1974
February 11, 2026 at 10:15 AM
This article should be sent to every councillor. Have it in the public record that they are STILL condemning residents to death and destruction. Not hyperbole - more traffic deaths & more damage from #CarBrain decisions will follow as surely as night follows day. #ZeroVisionHFX #WorldClassShitty 1/
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This could be written for today’s continuing debate on transit etc.
Transit advocates decry Halifax mayor's autocentric plan to address traffic congestion by providing more space for cars
"If transit is to work it must be freed from having to compete with cars for existing road space. That means bus lanes or other forms of separated rights of way"
– February 1974
"If transit is to work it must be freed from having to compete with cars for existing road space. That means bus lanes or other forms of separated rights of way"
– February 1974
February 11, 2026 at 1:14 AM
This could be written for today’s continuing debate on transit etc.
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Will future generations still be debating over whether cities are for people or cities are for cars in another FIFTY TWO YEARS?
February 11, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Will future generations still be debating over whether cities are for people or cities are for cars in another FIFTY TWO YEARS?