In The Cycling Guide app we do a pretty extensive analysis to determine e what should be considered good cycling infrastructure (green in colour). We look at surface type, smoothness, and, if present, MTB scale (only the very easiest is used). The last was a recent addition that may still be beta.

It looks like highway=cycleway is commented out — that is the mainstay on some protected infrastructure in Halifax. Highway=path and bicycle=designated will catch some important multi-use paths

I’d be interested to know what tags you are keying in on. I do OSM updates in Halifax.

The full report is here: pub-halifax.escribemeetings.com/filestream.a...

The URL was updated in a revision to the agenda. #bikehhx

The HCC position paper on Local Street Bikeways is here: cyclehalifax.ca/local-street... #bikehfx

Ended up writing an email to council, hopefully I get through to somebody 🤷‍♂️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Excellent letter!

Interesting -- this was the correct URL but I got the 404 when I refreshed the window. Taken down?

2. Do Welsford (part of Midtown project) as (a) Local St Bikeway (BOO) or (b) as on-street bidirectional protected cycleway (I'm fine with this)

3. Replace Victoria/Highfield segment of Dartmouth Norht project with LSBs on Jackson Rd. and Leaman Dr. LSB as implemented by HRM is unacceptable.

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… breakdown costs for each project by contribution to walking, cycling, placemaking and vehicle realms. I’m dying to see how much cost they attribute to cycling for the Isleville project as it is clearly mostly a repaving job with bicycles getting paint and signs plus a couple of diverters.

I don’t think that report could be about this section of Almon as they said they are at “concept” stage. I fear that the council report will be the report on cost breakdowns that Tony Mancini moved for in July. Thanks to an amendment by Laura White, they will need to breakdown costs…. /2

The counter just came online recently — the graph shows that the count just reflects Nov and Dec. generally, the bridge counts are comparable to Vernon or South Park, so likely in the neighbourhood of 100,000 for the full year.

My favourite day was in July when hundreds from the #BikeHFX community turned out at 8am to rally against the mayor and several hostile councillors who were trying to scapegoat people on bicycles, blaming them for traffic congestion. The solidarity was exhilarating!

Hopefully every 5 or 10 years for everyone. Lots of young and middle age drivers who don’t know what they are doing.

If it concluded “less traffic” probably everyone could agree. But most drivers get the connection between too many drivers and too much traffic.

These are used extensively in Mexico City as well.