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Matt Stickland

@landofsticks.bsky.social

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Founding editor of GrandParade.news a Halifax newspaper, host of Grand Parade and co-host of Wanderer Grounds. Previously: Writer for The Coast, Founding editor of Committee Trawler, an NDP Candidate, Submariner, and Theater tech. DMs open, he/him.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 2h

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 3h

Good luck or whatever.

Google maos view of the Windsor Street Exchange showing multiple accidents.

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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 5h

“If you want me to have hope, give me a fucking reason.”

@landofsticks.bsky.social holds nothing back in this episode when explaining why fiscal sustainability, road safety, and transit are all failing in post-amalgamation Halifax Regional Municipality.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 9h

I find it funny when people ask if I've biked somewhere. Because to me they are asking "You chose to ride your bike through the woods instead of getting in your rage box, accidentally attempting some murders and causing climate change while traversing an aberration of asphalt? Why?"

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 10h

Depends on whether or not you're reading the handbook or the MVA

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 10h

If you're ever looking for freelance work I know a guy.

But more seriously, I enjoyed reading ya, fair winds and following seas on whatever comes next.

Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 10h

I am going to invest in this lunch money savings scheme pitched by the guy who is threatening to steal my lunch money.

Derek Simon @dartmouthderek.bsky.social · 10h

Pursuing greater defence integration with a country that is actively threatening your sovereignty is absolutely absurd.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 10h

Let's also not forget that the driver had to get a license that specifically stipulates that he's not allowed to hit children with his car.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.

Our car culture summed up in one video.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 1d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Derek Simon @dartmouthderek.bsky.social · 10h

Pursuing greater defence integration with a country that is actively threatening your sovereignty is absolutely absurd.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone loves a spicy pillow.

Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 10h

Firefighters: Don't plug your ebike in overnight. Watch it carefully as it charges.

Public: *gasp* That's so dangerous.

Firefighters: Yes, much like your phone.

Public: I... what?

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 1d

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Highlights
For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement.
Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design.
Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically.
Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street.
There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 1d

When you’re on the bus you really notice that congestion is caused by cars.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 22h

I wonder why the municipal code of conduct got changed so that only councillors could make complaints 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 1d

The frustrating thing about the premier's visceral reaction here is that he could have reacted with this much zeal anytime on the housing file, by forcing reforms on intransigent municipalities. Standardized upzoning & bans on parking minimums for all the cities are all things the province can do.

Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford has responded to a letter from more than 20 Ontario mayors asking to save the province’s automated speed cameras, telling them “the answer is no.” #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1146790...

‘The answer is no’: Ford rejects plea from mayors to save, alter Ontario’s speed cameras | Globalnews.ca

Replying to a letter sent last week asking for changes to how speed cameras operate instead of an all-out ban, Ford repeated his claim the program is a 'cash grab.'

globalnews.ca

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Wes Marshall @wesmars.bsky.social · 1d

~20 minutes until Look Both Ways LIVE with David & Wes www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8FCCqkjnKA

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 1d

I'm proposing a rebrand of the term "as of right development."

I'm workshopping the name "do you call the police just to check that you're allowed to drive the speed limit, no of course not, you don't have to ask permission to follow the law development."

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 1d

This is the future (funding model) HFX By Bike wants.

Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 1d

New front runner "For a fee anything is possible"

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 1d

I was right. Later democracy super fans.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect this will pass unanimously, I'm outta here before they make me pack up for in-camera.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 1d

New front runner "For a fee anything is possible"

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 1d

So, so, so many cold open clips this meeting. Front runners are "and before you speak, I have an email" and "Call or click before you dig? We want to look before we dig"

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch village road construction found 30 surprise pipes when they started digging. They expected 40, found 70. Those 30 surprise pipes cost time and money.

Hendsbee says maybe should we do this for all construction because of bedrock out in sheet harbour that was actually decomposed trees.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 1d

Morse again on ground penetrating radar prior to big construction projects. Forwarned is forarmed and would save us money if we weren't suprised by stuff as soon as we started digging.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 1d

St-Amand is asking what work we've done in the past about whether or not do constuction funds can help us today and A/CAO Anguish says what's different is that this is a request for legislation changes to actually do constructioin charges. Passed, we'll write a letter to the province.