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Residents stage protest to get drivers to slow down on Robie Street
Steve MacKay has been asking the city for years to do something about drivers who speed and run stop signs. On Friday, he and his neighbours took to the streets themselves.
Steve MacKay has had enough with speeders on his street in north end Halifax. On Friday afternoon at 2:30pm, while he was working from home and watching his young son, two vehicles crashed near his house on Robie and Stanley streets. MacKay went outside and learned one of the drivers ran a stop […]
The Robie Street bus lanes are planned, but there’s no money budgeted to build them
Council has given the go-ahead for city staff to start the detailed design for transit priority lanes along Robie and Young Streets, though the funding to build the lanes is not in the current council-approved capital plan. In Phase 1 of the project, Robie Street northbound will see a curb-side transit lane installed from Cogswell...