Halifax Active Transportation

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Took a ride out of downtown to the Shearwater trail to Rainbow Haven today. The Flyer trail and Dartmouth Harbour trail were both very popular with lots of other folks walking and cycling. The biggest gap in this network is Pleasant St. through the former refinery. The distance of fine, and elevation is gentle enough, but your options are sharing the road with 70kmh traffic, or a worn out sidewalk. Given that most of the stretch has very little foot traffic, this would be an ideal spot to implement a multi use trail.

This ties in with Halifax’s problem (which we do seem to be working on) of connecting these great trails like the BLT, Shubie Park, and the Flyer, with paths and bike lanes in the core.