All things Active Travel

A member of the Halifax community was killed recently, struck by the door of a pick-up truck that was opened into his path by a driver as he was cycling past. It has reignited a call for dooring to be an offence. In this 30 second clip I feature 5 incidents of drivers flinging their doors open into my path as I bike by, the first in the sequence from my morning commute on the same day that an article on dooring was published in which I was featured (https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/halifax/halifax-cyclists-death-points-to-a-larger-city-wide-issue-activists-say)

Drivers keep moving the temporary bollards at the Oak–Allen diverter in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), a key segment of the AAA bicycle network that has already been been delayed by several years.

Advocates move the bollards back. The city says the bollards should stay. Drivers keep driving through anyway. Here's the story. Good street design removes the need to rely on drivers following the rules of the road. Because they often don't. And don't come at me with a bunch of whataboutism!

The city of Kjipuktuk (Halifax) has started to install more rectangular rapid flashing beacons on crosswalks due to concerns with drivers failing to yield to people crossing. Some also have audio signals for people with visual impairments that say "walk lights are flashing" to signal that they can cross. In this short video from the POV of my bike handlebars I captured the person crossing pressing the button to activate the lights and audio but then having to stop in the crosswalk to avoid being mown down by the driver in the white SUV who failed to yield. If they had been visually impaired they would likely have been struck and injured/killed by this driver. This is #ZeroVisionHFX where drivers face no consequences for their dangerous behaviour.

A fitting end to an underwhelming 2025 on the mean streets of #ZeroVisionHFX. I happened to be walking by as the driver of a large truck pulled into the University Ave bike Lane and flattened the flexiposts on the way. There's a loading bay at the back of the Student Union Building but why bother with that when you can park illegally and crush a few flexiposts too?

There's never a dull moment on the All Ages and Abilities network in Halifax (Kjipuktuk). Today, a driver on the wrong side of the road forces two other drivers to take evasive action in ways that put other road users (including me!) at risk. Just another day in #ZeroVisionHFX

A few days after NEW signs are added to an all-way stop, drivers still seem incapable of reading them.

The start of my commute was a bit spicy with a container truck driver who didn't seem to know where they were going or what they were doing so just decided to break the law & run over a flexible bollard. Plus a Tesla driver parked in the bike lane too.

Cycling down a painted bike lane behind someone on an electric unicyle with a dog running alongside. Yet more evidence that bike lanes are for everyone!

A close up and slowed down clip of a driver who was on his phone in his truck when the traffic at an intersection began to move. The driver has his phone in his lap and is using it with what looks like both hands as he moves forward. As he goes through the intersection he reaches up to grab the steering wheel

A 15 second video from my bicycle camera which shows a large truck pulling out of a side street onto a local street bikeway in Halifax/Kjipuktuk, Canada (July 9 2025). The driver, high up in his cab, clearly cannot see me legally riding along the road that he is turning into. The sound is muted but it is fair to say I yelled. He heard, as indicated by his slight change in road position during his manoeuvre. Such near misses are a regular experience for anyone who tries to move around the city outside of a car.