Just a quick programming note from Matt this week

As promised during the episode, here is how, in my opinion, the Traffic Calming Administrative Order should be amended.

It would be beneficial to get rid of the TCAO all together so road safety money could be spend on more efficient strategies, like the Integrated Mobility Plan, however, since politicans seem to want to keep it, clause 21 of the TCAO should be amended (changes in bold) to read

“staff shall prepare an evidence based traffic calming plan, in line with the Road Safety Strategy and Integrated Mobility Plan, for each project on the annual proposed implementation list and shall consider the physical characteristics of each street.”

That's it. That's how we could save money and make roads safer in the process. Write your councillor and ask them to change the TCAO.

In this podcast Grand Parade's city hall reporter Matt Stickland recaps what went down at city hall last week.

There's a development on a heritage property, Halifax is making slow progress police reform thanks to an unlikely hero.

And there's also a pop quiz!

We trust you can find any legislation yourself, and if you can't, you should be able to, but otherwise here are the sources mentioned in the show:

https://timharford.com/2023/07/cautionary-tales-the-v2-trilogy/

https://www.smithsonianbooks.com/store/aviation-military-history/the-rocket-and-the-reich-peenemunde-and-the-coming-of-the-ballistic-missile-era/

https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/f229e86a-a3f0-4899-9631-71335f654f79/content

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094119020300899

https://news.mit.edu/2021/ride-sharing-intensifies-urban-road-congestion-0423

https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/ride-hailing-makes-road-congestion-worse-study-finds-again

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/uber-lyft-traffic-congestion-car-ownership-study/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652621042694