Andy Fillmore for Mayor of Halifax
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Transit, Congestion and Roads

HRM is a rapidly growing 21st-century capital city that encompasses urban, suburban, and rural communities that must be reliably interconnected. It has become too hard to move around our municipality. 

Extreme congestion is robbing residents and businesses of time and money, all while increasing emissions. Transit is not as reliable as it should be, which is putting more people in cars, and gridlock due to poorly-timed road construction and repairs contributes to this congestion.

As Mayor, I’ll use my experience as an urban and rural planner to get our city moving again to put time and money back into residents’ pockets.

My plan would...

Support Transit

  • Implement bus rapid transit (BRT) solutions to get people moving again. 
  • Make Halifax Transit more reliable and put user experiences first, by analyzing transit data to identify bottlenecks, identifying under-serviced areas or routes with consistent delays and adapting them quickly to get buses moving, and creating a true tap-to-pay system to make it easier to get on a bus. This will increase ridership, ease congestion, and reduce emissions.
  • Boost our recruitment and retention efforts for staff. 

Relieve Congestion

  • Reduce the impact of construction on traffic by getting more work done in off-peak traffic times, like nights and weekends, to make sure people can get to work and school on time.
  • The condition of our roads and the amount of potholes is unacceptable. To make our roads drivable I will create a new specialized Rapid Response Team to fill potholes faster. When a resident calls 311 to report a road repair issue, they will be contacted within 24 hours with an update and a plan to address the issue. 
  • Revise the procurement process to extend the roadbuilding season and get more work done.