Forgot to say haunted!!!! Lol

This building was the old jail, then poor house. About 5 thousand people sre burried unneith yiur feet on that property... Rip... Across the street is the richer people of halifax. 😢lots of sad history in halfax ....m

Oh _thank god,_ I was worried Hydrostone would turn out to be asbestos! The _last_ thing Halifax would have needed. Let's hear it for granite!

The birth of Halifax' 5 Minute City. Now it's more of a Trudeau Town.

Spring Garden road needs dedicated bus lane and possibly a bicycle lane and halifax has too many N.I.M.B.Y.S that seem to belly-ache every time a common sense project is proposed. There's plenty of room for a protected bicycle lane on Clyde street which is one street over . That way cyclists would be much safer than the situation is now . Final note . The homeless have also inserted themselves on the new wider sidewalks and it's negatively affecting the vibrancy and tourism.

Is it funny or sad? I don't even know

The music louder than your voice we find difficulties to hear you clearly

Cleveland is a know nothing!!

we may be about to loose a very unique building located at what is known as Pizza Corner. 1545 Grafton st. which has been the home of the Black Market Boutique for the last 30 years is for sale and many fear it will be sold to a developer who's only intention would be to tear down and rebuild. It was considered Heritage in 2019 but was out voted. Shame since it's unlike any building in halifax, modelled after Italian architecture, is 125 years old and was built by Michael Keefe.. Halifax's 31 Mayor after he finished his term. If any building in Halifax deserves to be Heritage that one does. Thanks for shedding light on the subject. I'm sure your videos have an impact.. it's just a shame that many with the power to demolish heritage don't value them. Only the $

All sounds good and good intentions give hope..but in the long run 10 percent isn't really enough and in the heart of downtown? I can see it staying affordable for long. I'm with the former pupil. What is 10 percent? I admire him for wearing two watches... he don't take chances... I imagine he's a punctual guy. If one watch stops.. chances are they other will still work and he'll be on time.

Now years later some of these are about to rise. for better or worse.. only time will tell.

10,000 TEU sized ships are considered small these days. Ultra class ship is a very vague generic description that actually can be broken down into three major classes, Panamax, Post Panamax and Suez.

Cool video. I never knew that rural areas had forms of public transit, but it’s pretty interesting

The rooming houses in downtown Dartmouth were shut down thanks to a new rules put in place that if a rental unit has tenants that constantly receive visits by police for serious issues the city gets involved. The city can then order the unit(s) cleared out of tenants and the property get boarded up with a notice on the main entrance that the owner is served. A few of those buildings were repeatedly cleared (one building had a murder) and the properties were seized and demolished. The area has multiple properties vacant at this time and should have 'affordable houses' (year right, what is affordable) built on it.

lol the guy insisting that you share his banana. My experience has been that the poorer people are, the more they want to share what little they have, even if it takes the food right out of their mouth. We can plainly see today how the loss of our boarding houses has impacted the poorest among us. Loss of boarding houses + gentrification + government policies enabling ongoing flood of "newcomers" + inflation + currency devaluation + greedy landlords = people living on the street, in shelters, or in tent encampments.

Where’d you all go?

Great video!!

Halifax needs more environmentally-friendly public transit. Check out Ghent, Belgium. Converted parking lots to canals, no cars allowed in the city (although there are a few buses here and there). Pedestrians use bicycles and trams or walk.

0:27 affordable rent :'(

VERY informative.... thanks

It's 2023... Has the parking situation improved?

Still waiting for round two

this is such an entertaining video. the fast style switching throughout the video is definitely a pleasure to my ADHD brain.

🇨🇦 Congratulations on the rise of views on the channels content! 🍰

🇨🇦 we need one thing; a public graffiti wall

🇨🇦 Hadrian Laing is a literal cousin of me, Messenger. He was a good mentor to me when I was A kid

Spry till I die XD

my aunt lived in hydrostone for over a decade. I think it's one of the coolest neighbourhoods in the city if not the country

5 years later... That didn't work out as planned😔

I hear some familiar voices!

It funny now, going back to some of these older PLANifax videos, and seeing a lot of talk about symptoms of a larger problem. A lack of urbanist design. A lack of people-centric urban planning. An addiction to car dependency. This is a prime example of one of these symptoms. People have difficulty finding parking downtown because too many people drive downtown. Too many people drive downtown because the land use in our municipality is full of single-family-home-zoning suburban sprawl, improper conversion of old two-lane highway routes into two-three lane suburban stroads and/or replaced with multi lane highways that cut through our municipality, and lack of proper infrastructure for more efficient and synergistic transit routes and modes, alongside properly developed, maintained, and protected/separate and properly networked active transportation routes (walking, cycling, etc.). If there were more and better alternatives to driving everywhere, more people would opt to taking those modes of transportation based on where in the municipality they live, and the roads would be less congested with car traffic, and to the points in this video, there would be less people looking for/needing parking downtown, because more people would be cycling downtown, or busing downtown, or ferrying downtown, or taking commuter rail downtown. At that point, the only people driving downtown would be people who need to for work (tour vehicles, delivery vehicles, promotional vehicles, etc.), people who need to drive because they're coming from out of town/province/country, or people who want to drive because they just prefer that for themselves. All of this, as opposed to the status quo of cars being the default because no other mode of transportation is reliable enough because too much of the infrastructure is centered around the use of cars to get around for, literally everything, and anything else is an afterthought.

Hope to see more videos! Thanks for the content

The problem is, if the city wants to build a tourist based economy, they would have to build some thing like Vegas or Dubai Since the city does not have history like many tourist European cities, Halifax will have to rely on building things that are in other Canadian cities

I can enVision Zero chance I'll move back to NYC with all those damn speed cameras

America finally learning from other countries??? Crazy

It's here! And I really like it! It was especially nice during the Parade of lights!

Bahahahahahahaa lil backwards Halifax PETRIFIED of anything over 10 or 15 floors . This accounts for the lack of rentals and the horrific looking urban sprawl . Definitely destined to remain a remote outpost removed from 21st century civilization ...

Halifax has always been stuck in the past. Their fear of buildings over 20 stories is laughable. The urban sprawl is a waste of space . I was reading an online report on the development planned for the Hfx Shopping center / Walmart old Sears area. They referred to planned 25 story buildings as "skyscrapers" . What a joke. Halifax is a remote outpost. Unless their fear of moving out of the early 20th century mentality ceases it will remain so .

Rooming houses = Scam!

I grew up here in the late sixties - eighties. Thanks for putting this together. My question is did countries responsible for the explosion contribute to the rebuilding of the city?

Yeah cause there's no money in building family houses anymore in Halifax. Fucking retarded eh.

The 59 should’ve never been cut back to Portland Hills terminal that wasn’t a super long route now it’s almost pointless

There’s a lot of missing information in this video :/

What about social housing and housing coops?

Imagine what the city can do by the Time Avatar 7 is released 🤔

"Only a cup of coffee a day" is a huge amount of money and assumes everyone wastes their money on Starbucks everyday

This is fucking gold.

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Great city, we will come soon. Regards from Israel

I like trains too. However that alone isn't enough - they have to make sense where they are proposed. Halifax has just two single lines. The slow and winding Dartmouth side picks up people near the waterfront and could take them to Alderney Landing where they could take a ferry or to below the Dartmouth Bridge Terminal - where some means must be made available to get them up the hill to buses or people won't use it. These would be the only practical ways to get from Eastern Passage to Halifax because the Dartmouth branch connects to the main Halifax line way out of town at at Windsor Junction. It also passes through Burnside Industrial Park, so a station could be added there. The main line goes though the west end of Halifax where stops could be added, then would terminate at the south end, where everyone would have to shuttle or walk up Barrington St. to the downtown centre, if that's where they wanted to go. For me, one of the defining features of these two little rail lines is all the area they do not service in a ridiculously large Halifax Regional Municipality. Elevated rail, subways, light rail? Forget that for a city of 420,000 people, unless we can persuade Ottawa to spend unjustifiably huge amounts of money to make it happen. So let's drop the comparison with Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa etc. It doesn't apply here. The railway lines would have to be leased from CN who would always prioritize their freight trains above VIA or other passenger trains, so there may be days where you just sit on a siding for a while waiting for their goods train to eventually pass. Projected $36m to establish commuter rail + $9b operating costs? We have a habit of underestimating what large projects cost here, then finding ourselves half way through them and trapped - being reluctantly forced to accept the extra cost anyway. Everything from the Washmill overpass to the proposed QE2 hospital expansions have shown this. We have no experience running such a service here, so I guarantee these numbers are optimistic - more so with our inflation rates these days. So are we screwed? No. We have the oldest continuously operating ferry service in North America, from Halifax to Dartmouth. In all those years since 1752 we have extended that by only one peak hour service between Halifax and Woodside. That's all. We have a substantial harbour that borders on Bedford, Rockingham , Fairview, the North End, Burnside, Woodside, Eastern Passage and could drop passengers off somewhere near the existing ferry terminal - close to the city centre plus other stops north or south of it. Wharves could be fed with synchronized buses coming from further afield like Lower Sackville, Beaver Bank (to a Bedford wharf) and Clayton Park to pick drop off passengers at Burnside to meet buses that would place them at key stops there. Downtown wharves could be met by an electric city shuttle bus that could put you in the most likely parts of downtown you might want to go. Our harbour almost never freezes and best of all - we own it! We don't have to pay CN or anyone else for the right to use it and we don't have to wait for their trains to pass us. We could be using fast cats like Sydney, Australia - a city which has many ferry services that utilize their harbour well. Whatever we do we would have to invest in wharves or stations, and lease ferries or trains, but leveraging our harbour effectively together with bus support could pull many vehicles off the highways and bridges, save on having to widen highways and with the right types of ferry propulsion, they could be vastly cleaner than cars are now. I guess this is an old video. I had heard that reason had prevailed and studies into trendy sounding commuter rail had finally been dropped. I hope so. It never made sense in Halifax IMHO.