Sneckdown Halifax

Snow + Neckdown. Uses snowpiles to show where Halifax's streets can make more room for people walking and biking. Curated by @heycornpusher & @tjhfx.

[John Kyle @HeyCornpusher]

Best surprise: big fixes to Sackville/Bell intersection—no more pseudo-sliplane, bollards and precast curb create much shorter crossing distance for pedestrians (that sneckdown will finally be a neckdown!). This is the quick-and-easy stuff we should be doing everywhere.

[Sneckdown Halifax @sneckdownhfx]

@jeffbblair https://t.co/bXfDRaCdTz

[John Kyle @HeyCornpusher]

I emailed the city about making this permanent once construction is done, and was told “I think there is still an opportunity for us to do this once the construction encroachments are removed.” 🎉

[Sneckdown Halifax @sneckdownhfx]

Obviously, I’m not a botanist.

[Sneckdown Halifax @sneckdownhfx]

All out of snow? Look for leaves (and seeds?) on the road to see where vehicles are actually travelling. #Leafdown

[Sneckdown Halifax @sneckdownhfx]

More details here

[John Kyle @HeyCornpusher]

Changes are coming to the NW corner of the Halifax Common. The park is being extended into the intersection, and Cunard is narrowed from 5 lanes to 3. The 5m-wide sliplane is being retained, but at least the radius has been adjusted to slow cars slightly.

[Sneckdown Halifax @sneckdownhfx]

This sneckdown’s gonna be a neckdown someday soon.

[Sneckdown Halifax @sneckdownhfx]

Who needs snow when you have pylons?

[Bike Mayor Halifax @BikeMayorHfx]

Half of Young Ave was shut down today, with bidirectional movement of vehicles maintained. Drivers went slowly, people had much shorter crossing distances.
A nice demonstration that we can and should (!) do much more with all that space.

[Sneckdown Halifax @sneckdownhfx]

Weeks after the last significant snowfall, we still have vehicles parking over a metre from the curb. Maybe the road doesn’t always need to be this wide? #sneckdown

[Sneckdown Halifax @sneckdownhfx]

Hmm. Maybe we didn’t need to make this crossing of a one-way street wide enough for two-way traffic. 🤔
#sneckdown

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Now that everyone knows what a #Sneckdown is, remember THE POINT ISNT TO DEBATE THE SMALL DETAILS OF AN ILLUSTRATION IN A GIF. It’s to understand the basic point that we could easily reconsider street space for many other things if we reconsider the excessive space given to cars.

[knitting by bicycle @happystash]

Little bit of #sneckdown fun on the walk home from the Winter Bike Week event.

You could fit a whole double lane bike way in that unused road!

@sneckdownhfx

[🫐Amelia J. Peabody (pseud.) @LilOldAl]

Something really cool about all these footprints leading to the library.

[Sneckdown Halifax @sneckdownhfx]

Come see @HeyCornpusher give a presentation about Sneckdowns tomorrow at the Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street, 6–9pm.

[PechaKucha Night HFX @PechaKuchaHFX]

Happening tomorrow night in partnership with @IBIKEHFX!

Presenters will be sharing projects and ideas about cycling, mobility, equitable access to transportation infrastructure, and more.

[TJ Maguire @tjhfx]

Few great #sneckdown opportunities on George Street. @sneckdownhfx @hfxplanning

[Sneckdown Halifax @sneckdownhfx]

The school zone signs do little to slow speeding drivers here (and the number of drivers losing control & jumping the curb proves it), but a sneckdown-inspired road narrowing might do a lot more.

[Sneckdown Halifax @sneckdownhfx]

Halifax installed these two bump-outs on Agricola as part of a pilot to “daylight” the intersection—preventing parked cars from blocking pedestrian sightlines.
Mother Nature just filled in the other two corners with sneckdowns for them.

[Sneckdown Halifax @sneckdownhfx]

This crosswalk is used every morning by a “walking school bus”—a group of kids & parents walking to school together. Speeding cars are a frequent danger.
It would be nice to have a bumpout here to slow the cars and shorten the crossing distance—a sneckdown shows there’s space.

[Sneckdown Halifax @sneckdownhfx]

One-way streets are great sources of sneckdown inspiration.

[Dale Bracewell @Dale_Bracewell]

Perfect Protected Intersection #Sneckdown courtesy of our #VancouverSnowstorm
(along Dunsmuir @ Richards)