{"id":8294,"date":"2025-11-18T22:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8294"},"modified":"2025-11-18T22:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:11:26","slug":"thursday-nov-20-2025-homes-trees-not-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8294","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Nov 20, 2025: Homes & Trees Not Highways!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Received from Friends of Halifax Common<\/p>\n

Dear Friends,<\/p>\n

Join us for<\/em> FHC\u2019s\u00a0Thursday Action –\u00a0Homes Not Highways!<\/strong>
\nDate:<\/strong> Thursday, November 20
\nRain date Friday Nov 21 – check halifaxcommon.ca <\/a>or Facebook.com\/halifaxcommon\/<\/a> for changes
\nTimes:<\/strong> noon – 1 pm & 4 – 5 pm
\nPlace<\/strong>: Corner of Robie & Charles Streets
\nAction Update:<\/strong>\u00a0People are slowly hearing about government plans to cut 80 Robie St trees but most don\u2019t know about the plan to demolish<\/em>\u00a012-14 historic buildings. Maybe government silos don\u2019t even know we\u2019re using $200m in public money to demolish 50-70 homes in the middle of a housing crisis, including a newly renovated 7-unit First Nations building. So, <\/strong>we\u2019ve planned a new action to help get the word out…<\/p>\n

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A Sign of the Times on Robie Street (Pic by Admin, inserted)
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Wider Roads Won\u2019t Fix Traffic or Buses.\u00a0<\/strong>Halifax \/ K\u2019jupuk must not squander $200m to cut trees, destroy housing in exchange for more traffic. As fiscal, environmental & socio-economic stewards, our Mayor and Council have an obligation to implement and assess cheaper, faster options to improve transit that does not destroy our historic Robie St neighbourhood. Transit Priority Signals or Signalized Lane Changes like the MacDonald Bridge are what HRM should test out for Robie St for the short distance between North & Cunard. Then the $200m road widening budget can go to real transit priorities: buses, drivers, shelters, lower fare, micro-transit, public safety. And empty Robie St buildings can be repopulated and trees protected…<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t join us?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nSign our Petition: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/mryjv56w<\/strong><\/a>
\nSend our letter to Councillors: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5b9c66zj<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

More info at https:\/\/halifaxcommon.ca\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Received from Friends of Halifax Common Dear Friends, Join us for FHC\u2019s\u00a0Thursday Action –\u00a0Homes Not Highways! Date: Thursday, November 20 Rain date Friday Nov 21 – check halifaxcommon.ca or Facebook.com\/halifaxcommon\/ for changes Times: noon – 1 pm & 4 – … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8299,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions\/8299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}