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Transportation Standing Committee Agenda

Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Council Chamber, City Hall
1841 Argyle Street, Halifax
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

1. CALL TO ORDER

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – May 7, 2014

3. APPROVAL OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS & APPROVAL OF ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS

4. BUSINESS ARISING OUT OF THE MINUTES
4.1 Passenger Rail Motion of May 7, 2014

5. MOTIONS OF RECONSIDERATION – None
6. MOTIONS OF RESCISSION – None
7. CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED BUSINESS - None

8. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & PRESENTATIONS
8.1 Correspondence - None
8.2 Petitions
8.3 Presentations
8.3.1 Accessible Transit Operations Update – Ahmad Kidwai, Manager, Accessible Transit, Halifax Transit

9. REPORTS
9.1 STAFF
9.1.1 Temporary On-Street Parking During Construction (information report dated March 25, 2014)
9.1.2 Integration of Transit Routes 401 & 370 and Re-route of Route 401 (information report dated April 3, 2014)
9.1.3 Modified SmartTrip E-Pass for Carshare Operators

9.2 COMMITTEE MEMBERS - None

9.3 ACCESSIBILITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
9.3.1 Accessibility Evaluation of HRM Pedestrian Infrastructure
9.3.2 Update from Councillor Watts

9.4 ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE
9.4.1 Update from Councillor Watts

9.5 CROSSWALK SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
9.5.1 Update from Councillor Dalrymple

10. MOTIONS
10.1 Councillor Mason
"That at the next regular TSC meeting I intend to move a motion requesting a staff report outlining a pilot project to test the pedestrian vehicle shared street concept on Argyle Street during the construction phase of the Nova Centre, to use that test to inform Council regarding a permanent installation, and to ensure a report back on results so that Council may consider creating a permanent shared street on Argyle when the road is reinstated upon completion of the Nova Centre."

11. IN CAMERA - None

12. ADDED ITEMS

13. NOTICES OF MOTION

14. DATE OF NEXT MEETING – Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 2:00 p.m.

15. ADJOURNMENT

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INFORMATION ITEMS

1. Accessible Taxis and Owner/Operators (information report dated May 16/14)
2. 2013 Annual Review – Taxi & Limousine Liaison Group (information report dated May 6/14)
3. Crosswalk Safety Advisory Committee – Crosswalk Safety Work Plan (information report dated April 25/14)
4. Memorandum from Legislative Assistant re: Requests for Presentation to the Transportation Standing Committee (information report dated May 27/14)