If zero means zero, then the most important number in the 2026 Road Safety Annual Report is twenty. At least twenty people died on HRM roads in 2025. Everything else is secondary.
2025 was the deadliest year on the roads of Kjipuktuk (Halifax) in a decade, with 20 people confirmed to have been killed as of August 2025. This is unacceptable. Our elected officials have a moral and legal imperative to act in the public interest with public money and prevent avoidable
We’ve launched a short public reporting form to document safety incidents experienced by people walking, rolling, cycling, or using micromobility in the Halifax Regional Municipality
We recommend that the Government of Nova Scotia expressly strengthens the statutory framework governing the preventative responsibilities and accountability of road authorities
Vision Zero starts with supporting people most excluded by car dependence - children and seniors
A member of our Vision Zero community posed a great question recently: "what other cities of comparable size have a zero-death record?" This got us thinking - what does success actually look like with Vision Zero and what can we learn from other cities that have achieved it?
We shared initial thoughts on HRM's 2026 Road Safety Annual Report. The report is heading to the Transportation Standing Committee at 1pm today, September 24, 2026. You can attend in person and elect to speak or watch online. We have also shared more concerns around this report with
If zero means zero, then the most important number in the 2026 Road Safety Annual Report is twenty. At least twenty people died on HRM roads in 2025. Everything else is secondary.
Over 160 reports suggest that dangerous driving is normalised on HRM streets, while too many incidents remain absent from official road safety data.
If every traffic death is preventable, why are proven safety measures being implemented so slowly in the HRM? Three examples illustrate the gap between HRM’s Vision Zero aspirations and the reality on our streets.
‘Business as usual is a business of death’ was the grim but accurate assessment of global road deaths by the UN’s Special Envoy for Road Safety, Jean Todt, at the first General Assembly meeting on road safety, where members voted to halve road deaths by 2030.
Newly released records from Halifax Regional Police provide additional details about a February 27, 2026 crash at the intersection of Wyse Road and Boland Road in Dartmouth that resulted in the death of a pedestrian who was legally crossing.
Words matter. The language we use to describe traffic crashes shapes how the public understands road safety, who is held accountable, and what solutions are considered possible.
Two multi-vehicle crashes on Highway 102 show why the high cost of collisions must be considered when governments decide that road safety investments are too expensive.
Pickups, largely promoted and used for personal travel, along with SUVs and minivans, accounted for almost 88% of new vehicle sales in Canada in 2025.