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.

Sneckdowns really can produce change.

One-way streets are great sources of sneckdown inspiration.

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.

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.

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.

Few great #sneckdown opportunities on George Street. Sneckdown Halifax hfxplanning

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

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

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! Sneckdown Halifax

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

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

Who needs snow when you have pylons?

This sneckdown’s gonna be a neckdown someday soon.

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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.