http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/old/taxonomy/term/8914/0 fr http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/switch-open-street-sundays-expand-2013/16923 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Local organizers hoping for HRM support to increase frequency and lengthen routes  </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/switchpic_ht.jpeg" alt="" title="Agricola Street was taken over by pedestrians last summer for Switch: Open Street Sundays. [Photo: Heather Ternoway]" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>HALIFAX &mdash; For one afternoon last fall, Halifax added a couple of acres of new recreational space to the city. Well, not exactly new. A&nbsp;well-used corridor along Agricola, North Park and South Park Streets was closed to traffic and became a sort of pop-up linear park for the day.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/switch-open-street-sundays-expand-2013/16923" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/switch-open-street-sundays-expand-2013/16923#comments Erica Butler open streets switch Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:01:28 +0000 Editor 16923 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca