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Halifax looks at top 10 intersections for collisions
City staff are working with Halifax police and RCMP to share specific data about hotspots for distracted or aggressive driving, so officers can focus on where to ticket people who are breaking the law.
About half of the collisions, 376, were related to intersections and the report identified the top 10 with the most incidents. They include:
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- Burnside Drive at Wright Avenue.
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- Bayers Road at Connaught Avenue.
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- Albro Lake Road at Victoria Road.
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- Bayers Road at Joseph Howe Drive and Dutch Village Road.
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- Mumford Road at Halifax Shopping Centre.
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- Burnside Drive at Commodore Drive and Ronald Smith Avenue.
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- Bedford Highway at Hammonds Plains Road.
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- Portland Street at Spring Avenue and Portland Estates Boulevard.
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- Dutch Village Road North at Joseph Howe Drive.
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- Chebucto Road at Connaught Avenue.
The staff are working on action plans to improve these intersections in the coming years.
The report also outlines the dozens of traffic safety measures that were added last year, including crosswalks with flashing beacons and advance lights for pedestrians.
Halifax aims to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries to zero by the year 2038.