Allan St diverter divides community
Pylon piled on pylon pile on pylon pile up
by Katy Jean
Across the globe, all the time, at any minute, there are battles happening on as many roads as there are maps labelling them.
Drivers are fighting drivers. Drivers are fighting cyclists. Drivers are fighting pedestrians just making their way with two feet and a heartbeat.
Every city has their main arteries full of loud horns and pollution billowing out of the top of the street’s food chain, car drivers.
In the West End of Halifax, the battle has escalated.
At the intersection of Harvard and Allan Streets, there is war.
At first glance, the intersection is quiet. Residential. Old dogs strut down the sidewalk, flashing the whites of their eyes, checking in with their owners every few cracks in the concrete. Babies have the time of their lives floating along in their comfortable strollers, forming early memories of home.
Neither of them notices the casualties, the cannon fodder in the street.
At the end of February, the intersection was a site of carnage.
A series of pylons acting as the front line against drivers’ war on safety had lost. Their remains were fractured and fragmented down Allan nearly reaching Oxford Street.
