13 Dec Drone’s eye view of Halifax at night

Taken Friday night by Dr.Drone, a Dartmouth-based drone sales and repair firm with a very cool Instagram feed.

Sparkling in the left foreground are Halifax’s excellent new roundabouts,* with Cogswell St. along the bottom of the photo. Bedford Basin is at the top of the frame, with the two harbour bridges, the shipyard, and the Northwood Centre prominent along the right side.

[UPDATE] Contrarian reader Jonah Sabean points out the striking contrast between streets lit with halogen bulbs (orange) and those lit with LEDs (bluish white). As a matter of economic development policy and energy conservation, the LEDs, manufactured by a heavily subsidized Nova Scotia company, are taking over.

The half-finished office building whose apartments just lost significant market value when cowardly councilors, fearing a politically correct backlash, accepted an unnecessary, illogical, and unfair staff recommendation to change the name of the street it’s on to that of a nearby street with a very different public image,** is out of view to the right.

H/T: JK

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* Please, Nova Scotia, build more roundabouts. Hundreds of crappy, inefficient, time- and fuel-wasting, airborne-pollution and climate-change-contributing lighted intersections cry out for conversion to safer, cleaner, free-flowing roundabouts.

** I love what’s happening on Gottigen Street, and I often visit the great new businesses that have located there. Had I been around when racists pushed through the renaming of Gottigen’s northern section to Novalea Drive, I would have opposed that change. That’s very different from imposing a new name, with probable market implications, on a building developer when his project is half built. There was no need of it, and there is no justice in it.