Rainnie Drive : The sign at the northern intersection of Brunswick and what is now named Gottingen has not been changed. it remains Rainnie.
Has the correspondence from the Rainnie family caused a rethink ?
" So Rainnie is now a 300-metre one-way stub, with its unused automobile lane soon to be a protected cycle route to improve active transportation.
There are good traffic-management and safety reasons for making all these changes. But council has wrongly given little thought to ensuring Halifax’s civic recognition of a war hero is not diminished in the process.
It was Maj. Rainnie’s children who had to point that out. Last week, they wrote Mayor Mike Savage to express their feeling the city was eroding the memorial to their father and the heritage of a generation that went to war. They urged council to “see the bigger picture” and educate citizens about their heritage instead of stripping it away.
Ann Rainnie McCulloch and Gavin Rainnie, Jr., are right about this — and not just for Halifax "
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