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Every Ottawa politician who is contemplating a back-to-office plan should be sentenced to a week of commuting at least 10km to and from downtown during rush hour and then report back

I get the advantages to working in an office downtown, but the capital of our great nation has not managed to provide or even facilitate a way of getting to such a place that is, and I am not even exaggerating for effect here, both faster and more reliable than *walking*

The icing on this cake is that Carney represents the riding of Nepean, where I grew up. When I was a teenager, there was an express bus that reliably took me from a block from home to downtown in half an hour. The same commute is over an hour now, and that's on a good day.

Beyond downtown, the bus service to the universities is gobsmackingly awful, intersecting with the housing crisis.

An Ottawa U student told me that no one takes transit to campus when there's a midterm. It's too unreliable. They carpool or take cabs or Ubers instead.

Yep, I "uber" my kid to his exams at Carleton.