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Personally, I wear a helmet for my own mistakes as well as environment. But the idea that cyclists and pedestrians are expected to defend their bodies through clothing choices in the same way women shouldn’t wear short skirts to prevent assault is completely missing the point.

While I didn't expect the campaign to take this turn, I'll tell you something. If people like David Hill, David Brown, Tim Tierney, and Jan Harder are conspiring to unseat me, then I take that as confirmation that I'm acting in the City's best interests. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

People in Ottawa keep electing mayors that make the same promise every election and they keep getting the same results: crumbling infrastructures, declining services, increasing fees that hit low-income residents the most. There is a cost to tax phobia.

Reasons to ride a bike: - Bikes are fast and get you places on time - Gives you a nice butt - Most energy efficient way to travel - Get to go whee the whole time - Virtually immune to traffic - The going whee thing, but again

School is back #OttCity and so is the morning rush. As kids head back to class, it's important to keep road safety top of mind in school zones. For safety tips and ideas to help kids build safe habits, visit: https://bit.ly/4glWkGi Children deserve a safe trip to school.

#ottbike biked 3km with my daughter to her friends place this am. She rode on the sidewalk because there’s no safe infra @riverwardriley.bsky.social (despite Uplands having curb and sidewalk work). 2 #autowa drivers blew stops, one right on red, the other through a construction zone. Sigh.

you could say absolutely anything and somehow someone will chime in with "yeah but cyclists need to obey the rules of the road"

Get yourself a mayor that won't stop until your transit line beats runners

I love the Food Basics at Lyon station. It is literally just steps away from the train. We need more integrated stations.

please

Good morning Ottawa!

The balanced approach of @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social cycling: here’s some paint, we’re not going to enforce it. Pedestrians: no right turn on red will inconvenience drivers. Transit: poor frequency and reliability. Personal cars: I will move heaven and earth if your trip 30 seconds longer.

It is wonderful to see the Glebe BIA acknowledge that buses, cycling, and walking are the best way to get a lot of people around in our city. Even though they fought hard against bus lanes to improve public transit very recently, it is wonderful to see them recognize the errors in their ways.

Power out in the south end, multiple traffic lights out @ottawapolice.bsky.social directing traffic at bigger intersections but #Autowa out in full force blowing through other lights out. Had to stop traffic at one intersection on my bike to let pedestrians cross. #bikeottawa

Shot and chaser. Reminder that 51% of ppl live inside the greenbelt, pay +50% of tax revenues of city budget and have the poorest infrastructure. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Good morning Ottawa!

It would be great to see a hardware/homeware store like @prestonhardware.bsky.social or the like as part of this. All these people still need plungers, random screws, toasters etc. To have that close by would be great, and right on transit too.

To quote the talented @tomflood.bsky.social “courage should come from our councillors not our children.” Grief at the death of a Peter Clark could manifest in lower speed limits, road safety funding, reevaluation of road safety design approaches, a push to reinstate cameras at prov level 1/

On top of a $15 million loss, their own data has shown that, removal of the speed cameras made everyone immediately unsafe. Speed compliance is now under 41%. Meaning 5.9 out of 10 cars basically are saying fu to the posted speed. Thanks Drug Ford!

Glebe parking garage vs. Nepean Costco & parking lot, for all the "my customers won't walk all the way from the garage" BIA doomers.

Good morning Ottawa. Airport parkway at rush hour, in desperate need of widening.

I get angry in this issue of the Ward 9 Newsletter, but many residents agree that there's lots to be angry about on one particular topic. Please enjoy my Councillor's Message: A "balanced" approach #Autowa." www.seandevine.ca/march_31_202...

Excellent point and what we've been saying the whole time. The Glebe businesses will NEVER compete with Costco, Walmart, or any other strip malls in the suburbs that have a plethora of parking available. Areas like Glebe win by being interesting to be in, and by being efficient with their space.

I've had nine (!) people reach out to me so far who are interested in running for Stittsville. (I'm stepping down at the end of this term.) Here's some advice for aspiring municipal candidates: open.substack.com/pub/glengowe...

#ottawa drivers: if you are not 100% certain that light is green, the default is you stop and proceed when you know you know you have the right of way. Just because the light is covered in snow, doesn’t mean you get to blow through.

Glebe businesses’ collective inability to understand their customer base is harder than diamond.

We don’t talk enough about how slowly the City of Ottawa moves to help residents. The Bank Street Transit Study was first proposed in 2021, and its implementation has been delayed again. The worst part? The study’s proposal includes just 2 hours of combined bus lanes a day!

Tolls are allowed in Ontario, so could municipal speed cameras be reactivated as automated toll collection devices for use of express lanes?

How is it we can add private security guards to the market without a big staff report or even council debate on their impact but not “just do” other things like banning right on red in downtown intersections? We can just try more things if we wanted to.

If only the pros outweighed the cons.

Ottawa's snow removal standards are bad, with no plans on getting better | Opinion ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

Saturday | 10:05 PT We bring you excerpts from an evening with Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear of The War on Cars podcast, joined by city councillor Lucy Maloney and designer Tom Flood. @visionzerovancouver.ca @tomflood.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Happy Doug Ford Endorses Speeding Day

"When risks exceed benefits, half a billion dollars is not a partnership or investment. It's a bailout"

I walked my daughter (10) to school today, ~2km after a dentist appointment. OC could have been an option but the route is now so infrequent I was a good way home when the bus there passed by. Walked on and by some dilapidated city assets. But @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social priority is Lansdowne.

The world is full of terrible things right now, but then you see the construction worker helping an elderly lady through a construction zone holding her arm, and it brings a little smile

On this day in 2014, Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a member of the Ceremonial Guard, was fatally shot at the National War Memorial. The shooter ran inside the Parliament Buildings and was shot by RCMP officers and died on scene. Three others were injured in the attack.

Canadians: “We the north! I love hockey, skiing, and taking my kids sledding. Did you hear about a light dusting of snow shutting down some southern US city?” Canadians, when you suggest it’s possible to bike past September: “but what if I get… cold?”

NEW: Vehicles registered to Doug Ford's cabinet ministers have been caught by automated speed cameras more than 20 times. In one case, they were driving 70 in a 40 zone. On average, they were 17 over the limit. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1146373...

Agreed. Unfortunately some poli use this as a divisive election tactic claiming “no one will bike from carp to Navan in Feb for hockey practice” when the reality is few would ever do this; what we need is better cycling w/in communities and urban areas tk give options, local mobility