In its new Official Plan, the City of Ottawa states its desire to work toward building “15-minute neighbourhoods” as part of its efforts to build a better and more sustainable city.
Earl Grey underpass: Is it worth $20M?
This project comes to the City’s Finance and Corporate Services Committee on March 5. We strongly encourage you to contact your councillor about it.
The Percy Street / 417 underpass as an exclusive active-transportation route
A small section of Percy Street has been fully closed to cars for its Highway 417 bridge replacement (detailed design here) for over a month. The prolonged underpass closure and subsequent terrible cycling detour routes have led me to do some thinking about this simple but important piece of infrastructure.
Education is no substitute for bike infrastructure
On July 11, the Ottawa Citizen published an op-ed by Monna-leigh McElveny, a CANBIKE 4 instructor with the Kanata Nepean Bike Club, Safety and Education, following a collision between a cyclist and truck in Centretown West. In the op-ed, McElveny argued for an education-based approach to keeping people biking safe (McElveny wrote a strikingly similar […]