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Category: Personal Stories

Hemlock Road near Manor Park Public School. Picture is taken from the painted bike lane and shows a car in the opposite direction and the school further up to the right.

Cyclist struck on hemlock: letter to the mayor

Posted on 2026-05-01 by Bike Ottawa in Community, Detour, Guest Post, Letters, Personal Stories

Earlier this week, a person biking on Hemlock was hit by a driver near the Manor Park Public School. Flex posts weren’t up yet. Adding insult to injury, bike lanes were blocked by a police car on one side and a vehicle on the other side well after motorized traffic started moving again, forcing people […]

A 30 kph zone sign on a narrow one-way street with a sign above it showing that people on bikes can bike against traffic.

Life outside of cars: Besançon

Posted on 2026-01-21 by Florence Lehmann in Microblog, Personal Stories, Uncategorized

A while back I was part of an email discussion on transportation that revolved only around cars and driving. My blood started boiling. What about talking about people outside of cars, I said. That got me thinking. I regularly go back to my hometown of Besançon, France. When I’m there, I walk and take transit. […]

My experiences cycling through the winter in Orleans

Posted on 2025-05-012025-05-06 by Rob Attrell in #ottbike, Personal Stories, Winter Cycling

In the spring of 2024, I finally got an electric cargo bike and immediately started using it for everything.

Bicycle season? Part 2 – New bike lanes on Prince of Wales are blocked

Posted on 2025-01-162025-01-23 by Bike Ottawa in Guest Post, Infrastructure, Personal Stories

A guest post from Ottawa resident Gwendolyn Barr.

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