Ottawa has many great bike paths along the canal, the Ottawa River and the Rideau River. One of the more underrated bike paths in the city is the Experimental Farm Pathway. It isn’t just great for recreation; it connects important parts of our community by an active transportation route.
Last Saturday, June 15, 2024, another important missing link in our Active Transportation network was opened to the public. We now have a wonderful new and very wide bike, walk and roll bridge across the Rideau River, connecting Carleton University with Vincent Massey Park and beyond.
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 […]
If you follow social media or listen to the radio you know the local news in the morning and the evening is filled with traffic reports – often telling drivers where a crash has occurred and to “expect delays” or “find alternate routes” if streets are closed. Most of the time, we hear nothing more […]
