Board members Dave and Florence went to the Winter Cycling Congress earlier this year, hosted in Edmonton. Excited as we are about riding through the summer, we’re also thinking hard about what they learned.
What does Ottawa’s Road Safety Action Plan look like for 2024?
Vision Zero is a strategy to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all. First implemented in Sweden in the 1990s, Vision Zero has proved successful across Europe — and now it’s gaining momentum in major American cities. According to Parachute, across Canada, three provinces, 23 cities and […]
Bank Street WIDENING AND RECONSTRUCTION
Did somebody say “improvements”? Call us nerds, but some of us do enjoy looking into the City’s projects, reading up on them, looking at the drawings and making suggestions. And a new one just dropped! This time the focus is Bank Street. That street, the longest in Ottawa, travels from Parliament Hill to the city’s […]
2.5-minute Campaign
This summer, Mayor Sutcliffe recorded a video of himself on the portion of the Queen Elizabeth Driveway devoted to the National Capital Commission’s Active Use Program. The video ran for 2.5 minutes, and the mayor used the absence of people using the road during that time as a call to end the program. (For a […]