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.
worried about April’s carbon tax increase?
Ride a bike! For every 5 km ride I take by bike instead of driving a car, I prevent little over 1 kg of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere. I’m not paying the carbon tax because I’m not buying gas. And I’ll get my Canada Carbon Rebate, so I’ll come out ahead […]
E-Cargo-Bikes: The Secret Tool to Building 15-Minute Neighbourhoods?
Guest article by Cassie Smith 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. In a city with 15-minute neighbourhoods you would be able to access the things you need in daily life […]
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 […]