Files from the Ford Govt Flip-Flop Folder: publicly shamed and reversed 🚸 School Re-districting – Done in haste undone by protest 🚴‍♂️ Bike Lane Removal – Lost in Court 🌿 Greenbelt Grab – Buried by backlash 🚨 Speed Camera Shutdown - Make your voice known! schoolstreetsottawa.ca/get-involved...

Thank you Councillors @seandevine9.bsky.social @lainejohnson.bsky.social @Tim Tierney @tkavanaghbayward.bsky.social @rawlson.bsky.social @stephanieplante.bsky.social for coming out to save our speed cameras and keep school zones safe. We know our fight will not end here.

New post from me: "Why we want drivers to slow down" open.substack.com/pub/glengowe... (I'm convinced that at the core of the speed camera debate is that some drivers refuse to believe that speeding is a actually dangerous.)

Our kids aren’t made of sugar and neither are we - Bring your umbrellas ☔️ Day of action is going ahead! schoolstreetsottawa.ca/provincial-d...

Tomorrow is provincial day of action against the removal of life saving speed cameras in Ontario. Two events happening in Ottawa * Woodroff School 8:15am * Queen Elizabeth School 8:45am Join our family friendly protests if you can. Details in the poster.

Join us here in Ottawa to stand strong for our speed cameras! Tomorrow MONDAY: 8:15am Woodroffe PS 8:45am Queen Elizabeth PS Sign our petition: schoolstreetsottawa.ca/get-involved... #SafeSchools #SafeCommunities #SpeedKills #CamerasSaveLives @schoolstreetsyow.bsky.social

Update: the event has been postponed to Sat. October 18th at 8pm. New location: Prince Albert block 270. Please tell anyone who may not see this message

Together we can create safer streets if the city will: 🚸Fund and build sidewalks and protected bike lanes in our neighbourhoods 🏫Make school streets possible 💪Stand strong against Ford and fight to save our automated speed cameras! schoolstreetsottawa.ca/get-involved...

Two days until the Provincial Day of Action to save our automated speed cameras in school zones! Short-actions (15-20min max!) before the work day - come show your support! West: Woodroffe Public School 8:15am Oct 20, 2025 East: Queen Elizabeth Public School 689 St Laurent Blvd

Come show your support for this precious child’s family and community. Neighbours in Overbrook have shared that there will be a candle lighting ceremony around 630pm tonight, October 17th at 394 Presland Road. All are welcome to attend, please bring a 🕯️if you can. 💔 #OttBike

A five-year-old dies on our streets. When will the City of Ottawa finally commit to Vision Zero? Our heartfelt condolences to the family of this young boy. bikeottawa.ca/2025/10/17/a...

📣Join the provincial day of action! Schools across Ontario are telling our leaders cameras save lives and keep our communities safe. 📍Woodroffe School (@Carlingwood Library) 281 Woodroffe Ave @ 8:15am 📍 Queen Elizabeth School, 689 St Laurent @8:45am schoolstreetsottawa.ca/provincial-d...

🚨Join us in the fight for safer school zones in Ottawa 🚨 📷Fight to save our speed cameras from ill conceived decrees 🚸Fund and build sidewalks in our neighbourhoods 🚦Greenlight active school transport plans, schools streets and walking school busses schoolstreetsottawa.ca/get-involved...

On October 20th, I'll be participating in the Provincial Day of Action to help save the Automated Speed Enforcement camera program. Join me at 8:15am at Woodroffe School (235 Woodroffe Avenue). schoolstreetsottawa.ca/provincial-d...

🚨Save our Safety Cameras! Join the provincial day of action 🗓️ Monday October 20th 📣Tell our leaders cameras save lives and keep our communities safe 📍Woodroffe School, 281 Woodroffe Ave @ 8:15am 📍 Queen Elizabeth School, 689 St Laurent @8:45am schoolstreetsottawa.ca/provincial-d...

The scariest thing about Halloween this year is our school zones. Tell our Mayor to stand up to the goblins who would make our communities less safe. 📸Protect speed enforcement cameras everywhere 🚦Green-light School Streets 🚶‍♀️Build sidewalks and bike lanes schoolstreetsottawa.ca/2025/10/11/o...

🍬Treat: You can apply to close your street to cars this Halloween! 👻 Trick: Ottawa City Bylaw does not permit the same for a School Street. 🎃Sign the petition demanding School Streets, to protect speed cameras, and build safe places to walk and ride! schoolstreetsottawa.ca/2025/10/11/o...

Demand safe school zones in Ottawa. Sign and share! 👇

Is Ottawa school zone safety negotiable? 🚷Delays to sidewalk builds 🚦School Street policy red lighted 📸 Automated Speed Enforcement to be cut down by Doug Ford 📣 No! Tell the Mayor to stand up to the province and anyone who makes communities less safe. schoolstreetsottawa.ca/2025/10/11/o...

“What would you do with no cars on a road for 30 minutes?” ICYMI from @stephanieplante.bsky.social ottawacitizen.com/opinion/scho...

“We believe Centretown residents deserve a neighbourhood where children can get to school safely without crossing multiple dangerous, high-speed arterial roads; where everyone can access the amenities their taxes and development fees help fund..”

The #DevonshireBikeBus also had an #EarthDay ride today in addition to our regularly scheduled Friday ride. And I was thrilled to be interviewed about it by a young multiskilled journalist from the Devonshire Times (Grade 4-6 newspaper). #OttBike #BikeBus

Ottawa families launched three bike buses today to get kids to school safely on two wheels.

👋🏼 Hi BlueSky, #BikeSky, #OttBike, We are #KidicalMassOttawa - a bike ride with a purpose: safe streets for kids 🚲👧🏼🎉👦🏽🚴🏽‍♀️👧🏿🎶👦🏻.🚵🏻‍♂️ Our 2025 season is starting soon. Join us May 3rd in #NewEdinburgh KMONewEd.eventbrite.ca

👋 Ottawa’s newest BikeBus! #BroadviewBikeBus starts on Earth Day April 22nd. #ottbike #bikebus

A motion comes to Public Works and Infrastructure Committee this Thursday asking that $10M be taken from a fund for vulnerable road users to plug a hole in the traffic signals budget. Learn more and take action! #ottbike #ottcity #RSAP bikeottawa.ca/2025/03/24/s...

Ottawa's #DevonshireBikeBus is back at it, even when it felt like -10 this morning ❄️. We've now biked to school in 7/10 school months of the year! #OttBike #BikeBus

Who else has a kid that would love to spend some time building bike/bus lanes with Lego? This sounds like it's going to be a ton of fun! ncc-ccn.gc.ca/events/healt...

The only thing better than a protected bike lane, is a protected bike lane with streetart and murals on the barriers.

What could be more awesome than a community Bike Bus playing Justin Timberlake? A Bike Bus with Justin Timberlake! momentummag.com/justin-timbe...

4 -5 hours straight, have to tear them away from this. Kids don’t always want to be on screens, they just need spaces/places to live, grow and play independently.

Paris now has 200 gorgeous ‘children’s streets’ and school streets. They are pedestrianized and landscaped streets around schools - to mitigate crashes, prioritize walking to school, reduce noise and air pollution. This is what leading on climate action looks like. momentummag.com/paris-expand...

School Streets - car free spaces in front of schools at the beginning and the end of the school day to ensure safe spaces for kids. Too often traffic danger means principals spend their mornings and afternoons managing traffic. Ecole Trill des Bois showed School streets are an effective fix.

HERE IT IS! My 1st Urbanism & City-Building Starter Pack. I’ll keep adding to it as more city champions arrive here on Bluesky & I discover more of you. Please share this far & wide to support and grow our urbanism community here. Our cities need all the help they can get! go.bsky.app/G7isZfk

Join Ottawa Centre MPP Joel Harden, Official Opposition Critic for Active Transportation and Public Transit, on November 16th at 11:00 AM for a virtual community consultation on Bill 212, the Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024. www.joelhardenmpp.ca/bill212townh...

With priorities centered on cars the Kidical Mass movement is picking up and pushing back in Ottawa! We need places for people (especially kids) to flourish, to curb pollution, and build social connections. Join the movement Sept 28th 1/2 #KidicalMass #WorldCarFreeDay #OttBike #OttWalk #OttRoll

The benefits of Vancouver’s first Bike Bus go beyond fun, fresh air and exercise "Parents have created friendships. It's also about connecting neighbours and kids across classrooms" cbc.ca/amp/1.7309577

👋 If you’re driving to school drop off: ✅Park away and walk 5 min to reduce congestion ✅Avoid driving school zones start and end times ✅Slow your roll around kids ⛔️Don’t use school parking lots ✅Obey x-ing guards, signage, and be patient #ocdsb #ocsb #otttraffic

Want to ease those 1st day of school nerves? Plan and practice cycling, scooting or walking to school for part or all of your journey. Here are some resources to make that trip: 🧵 (1/2) #ocdsb #ocsb #ottcity #otttraffic

Hanging out with the cool kids of Kidical Mass Ottawa and @schoolstreetsyow.bsky.social on our way to and at the rendezvous point in Orleans today. What a nice day to be riding a bike. See you at the big one on September 28. #ottbike #kidicalmassride

💙 Do you love the joy of kids riding bikes? 🎊 Join us for Kidical Mass for a rolling celebration Sunday July 21st in Fisher Glen 📣 Join the call to make cities safe for kids to ride to school, sports, parks and all destinations! schoolstreetsottawa.ca/events/event...

🎉 5 days until active Parkways are open! 💚 Join us for Kidical Mass Saturday May 11th, a rolling celebration of kids, families and community 📣 Join the call for more car-free places, streets re-purposed for climate action and safe mobility for kids. schoolstreetsottawa.ca/events/event...

‘The kids are happier’: Car-free zone at Hamilton school gets high marks from parents www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...

Speeding and distracted driving through school zones imposes risks and potentially tragic consequences to everyone one else in it. Thank you OSC and the students of St Cecilia for sending a clear message on community safety. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Rideau-Vanier Councillor Stéphanie Plante on how Ottawa’s 1st School Street is about community and place-making: "We want the street to be for them, for pedestrians, for people who walk their dogs, for the neighbourhood." #ottcity #880cities www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We are thrilled to announce that École Trille des Bois starts their SCHOOL STREET program on Rue Alice Tuesday Feb 6th! A first for Ottawa! This program is led by the School Council, in collaboration with Councillor Plante, is to take place on Rue Alice every Tuesday. #ottcity #vanier

👋 If you drive to school today: ⛔️Never use school parking lots ✅Park away from the school and walk 5 min to reduce congestion ✅Avoid driving school zones at school start and end times ✅Slow to a drive-thru pace when kids are present ✅Respect x-ing guards and signage

“It’s too dangerous to walk to school so we drive” This loop of inducing traffic due to all the unsafe traffic is all too common for Ottawa schools. Solutions are at hand 🧵 #ocdsb #ward3 #ottcity ottawa.ctvnews.ca/parents-at-n...

Thank you for this Stephanie Plante. We will add: 1. An updated Road Safety Action Plan must include a commitment to Vision Zero 2. Automated Speed Enforcement revenues need be spent on measures to protect vulnerable users #ottcity ottawacitizen.com/opinion/plan...

Check out our review of 2023 and plans for 2024 schoolstreetsottawa.ca/2024/01/01/2...