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Very excessive…

It would appear they’re chewing up and removing all of the bush, possibly so nobody can camp there anymore. Seems excessive

ALTO/Cadence have launched an online survey asking about corridor travel and opinions on high speed rail. It takes a few minutes to complete but there are important topics like “would you prefer downtown or out-of-town stations” and affordable fares: onqctravel.com

Full R1 scheduled for April 19, this was partially present in GTFS data from last week as well

Oliver Monahan, who was hired to be OC Transpo's associate general manager and responsible for bus operations (given his excellent resume), is no longer working for the city- as of only a few hours after the hiring of Rick Leary as GM

The Glebe BIA has taken down their 2025 RETAIL MARKET & GAP ANALYSIS report that pro-Bank-Street-Bus-Lanes delegates were using to counter the BIA's own talking points, presumably for that exact reason. Dead link: intheglebe.ca/wp-content/u... Backed up copy: filebin.net/y3xt647u5dip...

Listening to the some of the delegations about adding a single block of bus lanes on Bank is decaying the grey matter in my brain there is zero possible chance we're throwing out all of the data to support transit priority to balance the perceived feelings of these people

Line 1 to be closed indefinitely The wrath of Alstom has come

An oft-repeated statistic says men apply for a job when they have 60% of the qualifications while women wait till they have 100%. Pretty sure that stat was debunked, but … Several men seem to think that being Mayor is a suitable starter job for someone with no municipal experience. It’s not.

Line 1 riders reported 16 different trains on the tracks yesterday. Help @railfans.ca track how many go out today by reporting your car number here: www.railfans.ca/traintracker....

Respectfully decommissioned.

Didn’t notice this yesterday, but four 14 St Laurent trips were cancelled back to back, and then the 6:51 trip after the gap was 44 mins late- making for a ~2hr30min gap in service! (@jleiper.bsky.social @arieltroster.com)

Fairly catastrophic cancellations on OC Transpo today. Apparently there were ~70 buses short of what was needed to run service, plus some nasty snow- take a look at some routes!

Welcome Line 1: 2

📸 The O-Train West Extension is coming together! Crews are adding final touches to the enclosed pedestrian bridge at Algonquin Station, creating a safe and accessible link between the station and Algonquin College’s ACCE building. This new connection will: 1/3

Bill 60 means that we will not be able to add cycle tracks to Albert and Slater Street or extend the O’Connor bike lane to Wellington Street. It’s an absurd overreach by the Ford government that will make all road users less safe and waste millions. I hate it here. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Got the LRT wayfinding designs out of my info request finally- there's this "keep it moving" sticker that can go on platforms where people naturally crowd where they shouldn't... @helps.octranspo.com any chance we can get something like this on the platforms at Carleton?

It’s one more reason that I’m advocate for a re-think of Ottawa’stransportation plans, centred around the transformation of CN Rail’s Beachburg Corridor into a major east-west transit corridor connecting our city’s strategic centres and intersecting existing transit lines. 3/

Someone should look into this @bettertransitottawa.ca

Disappointed in this whole city for not voting bamms snack shack up here

Just can't help but laugh at this

Oh my god it was right after the chorus dropped too

@helps.octranspo.com @somersetward.bsky.social Some very attractive and muscular men came and lifted this bench behind Pimisi back into place today, but there are still a few boards missing from the benches themselves

@helps.octranspo.com A new bus pad/platform was built for Rotary/Nettle (#3394) several weeks ago but the stop flag has not been moved there yet. Just want to make sure this work order wasn’t forgotten

🚆 Progress continues on the O-Train East & West extensions! 🔧 East: Finishing touches at all stations 🛠️ West: Guideway, stations & roadwork underway 👀 Check it out! #OttTransit #Stage2LRT

Remain calm Jeff Leiper Patriots are in control

On 11 September, staff presented a Stage 2 update to Transit Committee. #Ottawa #OCTranspo #Stage2 otransitottawa.blogspot.com/2025/09/stag...

Downtown active transportation and tramway plan based on the TMP and the Confederation Boulevard design guidelines released by the NCC today

Diagram of all current indefinite Temporary Speed Restrictions in effect on Line 1. This info has not been public but I finally got an MFIPPA released recently so I can share this. All TSRs except the ones at the ends are at the request of Alstom, and have been in place since the LRT inquiry in 2022

#ottbike I have officially released a new version of my Ottawa cycle map website Obike.ca You are now able to click on projects for more information, it will highlight the project scope, along with displaying a preview image. Can then also view a project page with images and designs of the project

God help us God help this city someone please do something

Vote for motion to pursue amended Proposed 2026 Budget Directions at the Financial and Corporate Services Committee, Sept 9, 2025. Yeas: 9 Nays: 3 Absent: 0 Councillors from Wards 1, 16, 21 voted Yea with varying degrees of dissent

👀🚏A new pilot project is brewing! Stay tuned for an announcement.

E-ink next stop displays showing up after the last time it was mentioned as a pilot project 2 years ago. I had asked Renee Amilcar about at a budget meeting last year and she had no idea what e-ink was. Hilarious there's been no updates and one just pops up out of nowhere

I will become a terrorist if mr mayor even suggests I pay $4.30 to ride the bus in this city have we lost our minds

I can only speak on behalf of what I hear from residents in Ward 9, but I can say with confidence that "asking for better and more effective policing" is not as high on the wish-list as the Mayor suggests here. Certainly, there are more resonant issues. 1/

Great message from St. Catherine's Mayor Mat Siscoe at the final AMO panel. "We don't need wider highways to address congestion in Ontario. We need more rail." Ottawa, meet the Beachburg Rail Corridor. I'm going to be talking about this a lot over the coming months.

Me when I have to fuck up my bus and also this sign because I was bored

@helps.octranspo.com Would it be possible to add another bench or two around Leitrim B? 9/10 times I catch the 93 there’s a handful of people sitting on the ground outside the shelter in the shade since there’s nowhere else to sit. A person is sitting in the grass behind the operator bldg as well

Bro remembered hes running for mayor in a year

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Leiper running for mayor we are so back www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Part of Kent Street is up for renewal, and the City of Ottawa is refusing to bury the power lines, saying it’s too expensive. Just Kent Street brings in as much property taxes as the entire West Carleton-March Ward. Our city needs to do a better job of rewarding financially productive communities.

O-Train extension updates, East opens Q4 this year

archive of STO maps now available on my web site alex-is.online/docs

traffic cameras where you can view stage 2 lrt construction/testing alex-is.online/cams

Today's fun fun fact: The average delay on the 14 Tunney's/StL during the evening peak is over eleven and a half minutes- a route that is supposed to run every fifteen!