Ontario to spend money to rip out bike lanes and speed cameras to disconnect people and hurt school children. 🙌

One of the most subtly insane aspects of the unrelenting car dependency we’ve deliberately built across North America is the incredible reluctance we have to remove the driving privilege, even from those who clearly are a danger to themselves & others, because “people have to drive.” #CarDependency

See you soon. City Hall, side of the building Behind ON courthouse 8:30am

Ready for the rally against Bill 60 provisions on bike lanes. Prête pour le rassemblement contre le projet de loi 60 et ses dispositions qui puent. Vive le vélo!

📣DYK Speed Cameras revenues go to 100’s of road safety improvements in Ottawa? 📸Safety Cameras keep communities safe from speeders and turns their fines in to much needed road improvements 🚨Community and school zone safety is not cancellable. Have your say schoolstreetsottawa.ca/get-involved...

One of the strategic failures of #OttCity Road Safety Action Plan is the lack of communications about where speed camera revenues are spent. I got the list via #ATIP. Here are some projects that were only made possible because of these revenues. Full data at tinyurl.com/4brrmh9j #Rideau-Jock

🚨 Bill 60 would BAN new bike lanes that take a lane from cars — province-wide. This is a direct attack on road safety, climate action, and livable cities. Raise your voice. Tell the Ford government: #SafeStreets aren’t optional. #Bill60 #BikeHamOnt #HamOnt #onpoli

Thank you to this teacher for speaking out and trying to protect their students. It's heartening to hear those honks of support. Speed safety cameras are wildly popular - just not to reckless politicians. Sign the petition today 📮

SAVE THE DATE We’re organising a rally to protest against Bill 60. Details: Marion Dewar Plaza City Hall Thursday, November 13 8:30am More info here: bikeottawa.ca/2025/11/09/r...

🚨 @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social - we expect you to stand up to Doug Ford and fight for our Speed Safety Cameras 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒Our kids and families deserve safe school zones - ASE cameras work! Speed humps and roundabouts won’t fit on arterials 📝Sign our petition today schoolstreetsottawa.ca/get-involved...

Obviously it's because one of these properties costs far more to service - water, transit, power, waste, roads, etc, etc, etc? ... Wait that's the one on the right? 🫨

Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets. He'll make a great mayor

AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."

The Toronto Star published my letter which calls out how the speed camera ban - along with Bill 60 - would kill any possibility of redesigning Parkside Drive despite repeated calls from residents to make the street safer. #BikeTO #WalkTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero www.thestar.com/opinion/lett...

If you're driving, speed & hit someone, you're at fault. But, that doesn't mean that government's who encourage or facilitate dangerous driving are blameless. If you're in a collision w a speeding driver where a speed camera was removed email us: [email protected] 1/2

Some polling was done for Lansdowne 2.0, lo and behold the top issue for people polled was improving transportation to Lansdowne. What better way to provide better access to Lansdowne than safe, dedicated 24/7 bus lanes? strongtownsottawa.ca/2025/09/25/t... #Lansdowne #Ottawa #busLanes

Make this Halloween a safe and fun one: 🕢 Plan your trips to avoid driving residential neighbourhoods between 6-9pm 🕢 🕷️If you have to drive a residential street - go at a crawl speed 🕷️ 🚧 Apply for a block party, close your street to drivers, open it up to kids! 🚧

Ontario government to bully its way through to pass Bill 56 bikeottawa.ca/2025/10/28/b...

This would have led to catastrophic new levels of homelessness — thank you to everyone who spoke out. Now let’s keep hammering the Ford government on its bad decisions about bike lanes, supervised consumption sites and speed cameras. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

Our AGM is only a few hours away! Bayview Yards 1:30pm Doors open at 12:30pm See you there.

The math on Lansdowne 2.0 is all lies and gimmicks. Like, $6 million from raising the hotel tax. That doesn't actually have anything to do with Lansdowne. Say we raised property taxes 2% and just said it all goes to Lansdowne 2.0, is that Lansdowne 2.0 paying for itself? Of course not. 🧵

YES - the Ford govt rushed ahead and has introduced legislation to ban speed safety cameras. NO - it’s not too late!!! They’ve walked back decisions before! Sign our petition AND write to the premier (link and email address below). Then SHARE! www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/video...

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

Wow, another e-cargo bike piece by a major outlet. Things are happening!

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

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

A co-worker just got back from a trip to Europe where they went on an ebike tour of a city and is now back looking to acquire an ebike to replace some of their car trips in Ottawa. How do we scale this? 😂

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

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

PROVINCIAL DAY OF ACTION - SAVE OUR SAFETY CAMERAS!!! Let us know you’re coming so we can be ready! 8:15am Oct 20, 2025 Woodroffe Public School: www.eventbrite.ca/e/save-our-s... 8:45am Oct 20, 2025 Queen Elizabeth Public School: www.eventbrite.ca/e/save-our-s...

Don't leave this at a thoughts-and-prayers-US-gun-control style post. Take action to make our streets safer, Mr Mayor. We can seriously change the way we design our streets to reduce the likelihood of these tragic events from happening again.

That's not all! ➡️Help us share this petition to your school community! 📆AND Save the date for a Provincial Day of action on Monday October 20th #SafeStreetsForKids #ClimateAction

🚨Join us in the fight for safer school zones in Ottawa 🚨 🚸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! ✅Sign here schoolstreetsottawa.ca/get-involved... 1/2

The Centretown Gladstone/Gilmour bikelane and the current proposal for Bank St. bus lanes are both symptomatic of a broader problem, which is that City staff nearly always err on the side of "underwhelming" and often seem to think BIA whining (especially about parking) constitutes a formal veto.

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

So #IfIWasMayor: automatic 40km/h within city urban and suburban areas (as basic starting point); no right on red inside city; make case for anything above 40 with study to prove its needed/beneficial; auto sep bike infra, raised ped crossings on every street build; end shave&pave w/out infra

Sign the petition Ottawa!

Exactly! Signs and flashing lights are completely insufficient. Sign and share: schoolstreetsottawa.ca/get-involved... @forourkidsog.bsky.social @bikeottawa.bsky.social @ecologyottawa.bsky.social @envirocentre.bsky.social @otttransitriders.bsky.social

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

Link directly to the petition schoolstreetsottawa.ca/get-involved...

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...

Big milestone yesterday - past 10,000km on my electric cargo bike, which I got in April2023. Ottawa is a sprawling city but you can still replace so many car trips with an e-bike… even with kids!

Once again, speed cameras work. (This is data from Ottawa, published in 2024.)

The number of fines went op bc we installed a lot more cameras. That the average speed actually went down, as is the purpose of the cameras, is shown in this image by @strongtownsottawa.ca

This is why we need bus lands on Bank Street. We don’t need extensive consultations or debates or both side-ism to find a “balance;” we need bold action, bold leadership to design public space in the public interest and just do it. @strongtownsottawa.ca

Why would anyone think this is ok? Just hanging out. There are parking spots on the other side of the bike lane! Reported to @ottawabylaw.bsky.social #Auttowa

It's all over the city, including in subdivisions built long before parking even existed. These should be gardens, trees, and permeable surfaces, not asphalt and pavers to store the vehicles destroying our city.

Hey @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social @tedraymond.bsky.social. This is a pretty big deal. Less than two years ago staff said they can't keep up with front yard parking violations and limited enforcement to post 2007, pub-ottawa.escribemeetings.com/filestream.a... Now they're not enforcing it at all.

IF ONLY THERE WAS SOME OTHER WAY! (Bumper to bumper traffic on Bank Street headed to Landsdowne - yes, those are PARKED CARS in the right hand lane!)

Yes! Thank you @tkavanaghbayward.bsky.social ! "Tewin's just way out there, and that is a problem," she said. "We're talking about water mains and infrastructure…[t]hat is very, very expensive, not including the transit system that we would need." 1/ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...