Crossings like this with stop signs should have raised, continuous sidewalks to force drivers to slow down, and to flip the dynamic so that drivers know and consciously feel that they are on space that belongs to pedestrians.

The 2026 draft Ottawa budget announces further delays to the Carling bus lane project, estimating the completion time for a bus lane project at 2035. This project was started in 2016 with designs released in 2017, which would make this be a 19 year long project just to install interim bus lanes.

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

Thursday's rally is at school time for most kids, but they can still be involved by designing a sign! Even if they can't make it let us see their masterpieces #SafeStreetsForKids #ChildrensVoicesMatter

Urbanism book club meets should end with everyone leaving their copy in their nearest free little library. This is how we (everyone) wins. Just load them up with urbanism books. @derricksimpson.bsky.social

Is this why Pino was terminated as well? Are they eyeing selling off OCDSB property?

Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it’s not stopping. momentummag.com/paris-cyclin...

This is an interesting lens through which to consider rural/suburban/urban Ottawa voters

Can’t get enough of this! While Tokyo cuts down trees and paves over open spaces, Paris is pedestrianising the city and making it greener for everyone. This is what real climate leadership looks like. Thanks for the inspiration @annehidalgo.bsky.social !

This would be a huge loss for municipal climate leadership.

I know we’ve tried beet juice before, and I don’t think we can accept identical performance to the salt we currently use, but we can’t keep destroying our watershed @ottriverkeeper.bsky.social

Strongly related to geography and the environment. cleantechnica.com/2025/11/08/a...

This fundamental truth needs to be retold by more good-faith politicians. We are confronted with complex, wicked problems in which seemingly unrelated aspects of our challenges are deeply interconnected. The poor and marginalised will be hit hardest by the consequences of climate change.

Maybe what’s most annoying about all of these things is that the house was built in ~2022. There should be regulations in place prohibiting new gas installations by now in every city in our climate zone. No reason to have any fossil fuels in new builds in 2025.

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...

I still have these studded winter tires, free for you. #ottBike

The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

We’re fighting for our children. They deserve a safe cycling environment to: Get around on their own steam Go to school, the library Go for a fun ride with friends Join us in opposing Ford’s regressive policies. Send a letter opposing Bill 60 now! Please share! www.horizonottawa.ca/back_off_ford

We should bring back Cave Creek as the Cave Creek Rainway. This area was totally flooded during Ottawa’s last big rainfall event, why not plan for that? kitchissippi.com/cave-creek-o...

Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.

The City Centre development would be a great place for an urban Costco. Right at the intersection of light rail and bike paths.

see: Carré/Square St-Louis, Parc Outremont, Parc Lafontaine, Parc Jarry, Parc LaHaie, 😍 etc. The idea that some park designers & managers have that there shouldn't be very many places for people to sit in parks (see: Park Mont Royal ffs) is an idea that should get park managers and designers fired.👈

“The Ford Govt in Ontario has passed a controversial omnibus bill banning municipalities from installing speed cameras. Ford says it will make the province more efficient & reduce red tape. It won’t do either, and he knows it. It might get him “speeder votes” though. This will kill more people.

In Kpop Demon Hunters: 🎵 “are you ready for the shaaaakedown?” 🎵

This graph below is the perfect encapsulation of this town. What should be the city of #ottawa in red wants to be the city of Ottawa, and the rest in blue shouldn’t be the city of Ottawa and doesn’t want to be a city at all.

Happy Mark Sutcliffe Tying Cinder Blocks to the City’s Longterm Financial Stability and Pushing it Into the Canal Day to those who celebrate

Going to go back through all those announced ward project approvals over the past few weeks. Long awaited projects in swing wards suddenly get funding right before the Lansdowne vote?

Just gonna guess today’s Lansdowne vote goes the way of “the Shakedown will continue until morale improves.”

Considering a run for municipal council in 2026? These free workshops may be of interest! www.amo.on.ca/healthy-demo...

We were looking at some heatpump lineset penetration sealing options and this rectorsesl cover looks suspiciously elephant like. When is the Rectorseal x Elephant Energy collab happening? @elephantenergy.bsky.social

Do it anyway and fight it in court, or at the next election

missing middle multifamily housing built to passivhaus w/ prefab straw exterior panels construction cost of $120/sf heating costs @ $0.25/kwh work out to $12/month. low-carb passivhaus FTW jfc. that's incredible.

Sidewalks shouldn’t stop for side streets, pass it on

This is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era. It's a complete abdication of climate responsibilities, and while at least $3 billion in climate funding gets cut, taxpayer supports for oil and gas are set to grow. Great breakdown @hadrianmk.bsky.social

A statistic that continues to live rent free in my mind: half of all international shipping is just moving fossil fuels around.

Having a cargo bike makes choosing to bike an easy choice, nearly every day, all year long. If we were still using bike trailers or seats, hauling growing kids around, we’d choose the bike less often. And in my view, every day with a bike ride outside is better than a day without one.

Worth nothing some important facts about this plan: property taxes are integral to financial numbers and depend on taxes from the towers being used to offset the costs, rather than going towards all city revenues; that’s not how property taxes work anywhere else in city 1/

Love to see a leafy neckdown

"The money Exxon sent to Atlas Network helped finance... translations of English books denying that human-caused climate change is real; flights to Latin American cities for American climate deniers; and public events that allowed those deniers to reach local media and network with politicians."

AG @natgougeon.bsky.social has released her Follow-up: Audit of Lansdowne Sprint 1 ahead of tomorrow's Special Audit Committee meeting. View the report here: www.oagottawa.ca/media/oevnjm... #OttNews #Lansdowne

The Auditor General recently released her second sprint audit for Lansdowne 2.0. The risks are very concerning and if realized will lead to tens of millions more in costs for the city of #Ottawa.

Just in time for Hallowee’en, the scariest thing to see if you try to get around the city outside of a car. #autowa

"Collectively, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Norway increased their oil and gas production by nearly 40 percent between 2015 [Paris Agreement signing] and 2024. In the rest of the world, combined oil and gas extraction dropped by 2 percent over the same period" oilchange.org/publications...

Provinces are responsible for health and education - let's start talking to voters who keep voting to defund these essential services. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

If anyone’s looking for some stylish crates for their bike, these crates from Hay look pretty nice. No idea how sturdy they are though. #bikesky #ottbike themodernshop.com/products/hay...

Driving a car hides how bad it really is inside the engine. youtube.com/clip/UgkxCuW...

“What would you think if I told you that in Ottawa, between 2017 and 2020, 95 people died in elevators? What would we be doing here in the Legislature?” @cmckenney.bsky.social on banning automated speed enforcement.

No Colonel Sanders tonight? Maybe he got turned away at the border.

Ontario is using misleading imagery in the Ring of Fire ads running during the World Series. Kinda like @elaineanselmi.bsky.social using a pic of the Jays in this column about why the govt might want people to think mining in Treaty 9 is farther along than it really is. thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...

With almost every city in the world electrifying their bus fleets, why haven’t domestic Canadian electric bus manufacturers like Nova Bus succeeded in accelerating production times? Seems like a market on the upswing and a great domestic industry to grow.