Wow it's so great to have Percy Street open to traffic again. This is wonderful. /s

Percy Street has reopened for cars, but with both sidewalks still blocked off. Amazing 😑 /s What's funny though is that the vehicle detector isn't working, so drivers need to wait for a pedestrian to press the beg button. Or get out and press it themselves, I suppose. A much fairer system IMO.

Hey @arieltroster.com, is this framing from Tim Tierney accurate?

Hey, @ottawapolice.bsky.social the speed limit here is 30km/h. I was doing 35km/h. Was it really necessary to pass me? How about leading by example and not going 55km/h in a 30kh/h zone.

Oh look, a wrong way driver on Percy Street. Never seen that before! /s Sorry buddy, road's closed. Can't continue straight down the wrong way anymore.

A double-decker busload of people being held up by a few dozen parked cars, parallel parkers, and left turners. What a mess. #bankstreetbuslanes

This is painfully slow. Literally walking pace. But no need for bus lanes on the weekend or anything. Only weekday rush hours, and only in one direction at a time. Street parking is just such an amazing use of this limited space! /s #bankstreetbuslanes

River Road. The city dropped the speed limit from 70km/h to 60km/h, widened the space between the yellow lines, and added cat's-eye reflectors to the centreline, yet 85th percentile speeds increased from 80km/h to 86km/h. Operating speeds 26km/h over posted speed limit. What did they do wrong?

The new Food Basics downtown has tiny shopping carts for kids. Amazing.

The plants from the Percy Street pothole garden that the city dug up are still growing just across the road where they dumped them next to the municipal yard building.

Doug Ford: "Speed cameras DO NOT slow people down." Speed camera data:

I downloaded Ottawa's Speed Camera data and graphed out 'average speed' over time. Sure looks like they work. Data available here: open.ottawa.ca/datasets/ott...

Bike parking at Glebe Collegiate this morning.

Typical response for traffic calming in Centretown: "Sorry this is an Arterial Road, traffic calming is not permitted on Arterial Roads". Request traffic calming on Local Road because it has too much traffic on it: "Sorry this Local Road has too much traffic on it for traffic calming."

This watermain is from 1976. Ottawa has 1009km of watermains older than this one. Council just deferred $2 billion in identified water and sewer renewal work for the next decade. You're going to see a lot more of this happening in the future.

That watermain is from 1972. Ottawa has 843km of watermains older than that. Council just deferred $2 billion in identified water and sewer renewal work for the next decade. You're going to see a lot more of this happening in the future.

Can't count the number of times CTV makes a story about something that I posted just a few days before. Thanks for following! My post: bsky.app/profile/sjam...

"Open house will explain proposed changes to improve transit times in the Glebe" Residents are invited to an open house about the Bank Street Active Transportation and Transit Priority Feasibility Study on Wednesday, September 24. Project page: engage.ottawa.ca/bank-street-...

This is a map of all of the Minor, Major, and Fatal injuries in Centretown from the 2013-2022 collision dataset. (cars, bikes, and pedestrians) Any guesses on which dangerous intersection is getting a signalized intersection because it's so dangerous?

Question of courtesy, who should move over into the main travel lane, the wrong-way cyclist or the one going the correct-way in the bike lane? #ottbike

The city just redid this sidewalk at Bay and Gladstone in 2023, and now, this morning, it's getting ripped up again. Efficient!

Environment Committee has Ottawa's "Tree Equity Score Analysis" on the agenda for Tuesday. I did my own quick model on this a year or so back when they announced they would be doing this, and here's how they compare. I think mine is better. 🧵 Report: pub-ottawa.escribemeetings.com/filestream.a...

Well, I think that's it for this tree. The city has killed it by dumping like 50lbs of salt on it every winter. I do my best to remove the salt piles all winter long, but the plow driver parks here everytime it snows, apparently with his salt spreader running. Chamberlain Park.

Some of the Canada 150 playground equipment at Mooney's Bay is looking pretty rough.

They're trying really hard now to keep people from moving the fences to walk through on Percy Street. It's not acceptable to close a street off entirely like this without maintaining access to allow bikes and pedestrians though.

Plans for the Gladstone-Gilmour bike lanes are out. Still terrible. Sends people onto Bronson with no bike lanes. Eastbound cyclists are expected to know to continue up Arthur using the little left turn box. At least they're getting rid of the slip lane at Booth. engage.ottawa.ca/gladstone-an...

This failed sewer pipe was installed in 1963. The city has 633km of sewer pipe older than this one. Council just decided to only fund 2/3rds of the identified water and sewer work needed over the next decade, deferring the other third. Get used to seeing a lot more emergency road closures, Ottawa.

Spoiler alert: Despite slides talking about "building on existing neighborhoods" and "15-minute neighborhoods", this is neither. It's more low density suburban sprawl with no proposed commercial development and with the closest grocery store over an hour walk away.

Note the bollards protecting the utility box from drivers.

Danish playgrounds are on a different level.

The Gladstone/Percy cycling study originally proposed contra-flow bike lanes on Percy and bike lanes on Gladstone. Now, instead of a simple left turn onto Gladstone, the proposal would have a north-westbound biker go from Percy to Flora, Bay, Gilmore, Bronson, Christie, Arthur, THEN Gladstone.

Graveyard of parking signs (no need for signs indicating parking rules when parking on this side of the street is being eliminated for a large bike lane and a bus lane instead)

This is the correct width for bike lanes.

Look how easy this is, Ottawa. #nottawa

“The City appreciates the patience of residents regarding the ongoing construction on the western sidewalk of Bank Street beneath Highway 417” Putting cones over a hole and leaving it like that for 8 months is not "ongoing construction".

Technically he didn't run a STOP sign. He ran a STOP ARRÊT sign.

Percy Street is now completely blocked off at Catherine Street. They've blocked off the small passage next to Krown that people were using to get through. It's needlessly cruel to force people to walk and extra 500m when the underground work doesn't even affect this opening.

Just walked past these guys working on the big hole on Percy Street. One guy is down is the hole drilling into something. The guys up top are taking about smelling gas, and one guy says "yeah, the gas, you don't smell the gas?" ...as he lights his cigarette.

There's a @themerrydairy.bsky.social truck in McNabb Park right now!

I guess it's hard to read the signs when you're on your phone. This lady missed all the one-way/do-not-enter signage and drove the wrong-way through the Percy Street underpass. Credit for actually turning around though. Most drivers just keep going.

@mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social, this is not the flex you think it is. Everything is falling apart. The backlog of work keeps growing. You're penny pinching bus fares from children and seniors. Just raise our damn taxes so that you can actually afford to provide functioning city services.

Councilors react to NIMBY delegation today.

This pickup driver looking down at his phone while driving on Prince Of Wales Drive. I told him six times to put the phone down before he gave it to the passenger. Good thing for those pin curbs.

The "official" signed detour for Percy St sends cyclists onto dangerous routes along Catherine St and Bronson Ave. I've been directing cyclists over the steel plates with a chalk detour. Had to redraw after the rain today and already seeing a lot of use.

This idiot was reversing all the way down Catherine Street from the Bronson off-ramp. After I called him out he cut through the no-entry on Arlington Ave and gunned it down the street at probably around 80km/h in a 30 zone, right through the stop sign. Quebec Plate FSW8026

OMG it's glorious! How did I not know they were closing off Percy Street for construction?!

Anyone missing a black and orange GHOST mountain bike? Spotted this morning in Centretown.

Many drivers aren't aware of this, but you're actually supposed to STOP at stop signs, not accelerate.

My coworker witnessed a really bad bike crash on Price of Wales Drive, the hill near the hospital site, Saturday evening. Does anyone know if the guy survived? No cars were involved. My coworker said he hit the fence post.

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