From OC Transpo's site. Maybe they need to be reminded. Either that, or the mayor will have it changed for it to be as vague as possible. #otttransit
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From OC Transpo's site. Maybe they need to be reminded. Either that, or the mayor will have it changed for it to be as vague as possible. #otttransit
Looks like a picture of a police seasure. What's the street value of all this? 🤣
Pedestrian walking in road because cyclist riding on sidewalk because car parked in bike lane
Can people get to these venues with OC Transpo? #otttransit
2 separate investigations now underway in his first year. 1 - Misleading the public about the governance of City Hall. 2 - Ending a town hall early when asked about the city’s decision to support The Davis Cup. #Halifax #HaliSky
They'll just vote for the candidate saying they'll widen roads to reduce traffic congestion. #NeverLearn
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Ex-blogger and prominent Twitter user "James Bowie gets 4 years imprisonment for threatening ex-client, extortion, harassment" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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"His doctor told him that he's the finest physical specimen the likes of which he's never seen before."
Also never underestimate the power of a lunchtime time nap when you're not feeling great. Often it's enough to get through the afternoon. You can't take a nap in the office.
#ThingsThatGetMoreProtetionThanCyclists
So they removed it insread of fixing the detection loops?
yes please. This everywhere. "Detected and still being detected"
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Well, this is one of the most terrifying and anxiety inducing things I've ever seen. Imagine the road filled with drivers doing this. Now you can understand the hyper vigilance required of pedestrians and bicyclists. And despite that, we can still get splattered because of 3 seconds of distraction.
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
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Where are power pellets? Asking for a friend.
It would have to be at an angle so snow slides off it. If angled would have to face south to get the most sun exposure.
The Ontario facility, which bottles Crown Royal products, closes in Feb in a move to improve its North American supply chain. Bottling for the U.S. market moves stateside. When Canada is being attacked, you don’t move your plant to the US and leave a whole Canadian town unemployed. #cdnpoli
8 kids meeting up at Taco Bell after school. When this Taco Bell was remodeled, it triggered the parking minimums in force at that time, 1 car stall per 50 sf of dining room space. Thus, they had to shrink the dining area and become a drive thru. 5 drive thrus built in 1 mile due to this law
This is how small feels. From a child’s height, cars aren’t machines, they’re monsters.
Saw a picture of the displaced concrete barriers and thought speed was a factor. Video shows it was a large pickup truck. Causes? Driver fell asleep? Looking at their phone? bsky.app/profile/will...
Probably same story every day. *The illegal parking, not the ticket(s)
When you hear of "single vehicle collisions", there's a good chance distracted driving was a factor. Another factor of single vehicle collisions is speed. These are choices and the results of those choices. These are not accidents.
Seems like last minute every year.
Interesting to see the new Twizzy for people with zero or limited eyesight and then *plunk* a planter right in the middle of a pathway without warning, that doesn’t even allow a stroller to pass properly. #Ottawa #ottwalk @lainejohnson.bsky.social
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Not sure CTV was ready for Jay with his brand of Olympic coverage. 🤣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2HL...
Wait they clean the debris? Here they just sweep it into the bike lane and then blast out social media posts that "the roads have reopened to traffic".
On the ground traveling at high speeds. No big deal, it's quite 'normal' for some.
On this day in 1880, Marie-Louise Meilleur was born in Kamouraska, QC. She is the oldest validated Canadian ever and was briefly the oldest person on the planet. She died on April 16, 1998 at the age of 117. She had quit smoking at 102 and said living a long life was hard work.
Throughout this week, I am taking a nostalgic look at school supplies in Canada. For about a decade from the late-1980s to late-1990s, many students around Canada used Le Kitt pencil boxes. This is the story of Le Kitt! 🧵 1/5
"...if you are hit by an SUV compared to being hit by a passenger car you are 44% more likely to be killed. Among kids it's higher - it's 82%."
Or this. Dutch, of course m.youtube.com/watch?v=k61y...
Canadians caught in crossfire as U.S. customs searches of electronic devices rise at borders www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #Canada
"Staircase damaged in collision with car. The staircase then tried to flee the scene."
This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.
Zellers refuses to die. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Change some of the lyrics to "Life in the Fast Lane" to "Life in the Bike Lane". 😆
When I heard some details of yesterday's shooting in Minneapolis, I feared that this would have been one of the naratives. They'll use any reason to attack a vulnerable segment of the population. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
MOST transit costs are fixed (at least in the short term). When transit service declines, fewer people ride it. Less revenue. Hence the so-called "death spiral". The solution is to support transit so it becomes a choice again. ottawacitizen.com/news/ridersh...
It can rain every day, just keep it between 12am and 4am. #PleaseAndThankyou.
This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)
At best, that's a failure to yield charge. Typically, it's just a shrug.
Head's up, Kitchissippi. Paid parking along Somerset/Wellington West/Richmond is expected to begin Tuesday, September 2. Read more about that here: ottawa.ca/en/city-hall...
Nice to see this. Hope they honour Viola Desmond well and involve the appropriate leaders and groups in the community for this project.
They also tend to take the driver's word as gospel in their reports and don't bother to talk to the cyclist if they get taken to hospital. bsky.app/profile/theb...
Only if he changes get away vehicles to a bike and rides in High Park, but it won't be for hit and run, it would be for an unrelated charge.
You went without the bike frame for the logo. It would have been my choice too. 👍
Doesn't help that the city stopped publishing collision information on their OpenData platform in 2022.
Someone was keeping a list going back a couple months. I forget who and can't posts related to it. I find that searches on this platform isn't that good.
Another #ottbike hit. How many is that this year?
Every time I see photos like this, I wonder how a society can look at children running for their lives and still argue guns deserve more protection than they do.
Canadians fought for walkable streets. The Tecumseh Road protests, part 3. Windsor, Ontario, September 10, 1955.
Glad you were able to decompress on a difficult day close to home.
To get better water proof/resistance, maybe spray the panniers with scotchguard or something?
Maybe something like Axiom (a Canadian company). These are 35L for the pair. Several #ottbike folk have them, maybe @laskinator.bsky.social. Not for sale, but maybe a recommendation? www.axiomgear.com/products/bag...
Phase two was to get a gazillion monkeys to write a novel, but then AI started becoming popular.
Sure is! And it's there with dairy and vegan scoops in support of Centretown Parents Daycare - until 7pm!
I'm diving deeper into our history, as told by the wonderful Heritage Minutes. Today, it is the story of Jackie Robinson and his time with the Montreal Royals!
Do you know what works better than hi-viz to help you see bicyclists? Drivers actually stopping at stop signs and looking.
Every big project has so much secrecy with this gov't. Ontario Place. Metrolinx everything. Highway building. A regular Ontario person might ask....why. Maybe one day.
Throughout this week, I am taking a nostalgic look at school supplies in Canada. Today, it is LePage mucilage glue, something nearly every Canadian child used at some point. And it all began with discarded cod skins and an inventor from Prince Edward Island. 🧵 1/8
As soon as @tps.ca releases a 3 week schedule for increasing enforcement of cars/SUVs drivers who endanger vulnerable road users, I’ll let #BikeTO and #WalkTO know. Cc: @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social Traffic Collisions - Killed or Seriously Injured (KSI) Data data.torontopolice.on.ca/pages/ksi
Ah the wave of self absolution.
Maybe the city manager has double secret strong city manager powers?
I'd like to correct CBCs numbers, OC Transpo forecasting an $11M deficit after we account for the $36M hole staff purposely punched into the budget hoping the Prov/Feds would make up the difference of at the direction of Council.
Using different modes of transportation, drive, bus and bike.
We're organizing a Kidical Mass family bike ride in Orléans on Sept 27! It's more than just a fun ride; it's a joyful, positive demonstration for safer streets for our kids and a more connected community. Hope you can join us! 🚲
With MS Edge, it's the F9 Key. Chrome needs an extension called Reader View.
Nightmare on Morris St.
Our letter to @ottawapolice.bsky.social regarding their refusal to provide crash victims w insurance info. Withholding insurance info from injured parties is contrary to the HTA & has harmful affects on peoples' recoveries, especially pedestrians & cyclists. www.thebikinglawyer.ca/post/ottawa-...
Ordering workers to take on significantly more costs in their household budgets with more and longer commutes is a blow to affordability. Doug Ford’s government is making the wrong choice for Ontario workers, but it’s not incumbent on the City of Ottawa to make the same mistake. (6/6)
Or sleep better when you have a cold and get all stuffy when laying flat on a bed.
That's horrible. If they survive, the cyclist and pedestrian will probably have life changing injuries.
Interesting. I hadn't even thought of this before. Saw a youtube video earlier where they talk about it. One of them said when they read a Harry Potter book, there was a detailed description of Hogwarts, but she couldn't imagine it in her mind. Makes for a different book reading experience.
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So an updated version of this. "Cars are so big now, we need to get something bigger for Billy to be safe when we drive him around." #AutomotiveArmsRace
WTH is with this headline? "2 hospitalized in apparent chain-reaction pedestrian crash" No mention of the part that driver in a car hit them. It's like saying "Wall falls on person sitting bedside it in freak accident" when driver crashes into a building.
Sometimes you'll see athletes, like bobsled, close their eyes and they go through their race in their mind. Interesting conversation open to interpretation though.
Or if you want to change the layout of your living room, can you picture how it would look if you moved things around?
I guess SEEING IT and THINKING ABOUT IT, is subject to interpretation. Does an artist, sculpture or architect envision their creations in their minds?
💯 We don't need people driving, looking for scavenger hunt items instead of looking at the road. We also don't need people parking their cars anywhere so they can retreive a scavenger hunt items.
We fail to respect or enforce traffic laws to the point that people don’t actually perceive ignoring them to be breaking the rules. It’s just normal driving. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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OPH doesn’t have its own delegation so this year I’m walking with Ottawa Public Library whose commitment to intellectual freedom is also the work of allyship! It is fantastic out here!! Happy Pride!
ICYMI - Our final #KidicalMass bike ride of the season will take place September 27 in Orleans! More details and optional registration: kidicalmassorleans2025.eventbrite.ca 📢 Please help us share the word. #OttBike #OttEvents #OttCity #Ottawa #OrleansOntario #SafeStreets #SafeStreetsForKids
“Stringer noted that real police officers do not wear ski masks.” I think I see a problem…
Parks can be good advertising for cargo bike life.
Like how we have "flex space" instead of parking.
If they don't have a cargo bike I've heard there's a place to try some out in your area. 😉
On Bayswater too. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Thanks, on the way back I noticed that the outside button took 4 presses before the door opened, so it probably needs attention too.
@helps.octranspo.com, the accessible door button is completely missing at South Keys station (mall side). #otttransit
NCC is putting on Mini Tour la Nuit on Saturday Sept 13th 7:30-9:30 starting at Confederation Park doing loops along Queen Elizabeth Driveway and Colonel By Drive crossing at Flora Bridge. #ottbike #velogat 😀 ncc-ccn.gc.ca/open-ncc-bik...
I thought only Ottawa could be this dumb.
Has he used a map of Ottawa and show that Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary all fit in the boundaries to brag and also as an excuse like Watson did?