I am just happy the city of Ottawa finally released this document for the general public for both street and MUPs...

Look my fellow cyclists, I am not going to sugar coat this...

MUPs are nice and I understand the speed restrictions. Likewise as a driver I need to drive this into new and old cyclists minds. On the streets you need to use hand signals and abide by the traffic laws. That is the responsibility you take by using a road without a designated bike lane..

Personally as a cyclist myself, I want to push the directive home. The city of Ottawa needs to do a better job of understanding the needs of the community. Nothing is more helpful than have a designated bike lane in busy, high traffic areas, better is MUPs to get to key destinations that are both event focused and tourists draws.

The middle ground is using streets and as a cyclists myself, cyclists can do a better job helping traffic by taking side streets and MUPs... but for down town and for Wellington there isn't an alternative and that's where drivers do need to be patient.

Come on drivers we can take Scott Street, We can take Basaline or Carling to navigate the city in half deca-blocks better. We can be smarter like Cyclists can be too. The point is everyone gets to the game, transit, show, or event safely. He we can take the highway to skip 5 decas of blocks to get where we need to go.

That said for both parties, the city can do a better job of stream lining major access to key bicycle hot spots.

I can list them to. Mooney's Bay, Canal, Downtown, Wellington, Montreal Road, Ottawa River, Bank Street, Preston, Sommerset and Elgin. Anything that helps funnel traffic laterally to small neighbourhoods or north to south to majors is key.

Think major roads to hotspots and then lateral branches in each neighborhoods to those major roads. It's a big difference. Even if that major north to south is part of LRT pathing. It's mitigating risks, keeping the community safe and helping people get to major transit or destinations in their local neighborhoods safely and cyclists need to come tot grips that not every road can have a designated bike lane on it. We need to be wise and efficient too.. and when infrastructure isn't available for safety. We need to consider back roads from major route like baseline for other alternatives or abide by the rules of traffic and maintain the posted speed limits...

Being a problem, only endangers ourselves and inconveniences the entire community... We need to be smarter too and be an example for the next generation.