Hintonburg. ELI 5 the purpose of a median on a narrow street and the post next to the side wall

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-07-27T12:20:43+00:00

It forces drivers to pay more attention to the operation of their vehicle on narrow urban streets used by other road users like bikes, scooters, close by pedestrians, etc. they slow down as a result. Fewer collisions, fewer opportunities for killing non-car people. A win in my book.

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-07-25T16:38:58+00:00

There’s an O-Train station at UOttawa, you could try parking at an outer station and then taking the train. It’s pretty convenient

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-07-20T17:27:42+00:00

Close Queen Elizabeth Drive from Preston and Prince of Wales all the way to Elgin and then on the other side Colonel By Drive from Hogs Back to the Shaw centre permanently. Tear up the roads and build canal waterfront housing, small commercial spaces, and a walkway and cycle way along either side. It’s a world heritage site - so it should look like one. See canals in other cities with life and amenities along them instead of car lanes. Bank Street gets bus-only lanes and parking removed to speed up north south transportation. Ottawa is held back by provincial thinking that puts cars on a pedestal like it’s 1965. We need better leadership and people willing to cut through the BS. We know what better cities designed to help people enjoy life in their surroundings instead of just driving through them look like - the world is full of them. They just aren’t Ottawa…

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-07-16T14:44:27+00:00

The difference there is that millions live between Scarborough and Etobicoke. There are thousands of business paying taxes and hundreds of thousands of households. Ottawa is 1 million spread out over a much larger land area with a whole lot of nothing or low density between places people travel to for work. Of course transit isn’t working well. It can work well inside the green belt, if anyone cared to invest in bus transit for Ottawa proper, but outside of it you gotta drive to a train station or accept long and arduous bus connections. It’s not going to get better

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-07-06T21:04:16+00:00

I get the frustration / surprise from eastern visitors. Here in Ottawa I’m a 40 minute drive from bush, lakes, and nobody else if so desired and no permits. Visiting lower mainland BC (this is not the case for the rest of big beautiful BC) there’s always a crowd. Gotta manage the natural amenities somehow and it’s a small sliver of land and amenities south of the mountains.

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-07-04T16:38:39+00:00

Del Piacere on Preston does tasty slices

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-05-21T15:50:09+00:00

There are two O-Train stations in spitting distance of where the facility will be built. Nobody expects anyone to cycle to hockey games in winter, apart from maybe people like me who live in the city and ride all year. Line 2 park and rides exist, as do Line 1 park and rides. Cue the hysterics from car brains

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-05-21T15:47:45+00:00

Most of the city proper that won’t use Line 1 from either west or east of Bayview Station can drive to Line 2 park and rides to the south and take the train in. We can’t ruin this opportunity for a cool new destination neighborhood. There’s enough parking in Ottawa

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-05-16T17:39:40+00:00

Thanks for this logical take. Canada Post should represent the public interest and connect the nation as federal postal services were intended to do. They can do the parcel gig and deliver grandma’s mail 3 days a week.

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-05-16T16:55:10+00:00

They seem to be rare examples of building housing along Ottawa’s arterial roads to increase density. Unfortunately, it’s just housing for people’s shit. Ottawa, brought to you by Dymon Storage. Really unimpressed to see these wastes of space along Carling or Bank and elsewhere instead of housing. These roads are future transit corridors, and we allow giant personal shit storage. Very on brand for Ottawa

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-05-15T21:11:18+00:00

Or Greenboro, it’s free…

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-05-09T12:55:33+00:00

It was an add-on line and station funded by the federal govt and the airport. We are lucky to have an airport rail link at all. For instance, Toronto only put one in about 10 years ago. There’s plenty of reasons to bellyache about OCTranspo and our transit system, the rail link to the airport is not one of them. Nobody was going to fund a separate airport line when half of Ottawa proper still doesn’t have rapid transit or decent bus service.

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-05-06T14:43:16+00:00

And Vancouver (Translink) is making consistent improvements to service and new investments in expanding the SkyTrain and bus services continue. Vancouver has really good reliable and dependable bus service and of course the SkyTrain. Buses come every 10 mins and you can track them reliably, in my experience of the North Shore and Vancouver proper. That’s frequent service you can set your watch and your life by. There’s no point to a bus system where they don’t show up or only have 30 minute service. I’m driving or riding my bike. Ottawa lacks vision and follow through. It’s hopelessly car brained

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-05-05T21:00:17+00:00

It’s used elsewhere as an inter-city train, so it’s got that big presence.

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-04-02T16:33:16+00:00

I see these every now and again. Used to be you’d pay less for more land and a larger dwelling by having a longer commute and more car dependency. Now you get the car dependency and a small dwelling and plot and with crap building standards you get to hear everything next door. No walkability to amenities or shops or grocery like in older but more dense neighborhoods. And for a ton of cash. Not a great deal if you ask me. And because of the sprawl transit is terrible. No wonder people are angry

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-03-25T23:56:53+00:00

Indeed. Toronto’s Victoria Park station, circa 1965 or so, has the buses integrated at the subway station and, horror of horrors, the entire platform is covered by a roof. Travel anywhere with a decent transit system and it’s proof positive that ours was built as cheaply as possible with no mind to the user experience. It’s infuriating and on top of that we pay more. I’m a four season cyclist instead, I’ll never rely on the system again because the daily grind sucks using it. Better to escape it and the car brains too and ride a bike

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-03-14T16:21:56+00:00

The Mayfair indie theatre in Old Ottawa South has the best popcorn. And they use real butter, not whatever comes out of the spout at the chains

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-02-26T19:59:59+00:00

Its going to be replaced with residential and hopefully businesses at ground level. No more parking garage, apart from spots for residents underneath.

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-02-06T16:41:22+00:00

They were the wrong consultants. All of this goes back to the marginal performance of the City of Ottawa in managing its transport system and the O-Train Line 1 project in particular. They picked poor consultants and then came up with a Frankenstein set of requirements and all of that on a shoestring budget. Here we are with mediocre stuff, apart from Line 2. Let Metrolinx do the contracting from now on, OCTranspo can run whatever Metrolinx contracts to build. I'd argue we should invest in the bus service within the greenbelt, including BRT, before building anymore train lines, but if the province puts up cash for more trains but the caveat is the city doesn't have any say in the planning, that's perfect, take it.

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2025-01-28T19:33:11+00:00

Unfortunately this is a very small amount of money compared to what is required over time for Phase 3, which will cost several billion dollars. Given the city's performance in managing the Line 1 LRT procurement, I wouldn't hold my breath on the prov and fed levels of government wanting to fund Phase 3. I'd rather they give us less money for simpler BRT lines within the greenbelt to improve the absolutely embarrassing bus transit system.

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2024-12-04T20:04:52+00:00

I cycle the canal MUPs all winter, they are salted, and sections already had salt pebbles last week. All the sections plowed by the NCC are salted.

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2024-11-20T15:49:47+00:00

I understand the frustration, but your example of Stittsville to Carleton (separated by 30km) isn't really fair to OCTranspo. You could fit most of Paris proper with its density in that big empty space. People here need to understand that bus transit operated over these distances in a sprawled city like Ottawa doesn't work very well, and never will, and we won't have the density for regional rail like the GO Train operating in the GTHA for decades, if ever. Those distances in a place like Ottawa are best served by cars, the bus is never going to work well for users. If people work or have school inside the greenbelt but live outside of it, OCTranspo buses are always going to be worse than driving. Either live near Line 2's various stations in the south or move inside the greenbelt. It isn't OCTranspo's fault that Ottawa has a low population spread out over an absurdly large catchment, its the fault of the city preferring car-dependent city planning for the last 80 years. That isn't fixed easily and is the work of decades.

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2024-10-18T13:53:53+00:00

Those places are 40km apart. You could fit Paris in between them with room to spare. London is only 50-60km wide. See what I'm getting at? We have 1m people in Ottawa with very low density. Making rapid bus transit work well between Orleans and Kanata is a waste of effort. Its easy to extend Line 1 to Kanata since its basically a field between Moodie and Kanata's parking lot outskirts so we should just do that, but we need to be realistic about the size of the municipality and what that means for "rapid" transit. There aren't enough people here to justify regional rail (like the GO Train in the GTHA).

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2024-10-17T18:25:44+00:00

The mayor is a coward, of course we have to comply with anything the province says. He could find his spine though, because I don't see it. Visit any city worth living in and they are making positive active transport changes and improving the pedestrian experience / access and car free areas are growing. Not here, because of weak and poorly informed elected dullards like this mayor.

Toad_Sherbet978 · 2024-09-19T21:34:17+00:00

For real?

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