Exurbs and suburbs not grow food, they just cost more to service than they pay in property taxes.
09.03.2026 03:36
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Exurbs and suburbs not grow food, they just cost more to service than they pay in property taxes.
Good morning Ottawa
Reminds me of this 😆
Councillor Tim Tierney is wrong about ‘Chronic No-Voters’ in his Ottawa Citizen Op/Ed on Saturday.
His opinion would be easier to take seriously if the comments weren’t coming from someone with a 15-year track record of being a reliable yes-man for every budget. 1/21
I understand the signal priority for extended greens is installed, but its usage is reserved for very specific circumstances (by TTC)?
You need to always respond with the inverse when it asks you:
Cop ahead? Nope, it left. Help maybe catch speeding drivers.
Cop cleared ahead? Nope, still there. Make drivers drive a bit more carefully.
I guess the cop shop in the market they tried failed…. so time to throw more “cops” at the problem? Surely this will solve the problems
Cars might work fine in California or Florida, but they’re not practical here in Canada. We have winter.
As usual, @sjamieit.bsky.social and colleagues at @strongtownsottawa.ca know how to make a point. Take a look at this thread. One of the core principles of taxation is that the burden needs to be distributed fairly. What we have in Ontario currently is not fair.
Remember to leave comments about Dougie’s bike lane ban on the ERO ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-1...
I was so confused by these comments on the video I had to look up what it meant 😂
It’s kind of crazy that improvements to the 6 and 7 were barely discussed during the Lansdowne 2.0 vote
youtu.be/wtWHri5lShA?...
The wealthy elites got what they wanted- $500M of taxpayer money being gambled on a privately run arena upgrade we don’t even need
Remember how Sutcliffe attacked McKenney’s bike lane plan for using “a quarter of $1 billion on bike lanes”(Ignoring the fact that it was a cost neutral plan that used green bonds with already allocated funds).
And now he spends double that to gamble on something we don’t even need…
Rural and suburban wards:
AUSTERITY! SLASH SPENDING! CUT PROGRAMS! DON’T YOU DARE RAISE OUR TAXES!
Also rural and suburban wards:
YEE HAW, LET’S GAMBLE $500 MILLION ON THIS OSEG THING!
This voting map shows you why Ottawa is stuck in a rut - suburban and rural wards outnumber the city, and can effectively pass anything (no matter how terrible it is for the city).
Amalgamation working as intended…
Some polling was done for Lansdowne 2.0, lo and behold the top issue for people polled was improving transportation to Lansdowne. What better way to provide better access to Lansdowne than safe, dedicated 24/7 bus lanes?
strongtownsottawa.ca/2025/09/25/t...
#Lansdowne #Ottawa #busLanes
It doesn’t help when the city literally makes parking free on weekends to encourage people to drive and visit businesses, but transit remains fixed cost. The double standard is ridiculous
Him and Shawn are conflating the crappy hyper-limited peak hour bus lanes like they’re as effective as permanent bus lanes.
Unless Lansdowne events align with the limited commuter peak hours and direction, there will be no difference than what we have today.
Letter sent to the premier of Ontario opposing the removal of speed cameras. Text follows : To: Premier of Ontario Legislative Building Queen’s Park Toronto, ON, M7A 1A1 (by email) Ottawa, October 22, 2025 Re: Automatic Speed Enforcement Cameras Premier Ford, We are extremely concerned about your directive to remove automatic speed enforcement (ACE) cameras in Ontario. Along with the Association of Municipalities, the CAA and the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police as well as many municipal leaders, we believe in the evidence that previously collected data show: fining people who don’t comply with speed limits helps: it leads to drastic safety improvements. This makes a good case for continuing the use of cameras to maintain speed compliance. The ultimate goal of speed enforcement is obviously that people adhere to posted speed limits. Existing data shows that speed compliance quickly improves and is maintained after cameras are installed. Fewer and fewer tickets are being issued by each camera every year. This trend is already happening: in Ottawa, as the enclosed graphs show, speeds have considerably dropped at road segments where cameras have been placed. Speed cameras work! Cameras in Ottawa are overwhelmingly placed in areas near schools. Removing cameras would recreate dangerous situations for children in those school zones. And let's not forget people with disabilities and our aging population, who may take longer to cross roads. Many safety experts strongly support the use of automatic speed cameras as does the majority of Ontario drivers (73%). In Ottawa, speed compliance went up from 16% to 81% in speed camera zones; the instances of high end speeding in those zones went down from 14% to less than 1%. Those are impressive results.
Second page of the letter to the premier of Ontario opposing removal of speed cameras, text follows : Therefore we ask you to reconsider an end to speed enforcement with cameras and allow technology to do its work to protect the lives of Ontarians. Using cameras allows police officers to do other important work. This is about safety for every Ontario resident, not a cash grab. Respectfully, Strong Towns Ottawa Encl: three graphs About Strong Towns Ottawa Strong Towns Ottawa is a local chapter of Strong Towns. We advocate for a more financially resilient and livable Ottawa. We aim to build a safer city that enables all of us to choose the way we want to live. This includes investing in various transportation options, housing types, safer streets, mixed-use neighbourhoods, local businesses, and more.
A graph of data showing the speed limit compliance in areas where the speed cameras have been put in place in Ottawa. The x axis reads : "Age of ASE Camera (days)" and the y axis reads : "Speed Limit Compliance (%)". The lines on the graph are all of the different road segments where the cameras have been put in place. As the graph moves further to the right, the compliance goes up, reaching close to 100% for many of the cameras
Graph of public data with the x-axis reading : "Age of ASE Camera (days)", y-axis : "High end Speeders (%)". As the graph moves further to the right, the amount of high-end speeders drops off substantially for all of the segments of the roads where speed cameras have been put in place.
We have sent out a letter to the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, opposing his plan to remove speed cameras, which have been shown to overwhelmingly increase safety on our roads.
Thanks @hansonthebike.bsky.social for putting the letter together, and @pbickerton.bsky.social for the great graphics!
I didn’t comment on Lansdowne 2.0 yesterday, because I still hadn’t seen the report until 4pm — well after the mayor put out a fancy video and held a press conference to extol its virtues. I will have more detailed comments soon, but my decision to vote no remains unchanged.
An entire day has gone by and still no release of the Lansdowne 2.0 report. Meanwhile, Mayor Sutcliffe has had time to brief the press, frame the story, and produce a feel-good video. As for those who oppose the project? Well, they're just "spreading misinformation". www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x-T...
Screenshot from Mark Sutcliffe’s email newsletter. Headline reads “Lansdowne 2.0, more for less”. A second headline reads “a smart investment that delivers big value”
Mr. Mayor, I believe you have to disclose sponsored posts with #ad 😂
It seems like OSEG is in full PR damage control mode with people finally realizing how bad of a deal Lansdowne 2.0 will be for the people of Ottawa
Mark Sutcliffe hands Doug Ford a welcome mat, a metaphor for Sutcliffe allowing Ford to walk all over him.
This proved to be more than a metaphor.
Is Ottawa school zone safety negotiable?
🚷Delays to sidewalk builds
🚦School Street policy red lighted
📸 Automated Speed Enforcement to be cut down by Doug Ford
📣 No! Tell the Mayor to stand up to the province and anyone who makes communities less safe.
schoolstreetsottawa.ca/2025/10/11/o...
The only solution to traffic is better alternatives than driving, and bus lanes help us achieve that ✌️
The city just revealed its plans for Bank Street... and chose to prioritize 140 parking spaces over the needs of 6000 daily transit riders.
I made a video summarizing the issue in case you want an update on how things are going:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtWH...
This. #OttCity continues to make transit more expensive and harder to use driving more people away from it. Time to end the doom loop
While agree that it’s better to use recognizable info over numbers when practical, adding too many details adds cognitive overload - increasing time to read for everyone. So keeping them for major exits is fine, with minor exits using numbers.
Surprisingly it’s not that bad for a 3D map haha, but still more complicated than it has to be. If it’s paired alongside standard maps it could be okay