Liam 🆒

Truly incredible people doing the thankless toil they knew we needed to make the city a better, more sustainable (financial and otherwise) place to build a life.

They do have lots of parking that is now open for better use?

The only reasonable answer to why are there too many cars (that's what traffic is after all), has to be fewer cars.

There's no bike lanes to blame for 417 traffic, maybe we have a shot to accept this truth.

I'm not needy. But I'm very happy when wait staff tells me I made a good choice. Also, I'm needy.

The place it's literally illegal to walk to? Yeah. Definitely a wild choice.

$3M from residents of a place to incentive and subsidize bringing them noise, danger and lung damaging particles.

Totally fair.

Curious about the numbers for Europe too. Seems we're looking at non-HG players a lot and I don't see how they fit.

Damn. Alarms so sensitive you're only allowed to use Bumble and Hinge because Tinder is banned.

100% agreed. If we had a system of taxation that aligned more with the costs of servicing the neighbourhood then there opens up an incentive to bring in more density to lower one's taxes.

I think it's equally important to acknowledge this person is acting rationally. There's no advantage to them of having more density. Until we address the structural reasons why it makes sense to fight development. We're boned.

TL:DR tax low density or rebate dense areas as being easier to serve.

Whoa now. What do you think these people are, a road with no impact to commuting traffic open to non-car use for 3 percent of the year? Now that'd be worthy of a couple selfie videos even.

Ah it's a huge start. Positive steps.

Yooooooooooooo. This is great news.

Imagine a "Saloni's Law," to include the expected number of people injured send dying from road violence for any road project. Including delayed projects.

Council is killing people with the car centric choices they're making. Start counting it.

There's a direct link btw expanding roads and more kms driven, & there's a link between kms driven and more dead citizens. The draft TMP has a projectable expected dead citizens from road violence.

Votes on it should include accepting responsibility for knowingly increasing the # of dead citizens.

Does it matter if plan after plan fails to meet its goals?

Does it matter if the values it puts forward are ignored later?

Haha this is like that classic joke idea of adding a regular person to every Olympic event just to see how good the athletes are. This only proves that it's a good idea!

Fairness and all aside.

The value of the space we reclaim from the poles taking space alone is worth a tonne. To not create that value for the city is foolish.

West Carleton-March Ward, which is huge, collected 43.9 million in municipal taxes in 2024. Kent Street (a single street) collected 41.2 million.

Part of Kent Street is up for renewal, and the City of Ottawa is refusing to bury the power lines, saying it’s too expensive.

Just Kent Street brings in as much property taxes as the entire West Carleton-March Ward.

Our city needs to do a better job of rewarding financially productive communities.

Do we count the crossings on O'Connor?

I'd like to encourage this precedent. Any dollar spent in Stittsville should include consultation with it's funders in the core. Somewhere without free parking preferably.

Let the free market indicate which is a bigger nuisance.

How do a tram line vs a highway affect property values nearby?

I think a mix would do good. Free Otrain service would open up people to using transit more. A lot of folks are just out of the habit.

Surprise! It's less housing and NIMBYs draining our coffers.

Community group takes over Mayfair Theatre marquee to promote Bank Street bus lane pitch The marquee at the Mayfair Theatre on Bank Street was not showing a movie Thursday morning, but instead a message about bus lanes.

LET’S GO!!!

“We know OC Transpo has been struggling a lot with reliability and we think this would help get people to work faster, get people home faster, help them get to school on time”

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This is so well said.

Delegated in support of bus lanes on Bank Street on behalf of the Centretown Community Association today.

“Bus lanes on Bank would cost little money, would increase transit revenues, and would reduce traffic”

Oh boy, this is telling. When there's a negative Z axis it's going to tell so much.

This city is lucky to have you.

There's few things more emblematic of the City's disdain for anyone outside a car than this spot.

A few hundred metres from a highway off ramp, cars flying through a busy intersection 40m back and it's consistently blocked.

Yet with City Hall visible from there they do nothing.