CAT | Bank Street
The city is beginning to install new bike racks along the northern part of Bank Street this week. In a happy change, they’ll serve as a useful form of public art – not that subtle reminders to buy Gabriel’s pizza are that unwelcome, just not that attractive. From the city press release:
The public art bike [...]
22
Mike isn’t the only one with thoughts of the City of Ottawa’s cycling plan
2 Comments | Posted by Adam in Bank Street, bike lanes, city council, cycling plan
The Ottawa Citizen’s David Reevely on his Greater Ottawa Blog writes about the new cycling plan for Ottawa. The one recently approved by City Council’s Transportation Committee. His comments are, as usual, insightful and worth reading. Of particular interest though is he invites cyclists to weight in on dangerous problem spots you encounter cycling around Ottawa. [...]
The closure also extends one block north and south of Somorset on Bank, and is essentially the same closure as we saw with the collapse of Somorset House during the winter.
Now, presumably this will open up within a couple of months (they seem to be doing some sort of sewer work under bank), and when [...]
19
Shifting Detours, Making Sense
0 Comments | Posted by Mike in Bank Street, Centretown, OC Transpo, road closures
The city has started to shift some of the southbound buses that normally inhabit bank street from Lyon to O’Connor, and will keep doing so until they re-open bank near Somorset. Obviously, this makes eminent sense, as I pointed out almost a month ago.
Given the fuss that businesses have raised, I’m surprises that this didn’t [...]
One of the nice things about being the author on a blog is that you can bring responses to comments to a new post. Below is a response to a comment by “phred” on Bank Street.
There are three ways in which the current obstruction is potentially a hassle, all of which are because it is [...]
28
Bank Street
4 Comments | Posted by Mike in Bank Street, Centretown, mass transit, photos, road closures
Rakerman takes the picture that I have been unable to get over the past week:
Photo available under CC-BY-NC-SA.
Two curious things about the bank street closure:
1) It was really weird to see people stick to the sidewalks, even when it was perfectly safe to walk on the road. Habit, I suppose.
2) Traffic didn’t seem that [...]
