CAT | Centretown
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 [...]
We were recently asked to spread the word about this interesting organization:
I am contacting you in the hope that you might help us spread the word to the Ottawa cycling community about Cycle Salvation.
Cycle Salvation is a social enterprise operating under the umbrella of Causeway Work Centre. The business strives to achieve a triple bottom [...]
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Citizen’s for Safe Cycling AGM this thursday
0 Comments | Posted by Mike in Centretown, activism, organizations
Citizens for Safe Cycling will be holding its Annual General Meeting this Thursday at the McNabb Community Centre. There’s a social event at 6PM; the meeting itself starts at 7PM, where they will elect a number of board positions. You have to be a CfSC member to vote or stand for election. Full details here [...]
I was dropping a video off this evening on Gladstone, near Percy, and I noticed that traffic seemed to have come to an unusual standstill. I quickly discovered that a cyclist had somehow been hit by a car, and looked to be pretty hurt.
Now I have no idea who (if anyone) is at fault: I [...]
re-Cycles Bicycle Co-op has moved to a new location on Bronson, near Gladstone.
I’ve long wanted to swing by and check the place out, but its previous location was just far enough to be “too far.” Now that they are 100 metres from my house, I’ll have to swing by.
Upside: Perhaps I’ll learn something!
Downside: Now I [...]
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Separate but equal
2 Comments | Posted by Padraic in Centretown, Sandy Hill, bike lanes, city council, cycling plan, video
Giacomo Panico laments the lack of seperated bike lanes in the Ottawa Cycling Plan, and suggets Laurier Avenue as one street that could be benefit from such a division. While most Ottawa streets don’t see the kind of car chaos that the New Yorks streets in the video do, I think the major arteries certainly [...]
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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 [...]
The Centretown News has a neat article up on a bike polo league that has started up on Champagne Avenue. Winter is here, but it’s the sort of thing that makes me want to learn to ride a fixie.
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 [...]
This is at the corner or MacLaren (one-way going west) and O’Connor (one-way going south). It appears that while the sidewalk is being expanded to prevent cars from continuing west, space is being left so that bikes can continue to cross O’Connor:
I can’t think of any other reason for this gap – and the corresponding [...]
