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Cycling in the City Budget
0 Comments | Posted by Mike in budget, city council, cycling plan
It is city budget time in Ottawa: an annual event where everything is seemingly threatened with cuts, fistfights erupt in coffee shops over whether individual taxpayers should pay 11 bucks a household to fund arts programs, and no one is entirely clear what will be offered next year until the damn thing is actually passed. [...]
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Cycling plan budget threats
2 Comments | Posted by Mike in budget, city council, cycling plan
I’m sure that this will be the first in a series.
The Citizen has a story today highlighting the results of contract arbitration between the city and the firefighters union. I won’t comment on the merits of it because I don’t really have any point of comparison as to whether or not it is reasonable (nor [...]
Council approved the Ottawa Cycling plan this morning – I had it on in the background, but missed the actual vote, so am unsure if it was on division or unanimous. I’ll take a look at the minutes when they go up.
In any case, this was the easy part. It’s simple enough to vote to [...]
The Ottawa Cycling plan goes before council tomorrow. If you haven’t already, email your councillor to encourage them to support it. I’ve pasted my letter below, feel free to plagiarize.
Dear Ms. Holmes,
My name is Michael Powell, and I am a resident in your ward. I am also a frequent contributor to www.cyclinginottawa.ca, a site dedicated [...]
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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. [...]
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Two quick items, one going somewhere; the other likely nowhere
0 Comments | Posted by Mike in city council, cycling plan, federal government, legislation
Two quick things:
The Ottawa Cycling Plan was approved by the city Transportation Committee earlier in the week, and is now off to full Council for approval. The Citizen has a story, and you can read the full plan online. Be warned: it’s a couple of hundred pages long, but the executive summary is pretty thorough. [...]
I’m in the midst of reading the Draft Cycling plan, but before committing more extensive thoughts to it, I just wanted to say I’m glad that they avoided the obvious and opted to create “spine and community” biking networks rather than “hub and spoke”.
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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 [...]
