Report that pothole to 311 with Neappoli
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reporting potholes is now a breeze with the new Neappoli app. Send location and photos right from the location with your cell phone.
Infrastructure
Copenhagen on the Bike
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hans on the bike visited #Copenhagen and cycled around the areas outside of downtown too. Here are some impressions of Copenhagen infrastructure.
Is free transit a Utopian thought?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Is free transit a solution to traffic woes? Luxembourg is going to implement it this year.
Bike Storage Coming to a Train Near You – ViaRail Enters 21 Century
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s passenger VIA trains might be older than your granddad. VIA is stepping into the 21ct Century though and ordered new train cars, to be built by Siemens in California. They will meet a long standing demand to add bike storage to the trains.
Nepean Trail Pathway Additions Open – Photos
Reading Time: 7 minutes It apparently took 35 years, but the Nepean Trail is more or less finished: a continuous 11-12 km stretch through old Nepean, running south and north of the CN railway track. QuoteThe idea, borne by a member of the Trend Arlington Community Association, was endorsed by the Knoxdale Merivale Council (KMC) and later championed by the ward councillor.UNQUOTE Ask residents where the Nepean Trail starts and finishes and few people will likely be able to tell you. One maps shows it starts just north of Bruce Pit near Bell’s corner and ends at Baseline and Merivale (-ish), winding its way [Read more…]
Trillium Pathway Phase 3 – photos
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Trillium pathway is finally finished. The third stage was landscaped and finished in September/October 2018 (project OTT-046) and completes a wonderful and safe cycling loop along the canal, the Trillium railway tracks and the Ottawa River. A cycling tourist’s dream. No refuge The original project envisioned crossing Prince of Wales via a refuge. I like refuges very much because unlike at a traffic light, you don’t have to wait in the middle of the night for traffic that isn’t there. Back in the Netherlands in the 1980’s, many lights were switched to amber after a certain hour (perhaps 10 [Read more…]
Bike lanes on Confederation Boulevard in Downtown Ottawa
Reading Time: 5 minutes When the O’Connor bike lanes were built, we were told that it wouldn’t go all the way to Confederation Boulevard (Wellington St) in front of Parliament Hill yet for reasons I forgot already. It wouldn’t make much sense to dump cyclists on Wellington anyway with nowhere to go unless you are an experienced cyclist. And even experienced cyclists like myself mostly don’t enjoy a ride on Wellington anyway. Many traffic demands But now the city and other parties are returning to the drawing board to finally connect O’Connor, Mackenzie and Colonel By(cycle) bicycle lanes. With the many traffic demands in [Read more…]
Visiting Hurdman bridge and the New Pathway
Reading Time: 5 minutes Hurdman Transitway bridge reopened The Hurdman transitway bridge is open again for cycling and walking now the Transitway has been converted to LRT. The pedestrian and cycling space next to the tracks, separated by a high fence, is an important link over the Rideau River. It connects with the NCC eastern pathways, which connect to the Hospital Link I described earlier this month. It also connects with Lees Ave LRT station and Hurdman Station as well as to the western pathway along the Rideau River which is currently being developed.Not all is in place though but since I was in [Read more…]
How About a 2nd Billings Bridge in Old Ottawa South?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A hotly debated area for safe cycling in Ottawa is the intersection at Riverside and the Billings Bridge, built in 1916. According to BikeOttawa’s website, the intersection at the south side is the one that has the most reported collisions in Ottawa, including a deadly one, when Meg Dussault was waiting on her bicycle at a cramped sidewalk/MUP and a right turning truck caught her bars. Vision Zero From a Sustainable Safety or Vision Zero point of view, this intersection needs to be changed, so that this can never happen again. There are plans to build a path underneath the [Read more…]
Harmer Bridge Replacement: Lack of Clear Policy
Reading Time: 5 minutes For 55 years, the Harmer bridge over the Queensway served walking and cycling citizens on both sides of the Queensway, but this month it will be closed and removed in order to build a new bridge. The old bridge over the Queensway will be removed overnight and the new one eventually put in place overnight. The replacement will take two years though, ‘because two new ramps need to be build’. (The 12 km LRT, partly underground, will take just under six years) No alternative to Harmer Bridge Unfortunately, there is no close safe alternative to cross the Queensway. The initial [Read more…]