March 2025 - Hans on the Bike - Cycling in Ottawa and beyond

How Strong Towns Ottawa got their Bank Street data

March 20, 2025 Hansonthebike 2

Reading Time: 6 minutesIt is not always easy to get data from the City of Ottawa. Strong Towns Ottawa had to go through a city councillor’s office to receive the data they wanted to see. And then they got a 2500+ pages PDF with raw data of a Bank Street on line survey.

A bike shed sits tucked away off the side of a driveway. There are trees and foliage in the backgroud. The text on top says: A bike shed in your front yard

A Bicycle Shed in Your Front Yard

March 2, 2025 Hansonthebike 0

Reading Time: 4 minutesCycling through Dutch towns, I started to notice more and more bike sheds in front yards. Back home, I took a look at the Dutch rules for building them and they are pretty relaxed about them. Let’s see how they look like and what is allowed.

Hans on the Bike writes about cycling in the Ottawa-Gatineau National Capital Region in Canada. Stay up to date with cycling developments in this bike friendly city with hundreds of kilometres of pathways.

Hans on the Bike is not a very competitive cyclist; most of the time he is cycling around town doing errands or guiding tourists while waving to friends.

As a bicycle tour guide, he hears tons of great feed back from people from all over the world. Even from the Dutch! This is encouraging.

Ms. Hans on the Bike cycles too and is often the voluntold for Hans’ pictures. She famously declared she was not going to bike below +10C but lowered the treshold to -10C over time.

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Month: March 2025

How Strong Towns Ottawa got their Bank Street data

A Bicycle Shed in Your Front Yard