A Lemon at McCarthy

November 30, 2025 Hansonthebike 2

Reading Time: 7 minutesIn November 2024 bulbouts appeared on a short stretch of McCarthy Road in Ottawa after half a decade of thinking, planning, consulting, tendering and building. Half a year later, crews moved in and removed everything. Here’s what happened.

A photo of a bridge with pad locks with a text on top saying : Rethinking the rideau Canal"

Rethinking the Rideau Canal

April 19, 2025 Hansonthebike 4

Reading Time: 7 minutes Over the last two decades, boating on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa has dropped considerably. More bike rides are on average counted on a single day than the total number of vessel movements on the canal during the entire season. Is it time to refocus for Parks Canada?

a pedestrian and a wheel chair user cross a road. A car stopped on the cross walk.

How older pedestrians die in traffic in Ontario

June 23, 2024 Hansonthebike 2

Reading Time: 9 minutesOlder adults are a growing population and a vulnerable road user population. In Ontario in 2010, pedestrians over 65 years of age accounted for a strikingly disproportionate share of accidental pedestrian fatalities. Pedestrians over 65 years old accounted for 36% of the fatalities but comprised 13.2% of the population.

New Rideau River foot bridge is finally open

June 16, 2024 Hansonthebike 1

Reading Time: 6 minutesIt has been a long time coming and part of the time the bridge was just sitting there in place. But since yesterday we can now enjoy a shortcut across the Rideau River at Carleton University, avoiding Billing’s bridge. Read the full story.