Such a treat to work on this project with great colleagues. Our bold vision for Sussex includes active transport improvements, new public spaces, water access, renaturalization, and space for Indigenous placemaking.

Lots of evidence to suggest that investing in young riders pays off in the long run

may have made a brief appearance in @uytaelee’s great new video on public hearings:

can’t beat starting Friday with a bike ride

ridiculous metric. All this shows is that Ottawa has a land use and transportation system that does not incentivize transit or walking for late night trips

SkyTrain Millennium Line east of Commercial-Broadway Station on a very bizarre weather evening in Vancouver

The O-Train Line 2 and 4 opening in the near future is exciting but I am left wondering about the first impression visitors to the city will have with 2 transfers, including one with up to 10 minutes of waiting time, to get downtown

all good ideas but will never be implemented until a new Ottawa River crossing is built. Kent is one of the main ways for vehicles to get from 417 across Portage Bridge. Ottawa-Gatineau needs a solution to get truck traffic out of its urban core.

there’s a lot to like about what’s coming: new stations, bigger trains, and extensions to growing communities. But I do wonder if the scope of this project was poorly conceived. Probably better to just rip the band aid off for double tracked service with overhead wires.

when you really think about it, it’s truly insane that Ottawa has shut down an urban rail line for 4+ years and the end result won’t be any increase in train frequency

one of the most under appreciated aspects of bike share is that it introduces non-cyclists and casual cyclists to the bike network. Wish Ottawa-Gatineau saw the potential here.

if OC Transpo is in fact reducing Line 1 midday headways to 10 minutes then I’m really curious what the plan is for when Stage 2 opens. 20 minute headways on the Moodie and Algonquin branches?

Just swam at the NCC River House for the first time. Already one of my favourite public spaces in Ottawa. So impressive.

Running the Gatineau Tramway at street level is by far the best solution. It is cheaper, more accessible, and future proofs the system to allow for extending further into Ottawa, which the City should be pushing for.

Every time I get down on North America I go look at the crazy amount of new transit, housing, infrastructure, and . . . stuff Metro Vancouver is building and I get really optimistic

Donald Shoup was here

Just wrapped up reading @ProfDavidGordon’s Town and Crown. Learned so much about Ottawa-Gatineau’s planning history. Cannot recommend enough.

J’ai eu l’occasion d’essayer le O-train d’Ottawa la semaine dernière. Plus confo que les bus du Transitway qu’il remplace, mais lent! 35km/h, et de très longs arrêts en station.

It's brutal seeing our country go down this ugly path. We can only make our politics and our nation worse with this kind of nastiness. I hope that the electeds and senior staff of good conscience push back on this abhorrent behaviour.

maybe this is because Ontario Catholic education failed me but I don’t recall seeing a zoning map in the bible

It’s truly wild how many people interpret new housing that doesn’t fit their particular need as new housing that doesn’t fit anyone’s need. Diversity of housing types is good!