Safe, protected bike-lanes are:
Better for business
Better for emissions
Better for air quality
Better for space
Better for public health
Better for noise
Better for equity
Better for affordability
Better for public costs
Better for safety for EVERYONE
Better for oil independence
Better.
This is exactly why @visionzeroottawa.bsky.social has started a Close Calls campaign - we need to collect incidents like this that the city doesn’t count! visionzeroottawa.ca/posts/closec...
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The City doesn’t track close calls. We do. Tell us about your close call and we will present this information to City leadership.
Hello Canada. We are GO ALTO.
Canada has waited long enough for high-speed rail in the Québec–Toronto corridor.
We’re here to make support visible and build momentum.
Explore the campaign and add your name:
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Ottawa council and senior staff accept 80% of traffic fatalities and injuries as acceptable. It’s their road safety policy.
2026 is an election year. When council candidates call ask them why is traffic violence is acceptable. What is their Vision Zero plan?
GO ALTO
How many more studies does your city need proving that people on bikes and on foot spend more on shopping streets than people in cars?
Bike-lanes mean business. #UrbanTruth
#ottbike
@shawnmenard.bsky.social Can you explain the choice to remove the protected part of this protected intersection?
You have created a huge sideswipe risk for anyone cycling here taking a right turn from Main.
Cars do not scale in cities. They take up way too much space and don't allow people to get where they need to go efficiently. No matter how much space we appropriate for them it is never enough.
We must provide residents with alternative solutions so that we can all experience this wonderful city!
When General Burns Pool opens this month, I hope residents enjoy it — because we don’t know how long it will last. At 58 yrs old, it’s already beyond its typical lifespan and officially “end‑of‑life.” But there's no plan to replace it, according to the City's Long-Range Financial Plan. 1/
Cars rolling through stop signs can be going quite fast and still appear to be slowing down, while bikes rolling through stop signs may look like they're going fast and/or not slowing down, but their actual speed is slow. Compound that with the relative danger of cars vs. bikes...
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Vision Zero Ottawa
Patrick
Sean Devine
Strong Towns Ottawa
IMPORTANT: “The city’s own math shows sprawl comes with a massive bill. A cost-of-growth study found outward growth would cost the city more than $10 billion additional dollars compared to a future in which it chose to grow through infill.” Via @nationalobserver.com #Calgary
Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD
Minutes after posting this, I was in the crosswalk with signal and right of way, and a taxi rolled through the red light without even so much as a check and nearly hit me. But sure, I once saw a cyclist…..
Calgary says it wants more housing and less costly sprawl. But by rolling back rules that made infill housing easier, critics say the city may be pushing growth outward — where every new road, pipe an...
