I think two modal filters in these locations would cut 90% of the traffic on Percy Street, and push it to arterial roads rather than other local streets, leaving the street very safe to bike on.
A traffic count on Percy Street from 2018 had a peak hour volume of 160 vehicles and 24H of 1881 vehicles, which is over 3X what is recommended for the AA&A bike boulevard. With some modal filters and a contra-flow lane, it could be a similar success story to Shaw Street — if the city wanted to.
"By prioritizing safety and comfort for people biking, the Shaw Street bike boulevard demonstrates what’s possible when cities design streets for everyone—not just cars."
Meanwhile in Ottawa, we have all these same tools in the 30 km/h Design Toolbox, but they rarely if ever get used.
While you've been mayor, the city has removed easy public access to city archives, with past agendas and documents dating back to the 1990s taken offline this past fall, app06.ottawa.ca/cgi-bin/docs...
and archived photos like this going offline this winter. ottawa.minisisinc.com/ottawa/partn...
You've had several opportunities to offer up the correct phrasing but have instead gone on the attack each time.
Campaigns can't spend money yet. This is all volunteer work by a very small team. And as you pointed out, none of the other candidates have gotten it right either. Seems overly harsh.
Cathy Curry making the case that if you want transportation projects to actually get built, don't vote for Cathy Curry.
Luckily just around the corner from city traffic operations. They should have that one fixed within a few years.
Cricket pitch, neighbourhood shops or restaurants, new apartments, a duplex- it doesn't matter what they're proposing to build in the suburbs, people will complain about parking and traffic. Somehow they don't realize car oriented development is the actual problem.
If this is the data informing the Downtown Rideau BIA on their customers, no wonder the ByWard Market is a parking lot.
This survey puts no weight on how frequently people visit. People who live within walking/biking distance or along the LRT will certainly visit more frequently.
"Most visitors still arrive by car (70%)" - but the survey question actually asked: "If visiting, how do you typically get to Downtown Ottawa?"
So someone who drove one time to the market and answered the survey is counted once, and someone who walks there EVERY DAY is also counted once. Bad data.
I caught this from another angle and then joined them to clear out the drain on the other side of the street. The little one had fun floating things down the resulting river.
The puddle was great traffic calming though.
Another one. Bronson and Catherine.
Needed infrastructure work is being deferred because of your low tax increases, with the backlog growing every year. There's a $2.6-billion backlog just in road resurfacing. At some point we will need to pay for it, and that ENORMOUS tax increase will be YOUR fault, not a future mayor's.
Just raise my damn taxes and provide me with actually functioning city services. If I wanted low taxes and poor services I'd go live in the middle of nowhere, not in a city.
The 2025 multi-residential tax ratio is at 1.30, next year it will be 1.20. The mayor could increase taxes by 12.39% in 2026 without triggering an AGI for those older multi-residential properties.
I think the report makes better argument for banning cars from the road entirely than it does for keeping RTOR.
"Drivers are speeding, aggressive, angry, distracted, and disobey traffic laws. If we try to stop them from running over people in this crosswalk, they'll just run them over in another!"
Anytime I go down Booth there's a group of people with thousands of dollars worth of clearly stolen bikes dealing drugs out in the open. Not sure how that hasn't been dealt with.
On multiple occasions I've seen posts for stolen bikes, and then I go and I find the exact bike there.
I've been trying to get data from Ottawa Fire on the number of calls they respond to for vehicle collisions vs other calls. They break down the numbers in their annual report by type, but collisions get mixed in with Fire/Hazmat/Rescue/Medical/Miscellaneous depending on the nature of each collision.
Even the right on red report yesterday was saying that it would be dangerous to ban RTOR because pedestrians might have the gall to expect that drivers actually follow the rules, except that drivers are aggressive, distracted, and not paying attention to people in front of their vehicles.
The <50% hardscaped was already there. But people couldn't widen their driveways beyond the width of their garages or laneways. If they had a walkway, it couldn't be attached to the driveway through the right of way, and they couldn't park on it. This now legalizes that.
I think the one upcoming with biggest impact will be the bridge over the Rideau Canal. There aren't many other ways to cross the canal, and they'll also have the QED and Colonel By closed as they do it.
Committee passed this new by-law unanimously. It was called "a big step forward" and "a good news story".
More paved surfaces and more space dedicated to car storage is the complete opposite of what we need in this city. I don't think many councillors even knew what they were approving here.
If we raise speed limits to like 300km/h, speed limit compliance would go way up.
"Improved compliance" isn't about addressing non-complaint driveways. What they mean is they're changing the by-law to make them legal as they are. Then By-Law officers have less work to do enforcing these currently illegal widenings because this will "bring them into compliance".
Zoomed in with ward boundaries, showing Tierney's Beacon Hill-Cyrville vs downtown.
It says if we ban RTOR, pedestrians might actually expect drivers to follow traffic laws and then get hit by a driver turning while crossing legally. Basically admitting that the only reason there aren't more collisions is that pedestrians currently expect drivers to turn without yielding to them.
The report says repeatedly that drivers are aggressive, speed, don't pay attention, ignore signage, and are distracted.
I'm not able to filter out specifically right turn on red collisions, but here is every pedestrian/cyclist collision at a traffic light (2017-2024).
This RTOR debate can be framed as safety vs traffic flow, but traffic certainly doesn't flow when the road is closed for a collision. And then this staff report is actually trying to claim that it would be more dangerous to not allow RTOR, because drivers would get angry and break traffic rules...
Far too often drivers blow full speed into the crosswalk, looking only to their left for other cars. I've been nearly hit countless times. If it weren't for people walking and biking constantly looking out for drivers that can't follow basic traffic laws, there would be far more injuries and deaths.
