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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌

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Heatpump Papa. Software Engineer. Climate. Cargo Bike Dad. Building software + communities to accelerate residential electrification. @electrify613.bsky.social + @ferncomfort.bsky.social electrify613.ca, YOW

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 7h
Did we ever get a root cause for this one? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
No charges in fatal 2022 crash between cyclist, city grader | CBC News
The worker who was operating a City of Ottawa grader that collided with a cyclist in a fatal crash last year will not face criminal charges, Ottawa police says.
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 27/09/2026
Any street-adjacent festival expecting over X hundred people should automatically trigger road closures.
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 27/09/2026
Streets can only be closed for car festivals (see Preston St)
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 26/09/2026
We’re also always on the look out for volunteers to do tabling, if you’ve installed a heatpump or kicked gas and want to talk to your neighbours at events about your experience, let me know. Volunteers get a sweet Electrify613 t-shirt!
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 26/09/2026
Great day at the Copeland Park Community Alliance Fall Market chatting with people about getting off gas. If anyone has a community event coming up and wants some folks on hand to answer electrification questions and free stickers, slide into my DMs or email hello@electrify613.ca
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 25/09/2026
Also www.bura.city/en/projects/...
bura.city
One of the largest car-free city districts - BURA
Internationally operating office
 for urban design, research and
 landscape architecture
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 25/09/2026
This model exists, we just have to copy it troyplanning.com/study-tour-2...
troyplanning.com
Study Tour 2025: Learning from Dutch Car-Free Places - Troy Planning + Design
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 25/09/2026
Building some (any?) communities with only walk/roll access and a single vehicular access for deliveries/ambulance/fire would be one way to reduce the funding requirements for getting these communities built.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Germany has committed to phasing out fossil fuels by 2045, aiming for 80% renewable energy by 2030 and a potential earlier coal exit date of 2035.
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Germany pledges to phase out fossil fuels for first time with target of 2045
Campaigners say plan marks notable shift away from oil and gas as previously pledges were only for carbon neutrality
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 23/09/2026
Somebody get hired and then go to war from the inside on all the bumpy thermoplastic paint markings. The people demand clean, red-tinted asphalt!
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 23/09/2026
Building collides with vehicle
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 21/09/2026
If you like the idea of on-demand hot water without the burning stuff bit, find someone local to install a Sunamp Thermino. We’ve installed a few this year. Super cool technology with insanely low standby losses. On-demand hot water, just needs a 20A breaker. sunamp.com/en-ca/hot-wa...
sunamp.com
Thermino for domestic hot water - Sunamp Canada
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 20/09/2026
We should take another crack at cleaning up the Centenial Flame and let kids design it for their future in a cross-country RAIC-juried design contest
Normal rockwelll hot take meme
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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wake up, Canada. Just four companies control 80% of oilsands production. 60% of those companies' stock is owned by Americans. How is being an American petro colony in the "national interest", @mark-carney.bsky.social?
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 20/09/2026
and if you use it maybe consider flipping his campaign a couple dollereedoos. www.seandevine2026.ca
seandevine2026.ca
Re-Elect Sean Devine for Ward 9, Knoxdale-Merivale
I'm running for re-election to build a stronger Ward 9. From infrastructure and flooding to reliable transit and sustainable growth, my goal is to invest more in what matters, spend taxpayers' dollars...
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 20/09/2026
We did it. The @seandevine9.bsky.social “sorry, what?” gif is now handily available in the Bluesky / Klippy gif picker
Klippy gif selection with Sean Devine gif
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 20/09/2026
Hard to tell if it will eventually get other doors or sides..Won’t these just fill with snow drifts?
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 19/09/2026
We really need to close Wellington completely during future Taste of Wellington events. All the drivers were mad and doing dangerous things.
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Kidical Mass Ottawa @kidicalmassottawa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's Kidical Mass to the Climate March today! 🚲🌎🚲 We're getting ready to see you soon. Reuse a cereal box to make a sign, or pick up one of these extras our team has put together! #SafeStreetsForKids #ThisMachineFightsClimateChange
Rally signs
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 18/09/2026
It’s going to look like every other peeling wading pool across the city
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 18/09/2026
People voting to flood their own basements to save $28/yr on property taxes
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 18/09/2026
The city’s own energy evolution plan calls for annual commitments of $687M PER YEAR to meet the city’s net zero targets and Sutcliffe has repeatedly voted against allocating anything close to what the plan requires so he can keep taxes low.
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 18/09/2026
This absolute stooge thinks $275k per year spent on climate change mitigation over 4 years is adequate as part of a $7B annual budget while he spends $4M a year on Lansdowne 2.0 debt servicing.
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 18/09/2026
Clearly we just need to raid the opex of a few newer facilities to cover the capex of the older facilities
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 17/09/2026
Given that talking about climate wins elections, it’s surprising not to see climate in any of the mayoral candidates’ priorities
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 17/09/2026
We could 💯 do this for all the “not winter maintained” stairways
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 16/09/2026
Ontario happens to be a pretty clean grid so not something I often have to think about
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 16/09/2026
The thing where people try not to turn on their heat until November is built on old furnace math. A heat pump just reverses itself to pull heat from the outdoor air and operates at 300% efficiency during this time of year. Flip your heatpump into auto mode, stay comfortable, and heat-guilt-free!
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 16/09/2026
I have to imagine the diesel price squeeze would be way worse if we hadn’t started down a path of electrifying our bus fleet. Electrifying buses (and city fleets..and buildings) insulates us from foreign conflicts
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 16/09/2026
Similarly, the number of clean, well-maintained public washrooms all over PEI this summer was incredible.
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 16/09/2026
I’m so tired of his affordability crisis theatre. When the Meridian theatre sponsorship ends, we could call it the Mark Sutcliffe Affordabiloty Crisis Theatre as it floods for fourth time 🫠
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 13/09/2026
Oh right, totally thought it was this weekend
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 13/09/2026
Ottawa Gatineau Air Show
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 13/09/2026
Given the continuous amount of road work and scale of projects, at what point should the city not just in-source more projects?
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 12/09/2026
Questionable labour practices are not a problem that’s going to be solved by keeping diesel buses around. One can still procure electric buses while ensuring the batteries are ethically sourced. I could get on board with trolley buses!
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 12/09/2026
Which is all the more reason we should be doing more on decarbonizing buildings.
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 12/09/2026
Totally unfair to credit new leadership with bringing these to the streets. The electric buses are largely cost neutral though, with the city spending what they would have spent anyways on diesel buses and other levels of govt picking up the tab (Infrastructure Canada grant and CiB loan)
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 11/09/2026
I’m still perplexed why we prioritized a park and ride over any of the unfunded transit priority projects on the books.
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Hans on the Bike @hansonthebike.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tomorrow, Saturday September 12, #ottbike night ride with the NCC in #Ottawa. Event with music and booths starts at 6 pm, the ride at 7.30 pm and goes to Dow’s Lake and back. #cycling #velotaf More:
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NCC Bike Night in Ottawa 2026 Edition - Hans on the Bike - Cycling in Ottawa and beyond
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis Saturday, the NCC organises their BikeNight event again. It promises to be a warmish evening. If you want to hang out and bike with another thousand cyclists, you can’t mi...
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 11/09/2026
Are these locates painted on the Scott st bike lane new? 🤔
Gas locates painted on bike lane
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 11/09/2026
“New Ways to Be Late”
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The Ontario Science Centre has laid off 30 workers including the entire science department... ...CEO Paul Kortenaar told employees at a meeting today that the organization is being restructured. The science centre is eliminating the live exhibits and science department..." #OnPoli
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 10/09/2026
I’ve wondered about the ability to use similar technology to reduce the cost of burying distribution lines in older neighbourhoods with overhead powerlines. Cities often don’t because it’s so expensive to do using current methods.
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 10/09/2026
Feels a bit like how they left the drilling machines in the ground in Silo
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 10/09/2026
Bixi went bankrupt, NCC transferred the system to CycleHop who also ultimately pulled the plug, and we’ve been without any bike share since 2019. Envirocentre +Mobycon did a great feasibility study in 2025 to get the ball moving again envirocentre.ca/ottawa-gatin...
envirocentre.ca
Ottawa-Gatineau Bike Share Feasibility Study
This report presents a feasibility study and implementation plan for establishing a bike share system in the Ottawa-Gatineau National Capital Region.
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 10/09/2026
Super cool that Victoria did this after a single 9 month study and not..checks Ottawa notes.. several studies and not planning to roll out anything until 2028
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 10/09/2026
*impacts obviously
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 10/09/2026
Gotta review the impact of everything …except the things that will have the most inpacts
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 09/09/2026
This is what’s in store if Sutcliffe successfully gets the LRT uploaded to the province.
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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 09/09/2026
Even though this project wasn’t a P3, we seemingly have to set aside a huge pot of money for legal battles when the contracted party doesn’t do what they said they would. Should also mean PCL doesn’t get to bid on any city project for 10 yrs.
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