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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Truly incredible people doing the thankless toil they knew we needed to make the city a better, more sustainable (financial and otherwise) place to build a life.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

They do have lots of parking that is now open for better use?

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The only reasonable answer to why are there too many cars (that's what traffic is after all), has to be fewer cars. There's no bike lanes to blame for 417 traffic, maybe we have a shot to accept this truth.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I'm not needy. But I'm very happy when wait staff tells me I made a good choice. Also, I'm needy.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The place it's literally illegal to walk to? Yeah. Definitely a wild choice.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

$3M from residents of a place to incentive and subsidize bringing them noise, danger and lung damaging particles. Totally fair.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Curious about the numbers for Europe too. Seems we're looking at non-HG players a lot and I don't see how they fit.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Damn. Alarms so sensitive you're only allowed to use Bumble and Hinge because Tinder is banned.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

100% agreed. If we had a system of taxation that aligned more with the costs of servicing the neighbourhood then there opens up an incentive to bring in more density to lower one's taxes.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I think it's equally important to acknowledge this person is acting rationally. There's no advantage to them of having more density. Until we address the structural reasons why it makes sense to fight development. We're boned. TL:DR tax low density or rebate dense areas as being easier to serve.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Whoa now. What do you think these people are, a road with no impact to commuting traffic open to non-car use for 3 percent of the year? Now that'd be worthy of a couple selfie videos even.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Ah it's a huge start. Positive steps.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Yooooooooooooo. This is great news.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Imagine a "Saloni's Law," to include the expected number of people injured send dying from road violence for any road project. Including delayed projects. Council is killing people with the car centric choices they're making. Start counting it.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

There's a direct link btw expanding roads and more kms driven, & there's a link between kms driven and more dead citizens. The draft TMP has a projectable expected dead citizens from road violence. Votes on it should include accepting responsibility for knowingly increasing the # of dead citizens.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Does it matter if plan after plan fails to meet its goals? Does it matter if the values it puts forward are ignored later?

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Haha this is like that classic joke idea of adding a regular person to every Olympic event just to see how good the athletes are. This only proves that it's a good idea!

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Fairness and all aside. The value of the space we reclaim from the poles taking space alone is worth a tonne. To not create that value for the city is foolish.

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Derrick Simpson @derricksimpson.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Part of Kent Street is up for renewal, and the City of Ottawa is refusing to bury the power lines, saying it’s too expensive. Just Kent Street brings in as much property taxes as the entire West Carleton-March Ward. Our city needs to do a better job of rewarding financially productive communities.

West Carleton-March Ward, which is huge, collected 43.9 million in municipal taxes in 2024. Kent Street (a single street) collected 41.2 million.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Do we count the crossings on O'Connor?

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I'd like to encourage this precedent. Any dollar spent in Stittsville should include consultation with it's funders in the core. Somewhere without free parking preferably.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Let the free market indicate which is a bigger nuisance. How do a tram line vs a highway affect property values nearby?

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I think a mix would do good. Free Otrain service would open up people to using transit more. A lot of folks are just out of the habit.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Surprise! It's less housing and NIMBYs draining our coffers.

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Derrick Simpson @derricksimpson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

LET’S GO!!! “We know OC Transpo has been struggling a lot with reliability and we think this would help get people to work faster, get people home faster, help them get to school on time” www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

ctvnews.ca

Community group takes over Mayfair Theatre marquee to promote Bank Street bus lane pitch

The marquee at the Mayfair Theatre on Bank Street was not showing a movie Thursday morning, but instead a message about bus lanes.

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Derrick Simpson @derricksimpson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Delegated in support of bus lanes on Bank Street on behalf of the Centretown Community Association today. “Bus lanes on Bank would cost little money, would increase transit revenues, and would reduce traffic”

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Oh boy, this is telling. When there's a negative Z axis it's going to tell so much.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This city is lucky to have you.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

There's few things more emblematic of the City's disdain for anyone outside a car than this spot. A few hundred metres from a highway off ramp, cars flying through a busy intersection 40m back and it's consistently blocked. Yet with City Hall visible from there they do nothing.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Are you sure we can't just police our way out of something few people willingly choose? Maybe we can make it illegal to be lonely and throw cops at that problem too.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

With almost no greenspace for those 600-1000 people to use. All to accommodate a few surface parking spots.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Isn't the blue part that cuts through the community gardens still included? Why do we need this?

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Though deeply hampered by poor connection to the LRT because Bank Street North of the Queensway will still be slow AF. Let's pretend AF is short of As Foot because I routinely beat the bus home.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Finger Prince? I don't think so.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Smash in a goal top shelf where Grandma keeps the good stuff and shatter this bad boy.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I recognize this is a political win with supply side positives (previously newly built homes weren't eligible, this should hopefully increase new supply). But can we please address the incentives to encourage wreckless sprawl? Increase taxes on low density areas, make condo fees deductible, etc?

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Pfft. When I added up someone's total cost from their financing it was pushing $200k. Trudeau is to blame because they aren't thriving with 2-3 of these 3x household income pickups in their over leveraged exurban home. Who's to blame now besides personal accountability?

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

What's neat to me is Canada's social purpose doesn't feel like a social purpose just "good government." Early to many social progressive movements because, outside of fear, it's tough to defend hate. e.g. legalizing homosexuality bc the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Mazel Tough is a great slogan.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Donald Trump doesn't care about Canadian people.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

If only you'd not block building 200+ units nearby.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

You're wrong. Prove any of that statement.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I want to see the cost of housing go down. The only way to do that is to increase supply. If we keep adding reasons for builders to skip urban infill. We'll get less and less sustainable housing.

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Liam 🆒 @coolxliam.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is a bad idea. Why should we make building more homes any harder? If you want to support some people who are delaying hundreds of people from finding a home, then fine, but let's be serious about building more homes.

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