Spoke with the Ottawa Citizen about the perceived lack of parking downtown.
“It’s more valuable to provide housing than it is to have surface level parking lots,” he said. “We can have buildings; we can have houses; we can have restaurants; we can have parks.”
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Public servants need parking. Downtown Ottawa has lost 3,000 spots
Downtown Ottawa has 3,000 fewer off-street parking spots than it did a decade ago, according to City of Ottawa data.
![For a time, when I was much more active on Twitter than I am now, I'd find myself, e.g., washing dishes and, without wanting to, thinking about various mundane things in the form of tweets.
Some nascent half-kernel of an idea would come to me and, like a hack comedian for whom every banal thing is material, I would immediately start working it over for any and all tweet-like potential.
Maybe there was a tiny bit of dish soap left at the bottom of the bottle, and I considered diluting it with water to get it out more easily and make the bottle last longer. I wouldn't simply think that.
Thanks to Twitter, I'd think something exponentially more inane and annoying, such as, "The masculine urge to water down the dish soap..." or "The two genders picture of brand-new dish soap vs. picture of old diluted dish soap]..." or
"Choose your fighter [same two pictures again]..." or "Wake up, babe, new diluted dish soap just dropped" or "Men will dilute the last millimeter of dish soap rather than go to therapy..." or "No but the way I just diluted the dish soap..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w3ff3s73pcc4dwi7qzx4smiv/bafkreihwyozn6dnffx5pkwzardg4ufvmtmhibvgi5ycbnp5uossjf7atvm)
