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Two posts from CTV News Ottawa:
1 Ottawa police officer charged with impaired driving
2 Ottawa police chief urging drivers to slow down after string of fatal crashes.

Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey @octranspo.com If you want the Rideau connections to feel safe, you need to start by deep cleaning Rideau A. The sticky tape residue on the glass has been unchanged for weeks. It needs hiding down too. L today R Sept 18

Milk shake or coffee on the bus shelter glass has been here for ages. Oct 7 2026

Same or similar grossness from Sept 18 2026

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@brigittepellerin.bsky.social I hadn't really heard of this mayor candidate but he has more signs than Sutcliffe and Leiper by this polling place in Orléans. (On other side of road.) I saw no Lawson or Saravanamuttoo signs.

Amjad Syed for mayor in foreground. Ward 1 candidate in middle. Sutcliffe for mayor sign in distance. The Sutcliffe sign is a typical lawn sign not a larger size.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someday that "technically proficient in French" designation from the early 90s might mean something. But at least I've learned to relax my throat when mangling new words.

Duolingo blasts off. French score 100 I can watch a TV show in French.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ottawa has a lot of great mural artists. This new art in Rideau station's William St elevators is very mid. I don't see a signature. I wonder if it has the sealant mandated by murals funded through the city's Paint It Up program which makes graffiti removal possible. Perhaps wall needs to weep.

This postcard style artwork pulls local icons into a collage. I'm not an art expert but it feels like a grade school level of artistry. This is a curved wall so it creates some challenges.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hey @helps.octranspo.com Can the team update this sign? Stop G is in use but missing from the directional sign. Blair on bridge opposite fare gates

Sign in Blair Station helping people understand: 1 they need to turn back and go down one level for train; 2 or they need to turn back and down 2 levels for bus platforms A to D; or 3 they need to go over the bridge then down for Stop H and I. Stop G is not on the sign.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is the new vending machine at Parliament station. Since the mezzanine level is divided, if you don't see it inside your fare gate area, exit and enter other Mezzanine through other fare gates.

A basic but modern vending machine. Quite pricey and likely it really only wants payment by tap.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hey @helps.octranspo.com the east platform plasma screen at Blair is failing. Can this be addressed as part of pre trial prep work please? (Not the main double screen on the west platform.)

Plasma screen of bus departures times. The screen alternates every 10 sec between clear screen and screen faded with lines blacked out.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hey @en.ottawa.ca the Teranet tool is down. I can't select the address (which is in the drop down list) to complete the service request. For service location, pin is invisible and incorrect. For my address, it performs lookup then leaves the field blank.

The search tool admits it can find an exact match. The match is the only hit in the drop down list. The map is not loaded so location pin is not visible.

Scrolling down below the invisible map, it states a different but nearby address is selected. Previously, it dropped the invisible pin in Centretown, not Orleans.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is the cat which is easier to find.

Photo of a typical rowhouse postage stamp backyard. A plastic long leash runs up over a storage unit along a fence into a cedar hedge. Invisible is the orange cat at the end of the leash.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hey @helps.octranspo.com there is missing data on the mezzanine level of Lyon station. This was still happening 10 mins later with different trains so likely a software issue. All boards have the same missing data. Western entrance board also has missing pixels.

Second display on same info board.
1 Blair 7 min
1 (blank)
14:22

Two line info screen.
1 Tunney's Pasture 5 min
1 Blair (unreadable) min
14:22

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Another broken bench for the repair list @helps.octranspo.com. This one is at UOttawa station. On the east side of the campus entrance.

Wooden-like bench outside an LRT station. The middle section is missing the entire first plank.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Another broken bench for the repair list @helps.octranspo.com. This one is at Jeanne d'Arc 2A. The bench outside the middle of the shelter.

Bus bench made of recycled juice box plastic. One of the bottom planks has been broken off half across the seat

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hey @octranspo.com, can your team look at how escalator outages are announced to third party apps? Today's Rideau elevator outage marks every line 1 trip has limited barrier free access. The outage should be assigned to the station, not the line.

Screenshot of trip from St Laurent to Blair. showing Cyrville station with an alert.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hey, @en.ottawa.ca, can someone fix this posting, please. I assume all consuktabts do have a listener attached.

Screenshot. Review status: Comment period in progress. Summary of what the consultation is on (RTO related parking changes). File lead:[blank]. Phone[blank].

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

From the 613Trending (on FB) satirical ad series.

Fake bus shelter ad. Picture of pasta dish. "Your bus is probably late anyway. Might as well grab dinner."

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I'll note in passing we seem to already have the safety signs installed. Photo from platform in downtown tunnel. Likely Lyon station

Danger! Do not cross tracks! high voltage

Danger! Ne traversez pas les voies! Haute tension

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The nightly Lincoln Fields detour is inserted between paragraphs about NCC Bike day detours. That's just confusing. I'm not entirely sure that is NCC Bike days 2026 info. I'm sure there are more problems if I knew the status of all road works. 3/

Full text: Routes: 57, 61, 62, 63, 74, 75, 87

Date effective: May 08, 2026

Beginning on Saturday, May 9, NCC Weekend Bikedays returns to the Kichi Zībī Mīkan!

Until October 12, routes 57, 61, 62, 63, 74, 75, and 87 will detour on weeknights and weekends in both directions around the parkway, between Lincoln Fields station and Churchill Avenue.

Please allow extra time for your travels.

NCC Weekend Bikedays detour schedule

Planned detours start on Friday, May 8:

On weekends, routes will be detoured from Friday at 10:30 pm until the following Monday at 6 am (in the case of Monday being a holiday, routes will be detoured until the following Tuesday at 6 am)
On weekdays (Monday to Thursday), routes will be detoured nightly (10:30 pm - 6 am)

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Is the Limeback detour info on many routes still current? The effective date is August 18th, 2025. The second line says the road will reopen Thursday Dec 18th. Dec 18 fell on Thursday in 2025. It's a Friday in 2026. If it is valid, is a multi year long change a detour or 2 reconfigurations? 2/

Very complicated alert message for 8 routes which seem to have different detours for entering / exiting Limebank station.

However the date says the detours starts Aug 2025 and ends in Dec. It doesn't say which December but it seems to refer to December 2025.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Since I am looking at them, does anyone at @octranspo.com review route alerts at least weekly? Two of the listed alerts are for high school routes (it's July). Two alerts have blank text fields. (400 seriesl 1/

Screenshot listing all 45 routes with at least one detour. Some routes have different detours are different times of day or have more than one detoured section.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Something something coding your website to be automatically current is a best practice. Alternative wording @helps.octranspo.com "Most recent service change was Sunday, June 28. Next major service change is Sunday August 23."

OCT's website displays this message on each route info page: "The next service change is on Sunday, June 28".

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Several main thoughts: * Not all these @octranspo.com route alerts are meaningful * 45 alerts includes minor construction * 8 is not equal to 11 (especially when two are the same station) * Why is Aéroport on English page? * Where is the more button? * Why not list the stations alphabetically?

Screen of OCT's English alerts page at 3 am July 12 2026.
Key details routes tab indicates there are 45 routes with an alert. The Station tab is selected. It says there are 11 stations with alerts. They are: Mackenzie King, Westboro, Baseline, Blair, Place d'Orléans, Trim, Airport and Aéroport. Yes, this is not a list of 11 stations.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Still down or down again? It's the main display for many buses.

Yet another crappy picture of a broken plasma screen. It dies because it's in full light.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Argh. Apparently the 30 Millenium (from Blair via Chapel Hill has had its service cut. Again. 56 minutes and 86 minutes for the next trips. It's 13:20. Because one needs to do errands on a sunny Saturday afternoon. /sarcasm

Transit app screenshot. Bus 30 Millenium leaves in 56 min, 86 min and at 15:40.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It took one week to get the concrete poured. It was a second week until the asphalt was laid. Another week before the pylons are removed? Another week after that until OCT moves the stop back to shelter and bench?

Photo of brilliantly white new concrete, new soil on inner edge of didewalk and black asphalt gutter. 3 large pylon remain on roadway. Another 3 pylons are on grass side of sidewalk. Sidewalk is open for use.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Good morning Ottawa. Bonjour Ottawa.

Infrastructure failure due to July 1 st 2026 rain storm. A 2 m section of Watt's Creek Pathway has collapsed. The hole in at least 1/2 m deep, 2 m across and a bit wider than the pathway. Photo via Glen Gower.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I love these daylilies that have crept in from my neighbor's yard. Sadly, they are toxic to cats so I will have to risk killing them when I move them this fall.

Two bright orange Daylily flowers in front of a wooden fence.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Thankfully, this bus shelter does have a gap at the roofline to let hot air escape. (Some models don't.) The roof panel arches 20 cm beyond the front wall which stops 15 cm below the roof. This design keeps snow and rain out but helps with summer heat.

A light green glass wall bus shelter with a curved roof. There is a massive pharmacy add wall panel facing the camera.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I spoke too soon. Framing was complete 3 days ago but it seems very unlikely we'll get concrete in June.

3 m of sidewalk have been totally removed. The area is barricaded by many pylons and yellow caution tape.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Hey @octranspo.com why is route 30 consistently missing from both Blair plasma screens? It isn't a rush hour only extended trip. Also the data you are feeding to 3rd parties has the after 9 pm stops at wrong platform. Every schedule change these errors are added back in. Errors on 42, 38 too

A nearly dead plasma screen at Blair is orange rather than white. Multiple night buses are missing from plasma screen at night stop.

Train platform plasma screen is also missing several routes. 30, 38 and 42 are still running. There may be others missing.

Screen from Transit App shows platform and departure times from data OCTranspo supplies. It shows the 30 as running but has wrong platform listed.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

They are actually repairing the two worst sidewalk potholes near my house. They have removed the remaining concrete and are setting up frames so it appears concrete is coming. Both are gutter drain related. Zero pedestrian plan during the work.

Orange spray paint outlines the segment of sidewalk concrete to be repair. It is adult snow angle in size and shape.

Workers are drilling out and framing about 10 m of sidewalk.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Sure, some US schools go back in early August. When I live and got this Amazon ad, summer break hasn't even started yet.

Brightly coloured Amazon Basics ad for school supplies.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The difference in supervising 4 year old cats outside and 4 year old kids is noise. The cats have to be visually monitored. You can't just listen to happy play time. Kids are easier.

An orange and white cat looks towards the photographer. He is on a lead which he has tangled around the same tree in the cedar hedge behind him. As usual

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Sometimes city emails open more questions than they close. I wonder which body didn't issue the permit and why.

Yellow and blank safety tape line. In bold text: "Cancelled: Place d’Orléans Drive at Eastbound Highway 174 - Long Duration Ramp Closure - June 18 to July 3". In red text: "
The outstanding permit has not been received. This closure will occur later in the summer."

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Hey #Ottawa what type of utility access panel is this so I can report it correctly to 311?

Large green plastic utility access panel. 50% is missing (well, it seems to be in broken pieces in the hole).

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Yet again noting @en.ottawa.ca contractor for waste calendar reminders doesn't handle multi residential pickup. Cardboard was picked up Mon at 7 am. Green Bin and Yard Waste is picked up Fri. Garbage was picked up Mon (extra off week service we pay for). Cans and bottles will be picked up Tues

Text of email: "The following will be picked up on Tuesday, Jun 9 2026. Black Bin - Paper and Cardboard; Green Bin - Food Waste; Yard Trimmings.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I'm get the @octranspo.com / @en.ottawa.ca corporate frustration. I don't think this is a useful corporate communication. Blair station, June 6, 2026

An official OCTranspo sticker on the doors of one elevator. It reads: "Out of service due to vandalism." Someone has scratched out "due to vandalism" with a pen. The sticker is bilingual. The vandalism isn't.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I notice with regret that @octranspo.com's major renovation of the St Laurent bus platform has not eliminated dripping into LRT platform during heavy rain events. It's less. You may remember that the concrete roof had a spalling problem 2 summer ago. L - mezzanine, R - LRT platform.

Photo of ceiling at EB end of St Laurent pedestrian bridge level. The electrical conducts attached to the ceiling have previously been wrapped in a waterproof membrane. It's hard to see but rain water is dripping through.

A large puddle lies just within the fare gates on the EB platform. The metal square in the puddle is a floor grate. No water is moving through the grate. The rainwater is falling from the ceiling along the outer wall and draining across the floor into the pedestrian area.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Speaking of architectural pride, I hadn't seen this apartment at Lyon and Slater since it was a hole in the ground. It is nicely not all blocky.

A two towers are connected via curved staircase of units .

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I want sidewalk maker stamps to come back into vogue. It was a very early open data initiative.

The stamp is a circle surrounding these words "Castelli Concrete Const. Co 1957".

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I thought that the LRT inquiry recommended testing new LRT with simulated loads (sandbags), not empty. Plus smart bugs on their axles please. @octranspo.com

Big yellow "Test train" messages are displayed on doors of LRT train. Inside you can see empty seats and aisles

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Show me your pet at their most comfy:

On the left, Mac the orange and white cat lounges behind my straggling cedar hedge while watching the house. On the right, Mush the large grey cat lounges across the path out of my rowhouse's tiny backyard while watching the communal path behind my house.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

That's more than visitors to Ottawa City Hall get. The only remains of the info desk are tile patterns on the floor.

A grand piano is dwarfed by the black circle on a tile floor. Once the 10 m circle was a busy info desk and display booth.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Just look at the timestamp of this tweet. A resident reported a playground infrastructure public safety issue on Twitter at 20 to midnight. Their city replied at 3:30 am. My city is bigger but basically offline at night

Screenshot of tweet by City of Kitchener: "Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We will have our parks crew look into this today."

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Mac was quite the hit on the bus as we headed to the vet's for his annual checkup. #CarLite

Majestic orange and white cat roars behind bars of the cat carrier.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Every now and then FB or Google Photos serves me a collection of VeganLoveBunny's pics. I don't know why the tech is confused but they are whimsical and melancholy.

A golden lab is wearing a white blue Croc sandal as a tall hat. The strap is under the chin. The caption is "It's called fashion, Brenda. Look it up."

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The roaming cat has already figured out how to escape the new harness. He's worn it twice for less than 15 min total.

Bright pink harness (empty) lies on concrete patio tile.

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It's less odd than the Mary Poppins ones recently installed in Maryborough, Australia. "When the lights are red, the umbrella is down, and when its safe to walk, the umbrella points upwards, indicating that its time to fly."

Image of a pedestrian traffic light. Here the green light is a green silhouette of Mary Poppins taking a stride and swinging her umbrella up over her head.

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