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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Increasing investment" is a fascinating way to say "didn't increase funding, banked on upper level funding that never came, and raided the transit reserves" as you can see in this handy graph. The E-Bus pilot launched in 2021, before Mark became Mayor, and the plan was for 450 buses...
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Patrick @obike.ca · 04/09/2026
The PoW and Preston intersection is almost complete. Unfortunately noticing a trend of the no right on red sign being ignored with often multiple light runners in a single cycle. Maybe needs a nearside signal on that corner. @jleiper.bsky.social @arieltroster.com @shawnmenard.bsky.social
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Tyler Smith @tylerismith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Can you get the gravel / mud pit paved?
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jaxijin.bsky.social @jaxijin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@arieltroster.com @strongtownsottawa.ca City staff say we can take out parking lanes and put in anything but bike lanes. No buses currently going down Kent so seems like a perfect opportunity to salvage this project by replacing the previously planed bike lane with significantly better sidewalks.
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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Improve safety in Ottawa by donating to the very able challenger for his seat. www.milburn2026.ca
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Cathryne Milburn for Beacon Hill-Cyrville
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Rail Fans Canada @railfans.ca · 05/08/2026
Today, LRV1117 made the first trip from Kichi Zibi, all the way to Algonquin Station. This marks a major milestone and achievement on the West extension. This LRV will next begin testing all systems and components on the alignment. Congratulations to all the teams involved today. @octranspo.com
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Patrick @obike.ca · 20/07/2026
#ottbike River Path behind Supreme Court is open!!!!
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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I have made it clear that I don’t believe it’s acceptable to welcome an organization that is 1) clearly homophobic and 2) has on multiple occasions rejected volunteers who don’t share their statement of faith. It would not be safe for my own family to accept help from this organization.
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Catherine McKenney @catmckenney.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Why are we bringing a known anti-LGBTQ+ organization into our city at a time when we are faced with growing homophobia and transphobia? This is the same group that turned away queer volunteers during COVID www.nydailynews.com/2020/04/14/c... We can help residents without making many feel unsafe
nydailynews.com
Christian charity takes heat for anti-gay work requirements at COVID-19 field hospital
The Christian charity group that erected a 68-bed field hospital in Central Park to care for coronavirus patients is under fire for requiring volunteers to sign a “statement of faith” that disqualifie...
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Strong Towns Ottawa @strongtownsottawa.ca · 25/06/2026
Seeing streets on a local road ruined with this asphalt where there was previously grass is a bit disappointing. This is on Cartier which is meant to be a local road, yet tons of cut through traffic drives on the sidewalks as they speed along here. Residents deserve safe streets, not speeding.
Asphalt paved over the sidewalk of a bulbout on Cartier street, previously this was covered with grassAsphalt paved over the sidewalk of a bulbout on Cartier street, previously this was covered with grass
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Better Transit Ottawa @bettertransitottawa.ca · 25/06/2026
OC Transpo weekend service is about to be decimated starting this Sunday in the upcoming summer schedule. Check out our new tool at bettertransitottawa.ca to see the extent of the cuts and if a trip you rely on will be affected. (1/2)
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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The Auditor General has now confirmed those concerns: this ill-fated "redesign" was primarily driven by cost-cutting, cutting 70,000 service hours to save $10 million. That decision, and the lack of proper planning behind it, happened under Mayor Sutcliffe’s watch, and with his clear support. 4/
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Patrick @obike.ca · 14/06/2026
I thought removing some asphalt on my driveway to expand my patio would be a quick job... 80 years of asphalt layers!
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alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 14/06/2026
A group of handsome individuals have partially fixed this bench at Pimisi which has been neglected for about 2 years
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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
@jleiper.bsky.social @arieltroster.com So the City ignored this broken bench at Pimisi for almost two years after a salter knocked it over. We lifted it back into place and replaced the missing slats. Is this the "efficiencies" Ive been hearing so much from the Mayor about?
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Today at City Hall, council votes on the Long Range Financial Plan To Kick The Can Down The Road So The Next Council Needs To Make The Hard Decisions To Raise Taxes Or Sell Off Facilities And Not Us (LRFPTKTCDTRSTNCNTMTHDTRTOSOFANU).
ottawacitizen.com
Long-range financial plan could burden future Ottawa councils, critics say
The finance and corporate services committee voted 9-2 to approve a plan to address a multi-million gap in funding for infrastructure.
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Patrick @obike.ca · 09/06/2026
They added some flex posts, but haven't touched the corner they made unsafe. Will they be adding more concrete protection to the south east corner to replace the one they removed? @shawnmenard.bsky.social #ottbike
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Patrick @obike.ca · 05/06/2026
#ottbike @shawnmenard.bsky.social Can you explain the choice to remove the protected part of this protected intersection? You have created a huge sideswipe risk for anyone cycling here taking a right turn from Main.
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Patrick @obike.ca · 02/06/2026
Another day another car crash
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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
In this issue of our Ward 9 Newsletter, I put my cards on the able on the City's Long Range Financial Plan, which, in my opinion, is short-sighted. It's one of the more important messages I've issued during this Term of Council. www.seandevine.ca/june_2_2026_...
seandevine.ca
June 2, 2026, Newsletter
Ward 9, Knoxdale-Merivale
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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Im on the "tax me what is needed to pay for the services I expect" train, personally. I dont understand the crowd that think artificially low taxes dont have a cost.
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GO ALTO @go-alto.ca · 27/05/2026
“The time we spend travelling right now, is time we lose.” Thank you to CTV Ottawa for covering GO ALTO and the case for high-speed rail in Canada. The support is real. The next step is making it visible. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
ctvnews.ca
Go Alto: The public campaign backing Canada’s high-speed rail project
Go Alto launched its public campaign on Monday, backing the proposed high-speed rail line that would connect Toronto to Ottawa and Quebec City.
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Patrick @obike.ca · 26/05/2026
The cycleway along Preston st is being paved in it's new permanent location! #ottbike
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GO ALTO @go-alto.ca · 25/05/2026
Hello Canada. We are GO ALTO. Canada has waited long enough for high-speed rail in the Québec–Toronto corridor. We’re here to make support visible and build momentum. Explore the campaign and add your name: go-alto.ca/en/updates/n...
go-alto.ca
GO ALTO launches national campaign for high-speed rail | GO ALTO
An independent public campaign working to make support for high-speed rail visible, public, and sustained.
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David Bellerive @dbellerive.ca · 14/05/2026
Hey, councillor @timtierney.ca Reminder that democratic participation doesn't rely on which ward someone comes from. They bring genuine concerns. @bettertransitottawa.ca has done something you haven't done: ask questions and identify what can be done to improve service. Not just slogans.
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Strong Towns Ottawa @strongtownsottawa.ca · 06/05/2026
The City of Ottawa released a report regarding compensation for transit users. One of the main ways they identified to make the service better in the short term was transit priority measures, one of the cheapest ones identified was continuous bus lanes! This is cheap and easy, do it now!
Illustrative option A2 – Implement additional transit priority measures

Some of the transit priority measures identified in the Transportation Master Plan – Part 2 (ACS2025-PDB-TP-0012), or measures identified through other work, could be introduced through one-time funding. 

To improve travel times and reduce variability of bus service, funding could be invested in transit priority measures, such as:Excerpt from the staff report : 

Continuous bus lanes, at $20,000 to $100,000 per kilometre, if done by lane conversion. As examples, continuous bus lanes through lane conversion are currently being studied for locations on Carling Avenue.
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Strong Towns Ottawa @strongtownsottawa.ca · 10/04/2026
For reference this is what the "data collection" motion did to the hours of the bus lanes. Certainly doesn't just seem like "collecting data" to us...
Graph showing the hours where the bus lanes would be in effect going Northbound for the pilot before and after Menard's motion, which cut down the hours by 33% (1 hr of the 3hrs)Graph showing the hours where the bus lanes would be in effect going Southbound for the pilot before and after Menard's motion, which cut down the hours by 33% (1 hr of the 3hrs)
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Strong Towns Ottawa @strongtownsottawa.ca · 10/04/2026
Describing gutting the hours that the bus lanes will be in effect by 33% (2 of the 6 hours) as "cleaning up a few things around data collection in particular" is certainly a very interesting way to tell the public/other councillors what you're trying to do... Please contact your local councillor.
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alwaysadetour.bsky.social @alwaysadetour.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The language about "existing peak hours" was absolutely meant to prevent debate. If it said "reduce from three hours to two hours" then it would have garnered attention. When the language is about maintaining the status quo, it raises less red flags.
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Question to the mover of the motion. @shawnmenard.bsky.social
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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Note that the reason this got passed is because it doesn't explicitly say it reduces the bus lanes from 3 to 2 hours. Clause 3 includes the word "existing", which modifies the staff recommendation. This moved fast because @shawnmenard.bsky.social hid the modifier in unclear language.
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Better Transit Ottawa @bettertransitottawa.ca · 08/04/2026
After 30+ people showed up to the Public Works commission last week in support of expanding bus lanes on Bank Street, City Council has now passed a motion to reduce the scope of the bus lanes even further This motion was passed with absolutely no debate Passed without a single question
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Strong Towns Ottawa @strongtownsottawa.ca · 08/04/2026
Disappointment at council today. Council just passed a motion from Councillor Menard for the Bank Street bus lane study which will restrict bus lanes even further from staff's proposed 3 hours to 2 hours. This means we will get no data about how parking affects bus flow in the area.
Motion brought forth to council by Councillor Menard, which sought to restrict the bus lanes on Bank Street from 3 hours in each peak direction to 2 hours.
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Patrick @obike.ca · 25/03/2026
Good Morning Ottawa
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Patrick @obike.ca · 04/03/2026
@gander22h.bsky.social Conefest at Preston and Gladstone! This one is a real party 🥳
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Imagine adding onto the cost of every apartment tower going up in the core millions of dollars in DCs to pay for new suburban roads, and then also admitting that those same roads have zero benefit to anybody else in the city except for those suburban growth areas. When are they going to fix this?
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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Seeing as how the head the Glebe BIA had an aneurism when it was suggested that parking may not be as important as effective transit, I can only assume some business oriented councilor is slow-walking this. Given the state of our transit, we need every easy project we can get to speed buses up.
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Strong Towns Ottawa @strongtownsottawa.ca · 18/02/2026
We are very frustrated that this is continually being delayed over and over again. People who want to sign up to delegate have to set aside time to be able to do so, constantly pushing things back makes things harder for the people trying to make their communities better.
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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
An oft-repeated statistic says men apply for a job when they have 60% of the qualifications while women wait till they have 100%. Pretty sure that stat was debunked, but … Several men seem to think that being Mayor is a suitable starter job for someone with no municipal experience. It’s not.
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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I'll pass on a hold-the-date. Thanks @railfans.ca and @bettertransitottawa.ca for talking transit data with me on February 2. Notez bien cette date. Merci à @railfans.ca et @bettertransitottawa.ca pour nos échanges sur les données de transport en commun le 2 février.
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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Four years since bearing failures derailed LRT trains. Four years, and we still don't know the root cause. Single-car trains during rush hour. Crowded platforms. No timeline for a fix. This hits everyone.
cbc.ca
New bearing problem forcing OC Transpo to take some LRT cars out of service | CBC News
A newly identified problem with the wheel assemblies on Ottawa's Line 1 LRT vehicles is forcing OC Transpo to reduce the number of cars in service, which could exacerbate crowding on trains and platfo...
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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
As the Mayor boasts, he's kept our tax increases lower than any major city in Canada. Okay. So, how's our transit ridership doing? How are your roads looking? Pools staying open long enough for you? The City of Ottawa "garbage can" in my neighborhood is a discarded oil barrel from Turkey. 8/
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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
At this point, I think the City needs to seriously consider a) halting procurement of the Spirits b) procuring different rolling stock c) terminating any agreements with Alstom. This is absurd.
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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Yesterday's memo on bus cancellations asserts hundreds of millions in new spending that at the end of the day has little to do with cancelled buses. Let's separate the spin from the solutions.
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Patrick @obike.ca · 12/12/2025
Hi @shawnmenard.bsky.social Wasn't the phasing of the project done to avoid closing the field during construction? I know you didn't support the project, but if we were gonna close the field for construction anyways we could have put the arena under the field! hope we still have some teams left...
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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
There's enough inaccurate or concerning information in the way in which @en.ottawa.ca is communicating about the 2026 Budget that I felt it should be addressed. And it's the concept of $252M in "savings" that I want to talk about, because this information is being used falsely. 1/
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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
OC Transpos projected budget is like $930M this year. It'd also cost about $1M to bring back 5m Line 1 headways during off-peak. $2M to notably make the service better. This is the City of nickle-and-diming things we need, while handing developers $500M because said businessmen suck at business.
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Patrick @obike.ca · 09/11/2025
#ottbike Anyone know if the CWC bridge is closing for winter again this year?
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