● Is it time for a National Cycling Strategy? You Betcha.
Yesterday, MP Gord Johns introduced a private member’s bill in the House of Commons to establish a national cycling strategy. The proposed legislation, Bill C-312, […]
Yesterday, MP Gord Johns introduced a private member’s bill in the House of Commons to establish a national cycling strategy. The proposed legislation, Bill C-312, […]
In the aftermath of Nusrat Jahan’s death while riding a bicycle, the federal government announced it will create a task force with the provinces and […]
In an effort to improve bicycle safety, the City of Ottawa has moved some of the stop lines for cars on Laurier Avenue back one […]
By now, many of us have heard about Nusrat Jahan, a 23 year old women (and diplomat’s daughter) who was killed while cycling in a […]
According to a story in the Ottawa Citizen, it looks like the Prescott-Russell Trail may soon shut down. The local county is thinking of closing […]
The City of Ottawa is using a specially modified golf cart to track the conditions of its local bike paths. According to a CBC report, […]
Last spring groups of cyclists rode five routes into the business park in Kanata North, and recorded their observations, both good and bad. They recently […]
Two million bicycle trips have been made on the Laurier Avenue segregated bike lane since it opened five years ago, according to a recent News […]
David Reevely of the Ottawa Citizen has found another problem with bike routes and the construction of Ottawa’s new Light Rail Transit (LRT) system. A […]
Seniors at the Saint-Louis Residence will now have a chance to go out for a bicycle ride with the opening of a ‘Cycling Without Age’ […]
The sap from wild parsnip plants can cause serious and painful skin blisters, the consequence of which can sometimes last for years. Ottawa is currently […]
Bicycle licensing is back in the news these days when a Toronto councillor recently put forward a motion asking his city to consider implementing this […]
Ottawa Citizen columnist David Reevely has come down hard on Ottawa for preceding with a plan for the Booth Street Bridge which he says, in […]
Last week Ottawa Police started using a sonar device to identify motorists who were not following the law by leaving one metre of space between […]
Ottawa police are using a sonar device to catch motorists that fail to leave one metre of space between their vehicles and a bicycle when […]
It seems that someone is vandalizing the Laurier Avenue bike lane in downtown Ottawa. A report in the Ottawa Citizen suggests that motorists may be […]
If you have ever been enveloped by a thick cloud of diesel exhaust from a passing truck while riding on a quiet country road, it […]
One of my pet peeves is the extent to which local businesses place more value on a potential customer that arrives by car that a […]
Billings Bridge has long been a problem area for cyclists (and pedestrians too). People riding on the NCC pathway along Riverside Drive have to cross […]
The NCC Sunday Bikedays starts this Sunday (May 15, 2016), and features over 50 kilometres of car-free parkways on Sunday mornings in Ottawa and the […]
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