● Reevely nails it on the head with his article: Ottawa’s bike-friendliness is a lie.
David Reevely is a columnist, blogger, sometime editor, with the Ottawa Citizen, and he is also a cyclist (as least a cyclist insofar that he […]
June 2016
● Many motorists hostile to one metre law for passing cyclists safely.
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 using sonar to keep cars one metre from cyclists.
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 […]
● Laurier Avenue bike lane being vandalized.
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 […]
● “Coal rollers” attack Ottawa cyclists with diesel fumes.
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 […]
● “I Bike, I Buy” campaign to educate businesses about cyclists as customers.
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 […]
● Future of cycling underpass at Billings Bridge now uncertain.
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 […]