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joshuabertram.bsky.social
PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering at Carleton University. Transit and sustainable urban development advocate in Ottawa.
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We’ve officially taken over the marquee at the Mayfair to promote bus Lanes on Bank Street! Amazing how much community support we’ve had for better transit @strongtownsottawa.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

This letter expertly outlines a lot of the dissatisfaction and frustration with the new TMP. Centretown Community Association doing great work as usual!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Visiting Montreal for a conference and ended up walking around Griffintown to check it out. The scale of the urban redevelopment there is honestly astonishing! The amount of new apartments, street redesigns, and greenspace is shocking. It is giving gentrified but I am not sure how populated it was.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Parking minimums drive up the cost of housing and incentivize car ownership. Abolishing parking minimums is good planning policy, and I am seriously concerned about attempts to dilute or eliminate this proposed policy in our new zoning bylaw. youtu.be/3cw7mldYS4A?...

submitted 51 days ago • 5 comments

The NYT just dropped a bombshell: a foreign spa company with one location and no cash landed a 95-year sweetheart deal—based on misleading claims and a secretive, preferential process. This gov't was elected to protect Ontario. Do the right thing. Cancel the deal. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

submitted 51 days ago • 15 comments