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No kings, only trains. Ottawa, ON he/him
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I've been banging this drum for years now, I know, but Zohran's Big Night is a clear illustration of the power of giving people a vision of the future that boldly contradicts the rhetoric of Republican fearmongers. Not just "disagrees on policies," but actively paints a different image of the world.

submitted 9 hours ago • 19 comments

For a system with such a large budget hole, you'd think OC Transpo would figure out how to make the fare boxes work more than 70% of the time.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The way the NCC has reversed decades of poor public opinion with a few relatively low cost, quick turnaround public projects is incredible. It should be studied, and replicated.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

A smart policy that should be adopted everywhere.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Elected officials need to grow a backbone and stop listening to these goalpost-shifting NIMBY groups. Their goal isn't to make projects better—it's to kill projects altogether and/or squeeze cash out of anyone who wants to build, even nonprofit housing developers. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I can't believe I learned about America bombing Iran via a Donald Trump Instagram post, a screencap of a Truth Social update. I hate the future.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Canadian excellence!!!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It's a beautiful evening to sit on a pair bench and write follow-up emails to all the counselors and city staff I've pestered over the last couple months.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I love my little Friday lunchtime treat of walking to the Italian sandwich shop in a gas station and getting the best 10$ sandwich I've ever had in my life

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I live in an apartment building surrounded by busy arterial roads and a diesel rail line. I washed my windows yesterday (an annual event) and it took 6 buckets to clean 25ft of window. Everything was covered in a thick black-grey grime, obviously exhaust residue. This stuff is in our lungs!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

My favourite weekend in Ottawa has begun (Escapade EDM Festival)

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Embarrassing! This grown man can't do a profit margin calculation without googling the formula.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I really don't understand the pro user fees for transit argument. Everyone who pays a fare is also paying municipal, provincial, and federal taxes. Why do you want to build an maintain a massive payment collection system on top of that? What's the benefit?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Carrot or stick? In a massive dataset of over 10,000 cities around the world, the strongest association with distance travelled by walking and cycling was not climate, topography, or even infrastructure - it was *gasoline prices*! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

recalling when I worked at the flight school and a wayward turtle walked onto the runway and a pilot said so, then a guy in a golf cart went out there, moved the turtle, and radioed "the turtle has been revectored", a phrase that has been seared into my brain for life

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

Pray tell, what are apartment buildings made of, if not architecture? And is there some innate property of apartment buildings that prevents the architecture from being dignified?

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

"a few weeks" for line painting that is already complete and to turn on a beg button that is already installed?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The city is hosting a number of upcoming public engagement booths for the ByWard Market Revitalization - 4 in the suburbs, and just 2 in the Market itself. Yet again, suburban residents get a bigger say in what happens in urban neighbourhoods than the urban residents themselves.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Finally got around to sending an email to Cllrs Menard and Carr today. Hopefully they can get this finished before the summer is over.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Another bike commute, another near miss on the poorly named Pleasant Park Road. This time a white hatchback tried to pass me through the Saunderson/Pleasant Park intersection without stopping and almost hit me and a black sedan that was making a right turn onto Pleasant Pk in the opposite direction.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

About today's public transit discourse: I believe that riding public transit is a spiritual good for increasing your empathy and practicing minding your own business. It also helps you internalize that most people mind their own business, e.g. no one is looking at you.

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Strong Towns Ottawa has sent a letter to the project manager for the Bank Street Active Transportation and Transit Priority Feasibility Study (yea it's a mouthful 😭) to request to be part of the stakeholder consultation group later this month!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Insane thing to apologize for. Singh has all the political instincts of a coral reef.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments