Lansdowne consultant: “the problem we are having is that the trees have grown too well”. They are too big and will need to be cut down. Lansdowne 2.0 is a $500 million embarrassment for the City of Ottawa.
Elsewhere is code for nowhere. Also? Downtown doesn’t just exist for suburbanites’ twice-a-day convenience. Weird how anyone would advertise their selfishness this loud.
At current ridership levels, it would only cost @ottawacity and @OC_Transpo $4.1 million to provide free transit to all low income riders and those on ODSP.
Instead, #ottcity is spending that same amount on the over 50 fare enforcement officers to exclude ppl from our system.
How to tell me you don’t actually come downtown during the summer… during the evenings and weekends the road and path are teeming with people—walking, running, biking, scootering, boarding. All of those people are not going to cram back onto a little multi-use path.
Every time I'm in Ottawa I'm just baffled at the sheer sprawling size of the city following aggressive late-90s suburban/rural amalgamation.
This is the size of Ottawa's city limits (blue) overlaid on top of Toronto city limits (red).
With first past the post, it doesn't matter what Canadians want.
All that matters are the 35-40% of voters in a handful of swing ridings that decide every election.
We need proportional representation so your voice matters wherever you choose to call home.