@ShaunOttawa@geekingirl yep. I emptied my presto card last year and cancelled it. Pay everywhere with CC, either in a phone wallet or physical card. Way less hassle
I don’t know if we’re prepared for how many people do not and will not give a fuck about serious transmissible infectious disease outbreaks and future pandemics. Considering #covid is already over according to every government and no one is seriously grappling with what happened over the past four years, I’m not hopeful on a large scale #cdnpoli#onpoli#ontario
@mattjohns I wouldn’t be surprised if it takes off given what’s happened in the past few years from missed vaccines and intentionally fuckery around effficacy and “side effects”
I don't want to undermine the importance of having public transit be safe, but media needs to stop covering "violence on the Metro" as if pubtrans is more deadly than car travel.
Sure, you're not the one driving the Metro so you don't feel as in control. But I suspect the numbers would show a lot more violence per day in car travel than pubtrans.
Let's work for violence prevention on pubtrans, but also stop stoking middle class fears of pubtrans. #Transportation#PublicTransit
@meganL 100% this absolutely makes me crazy. Yes for sure there are incidents on transit that make the news cycle but no one bates an eye by all the folks killed when driving cars is involved.
Step-daughter of a friend of ours saw the 11-yr old kid get killed in Rockland, by someone driving a school bus, while they were riding their bike. What the fuck…
I’ve said it a bunch of times but I completely changed the route we take to the kids school which is only 1.2 kms away. We take a ~ 2 km route to avoid the utter mayhem that takes over people during drop offs and pick ups, esp school bus and transport vans #ottawa#ottbike#biketooter#onpoli
@meganL I never expected this would be the case for some reason but it’s wildly infuriating to me. We are lucky that there are options esp when the kid wants to wheel himself to school but this route is also seasonal and temporary. On the one hand it doesn’t make sense but on the other it does considering we don’t “really” care about kids at all
@casseagull I do love my heart beating from movement and not getting my heart rate up because someone nearly fucking killing us becayse they can’t wait or be slow for 30 secs… the e-bikes make it easy so jokes on them?!!! The kid is strong enough to bike the long way thankfully which involves the MUP south of Mud Lake which we can’t use when covered in ice but will have to figure out a different route come next December.
I wonder if there has been a time other than now when more of the NCC pathways along the Ottawa River (both sides) have had so many closures, other than during flooding and rehabilitation. It's kind of astounding how much of it is closed and detoured.
@casseagull it’s not like the single lanes because of construction work just fine around westboro beach for people driving and the NCC could just use 2 of the 4 lanes close to downtown where that long-ass detour is but that’s not a precedent that can be set 🙃
This is not cheering for the pay workers get at Chinese EV manufacturing companies or the supply chains etc but the fact that North American car companies have made zero moves to make simple, low cost EVs is pathetic. “Flood the market” blah blah blah. There’s no free market anyway just protectionism, government subsidies and the gatekeeping to keep EVs at $50,000 a piece. Say nothing of the #climatechange song and dance about getting folks into EVs #canada#cdnpoli#ev
I guess this is also necessary for the demonization of China by conservatives and the oil and gas sector essential to sell the bit that what #canada does on #climatechange doesn’t matter globally. I’m not cheering for China or their business practices or whatever but the EV market in this country is a fucking joke. My only hope is that perpetual high EV prices force the #publictransit conversation #cdnpoli
@MichaelPorter I doubt without explicit government regs that will happen?! Also would like speed limitations too please. Every car being 0-60 in less than 4 secs is gunna be great…
It is beyond wild to me that the city cut annual funding to the Tulip Festival. Ya’ll are baffled on how to connect Dows Lake and the Byward Market?? Seriously?? The NCC couldn’t even close all of the QED, but no shade to them when they are responsible for any livability in #ottawa The festival weekends at Dows Lake are the best weekends in this city in the entire year and props to the Feds #onpoli#cdnpoli https://obj.ca/feds-provide-130k-canadian-tulip-festival/?no_cache=1715612135
The kid and I spent every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday last year during the festival. We watched the movies, we walked on the QED, drank lemonade and just enjoyed the space without having to listen to or be around people driving. And then this all goes away without a thought. The 6-8 seater golf carts go away, all the people walking and biking have to be squeezed back onto the worst section of MUP in the city #ottawa#onpoli#cdnpoli
@dan613 not trains per se but multiple 6 & 8 seat golf carts moving folks around. Could easily have a fleet moving folks from Lansdowne to Dows Lake and from Lansdowne to the Byward Market
@plantarum hmm maybe? Gotta say riding through Dows Lake I would never have guessed the parking was gone from there. I'm far more cynical about why as it just makes no sense anyway I look at it that is not vindictive towards the NCC or residents
Our 4-yr old dropping tonight that some of his friends at school have autism wasn’t near the top of my list of things he would randomly drop. It’s clear his teachers have approached this with a lot of care and empathy and he’s really intrigued and excited that he has friends whose brains, well may or may not work the same as his and that he’s lucky to have friends with autism… I was probably 25 the first time I heard the term at all #autism#ottawa#kids