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Passionate about the future of this great city.

Ottawa, Ontario Katılım Mayıs 2018
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The New Ottawa
The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
Building a traffic calming bulb-out in Ottawa can take years to get approved and cost more than $100-250k. These bulb-outs in Quebec City are a fraction of the cost and delightful too. More of these please! #Quebec #myottawa #trafficcalming
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The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
@BrentToderian Only 2 people swam outdoors yesterday. RIP OUT ALL THE PUBLIC POOLS! Waste of money and the proof is here in winter.
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Brent Toderian
Brent Toderian@BrentToderian·
So the “proof” from an urban biking naysayer claiming that safe, protected bike-lanes in #Montreal are a “waste of money” is that ONLY 10 people on bikes went by this bike-counter in winter between midnight & 1:15am. Really not the win he thinks it is. #urbanbiking #multimobile
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Brent Toderian@BrentToderian·
BIG: Montreal Mayor @Val_plante has unveiled her new 4-year bike plan. Plante's "Vision Vélo" promises at least 200 km of new bikeways will be added to the existing network (which is already the best in North America) over 5 yrs, with 10 “express routes.” mtlblog.com/montreal/montr…
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Gulk@realgulk·
How far your NHL team's arena is from its City Hall, on a map of Ottawa
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The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
@rail613 @OccTranspo @ABetterOttawa Not to mention the glaring omission of any destinations beside the station. The purpose of transit is to get people to places. So if we are not putting transit where the places already are, we should at least put new places beside our new transit.
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The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
@jen_keesmaat Totally agree with @jen_keesmaat Lots missing on the Toronto map. Also - Rail is great, but buses and LRT/streetcars supported in the right context can be just as good and sometimes better. We have to stop looking at rail as the transit holy grail.
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Jennifer Keesmaat
Jennifer Keesmaat@jen_keesmaat·
This is dishonest. We have one of the most successful and most well-used streetcar and bus systems in North America. But they don't show up on your misleading ideogram. Many of our streetcar and bus lines (just the line!) serve more people in a day than the majority of entire city-wide transit systems in most mid-sized North America cities.
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@jen_keesmaat Come on.. you know that one of these cities’ transit systems is a sad joke compared to the other, and it is misleading to claim we can transform into a walking city without massive infra spend (which I support, and the Ontario Line is clearly the best project in like 50+ years)!

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Brian Huntley 🇨🇦💙💛
Brian Huntley 🇨🇦💙💛@BrianPHuntley·
It's weird how the Bloor Street car lanes are straight but the bike lanes zig and zag like crazy.
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The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
@siobhanwanders It is because there is a sizable population who value local sports teams and there are difficult to quantify benefits associated with their presence. While not the same, rapid transit systems, public pools, marinas, greenspace, etc. have similarities in this regard.
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Siobhan Kirkland
Siobhan Kirkland@siobhanwanders·
Why do cities keep subsidizing arenas when there’s significant evidence that they do not end up providing the economic benefit claimed and just end up costing taxpayers either leading to cuts (see Ottawa) or increased taxes (Calgary)? #Ottawa #Calgary
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💸Arena Subsidy Triggers Tax Hike📈 @SonyaSharpYYC and @DanWMcLean spearheaded an $831M public subsidy for a new arena for the billionaire Flames owners. Months later, in the face of a 7.8% tax ⬆️ they are pushing a punishing austerity agenda. #yyccc globalnews.ca/news/10093676/…

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The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
@ABetterOttawa Not by coincidence, the Byward Market is the one area where densification has been aggressive. More people close by = $ for businesses, tax $ revenue, and lively spaces. If we want more places like this, we need to support densification.
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The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
@DerrickSimpson_ @StrongTowns ... Lansdowne 1.0 uses a low-fuss, low-maintenance design. Nicer things usually involve more maintenance (landscaping, snow removal, etc.). Again, if you have more revenue from more people living there, you can use some of it to improve the embellishments and it's upkeep.
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The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
@DerrickSimpson_ @StrongTowns The biggest missing piece at Lansdowne is people living there. If we want all those items mentioned, we need more people. Yes, the designs/layout could be better, but that costs more so there needs to be revenue to help pay for it (i.e. more people living there).
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The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
@DerrickSimpson_ ... and "taking our time" on these decisions has been the scapegoat mantra on difficult policies for too long. If this is a truly important area of the city, then let's elect leaders that back our policies. Years keep melting away and old issues persist.
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The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
@DerrickSimpson_ For $400million, the limited amount of housing attached to this is upsetting. Housing is the number one issue in the country. And if we can't build lots of it in walkable neighbourhoods like this, we are doomed.
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The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
@AlainMiguelez Love the example Alain. Here is another good one in my opinion - "Bo01" Mälmo, 2001). Although more modern in flavour, it still has an interesting texture and is very human-scaled.
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Alain Miguelez@AlainMiguelez·
Poundbury, UK. This is a new community, imagined, planned and supported by now-King Charles III as a statement that it's possible to build new and beautiful, using nice traditional architecture that is related to and based on the history and culture of a place. 1/3
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The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
@flanagan61 The reduction in the number of residential units though the revised proposal is a direct result of complaints about their potential impacts - not because of our fear of somebody making more money off of this than they should, nor tax dollar spending concerns.
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The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
We are in a housing emergency and yet we consistently demonize new housing. We want local business, but don't want to put more customers near them. We want parks, but we don't want to pay for them. Unreal. #lansdowne ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new…
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The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
@ACHFraser @NSaravanamuttoo Lansdowne is not just a shopping mall. There are basketball courts, a skate park, splash pad, running track, sledding hill, two or three public plazas and squares, a children's playground, the horticulture building, the Aberdeen pavilion, apple orchard, and a community garden.
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The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
Nice to see Zibi really taking shape. Still my favourite ongoing development. Feels like it will really tie the two sides of the river together.
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Michael Mielke
Michael Mielke@MichaelLeoM·
@BrentLandry Canada Day has more road closures than Bluesfest does. So, the emergency roadway access concern on Booth Street isn't the same.
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The New Ottawa@OttawaTomorrow·
Line 1 "has been a game changer for Bluesfest" - only a minute away from Pimisi Station. Good job @OC_Transpo fo keeping it open this time. This is what it is for - moving large volumes of people. cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…
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