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Stephen Hickson
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Stephen Hickson
@613STEVE
Ottawa guy working as a transit planner in Metro Vancouver. Opinions are my own.
Vancouver شامل ہوئے Ocak 2016
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@CapitalCity613 @DevineSean @NSaravanamuttoo Wellington is wide enough that I think it’s totally possible to do a tram and an adjacent public space. Tunnel will cost $500M+ and make extensions a non-starter due to cost and complexity with the canal.
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@613STEVE @DevineSean @NSaravanamuttoo Exhibit A: Wellington as a public space. Festivals, protests, ceremonies. Not cohesive.
Exhibit B: mixing pedestrian, cyclists, and drivers with trams should be avoided. Running it through public space is senseless.
Exhibit C: Non-grade separate is inferior.



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A great piece by @NSaravanamuttoo. While I'm not a downtown councillor, I see the city-wide value in developing a downtown that everyone wants to go to, residents & tourists alike. Turning Wellington St into public space with a tramway connecting Ottawa-Gatineau would be amazing.
Ottawa Citizen@OttawaCitizen
Saravanamuttoo: To revive downtown Ottawa, city must cooperate with the feds ottawacitizen.com/opinion/sarava…
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@PhillyGov @RM_Transit deal with your own issues yourselves. We’ll deal with ours.
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@613STEVE @RM_Transit Man if only we had 7-10 more states with liberal sensibilities then the most powerful military in the world could have potentially been constrained but I guess it is better to just complain from the sidelines.
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@PhillyGov @RM_Transit ah if it isn’t that classic American hubris. The same mentality that left how many innocent Iraqis dead?
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@613STEVE @RM_Transit Again, get over your inferiority complex and grow up.
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@PhillyGov @RM_Transit ok so that’s a no. Anyways, most Canadians are much happier up here on our own in a safer, more tolerant, and functional society. We undoubtedly have our problems but when it comes to joining the US, it’s a hard no.
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@613STEVE @RM_Transit I mean it did at one point!
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@PhillyGov @RM_Transit the government of the United States recognizes Texas as its own nation? News to me.
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@613STEVE @RM_Transit See we are even more similar than you think, have our own Quebec, it's called Texas! And like obviously I would never advocate for one sided, imposed annexation but you guys should get over your inferiority complex and grow up, it would be better for all of us.
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@PhillyGov @RM_Transit even if the culture were common (they’re not. Do some research on the proud and beautiful nation of Québec), your pro-annexation position fails to recognize that the vast majority of Canadians do not want to be part of the USA and would soundly reject that in a referendum.
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@613STEVE @RM_Transit So I'm guessing you guessed wrong then?
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@PhillyGov @RM_Transit ah good we’ve reached “let’s annex a country because of the billboard charts” levels of stupidity
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@613STEVE @RM_Transit Pop quiz, one of these is the 2023 Billboard hot 100 and the other one is the Canadian hot 100, can you guess which one is which?


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@PhillyGov @RM_Transit Boundaries are arbitrary. Culture isn’t common.
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@613STEVE @RM_Transit Do you think the boundaries aren't arbitrary? Are we going to relitigate the Aroostook War?
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@PhillyGov @RM_Transit What an absolutely ignorant thing to say.
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@RM_Transit We are a common culture divided by arbitrary colonial boundaries.
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Lots of evidence to suggest that investing in young riders pays off in the long run
Shawn Menard@ShawnMenard1
The city should be moving in the opposite direction, creating a u-pass for all students 18 and under working with the student transportation authorities and create life long transit users.
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may have made a brief appearance in @uytaelee’s great new video on public hearings: youtu.be/XnFVvyu2zGY?si…

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@613STEVE @ctvottawa am assuming that you mean somewhere near the store by that name? learn something every day
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McKenney running for Ontario NDP nomination in Ottawa Centre ottawa.ctvnews.ca/mckenney-runni…
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@Lg2022Lg5 @ctvottawa Baseball Town is a neighbourhood in Somerset Ward
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@613STEVE @ctvottawa Baseball town? took that to be Ottawa and not a specific ward
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@Lg2022Lg5 @ctvottawa I was a proud Baseball Town resident when they were councillor
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@613STEVE @ctvottawa clearly you were never in their riding - totally ineffective
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ridiculous metric. All this shows is that Ottawa has a land use and transportation system that does not incentivize transit or walking for late night trips

CTV Ottawa@ctvottawa
Ottawa ranks as one of the top 5 party cities in Canada, Uber survey shows ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-ranks-a…
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