My big realization: how many child-related trips (schools, daycares, libraries, parks) don't line up well with transit. Like here. Transit is barely faster than walking (cycling is on par with driving). I've always liked cycling, but I've learned it's even more important for car-free families.

ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️@ellenteapot.ca · 4d ago

What do you think are some of the important oversights on families with kids in the transit world?

This election is about two very different visions for Ottawa. If you believe in a city that works, join me at www.leiper2026.ca

There’s a lot of space for greenery on our streets if you just reallocate a bit from cars.

From @weathernetwork.bsky.social: “Very modest increases in temperature can result in multiplicative effects in terms of the number of fires and the intensity of those fires.” So yes: if you don’t like the wildfire smoke, help out in the fight against climate change. go.bsky.app/en/news/clim...

Canada's PM's fierce determination to appease separatists & fatten short term foreign fossil fuel shareholder profits with a pipeline is going to come with a huge body count. It's anti-leadership. Deliberate failure on the climate is the most irresponsible policy choice in all of human history. 15/

This is just brutal. “Mayor Wu’s administration had already identified the Mission Hill intersection where Louisa Gag was killed last week as a threat to public safety & had spent over a hundred thousand dollars to develop plans to make the area safer.” Then they didn’t do it. Killed by politics.

Wu Administration Shelved Safety Plans For Mission Hill Streets Where Driver Killed Louisa Gag - Streetsblog Massachusetts

"We knew there were dangers. We had a plan to make it safer. It is blatantly irresponsible for the city to make a deliberate decision to not follow through."

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Toronto had the worst air quality in the world yesterday 🌎 In a world where transportation accounts for the largest share of CO2 emissions, getting more people to take transit instead of driving is a climate solution. Funding transit is a climate solution!

The Gordie Howe Bridge Fiasco lays bare the fatal flaw in Carney’s appeasement strategy: no amount of concessions will ever be enough. Continued appeasement will tie Canada ever-more-tightly to the US, no matter how much oil Carney pumps or how many German submarines he buys.

Heat got you down? Try some light climate reading! Here's a snippet from Very Serious Mark Carney's book Value(s). "Actions speak louder than words. Credible climate policies should cut emissions from day one to reduce the end point in carbon concentrations." (p.296).

No kids’ baseball game this evening due to extreme heat and smokey skies. And yet our fed govt has gutted almost all policies to reduce GHGs and is now all in on pipelines. Letter writing later tonight. Just made a donation to For Our Kids www.forourkids.ca/donate?recru...

Donate - For Our Kids

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Under the Canadian Net Zero Emissions Accountability Act (CNZEAA), the federal government is legally required to do three things:   1. Set science-based climate targets  2. Have a credible plan to achieve them, and   3. Regularly report on its progress.

This is true @urbantruth.bsky.social You’re not stuck in traffic. You are traffic. @tomflood.bsky.social

Lior Steinberg@steinberg.nu · 3w ago

A traffic jam is a thousand people who were each promised freedom.

I made an animation which shows the effects of air pollution on pedestrians waiting to cross the road, along with what can be done to reduce its harmful effects: stepback.gregdev.com Thank you to @ianwalker.bsky.social for the inspiration for doing so during a conversation a couple of weeks' back!

'Step back' - air pollution at pedestrian crossings

Every busy road produces a cloud of pollution you can't see. Where you stand in it matters more than most people might realise.

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What a beautiful day for a @kidicalmassottawa.bsky.social Family Bike Ride in Pineview! These rides focus on children and families and fun 🤩 What makes streets safer for kids? 1/2

What if the 2027 City of Ottawa budget saw a re-think of how we prioritize infrastructure spending. Rather than focusing on roads, we focus on sewers, catch basins, and inlet control devices, backup protection valves. Not as sexy as roads, you say? You know what's sexy? A dry basement. 5/

How does a kidical mass ride happen? It starts with riding in the hood to figure out the safest route. Did you know that we try to avoid left turns as it would mean crossing traffic with kids? On Monday @kidicalmassottawa.bsky.social checked things out in Pineview. We’re ready to roll on July 11!

🏆 The best team? A community that makes it safe for kids to ride everywhere. Join Kidical Mass Ottawa 11 July, or volunteer to help make the magic happen. Because when kids can bike safely to school, parks, and friends' homes, everyone wins. 🚲⚽ #bikeottawa #kidicalmass visionzeroottawa.ca/events/

Events

EVENTS Join our upcoming events and learn how you can make Ottawa streets safer for everyone through advocacy and action UPCOMING EVENTS KIDICAL MASS – JULY 11TH PINEVIEW FAMILY BIKE RIDE Mea…

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Kidical Mass Ottawa goes to Pineview on July 11. We hope you'll join us whether you live nearby or take your bikes on the train to nearby Blair Station. More details and (optional) registration at: www.eventbrite.ca/e/pineview-f... #OttBike #Ottawa #StreetsForKids

CBC’s The National last night: Top story is the government announcing a new oil pipeline from Alberta and how it placated BC Then a story on the massive heatwave, storms and flooding in Ontario and Quebec Then a story on huge Manitoba flooding after they also dealt with tornadoes and rain 🫠

Canada Day extreme weather brought to you by climate change, which Carney announced yesterday we can’t afford to properly fight 🤗

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s a national holiday, but I’m working — because Prime Minister Mark Carney made what I’d argue will be one of the most consequential announcements of his time in office yesterday. Canada, under Carney, is abandoning major goals in our fight against the climate crisis. Here's what's going on:

How often, when driving a car, do you run across a friend, and then slow down and chat for a bit? It happens kind of a lot when you use bikes for transportation.

I AM ONCE AGAIN REMINDING YOU OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS THAT CARNEY SAID WE ARE NO LONGER PRIORITIZING THE SAME DEGREE OF ACTION AGAINST 🤗🤗🤗

Where are the ones in Ottawa?!! I’d love some here… but have never seen them in the wild! Would be perfect along Hemlock 😉… and like a million other places 😬 @rawlson.bsky.social @bikeottawa.bsky.social

kanchan@kayehm.bsky.social · last mo.

Add LA to the list of cities using this barrier, first designed in Toronto in 2018 (we are onto Gen 3 in Toronto, these look like Gen 2) Also used in Seattle, Atlanta, Boulder CO, Ottawa, Hamilton.. and counting. 🙏🏽

School Streets are coming to Ottawa 👏 finally. ✅ The good: safer, calmer streets for kids ⚠️ Needs improvement: must scale up quickly from a 3‑school pilot 🚨 Really needs improvement: process + cost barriers shouldn’t fall on communities 🔥Watch @lainejohnson.bsky.social

Started the day in the best way possible, by joining the Centretown Bike Bus to Devonshire PS, led by the unstoppable @cassiesmith.bsky.social. Great to be there with @jleiper.bsky.social, @bikeottawa.bsky.social and @envirocentre.bsky.social.

School Streets are coming to Ottawa 👏 finally. ✅ The good: safer, calmer streets for kids ⚠️ Needs improvement: a 2‑school pilot lacks ambition 🚨 Really needs improvement: process + cost barriers shouldn’t fall on communities Other cities are moving. Why aren’t we? www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Roads in front of 2 Ottawa schools could be closed this fall for ‘school streets’ pilot project

The roadway in front of two Ottawa schools could be closed during pickup and drop-off times this fall as part of a pilot project between the City of Ottawa and a third party non-profit group.

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Close Calls matter. 📣 DYK close calls and minor injuries go uncounted in Ottawa? 👉 They cause fear, discourage walking, affect quality of life. 👉 The city needs to listen to people who walk and roll. Report your close call. visionzeroottawa.ca/posts/close-...

See you in court, Prime Minister Carney. LEARN MORE >> ecojustice.ca/news/youth-u... @environmentaldefence.ca @cape-acme.bsky.social

This is exactly why @visionzeroottawa.bsky.social has started a Close Calls campaign - we need to collect incidents like this that the city doesn’t count! visionzeroottawa.ca/posts/closec...

Close Call Form

The City doesn’t track close calls. We do. Tell us about your close call and we will present this information to City leadership.

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Toon Dreessen@toondreessen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Minutes after posting this, I was in the crosswalk with signal and right of way, and a taxi rolled through the red light without even so much as a check and nearly hit me. But sure, I once saw a cyclist…..

#ottbike @shawnmenard.bsky.social Can you explain the choice to remove the protected part of this protected intersection? You have created a huge sideswipe risk for anyone cycling here taking a right turn from Main.