Nah, this was just an issue of project teams not taking advantage of opportunities to do the sensible thing.

We built the new Baseline station into Algonquin college ages ago.

It's too bad we didn't close down the train for upgrades for like 5 years where we maybe could have done this.

This whole train/hospital connection oppportunity really snuck right up on us.

Just like taking the 86 in the old days!

I live in a "classic" ottawa-looking house (2.5 stories, brink, stacked porch.) You know the type.

That is just a functional, affordable design that was built rapidly to meet a need, plus 100 years. The new aesthetics are no different. I'd live next to that Montreal building.

If more policing was the singular solution to the challenges in the Market, one of the last 10 Mayors probably would have figured it out.

I get that politicians like simple-sounding solutions. But this is *insulting* to the intelligence of anyone who spends more than a few hours downtown each year.

Looks like Erin Coffin is running in Kanata South again. #ottcity

It’s a good thing that baseball has always been free from gambling controversies!

It always seemed a missed opportunity that it was *before* security. Some of us want to dip a half hamburger bun in sauce while changing planes.

Beyond all of the very obvious reasons to not be on Twitter, using a site that requires an account to see posts is not a very good way of posting public/government information. Login requirements remove *the original utility* of posting stuff there.

Isn’t the plan to interline?

We’re here. Because we’re here, because we’re here.

A parking levy *is* a congestion charge.

It’s all academic. A city that would consider any of this would also see the value in properly supporting transit on its own.

I have wretched hand writing. But I just double spaced, wrote big and managed to get through. It all got easier when I realized they would keep giving you more booklets if you asked.

For me, the biggest thing is that a tracking a congestion charge is a lot of infrastructure. Parking is an outcome of cars, so adding cost to that has the same effect.

At least in a city like Ottawa. New York would probably be different.

Absolutely! I actually don’t care if it is a direct customer charge. Just add it to the tax bill.

Easiest way to do this would be to add a parking levy. $x per space, with it being higher for monthly rentals. It should nudge people from driving *and* increase parking flexibility for when people do need to bring a car.

Right now all the incentives push people to monthly parking.

His advice is to look beyond the now:
"If you have political will that is designed to destroy and they have the power to destroy, it is almost futile to try to push against the destruction. Instead, you have to get through the dark age by sort of deciding what the Renaissance is going to look like"

Fun with year end lists: Pitchfork has Cameron Winter's “Heavy Metal” as the third best album of the year but the 16th best Rock Album.

They are playing Bluesfest. As with any Canadian tour in the summer, if you see Ottawa “skipped” on a date list it’s usually because the Bluesfest lineup hasn’t been announced yet.

That doesn’t change other points about Lansdowne, obviously.

Wow this is crazy Trump just released an Executive Order eliminating Halalflation

It’s pretty strange to try to vote electronically while sitting in the opposition lobby, no?

We really just need more carousels.

It's from the infamous Simpsons scene from 22 Short Films About Springfield, but Superintendent Chalmers, labeled "Me," says "May I see it?" and Skinner, who is labeled "Hudson Valley Clouds" says "No" and it refers to the fact that I can't see the goddamned northern lights right now.

Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

(I do think the ban on hinged garbage cans is stupid and caught even me by surprise.)

The real story here is Ottawans’ inability to count to three.

Lisa: We got beets!