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Bonjour Ottawa

Motte: "Where I'm from, you're just as guilty as he is."

Bailey: "Just because you have right of way does not automatically mean it's safe."

1. I shouldn't have had to slow down, I had the right of way. He cut me off.

2. I'm pointing out how drivers don't treat driving with the necessary care and attention required, casually break traffic laws, and put other people in danger.

So you can't provide the made up law, that's what I thought. And I slowed down considerably.

Do you see how the guys window was rolled down and he heard my bell and stopped? How can you say nobody pays attention to it? It clearly worked.

Without slowing down? You can see in my shadow that I stop pedaling.

And where do you live that whatever I did is equivalent to running a stop sign and failing to yield? What is this mysterious law called?

I was watching him as soon as he came into view and he never once turned his head, so I knew he didn't see me. I just took it as an opportunity to teach the driver a lesson.

I figure if I give drivers a little scare, they'll be a bit more alert while driving from that point on.

Oh yeah, like poke that thing with a stick. Pluck out some cool feathers. I'd much rather my kid play with a dead turkey than needles.

There's a kids show on Netflix where the characters are all cars, and even the homes on that show have less of the front made up of garage doors than the house in that listing.

At least the city is making sure kids don't come across any dead turkeys.

Bronson this morning.

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Bonjour Ottawa

And we know of course there are no diseases to worry about on discarded needles.

Casually rolls the stop sign without even turning his head. "Sorry."

Don't think so. A coyote probably would have eaten the thing.

It's an off-leash park, so someone's dog probably killed it last night and then didn't know what to do next.

The turkey is gone.

I think next time I find a dozen needles in the park I'm gonna tell 311 I've found a dozen dead turkeys for the quicker response time.

At what point do they come by and free the trees from these iron grates, or do they just expect the tree to die before it ever grows that large?

Just reported this dead turkey in the park to 311.

This is about 20 feet away from where I reported a dozen needles in the park which took the city 5 days to come clean up. So we'll see if the city gets to this before the dogs do. It's an off-leash park.

Cool shop though. Injera, lots of interesting spices, great coffee (roasted and green). Not sure what's up with the emergency rations though.

Great place to park.

If we're currently only spending money to renew the pre-war pipes inside greenbelt, the renewal figure per km of pipe is going to drastically under value the true annual cost of renewal for the total length of pipe. That number should be at least 5X larger than what they used.

Okay, I found a link to the report, and reading it over, I don't think they really captured the full cost of water infrastructure renewal. It looks like they took the current spending on renewal and averaged it out without considering the age of pipes.

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According to the study, it's $465/year PER PERSON, so a pretty significant tax increase on the average suburban home.

Its been a while since I read the 2013 Hemson report (the city took down the file) but did it consider water infrastructure/bills? Because replacing those pipes is a major expense.

100% not allowed. Surface parking is not allowed in the zoning for this area, and is not in their zoning exemption. Report them to 311.

Property is currently for sale: www.realtor.ca/real-estate/...

People moving out to surrounding municipalities starves a financially solvent urban core of property taxes. So in that sense amalgamation "reduces" the issue. But when these now amalgamated areas actually cost more than they return in taxes, we're even worse off post-amalgamation.

I think that was the initial thought anyway, but I'm not sure it actually turned out that way. People thought amalgamation would allow the city to have control over the suburbs, but the suburbs quickly took control of urban areas instead and robbed them of even more tax dollars than before.

If suburban properties had to pay their true cost in property taxes and water bills, I think that would put an end to suburban sprawl right away.

Which arterial road widenings are being done for out of town commuters? I can't think of a single widening project that is not the result of new sprawl within the city limits.

There's no way someone in Carleton Place is consuming more city of Ottawa services than the net negative $465 per person suburban residents cost. I think this idea of it being better to have them inside the city paying property taxes is a relic of urban flight and doesn't apply in Ottawa any longer.

I used to live in Carleton Place and commuted to Bells Corners. It usually only took me 25 minutes or less to get to work, and it's even shorter for people working in Kanata. But I certainly wasn't costing the city much in municipal services, not when compared to a suburban resident inside Ottawa.

But, if instead of moving to out of the city they decide to move into infill development, THEN the city is better off, netting $606 per person per year according to the study.

So what we need is more infill, and no sprawl.