To quote the talented @tomflood.bsky.social “courage should come from our councillors not our children.”

Grief at the death of a Peter Clark could manifest in lower speed limits, road safety funding, reevaluation of road safety design approaches, a push to reinstate cameras at prov level 1/

A City Grieving Peter Clark – An Avoidable Tragedy and The lessons We Refuse to Learn Our leaders will lament this tragedy but will stop short of any meaningful action to prevent it.

Our communities are grieving a month after Peter Clark’s death. Our political leaders lament this tragedy — no action to prevent another:

❌ Feds won’t regulate oversized vehicles
❌ Ontario killed speed cameras
❌ Council defunds road safety

Ford, province to sell $28.9M private jet 'as quickly as possible' | CBC News Ontario is looking to sell the $28.9 million private jet that was recently purchased for Premier Doug Ford's use "as quickly as possible," following backlash days after the purchase was confirmed publ...

Terrible ideas the Ontario Ford government has walked back:

🌳 Greenbelt land swap
📜 Notwithstanding clause for education workers
✈️ Premier’s private jet

📷 Next: Automated Speed Enforcement.

With public pressure we can reinstate ASE and make school zones safer.

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Getting kids to school shouldn’t be stressful and dangerous – what can be done? [3 min read] This winter, a baby was seriously injured in their stroller near a Kanata school. The driver was charged while the child and parent went to CHEO. Then, in Ottawa’s east end, police and…

⚠️ The province has made kids’ trips to and from school more stressful and dangerous by canceling speed cameras.

👉 Here is what the city of Ottawa can do to make walking and rolling to school safer.

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pink poster BACK TO SCHOOL TIPS, DRIVER EDITION SLOW THE F DOWN so our kids can get to school safely

A back to school campaign developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

I’ll make this VERY clear — if you don’t understand very well critical truths like #InducedDemand (aka the Irrefutable Law of Congestion) and its twin truth #JevonsParadox, you are not qualified to make transportation-related decisions affecting cities.

And your profession will make cities worse.

child smiling I ride perfectly when biking to school so my councillor doesn't need political courage to build in systems where I can make mistakes. - Sarah, Age 9

the reality of road safety campaigns

@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

*we. Our kingdom for an edit button.

Speeding surges at former camera sites, city data says | CBC News Speeding in school zones that used to host speed cameras has shot up since the cameras were turned off, according to new City of Ottawa data.

Speed cameras work. Doug Ford removing them made school zones more dangerous.

Kids and vulnerable road users are paying the price. Drop a line to Ontario’s Transportation Minister and tell him we We need to bring them back now.

prabmeet.sarkaria@pc.ola.org

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We will have more to say on this soon.

Ottawa - CBC News Ottawa up to the minute breaking news, weather updates, photos and Twitter. The latest stories on health, crime, the environment and more.

Ottawa Police didn’t attend after a driver ran a red light and injured a cyclist. 🚲🚨

Here’s the problem: the City tracks only fatal & major injuries.

Minor injuries and close calls go uncounted—yet they cause fear, deter active transport, and affect quality of life.

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Kidical Mass Ottawa Bike Ride - New Edinburgh Bike Day A joy-filled bike ride with a purpose: safe streets for kids.

We're not shrugging, we're begging for action. Hundreds of families in this city say no more - we won't accept road violence. And we demand better of the city and the province.

@bikeottawa.bsky.social
@visionzeroottawa.bsky.social
@forourkidsog.bsky.social

Driver flips their vehicle in front of an elementary school where a speed camera was deactivated.

A group of people on bikes gather including kids, trailers, and a bunch cargo bike

The New Edinburgh Park and Fieldhouse sign with bikes all around and people in the background

✨Event Announcement✨

The first Kidical Mass of 2026 will be May 2 at New Edinburgh Bike Day! With partners @bikeottawa.bsky.social @forourkidsog.bsky.social @visionzeroottawa.bsky.social
& Chrichton Community Council

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All about the “All About the Bike Bus” event On March 11, Bike Ottawa hosted Coach Sam Balto of Bike Bus World and our own Cassie Smith of the Devonshire Bike Bus for an online session.

If you're interested in getting started in your community - here's some advice from a webinar we did @bikeottawa.bsky.social last year with special guest @coachbalto.bsky.social of @bikebusworld.bsky.social. They have more webinars coming this spring too! bikeottawa.ca/2025/03/18/a... 2/2

Manor Park sidewalks – we need your help! Manor Park Sidewalk Update This past week, we were proud to endorse a joint delegation to the City of Ottawa’s Public Works & Infrastructure Committee in support of including sidewalks in the M…

Sidewalks matter—for accessibility and mobility equity in every neighbourhood. We backed a delegation to Ottawa’s PWIC supporting sidewalks in the Manor Park renewal—a step toward a safer, connected city.

📣 Tell your councillor to support the report April 8

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Two women have been hospitalized due to serious but non-life threatening injuries.

We call on investigators to focus less on individual errors, but to include factors on infrastructure fixes, recognizing that crashes are predictable and preventable through better design.

This is a great piece 👏🏼. We appreciate you reminding everyone what's really important here. It's not drive times, it's not parking, it's that everyone deserves to get home safely. Full stop.

Thank you for speaking up for us.

“I’m angry because I keep hearing that ‘safety is our top priority’ while watching the City repeatedly treat safety as a nice-to-have that must not interfere with what it seems that we really seek to preserve: traffic flow and driver convenience.”

Cartoon suggesting that convenience trumps everything else in Ottawa, aka #Autowa.

READ: “Ottawa’s relationship with cars — and with convenience — is shaping what we tolerate, what we normalize, and what we quietly accept as the cost of doing business.

And I’m angry about it. I hope some of you are, too.” Via @seandevine9.bsky.social

Well said.

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Councillor Johnson on cherry picking project aspects:

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Councillor Troster in supporting the staff recommendations to build sidewalks:

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Public Works and Infrastructure Committee - 30 March 2026 YouTube video by Ottawa City Council

Thanks to your delegations Manor Park will get its sidewalks!

Motions for further ‘study’, adding nothing but cost and years of delay, denied 7:5 vote.

Watch our consortium of community delegations (-7:30)

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Good morning ☀️ to everyone making a supporting delegation at PWIC today!

- For sidewalks everywhere
- Uninterrupted Bank Street Bus Lanes
- Community Road Murals

Watch here:

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Municipalities have some levers, for example Montreal charges higher on-street parking renewal rates for oversized personal vehicles.

Why can’t Ottawa can look at such levers?

Some will argue they can drive the of car their choice. Fine, however..

Policy makers need to act when that choice imposes risks to the health and life to others, to price or regulate those externalities. The Federal government undoubtedly has the largest role here. As for local government..

The driver is being charged—but accountability doesn’t stop there.

❌ No federal regulation on forward visibility of ever larger vehicles

❌ Ontario deliberately made school zones less safe with ASE removal

❌ City Council passed a budget that defunds traffic calming after 2026

There’s an accessibility case, a mobility equity case, and from Ecology Ottawa: an ecological case.

Ottawa reporting more speeding in school zones since cameras were banned There has been a “significant uptick” in speeding incidents since speed cameras were banned, a city councillor says.

This was entirely predictable. And now we are mourning the loss of an Ottawa crossing guard who was just trying to keep kids safe. Shame on the Ford government for putting populist politics over people’s lives. ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

How does this model rate for pedestrian visibility and crash survivability?