Images of Centretown

For quite some time now, I've wanted to do a thorough writeup on what in Ottawa traffic-geek circles is referred to a "Toronto-styl...

After two years of construction, Bronson Avenue reopens to through traffic today , whereas it had been closed between Laurier and Somerset (...

The brown-tinged leaves of the ginkgo tree are one of the signs of fall. As you could probably tell, though, this photo isn't from ...

It's been a couple years since I last posted photos of yellow houses in Centretown , but this little one on Gilmour just east of Salisbu...

The weather forecast suggests that we'll be getting another 20-centimetre blast of snow in the next couple of days. This might be my las...

Even when no snow has fallen in a while, the City's road crews are still hard at work. This is something I've noticed a lot of this ...

The Centropolis condo building under construction has had its share of controversy. Settling that has rendered the neighbouring building un...

You've perhaps walked by the little fenced- and hedged-off lot at the corner of Florence and Lyon and never given it a second thought. I...

[Bonus post this week! I said I'd post this on Wednesday, but needed to make room in the publishing schedule for an exciting time-sensit...

During last week's February thaw, I decided to go out clearing some storm drains to let the puddles drain before things froze up again. ...

Welcome to the big reveal--the final part in the series on the renovations to the exterior of the apartment building at 80 Florence, the Chi...

This is the second post of three covering the renovations to the Chinese Community Building at 80 Florence (at Kent). In the previous post ,...

If you've gone by the corner of Gladstone and Kent over the last year, this would be a fairly familiar view to the north-west. The eight...

Two years ago, in July 2008, I wrote a post on the terrible surface conditions on Lyon Street at the time. Since then, a number of patche...

The Bank Street Bike Racks, that is! This shot was taken this morning at the empty lot on Bank at Florence: As mentioned at the end of this ...

[This post is part of a series on Bank Street's new look. See the introduction and part I here .] Last time, I shared some photos of the...

[This post is part of a series on Bank Street's new look. See the introduction and part I here .] Last time, I discussed the installatio...