Images of Centretown

A couple weeks ago, I was asked on Mastodon (the only social media where I'm active any more) for photos of car parking spaces converte...

Part 7: Dawn of "Modern" Transportation Planning in Ottawa     [Show/Hide Contents] 1955 Traffic and Transportation Plan for Ott...

Part 6: Postwar traffic on Wellington     [Show/Hide Contents] Jacques Gréber's Downtown plan, 1939 Gréber's 1949 Plan for Canada...

    [Show/Hide Contents] Viaduct makes Wellington an artery for the 1910s Speeding and slowing traffic on Wellington in the '20s West...

After my summer hiatus, I started with a post from the north-west corner of Centretown. As the summer comes to an end itself, it seems fitt...

The World Exchange Centre is a shopping centre/office/parking complex that covers the entire block surrounded by Albert, Metcalfe, Queen and...

While attending the opening of the new O-Train pathway two weeks ago, Walk Ottawa co-chair John Woodhouse alerted me to a sidewalk issue on...

Maybe you've seen these containers pop up here and there around town. They look like garbage receptacles with a plastic bag dispenser. T...

The day after a big snowstorm, the city's winter overnight parking restriction is lifted, but there's still lots of snow on the sid...

On the same day I took photos of the Temporary Building , I took a lot of other photos, despite the frigid cold freezing my batteries. For a...

Here's looking inside a brick wall being built at 151 Bay Street: In late June the local media covered the conflict among the residents....

Before I start, you may have heard the news that I've stepped down as President of the CCCA to work in the office of Somerset Ward Coun...