Images of Centretown

Part 12: 50 Years of Rapid Transit in Ottawa     [Show/Hide Contents] NCC Boost and Interprovincial Bus Loop Regional studies lead to fir...

Part 11: Portage Bridge     [Show/Hide Contents] Options for crossing the Ottawa River Splitting Wellington again Finishing touches Bri...

Thanks to the Ottawa Lookout , I learned that today at the City's Transportation Committee meeting , Councillor Shawn Menard has a motio...

Part 10: Nepean Bay and the Ottawa River Parkway     [Show/Hide Contents] Nepean Bay Infill Ottawa River Parkway Closing Britannia Terra...

Part 9: The NCC's distractions (early-mid 1960s)     [Show/Hide Contents] Sparks disconnection and the Garden of the Provinces LeBret...

Part 8: Viaduct traffic, Journaled     [Show/Hide Contents] History written by the whiners 'Battle of the Bridge' Bayview slip l...

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...

    [Show/Hide Contents] 1880 Renaming of George Street, Victoria Terrace, and Richmond Road Railway Crossings Great big fires 1908 Renam...

    [Show/Hide Contents] The Fortress at Barrack Hill Wagon Trail to Sappers' Bridge Sparks Street Extension to the Canal Wellington ...

    [Show/Hide Contents] Union Bridge across the Chaudière Pooley's Bridge and the Wellington link LeBreton Flats is laid out George ...

You may already know that Ottawa has both a Wellington Street and a Wellington Street West, but it was not always so simple. A man standing ...

On the left, the snow accumulation on Bank Street's west sidewalk from the previous snowfall. On the right, the mostly-bare road and sid...

There has been a fair amount of criticism of the Toronto-style sidewalk design since it was made the standard in the City of Ottawa in 2006,...

During warm/wet spells like the one we got a couple weekends ago, I bring a sidewalk scraper around with me to clear away some of the more p...

I haven't blogged much about the Gladstone Avenue reconstruction project , perhaps because as far as street reconstructions go it's ...

Finding room for all road users in the constrained area of an existing road allowance is tough. Especially on streets in the downtown core, ...

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

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