Images of Centretown

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

Suppose you're going to spend $18.5 million on a 12-storey (later 16-storey) condo building. You might build it with exclusively one-be...

Is this delivery truck at the Delta Ottawa City Centre too big, or is the delivery entrance too small? Either way, it results in the t...

[Note: at 2pm today, the pedestrian advocacy group Walk Ottawa will be holding a ceremony to place a pedestrian memorial marker at Rideau a...

Today for the fourth and final entry of the sidewalk-design series, I'm going to give a history of sidewalk design, starting at the esta...

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...

As promised, this week's Peds on Weds blog post continues the theme from last week's introduction to "Toronto-style" (or ...

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...

On Monday, the Canadian Museum of History (i.e. the former Canadian Museum of Civilization) tweeted a photo of a wood carving, remarking at...

I was doing some research for a post about sidewalks that I'll hopefully pull together one of these days, when I came across this entry ...

Looking south at Bank and Gladstone on a rainy dusk in early September. (Sigh, at a quarter to 8pm!) I'm not particularly fond of th...

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 (...

On Monday, Eric Darwin posted a rhetorical question on his blog— What were they thinking? —in reference to some sidewalk work at the Delta O...

Back in mid-May, before the finishing touches were done on the O-Train pathway , I swung by at night and took some photos. I had my tripod w...

In advance of the upcoming reconstruction of Gladstone Avenue starting this summer, Hydro Ottawa is replacing the hydro poles along Gladsto...

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...

Taxis can get in on the vanscaping action, too. Park on the sidewalk to let cars go by unobstructed, while leaving no room for this pedestr...

Ever hear someone talk about a pole in the middle of a sidewalk or path but you suspect they're exaggerating the degree to which it'...