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...

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...

(It's been a month since my last post; I'm slowly recovering from a long stint volunteering at RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest where I run ...

Everyone in the neighbourhood has been affected by the Bronson Avenue reconstruction project , which has been going on for just over a month...

Here's part 6 of the 15-part series on the reconstruction of Somerset Street West. In the previous part , we looked at the reconstructi...

One night back in January, I happened upon a snow removal crew on Kent Street. I had a few minutes to spare, so I stuck around to watch and ...

Last Thursday was the City's public open house for the reconstruction of Bronson Avenue. Well over 100 people attended, but information ...

After a handful of meetings of the Public Advisory Committee (PAC) for the imminent Bronson Avenue reconstruction, the city's project ma...

It feels like I took this photo just a few weeks ago, but it was actually June 2010. The street we're looking down is Lewis (my favourit...

The Transitway stop at Metcalfe Street on Albert Street is under construction, so a temporary one was installed on the West side of Albert S...

Car ads on buses are a bugaboo of mine, so back in May it was a nice surprise to be stuck behind a bus to see this ad for the iwalkibike.ca ...

Special Thursday post: Today is the one-year anniversary of the magnitude 5 earthquake that rocked the Ottawa area on June 23, 2010. This mo...

Today's Jane's Walk for the Rescue Bronson Avenue initiative went really well. It was right on time and we had about 35-45 people ...

This ain't your mother's Mother's Day Jane's Walk. Unless your mother lived on Bronson before they widened it in the '50...