Nothing radicalized me more than living without a car. I firmly believe it’s a literal and metaphorical vehicle for the future. It opens you up to your community. It can make you feel joy when there are many days right now where it’s conflicting to feel joy.
I think more people should become radicalized. Life is a lot different, a lot better, change is scary and every fucking minute of it is worth it #ottawa#ottbike#biketooter#worldbikeday
Plan for today: drop the kids off and then #OttBike into Gatineau Park at least as far as Chelsea, patio lunch, home in time to relax (and maybe fold laundry 😅) before picking the monsters up again.
First time on the Byron Ave remodel(ish). The dump outs are shit but nice sections. Going to watch the 10k #ottawaraceweekend at Dows Lake where they turn up towards Bronson Ave to cross the bridge in case anyone else in #ottawa is watching. Big bike is hard to miss and the kid is asleep inside #ottbike#biketootet
So the NCC doesn’t seem to have posted on their website that the bike weekend closures are NOT running this weekend, so FYI for those of you who do not follow them on Twitter or instagram 🙃 Met some folks at the park who were riding on the parkway after 8 AM with kids who had to get the fuck off quickly when people ended up driving behind them #ottawa#ottwalk#ottbike
I don't want to brag but Ottawa is absolutely killing it in signups for #PedalPoll 2024. Both the highest number of signups and the most total slots of any community in Canada. #OttBike#OttVelo
I do not love that a lot of the same driving mentality permeates how people move around on crowded MUPs in #ottawa If you were in the group of bros loudly ringing your bells in unison to get people walking to move right off the path so you all could blast through the middle so fast I could almost feel you on my left shoulder, well I’ll tell you to fuck off in person when you’re stopped next time too. Slow the hell down and wait a singular minute once in a while #ottbike#biketooter
Last Sunday, I hung out at the Hartwells Locks in #Ottawa. I counted over 100 people with a bike crossing the locks in 20 minutes. That is >300 an hour.
Lots of people with e-bikes now and several people struggling getting the bike on to the locks. This definitely needs improvement.
Lots of older folks, clearly touring for the morning or the day, so happy to see that. Our pathways allow for great routes with little interference from car traffic.
A lotta spray and pray for these types of images given how packed (which is awesome) all the paths are around #ottawa and have to pay attention a LOT but it feels fun and free so gunna try a bunch of these over the summer #ottbike#gabesimages#biketooter
Wild how it took so long to do something so simple. Not that I long to visit the byward Market but Majors Hill or Rideau Falls were rarely on the list of destinations if this was the direction of travel. But this makes basic access possible especially with the bridge open and the new NCC lookout on the +50% complete?? status #ottawa#ottbike#biketooter
The kid ate shit twice on a bike ride of less than 2 km because this city gives zero shits about wildly large curb cuts (and everything else). The fact that Britannia intersection by Beachconers is as horrid as it is being, I’d argue one of the most busy intersection for folks not in a car is proof enough. And the entrance to the kids school is soooooo bad and busted up that its almost impossible to enter on a bike and the kid ate it right in front of his own school #ottawa#ottbike#biketooter
For the forth time, volunteers across Canada fan out to count cyclists and pedestrians in the second week of June. Will you volunteer a few hours too? #ottbike
Step-daughter of a friend of ours saw the 11-yr old kid get killed in Rockland, by someone driving a school bus, while they were riding their bike. What the fuck…
I’ve said it a bunch of times but I completely changed the route we take to the kids school which is only 1.2 kms away. We take a ~ 2 km route to avoid the utter mayhem that takes over people during drop offs and pick ups, esp school bus and transport vans #ottawa#ottbike#biketooter#onpoli
A road has to be closed for possibly a week bc a driver (not ‘a car’) does something stupid. Just imagine someone on an #ottbike would cause a road to be closed for a week and it would be the most read article on CTV for days with the traffic trolls out in full force.
Did the Ottawa River-Pinecrest Creek-Experimental Farm-Canal MUP loop this afternoon. Decided to stay west of the Canal, which was a mistake, but super nice ride other than that Parliament-War Museum segment (when will behind Parliament reopen??).
Next time I think I should cross the canal, take the Alexandra Bridge to the path on the north side of the Ottawa and cross back on the Commanda (which I think was closed today).
Commanda Bridge to Alexandra Bridge to the Corktown Bridge is the best parkway to QED connection on weekends. Esp with the new separated lane by the Senate building now, it’s the lowest stress route we’ve taken in a long time #ottawa#ottbike#biketooter