The City’s LRT Flooding Follies: GRAY
The great light-rail issue that was never picked up by the media in the planning stages of the project was the LRT-line location. Not Carling Avenue versus the current route but “isn’t...
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City Execs Would Be Axed In Real World: BENN
The city is beset with myriad financial problems. They are problems that staff and councillors have acknowledged publicly. They have a nearly $11-billion shortfall in sources of funding for infrastructure. This shortfall...
O-Train Lines 2, 4 To Close June 13, 14
This email is to advise that O-Train Lines 2 and 4 will be fully closed on Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14, and replacement bus service will operate. You need to...
Let City Managers Do Their Jobs: CRERAR
All candidates for mayor in this fall’s municipal election have identified public transit as a serious issue. For a city with a million people, a reliable transit system is critical to its...
Future Ottawans Will Pay For Big City Toys: BENN
Living within one’s means is a concept that has gone the way of the dodo bird down at Ottawa City Hall. The not yet completed Adisoke central library and federal archives is...
Ottawa’s In Full Transportation Crisis
The City of Ottawa has taken transit and transportation problems to a level never seen before here. The bearing problems and shortage of rail cars on the light-rail project have been much publicized...
Much Like Transit, Sutcliffe Plan Sloppy: GRAY
Mayor Mark Sutcliffe’s non-campaign campaign (balloon-less edition) released its 10-point transit plan which, interestingly enough, has 13 points. That might explain a lot. Sutcliffe points out in his newsletter train-plan preamble that the...
Train Shuttered. Where’s Leiper? POTTER
Just a few days after Mayor Mark Sutcliffe announced his transit plan, LRT Lines 1 and 4 went down on the weekend. Never a better opportunity for opponent Jeff Leiper to hold a...
Where’s City Incentive To Fix The Train? PATTON
Now that the city and the province have agreed to a negotiation to takeover Ottawa’s troubled LRT by Ontario, Bulldog commentator Mike Patton wonders who will fix the train in the meantime....
Kitts: Yes To Questions, No To Posturing: BENN
Orleans South-Navan Councillor Catherine Kitts asking questions in her newsletter is just posturing for votes. Yawn. The right forum for a councillor to ask questions is at committee and council meetings. The...
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