See how few cars are parked on the bike path if you make it not look like part of the roadway that someone bolted a curb to? Put vegetation, street furniture, posts between the bike lane and the roadway.

Needs more drop shadow

Canada Green Building Strategy Analysis: Demonstrating a Legacy of Ambition but not a Pathway to Net Zero. 👉 Read the full analysis here: ow.ly/u9Hv50TieUM

Air purifiers in Finnish daycare reduced children's illnesses by 18% in a carefully controlled study. This implies huge potential for better public health and cost savings from sick leaves, with a simple intervention against airborne infections. yle.fi/a/74-20089670

clean energy emojis we need ASAP: - windmill - solar panels - electric car - heat pump - induction range anything else we’re missing? 🤔

This. Sean Devine is on fire. Read the newsletter. It’s the convo we need to be having. seandevine.ca/september_10_2…

This is the perfect example of the "primary energy fallacy" being used to make the transition to clean energy appear far more daunting than it is (which shouldn't be interpreted to mean it's a cakewalk). linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… As analysts RMI noted in a brief published

The subtext here is that the city would have let them build a giant parking lot if it was city land and the NCC is trying to avoid doing so. It’s literally on a train line that needs more riders to be sustainable. We can (and should) build an arena that is transit dependant.

Hot take: If there’s a new Sens arena at Lansdowne, the NCC should require it have secure underground bike parking on this scale.

How much of the LRT running costs could be reduced by more automation? It’s my understanding that the requirement for human drivers increased the cost quite a bit. Do we have any options there?

Tojagrid and EcoFlow should team up and release a solar pergola

Join us September 19th for another edition of Heatpumps & Pints! lu.ma/c8240xw5

If we're actually seriously putting a 75% OCTranspo fee increase on the table, then we also ought to put other things on the table too, like massive parking fee increases, cancelling road widenings, eliminating snow clearing on select roads, closing some roads altogether, etc..

Here’s an idea, the budget can absorb the transit costs, but we have to raise the road levy to account for the new shortfall.

Ottawa does not get its “fair share” of transit funding, but I object to Mayor ⁦Mark Sutcliffe⁩ referring to the transit levy as a subsidy. Do we say that property taxes “subsidize” roads for cars? Are there “fares” for car drivers? #ottnews ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new…

It would be pretty cool if we could get beg button timing data on GeoOttawa. Can’t manage what we can’t measure. Traffic Services shouldn’t be the only folks with access to this data.

Good news, that Hazeldean highrise was approved at committee. What are the odds that it gets torpedoed anyways at council by the exurban Councillors? cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…

Babe, wake-up, a new raised crosswalk just dropped.