It used to be a little hard to get to. Now it's going to be a gleaming spaceship at the end of a bridge from Major's Hill. Lots and lots of people are going to go.

During the Watson era, there was a lot of magical thinking about the money. They all chose to believe they could build a mile of subway below the waterline in the soggy gravel banks of the Ottawa for the same cost as at-grade. This was the 100 day solution. Should have been called the 300...

The online schedule they put up recently showed 19 minutes from South Keys to Bayview. Considering there are three additional stops (one more on the end and two more along the way) it's not too bad. It's roughly 16 to 17 from Greenboro, the same as before but with two additional stops, which...

Seems more likely that it was really a three-storey building and only the facade was kept when they consolidated various properties into the one-storey Staples. Edit: I seem to be correct. I checked the historical photos on GeoOttawa, and it seems to have happened in the 90s. 1991: 1999...

From the land of even a stopped clock is right twice a day, Randall Denley had a piece yesterday (which I didn't notice till after my last post) wondering why the Trillium line is so hard to get restarted, and calling it a "white elephant-in-waiting." While the fairness of that epithet...

I'm starting to think that the real cheap-out was opting for Automated Train Protection instead of AC Control. The passing tracks are now the right length and placement, but they don't seem to be able to get the drivers to follow the schedule closely enough. The VIA overpass is modular, and...

The city said they had facts and figures to back up the choice they made, indicating that ridership could be up to 10 times higher to Riverside South than the airport, at least at certain times. Maybe this was true when the planning was done, but there are a lot of questions now that commuting...

It's logistically impossible. The size and location of the twin track sections allow for no more than 1 train every 12 minutes. 7.5 minutes would require double tracking the sections where Dow's Lake, Walkley, and Mooney's Bay are.

Seems to be exactly the same rendering we saw early last year.

Or, Alice Munro station! Oh, wait... It would be folly to name anything after an individual these days.

The triangle is actually similar in size and shape to the lot the Juliana Apartments sits on. Something can be built there but given the location and the road network, vehicle access is a bit awkward. A residential project seems a poor fit. More likely is some sort of smaller trophy building...

I watched the presentation and Q&A sessions with council and media. They did a thorough job of explaining the testing process, which is just just getting rolling. More or less, it’s an eight to ten week process that, more or less, got started 08 July. Theoretically, then service could start at...

Well, it's official, or semi-official: The plan for efficient airport rail travel is a failure and plan B will be put into effect, at least to begin with. The New Ways to Bus subsite has an online travel planner and schedule page. If you wade through the schedules for routes 2 and 4, you'll...

So, the developer has realized, as with the site down the street at Kent, that when the city lawfully passed a written policy exchanging 27 stories for really good "landmark" architecture, they meant 27 stories and really good architecture. Now they are producing projects that follow these...

I actually live in Ottawa currently. I would stand behind that figure for a few areas in Centretown, Hintonburg, Lowertown, especially mornings and after dark. Certainly not all areas or times of day. I visited Peterborough a while back and found the downtown unsettling, so it's not just...

At least the parking lot retail developments will have buildings facing the street and the parking hidden within. But let's be realistic. If these are built, the windows and doors facing the roads will be papered over and locked, forcing pedestrians to walk around and through the parking lots...

Wouldn't a gondola be a lot cheaper and easier than trying to push behemoths up and down a steep bridge over cold open water (what could go wrong?)?

Nice to see this being built back with so exactly the same thoughtful attention to design aesthetics as the original. :confused:

Bridgehead closed their original Bank and Gilmour location (Big windows, exposed brick, eyes on the street), they said, so they could reopen the one at Bank and Albert (big windows, classic wood and travertine finishes). The former is now a tacky drug shop, the interior chopped up with cheap...

Don't forget that 10 and as many as 30% at times of folks on urban main streets these days are perceiving the world through a haze of very hard drugs, untreated mental illness, or both.