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It's Jamie

@sjamieit.bsky.social

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Municipal issues, data, transportation, history, yelling at drivers. Serious ideas, unserious person. Lots of original content. Pretend journalist. 🚲👶🌳 Centretown, Ottawa, Ontario

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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 5h

Looks like they're currently redoing the sidewalks on the street.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 6h

Also in Copenhagen, they had these massive, city-block sized tents that they were building new mass timber buildings inside of.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 6h

The train station in Copenhagen is brick with a timber roof. 100+years old, very cool.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 10h

I muted the audio. I had a podcast going in one ear so I wasn't as articulate as I would have liked to be. It's basically me just telling him he's a dickhead and to read the fucking sign.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 13h

I've been reporting it as closed so that Google Maps doesn't send a bunch of rat-runners down my street. But if the city's doing a traffic count, I want them to see the issue.

Actually, I'm pretty sure the road was closed on google maps during their last traffic count also.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 17h

The city's doing a traffic count on a Percy Street while the road is still closed on Google Maps. I'm sure that's going to give accurate numbers /s

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, there's a lot of traffic cutting through this way, especially in the morning, to avoid traffic on Bronson.

(Still not as bad as Percy North of the highway though)

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 1d

Gladstone is actually a "Major Collector" not an Arterial. Not that it really means anything though. Lyon is an Arterial but so is Strandherd.

I'm pretty sure the only reason the city designates so many of Centretown's streets as arterials is so we can't put traffic calming on them.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe one of those old PCs is full of bitcoins.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 1d

On my way home tonight, I must have been holding up traffic so badly on this 30km/h, single file, local street, that this pickup driver decided to ride my ass, yell things at me, and try to run me off the road.

He said "you're not a car!" I guess to him that means I can't use the road or something.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 1d

Finally.

Please, somebody buy this eyesore and tear it down.

www.realtor.ca/real-estate/...

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 1d

From Strong Towns:

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 1d

I saw this guy a couple weeks back that turned right and then did a three-point turn and then made a right to go through this intersection.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 1d

Committee is voting today on expanding the Centretown BIA (Bank Street BIA) to include most of Centretown. So soon Gladstone east of Bronson will have a BIA. But we don't yet know if they'll oppose removal of parking.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose the benefit of a non-integrated battery is that as battery technology improves, the size of the external battery can be reduced. In 20 years when a battery of similar capacity is 1/4 the size, you can still use your old Brompton with a new battery.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 1d

If we're waiting for a full reconstruction to put in bike lanes we'll be waiting 100 years.

The OLDEST sewers and watermains under Gladstone are from 1993. Most were just replaced in the 2000s/2010s. The city is still working on replacing pipes from the 1880s and 1890s in Centretown.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 3d

At what point do they just replace the sidewalk?

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 3d

Same.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 3d

This home and an order from Ottawa By-law to rip up the illegal parking space can be all yours for the low low price of $1.489-million.

www.realtor.ca/real-estate/...

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 3d

Yuck.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 3d

Driving in montreal yesterday, I stopped at a stop sign and the driver behind me honked at me because I actually made a complete stop and didn't just roll through it.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 4d

They're incredibly easy to spot with aerial imagery. The issue would of course be that they already can't keep up with manual citizen reporting, so how will they keep up with AI?

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 5d

So many owners male these illegal modifications right before selling the property, leaving the buyer with the fines and remediation costs when they're found out.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 5d

Except what has happened time and time again, is that when the city rolls up to do work, the residents complain and the city reinstates all their illegal parking spaces rather than deal with the hassle.

It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 5d

The city thinks the solution is to license landscapers so that they're aware of the By-laws. I'm not so sure that's going to work. I guess they're just unaware that they can't park on the sidewalk either, right?

If only we licensed drivers, they would certainly follow the rules.