Cycling in Ottawa: What are the trouble spots?

In the past year, Ottawa Citizen blogger David Reevely has asked readers to identify Ottawa’s worst bus route and the worst intersection . Now he wants to know about cycling trouble spots : “what are the dangerous problem spots you encounter all the damn time? Missing links between paths, dangerous connections, other foolishness?” **

** There are lots of comments already on the blog, with complaints about bridges, traffic calming, road maintenance, badly-timed signals, narrow roads, bad signage, and more. **

** I have two pet peeves about cycling routes in Ottawa:

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 The lack of a continuous paved bike path between Dow's Lake and the Ottawa River Pathway.

There's a partial path that runs just west of Preston, next to the O-Train tracks.  It runs from Carling to Gladstone -- with part of it paved and part of it rough trail.    You could easily extend a fully paved path all the way through to Scott Street to the Ottawa River.  You'd have a great pathway connecting Dow's Lake to Lebreton Flats.
  

  


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 For the past year, the pathway tunnel under the Queensway just west of Moodie has been closed due to Queensway construction

. There's no detour route indicated, just a sign that says the underpass is closed, which is disappointing considering that this is busy connecting route between Kanata South / Bells Corners and the pathway network north of the Queensway.
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** Related: ** Ottawa Bike Guide