traffic & transit

New OC Transpo service to Tanger Outlets mall in Kanata will be available seven days a week. Currently, Route 96A is providing weekday service to Tanger Outlets every 30 minutes. Connections to Route 96A can be made downtown, along the Transitway and in Stittsville. ...

_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . _ A few years back, when I was single, I was out on the town and waved down an Ottawa taxi. ...

https://twitter.com/m_licalzi/status/517441922076782592 https://twitter.com/laurenskelly/status/517457967328002049 _ Today’s guest post comes from Brian Alkerton, and originally appeared on his blog . What do you think about Uber and our city’s response to it? Add your comments below or email us at feedback@ottawastart.com _ Uber is now in Ottawa… which is for the most part a good thing. ...

Safe Driving Awards were presented today by the Mayor of Ottawa, the City Manager, and the General Manager of Transit Services to 45 OC Transpo bus operators in recognition of their distinguished safe-driving records and their commitment to providing safe and reliable service to customers. ...

_ This article originally appeared on our sister site, StittsvilleCentral.ca _ [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/queensway-construction-1038x576.jpg) Here’s an update on Queensway construction in the Kanata/Stittsville area, provided by Andrew MacHardy from McIntosh Perry Consulting Engineers. Work is expected to finish on schedule later this fall. ...

The Queensway was shut down on Saturday night so that they could replace the Lees Avenue overpass . Here’s a timelapse showing the removal of the bridge. Here’s a video of the 2011 Carling Avenue bridge replacement… ** See also: ** Ottawa Traffic Guide ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/3f51161c322611e3bb5722000a1fd013_8.jpg) "Long may you run, you beautiful bastard," Instagram art by [ minkwilliams ](http://ottawastart.com/digital-art-inspired-by-the-ottawa-elk-long-may-you-run-you-beautiful-bastard/) Here's our third annual list of things that Ottawa was obsessed with (for better or for worse) in 2013. ...

[  ](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J6ZhBM0vTiI/UliXRMpCk6I/AAAAAAAASLE/M3nAnnNXkIM/s1600/13i-347___003.jpg) Photo supplied by the City of Ottawa. Remember the not-boring-but-actually-a-roadheader-LRT-tunnel-machine that [ we blogged about a couple weeks ago? ](http://ottawastart.com/ottawa-is-boring-the-ultimate-lrt-tunnel-construction-t-shirt/) ** ** Well now, if you’re a Grade 4 student, you can give it a name. ...

Most people who’ve taken the bus in Ottawa have probably spent some time on their commute dreaming about the ultimate, pie-in-the-sky, never-in-a-million-years Ottawa transit system. You know, subways from Barrhaven to Canadian Tire Centre, rail tunnels beneath the Ottawa River, that kind of thing. ...

** UPDATE: ** The Citizen’s David Reevely tells OttawaStart that the machine on the t-shirt is in fact ** _ not _ ** technically a boring machine, but a roadheader. (Boring machines are perfectly round, like this one . ...