traffic & transit

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/picture-11.png) Over on The Ottawa Project blog, David McClelland has an interesting post on downtown parking lots in Ottawa : ** ** In both the densest part of our city, an in one of Ottawa’s biggest pedestrian areas, huge amounts of land are given over to parking lots. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/Images-of-Centretown-Traffic-Operations-Division-Tour-part-II_1237847878171.png) Signs, signs, everywhere signs. That’s the theme of a recent post on the Images of Centretown blog, documenting a tour of Ottawa’s Traffic Operations Division . Inside a building on Loretta Street, city workers make and store traffic signs, street name signs, and more. ...

Here’s a cool Ottawa-based site that lets you estimate the cab fare between two locations. It’s called Taxi Me . For example, the cab fare from City Hall on Lisgar Street out to Scotiabank Place is about $55.77. ** ...

You know you live in an exciting city when a bridge construction project is being featured in the A major bridge construction in Ottawa project is being featured this week in the the Daily Commercial News and Construction Record publication: ...

** Some housekeeping notes: ** * Yesterday we introduced a new [ Ottawa Golf Guide ](http://ottawastart.com/golf.php) on OttawaStart. * We also renamed a couple of guides. The Traffic Guide becomes the [ Ottawa Driving Guide ](http://ottawastart.com/driving.php) , and the Transit Guide becomes the [ OC Transpo Guide ](http://ottawastart. ...

We received this email from Tim, a visitor to OttawaGasPrices.com : "What is breakdown of the price per litre we pay at the pump? Specifically, how much is Provincial & Federal Tax?" That’s a pretty common question these days as prices hover around the $1. ...

Miss Vicky has an interesting look at Ottawa’s new no-idling bylaw on her blog, pointing out at least twelve exceptions that allow vehicles to idle without penalty. I thought I heard that idling at drive-throughs was also permissible. Does anyone know which one of the exceptions covers that? ...

We’re clearing out our “items to blog” file tonight. Here are three recent items seen on David Reevely’s Ottawa Watch Greater Ottawa blog that deserve a mention: ** ** 1. [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/Google-Maps_1195262386859.png) Mapping Ottawa: David McLelland has started a very colourful Google map showing Ottawa's neighbourhoods. ...

I recently spent five days living at the Civic Hospital with my wife & new baby daughter. It was our second extended stay at the Civic in the past couple of years to take care of a new baby - and we were far more prepared the second time than the first. ...

Starting at 8:00pm on Saturday night, the Queensway will be shut down so that construction crews can replace the ramp bridges at Island Park Drive . Two existing 650-tonne bridges will be removed and replaced with new bridges, all within the span of about 15 hours. ...