David McClelland on parking lots in Ottawa

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Over on The Ottawa Project blog, David McClelland has an interesting post on downtown parking lots in Ottawa : **

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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. Just imagine if some of these were turned into apartment buildings, parkettes or squares! I’m certain it would make for a much nicer urban environment, as well as make these areas more attractive to both visitors and residents.

What also gets me is the fact that there are so many parking lots around the Supreme Court. These are federal lands, near a national landmark, so why are they given over to parked cars? Surely they’d be much nicer as public parks?
  

  

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** Related: ** Ottawa Driving Guide