rants

Ottawa blogger Gordon Dewis has a good rant about people who drive slowly on the Queensway . He must have had a bad commute home today or something. ** ** “Are they not comfortable driving at speed?” asks Dewis. “If so, then they have no business being on the highway and they should seriously consider taking some remedial driver’s ed to address these insecurities. ...

Jamine the Yoga Teacher tells the story of some Lowertown neighbours who are upset about chalk drawings her kids made on the sidewalk . Here’s an excerpt: They told me to clean it off. I told them to " ...

David Reevely has a good rant today titled " A council that trusts nobody, including itself “. (I’d post an excerpt but there’s a hockey game to watch.) ** Related: ** Ottawa Politics Guide

Here’s yet another rant about OC Transpo, this time from XUP, from this post titled " OC Transpo: There are Other Ways to travel " "They tick me off so much each and every day —- with their high percentage of downright arseholerish drivers and filthy, falling-apart buses; with their outrageous expenses for new garages; and with their overall distain for transit riders (let’s ban people with pets, let’s ban people who want to eat or drink on the bus, let’s ban people with strollers, let’s ban people who don’t know where they’re going and ask us stuff or expect us to call out stops, let’s ban old people who can’t get to their seat fast enough, let’s ban people who can’t squeeze through a jam-packed bus to get to the doors before we slam them shut, let’s ban people who aren’t at their bus stops 10 minutes early in case we decide to show up then, let’s just ban all those nasty, smelly people who can’t drive themselves around). ...

Ottawa Citizen blogger David Reevely translates a very wordy memo/letter by Deputy city manager Nancy Schepers re: the new bus garage.

Andrea has a good rant on composting, over on her Peek Inside The Fishbowl blog . She’s claimed the title of “compost queen of Westboro”, and takes on some of the negative comments so far about Ottawa’s new green bin program. ...

Enjoyed reading David Reevely’s take on pedestrian signage gone wrong: “Here’s a tip for the traffic engineers. If you need signs like this, and especially if the signs need to inform pedestrians where their “refuge” is while they try to navigate a simple two-street crossing, you’ve blown it. ...

Here’s a rant that is destined to become a classic. Written by XUP , after spending over an hour to bus home when it would have taken ten minutes to drive the same distance. Sample just one paragraph of ten: “You do everything in your power to discourage transit users and yet some of us just won’t give up. ...

XUP says: ** ** You know those automatic door openers next to mall doors and the doors of some shops? Sometimes they’re just red buttons, sometimes they’re big metal buttons with a stick figure in a wheelchair in the middle of them. ...

Blogger Eric Darwin has a great rant today on his West Side Action blog. He’s highly critical of the City of Ottawa’s pedestrian safety campaign, pointing out that currently on the City’s web site, there’s currently lots of suggestions for pedestrians to avoid getting hit by cars - but none for motorists. ...