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Prince of Wales Bridge Reopens as Active Transportation Bridge with New Name

Reading Time: 8 minutes A large piece of new active transportation infrastructure finally opened yesterday. Here is all the background you want to read about the historic Prince of Wales bridge, now...

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Retracing the First Train into Ottawa: the Bytown & Prescott Railway

Reading Time: 10 minutes Mr. Walter Shanly, a civil engineer, touched the ground to inspect the land underneath his snow shoes. He was on a mission: recently he, and a group of investors, had agreed on...

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How to Measure Drivers’ Speed Without Tools

Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you find yourself wondering how fast traffic moves through your neighbourhood? Here is a simple method to roughly calculate just that. The post How to Measure Drivers’ Speed...

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A 52 km loop along the Estriade and Yamaska National Park in Quebec

Reading Time: 7 minutes The Estriade is a 22 km bicycle route on a former railway bed. Combined with a route through a National Park, it makes for a lovely 52 km route, all on separate pathways. The...

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A bike ride from Cascais to the Atlantic Ocean

Reading Time: 7 minutes After our adventures on the Portuguese rail to trails in Dão and Évora, we moved on to Lisbon. The bike adventures in Portugal weren’t over yet though. We found another trail,...

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Time for a new helmet: shall I go urban?

Reading Time: 7 minutes It was time for me to start looking for a new bicycle helmet. And just like that someone called me and we discussed the Melon helmet this spring and I ended up trying one out....

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Dutch health experts increasingly vocal about helmet use

Reading Time: 6 minutes Dutch authorities are increasingly worried about the rise in traffic deaths among seniors on e-bikes. They would like to see Dutch seniors and children starting to wear helmets....

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New Raised Bike Tracks on Byron Ave

Reading Time: 5 minutes Part of Byron Ave in Ottawa recently went through an integrated road, sewer and watermain upgrade. The city used that as an opportunity to upgrade the road with separate bike...

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Cycling infra updates in Ottawa in 2023 – part 1/2

Reading Time: 8 minutes As 2023 comes to an end, I made an overview of the cycling projects that are (nearly) finished in Ottawa this year. Here is part 1 of 2 posts. The post Cycling infra updates in...

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More new cycling infrastructure in Ottawa – part 2

Last week I showed a number of new bicycle infrastructure improvements in Ottawa. This week we'll look to several more new bike infrastructure projects in the city.

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