By Joe Lofaro, Ottawa Sun, September 6, 2016
A Barrhaven mother is worried a child might be seriously injured by an uncovered manhole on a residential street when kids return to school Tuesday morning.
Carmen Salinas said she almost stumbled into one of two uncovered rectangular manholes during a morning run on Monday just before 8 a.m. on Queensbury Drive, near the intersection with Woodroffe Avenue.
By Joanne Chianello, CBC News Ottawa, September 3, 2016
It was supposed to be a safe way to bike downtown, but the death of a young woman on the Laurier Avenue West bike lane on Thursday has many people spooked.
"At this point I'm not pulling my bicycle out, for fear of being hit by a car," said Sebastian Winkler after witnessing the scene at the corner of Laurier and Lyon Street, where 23-year-old Nusrat Jahan died after being hit by a construction truck.
By Laurie Fagan, CBC News Ottawa, September 5, 2016
Matthew Mason-Phillips is only 31 years old, but he says some days, after hours of planting and weeding, his aching back and knees make him feel like a sleep-deprived octogenarian
But between his soil-packed fingernails and the gentle way he picks heirloom tomatoes off the vine, it's easy to see that despite the hard work, Mason-Phillips loves being a farmer in the heart of Ottawa.
By CBC News Ottawa, September 4, 2016
Cyclists, motorists and pedestrians all had their first chance Sunday to try out the new Booth Street bridge west of downtown, open after nearly two years of construction work.
"There was no other cars! It was great. I had the whole thing," said Elizabeth Rousseau, who biked across the bridge Sunday morning.
By CBC News Ottawa, September 5, 2016
A highly secretive plan to ship weapons-grade nuclear waste from a federal lab northwest of Ottawa to the United States is drawing ire in some of the southern Ontario and American communities along the potential route.
Radioactive waste from the former Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. laboratory in Chalk River, Ont., a major but dwindling world supplier of medical isotopes that is now run by a private consortium, is set to be transported in liquid form to a site in Savannah River, S.C., for processing and disposal.
By Ottawa Citizen, September 4, 2016
Québec solidaire wants to all plastic bans banned throughout the province of Quebec.
The party launched a petition on the National Assembly’s website in the hopes to see the government ban single-use plastic bags.
MNA Manon Massé, who created the petition, said she decided to back this initiative based on demands from citizens.
By Don Butler, Ottawa Citizen, September 2, 2016
You want wetlands? We got ’em by the soggy bushel.
According to Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources, there are about 51,000 hectares of marshes, swamps, bogs and fens in the City of Ottawa, representing about 18 per cent of the city’s total land mass.
So it might come as a surprise that the National Capital Commission is teaming up with the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA) and the Great Lakes Guardian Community Fund to double to size of an existing wetland in the headwaters of Black Rapids Creek, a tributary of the Rideau River.
By Emma Jackson, Ottawa Metro News, September 2, 2016
LeBreton station is moving back to its old digs as the Booth Street bridge opens over the Confederation Line Sunday.
As of Sept. 4, Gatineau-bound passengers will catch their transfers on Booth just north of Albert Street. East- and west-bound passengers will still catch their rides along Albert, just a little further east.
The current station at Preston Street will close as that detour to Sir John A Macdonald Parkway shuts down permanently.
By Michelle Nash Baker, Ottawa Community News, September 2, 2016
One cyclist is dead. Two more are in critical condition.
It's been a tough week for cyclists in this city, and a number of them rallied in solidarity on Sept. 1 at city hall over safety concerns.
It was only hours after the latest cyclist and vehicle collision, in which a 23 year-old female cyclist was pronounced dead at the corner of Laurier Avenue and Lyon Street after a collision with large truck that morning.
By Matthew Kupfer, CBC News Ottawa, September 2, 2016
The death of 23-year-old Nusrat Jahan while biking on the Laurier separate bike lane is raising questions about the safety of cycling in Ottawa.
Ottawa police have not yet compiled the data on cycling collisions from 2015 to present. The statistics on 2015 will be released in the fall.
In the meantime, CBC News has compiled this map of cycling collisions that have been reported by police, paramedics and in our news and traffic reports in 2016.
By Joel R. Lafortune and others, Ottawa Citizen Letters to the Editor, September 2, 2016
Cycling tragedy bound to happen
Re: ‘Just not safe’ for cyclists, Sept. 2
The sad news of the death of a cyclist on Laurier Avenue is even more tragic because it was bound to happen. The design of the Laurier bike lanes is dangerous. The problem is that drivers turning right – even if looking backwards and over their right shoulders, while also avoiding pedestrians crossing in front of them and cars turning left, have blind spots or may simply not see a bike approaching on the inside right side.
By Jon Willing, Ottawa Citizen, September 2, 2016
A list of 59 initiatives Presto is committing to deliver under a business strategy includes using the smart card for more things than just public transit.
The Metrolinx document, obtained by the Citizen through an access to information request to the City of Ottawa, contemplates using the card for paid parking, identification and a fare option for other transportation services, such as Via Rail and Greyhound.