The ride home from Seedy Saturday
Yesterday was Seedy Saturday and this year the Alta Vista Community Association hosted it just off Smyth Road. I got there via a circuitous journey biking to the LRT station…
Workaday ride with modal share update
It was a pretty workaday ride today. My bike needs some maintenance, though. The rust on the chain is starting to thicken up and my rotors are squealing. At one…
I miss my scooter
I spent a couple of hours this morning traveling by bus and LRT to run a bunch of errands, and I'm not sure if it was unreasonable or not.Friends and…
Great post on GPS changes at OC
Our local Reddit sub has a link today to a post by transit rider Derek Ellis on the changes made to OC Transpo's GPS feeds. It's well worth a read here.…
The joy of a quick transfer
Natalie and I moved into our house about 25 years ago when we didn't have a car. Before that, we lived in an apartment a few blocks away for about…
Bus Bus LRT Bus
The temperature in Ottawa has plunged over the past couple of days. It's still not crazy, and was around -14c for much of the day today, but I still chose…
Mid-month check-in on the travel journal
Two weeks in to my refreshed travel journal, the changes I made to it after last summer's effort seem to be working out. I significantly stripped down the Google form…
Challenging ride in the new snow
A reasonably substantial snowfall overnight made my errands downtown - grabbing a copy of the Sunday paper and dropping by the office - a little challenging. The residential streets were unplowed…
OC: gamified
OC: gamified Our municipal transit system has recently partnered with Transit as its official app for bus tracking and over the past few days crowdsourcing for bus trips - not…
2023 cycling heat map looks like a bug
Strava allows paid users to see their heat maps which is the only reason I subscribe to the service. Most of my travel is for work, a bunch for errands,…