I posted yesterday about my biggest travel day during the #WeekWithoutDriving challenge, so will keep this wrap-up short!

At the end of the week, I was able to avoid driving completely, although I was tempted during some of those cross-city trips to grab the car! 

In all I did about 190 kms of travel during the week, predominantly by bike. The weather was perfect throughout the week, if a little hot on the weekend. With some poorer weather, a lot of those trips would have become transit trips, and likely slower.

One of my trips was to the far south end of Ottawa, which I did by bike/LRT/rack-and-roll. Line 1 was down for testing this weekend or it would have featured more prominently, but Line 2 was still running. It’s my favourite of the two trains – big, heavy commuter rail.

This also would have been a different challenge in winter. It simply wouldn’t have been possible for me to bike to many of these locations: the Central Experimental Farm path isn’t plowed, and nor are the parkway and river multi-use paths.  Below you can see my heat map of just cycling trips, which would have looked very different and much more local to the centre of the city where winter-cleared cycling infrastructure is more extensive every year.

In the coming weeks I expect to be doing just about as much travel, likely with more car travel for further-flung destinations. It’s possible to roam this widely across the city on transit and by bike, but until the LRT opens fully in the east and west people will be spending more time than they should to move around.