Is their a most notorious example of dangerous Ottawa cycling infrastructure?
We’re working on putting together two top-ten lists: one problems with easy fixes, and another for larger problems. We’re not ready to distribute the lists yet, but I’ll describe a couple of my favourites. A classic postcard scene of Ottawa is of cyclists leisurely riding on the NCC path between Colonel By and the canal towards downtown. It looks great, but to get somewhere you’d actually want to go (downtown, the National Gallery, the Rideau Centre), you’d need to first ignore the NCC sign that points the wrong way, bike on a path that might or might not be a bike path, dismount to cross Colonel By at a pedestrian crossing, and finally ride in busy traffic. Another good one is on the NCC Ottawa River pathway where it crosses Booth St. near the War Museum. There is no bicycle crossing, so cyclists are supposed to dismount, hit the pedestrian crossing button and wait. The delay can be 4 minutes, which infuriates the thousands of cyclists who commute by there every day. Cyclists get frus
