Sam Hersh

According to statistics from Gonthier, less than 20 percent of collisions involving cyclists and four percent of collisions involving pedestrians at intersections in Ottawa between 2019 and 2022 are later to right turns on reds. For Coun. Tierney, who is the chair of the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, road safety is along his top priorities. He is glad the data is supporting what we already know. “I’m glad we can turn the page on tis and focus on the other important issues in our city. If the councillor really feels that strong about it, table a motion about it, because you are wasting people’s time with this house.”

The chair of the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee thinks it’s “wasting people’s time” for me to submit an inquiry to city staff about the pedestrian safety issues that impact Centretown residents.

That’s the job, Tim. See you at committee tomorrow.

Équiterre et plusieurs organisations au 🇨🇦 dénoncent les 5 G$ retirés du transport collectif :

« En coupant les solutions qui permettent aux gens d’économiser sur leurs déplacements, ça n'aide pas les ménages à réduire leur facture de mobilité »

Communiqué : www.equiterre.org/fr/articles/...

Ottawa’s ByWard Market plan would create ‘flex’ streets closed to traffic during major events The City of Ottawa will not permanently close streets to vehicles in Ottawa’s ByWard Market as part of the plan to revitalize the popular tourist area, instead creating “flex pedestrianized” streets d...

This has to be the lamest plan to "revitalize" the Market I've ever seen - it revamps some parking garages but functionality changes nothing.

Right now, a lot of it just acts as a giant parking lot -- council should be bold and pedestrianize it.

Note to Claridge and Ottawa council:

Claridge Homes proposes expanding Ottawa’s urban boundary to build 2,300 new homes Claridge Homes wants to expand the urban boundary in Ottawa’s west end by 276 acres for a future development, with approximately 2,391 new homes to support more than 6,800 people.

Ottawa City Council has already ceded so much land to urban sprawl at the behest of their wealthy developer donors.

It's just never enough for big corporate developers like Claridge.

I was reminded that yesterday was the 4th anniversary of the now-dubbed "Battle of Billings Bridge" when over a thousand of us in Ottawa blockaded convoyers from coming into our city.

With the growing far-right, it's a good reminder of how we can still fight back - and win.

I would agree that it is a bit of a confusinf motion - will try and get more details and clarity but seems to speak of an expanded level of powers.

Councillors like Plante claim to be progressive but then submit motions like these.

We're in a budget crisis re: public transit, routes have been cut, it's the most expensive it's ever been and people are suffering.

How is this going to solve any of this. Hint: It won't.

Ottawa City Councillor Stephanie Plante just put forward a motion at Council to essentially give transit special constables the same powers as police when it comes to people using drugs.

When it comes to transit, people are asking for better servie not expanding policing powers.

Statement: $5 Billion in Transit Cuts a Huge Step Backwards - Environmental Defence Statement from Sam Hersh, Clean Transportation Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Cutting $5

Last week, the govt finally admitted they cut public $5 billion from the Canada Public Transit Fund.

Without predictable federal funding, cities will be forced to cut service or raise fares outcomes that disproportionately hurt low-income riders.

From me on behalf of @environmentaldefence.ca:

Chart showing Ottawa's bus fleet size decline since 2010, while the population increases

Here's a visualization of how Watson and Sutcliffe's austerity impacted our bus fleet since 2010.

This was never a sustainable path and now we're left with too few buses on the best of days, let alone enough to cover for an LRT service disruption.

15 years ago, Ottawa had a fleet of 1000 buses - that number has dwindled to 730 as a result of reckless cuts and now with constant LRT shutdowns we are feeling the consequences of decades of bad decision-making.

Sign the petition below to call on council to buy more buses:

Homebuilder plans to run for Ottawa mayor | CBC News A candidate with the backing of some big political operators plans to enter this year's race to be Ottawa’s mayor.

Just what we need for Ottawa's mayor: another developer-backed, cut-and-slash conservative hell-bent on austerity because it's working so well right now!

Let the historical record note that the business elites at Davos repeatedly laughed during a fascist speech that declared intent to annex another country’s land, promoted election conspiracies and railed against the free press

OC Transpo temporarily cuts 255 trips from schedule amid bus shortage | CBC News OC Transpo needs about 520 buses to meet its weekday service requirements, but was only able to get an average of 467 on the road last week.

Before the massive cuts to OC Transpo in 2011, Ottawa had around 1000 buses in its fleet - in 2025 that number's dwindled to around 760.

The problem of bad transit service didn't just happen. It is the result of over a decade of bad council decision.

Remember that in the coming election this year.

Very disappointed in some councillors who voted for the
@ottawapolice.bsky.social budget.

If there was ever a year to oppose it, it's now when police are asking for their biggest increase in 10+ years.

Glad we have ANCHOR, but this is some major backsliding on where we were in 2020/2021.

The money for those increases has to come from somewhere - especially if the city isn't willing to raise property taxes to an adequate amount!

Smh councillors calling the biggest increase in the
@ottawapolice.bsky.social budget in the last 15 years "reasonable."

There is *nothing* reasonable about giving the OPS a $30 million budget increase while we can't even provide enough emergency services for people.

It's absurd.

Guy who says he loves keeping costs low will force people to work in offices costing taxpayers more to keep office spaces open so govt workers can take Zoom meetings in downtown Ottawa instead of at home.

It makes a lot of sense.

Terribly stupid idea that will satisfy faux-populist urges to dunk on public servants while simultaneously making the lives of public servants and the service itself so much worse.

Goofy stuff.

Tim Tierney "there is no time for political theatre"

Also Tim

Ottawa councillor: NCC 'unelected board of crazy people' An Ottawa councillor is blasting the National Capital Commission amid what he described as a "hell of a fight" to reopen Wellington Street in front of Parliament Hill.

These types of gaffes is
@timtierney.ca's legacy.

Instead of fighting for the things Ottawa really needs, his focus is going in the air and insulting institutions that are actually pushing for positive change in our city like the NCC.

Centretown crisis response team handled thousands of calls in its 1st year, report shows | CBC News Launched in August 2024, the Alternative Neighbourhood Crisis Response (ANCHOR) team responded to 4,464 calls in its first year, according to numbers in a new city report. The pilot program aims to pr...

Tierney blames downtown councillors for the rise in crime for supporting the ANCHOR program that has been, by all accounts, a success at diverting mental health calls away from
@ottawapolice.bsky.social.

Tierney's status quo approach has changed nothing.

Is your councillor a chronic no-voter on city budgets? | Opinion Tim Tierney: Ottawa has traded safety and security for policing alternatives – experiments that have repeatedly failed. | Opinion

In the @ottawacitizen.com today Cllr Tim Tierney scolds progressives for opposing four years of shitty budgets under Mark Sutcliffe.

Tierney's history of corruption scandals, gaffes and accepting developer money should tell you exactly whose side hes on.

City Budget 101

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it’s funny seeing canadian media present zohran as a “democratic socialist” like it’s some shocking thing and not just the left flank of the ndp

Imagine the response in any other workplace if you called your colleague names in the middle of a meeting. A public apology for such childish behaviour is warranted @timtierney.ca.

Just now - Councillor @shawnmenard.bsky.social
is interrupted by Councillor @timtierney.ca while asking questions on Lansdowne.

Menard pushes back, then Tierney calls him an "asshole". This behaviour is unbefitting of a councillor, and demands an integrity complaint.

➡️ integrity@ottawa.ca

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