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Man, yesterday I drove down St Joseph Blvd and it looked like a man on a bike was hit. Ambulance was not there yet but he was on the ground with people around him trying to help... it didn't look nice. For a second I thought this was an article about him.
People need to calm down and get of their phones while driving.
It was the second fatal collision involving pedestrians in Ottawa in less than 24 hours. On Tuesday afternoon, one adult pedestrian was killed and another was critically injured when they were struck by a vehicle on Innes Road.
A woman in her 50s died last month after being struck by a truck on Smyth Road, less than two kilometres from the site of Wednesday's collision.
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@sbv @ottawa @dwazou Just remember that Jim Watson didn't want #visionzero. He preferred to keep the status quo death rate of 20 to 25 pedestrians / people on bikes per year and to try to slowly reduce that by 5% a year.
A 5% reduction is one fewer death.
These deaths are the price we pay for voting in awful #Ottawa mayors who prioritize cars over people and austerity over improving the city. It's our fault.
@human3500 @sbv @ottawa @dwazou but who voted for them? i didn't. do you?
@burnitdown @sbv @ottawa @dwazou Not me. The suburbs did this to us.
@human3500 @burnitdown @sbv @ottawa @dwazou I live in the suburbs and voted for McKenney. BP2 carried a lot of suburbs, but not overwhelmingly. McKenney didn't campaign much on suburban issues.
Looking back at the 2022 election page on Wikipedia, I do see that she was endorsed by Mark Carney. I wonder how that's going to work out between the MP for Nepean and BP2.
@johnefrancis @human3500 @sbv @ottawa @dwazou
there is something about her that i don't trust, and that endorsement isn't helping.
what is BP2?
@burnitdown @human3500 @sbv @ottawa @dwazou BeigePants the I and BeigePants the II... Watson and Sutcliffe
@johnefrancis @human3500 @sbv @ottawa @dwazou
ah, because wearing beige pants is the worst thing either of them ever did.
they're both white supremacists. maybe work on a name that has to do with that.
@burnitdown @johnefrancis @sbv @ottawa @dwazou In that case you'll hate to learn their preferred pronouns.
@johnefrancis @burnitdown @sbv @ottawa @dwazou At least McKenney campaigned on real things. Not obvious lies like "fix transit", "i didn't take any developer donations", "Budget efficiencies" after eliminating those for the previous 15 years, etc.
@human3500 @sbv @ottawa @dwazou
no, i don't think it was "the surburbs". who made the suburbs that powerful? who amalgamated the cities?
@burnitdown @sbv @ottawa @dwazou Valid point. Mike Harris is the answer.
@human3500 @sbv @ottawa @dwazou
Mike Harris is also playing the same game as Stephen Harper, pulling strings from behind a curtain while they're no longer officially politicians. guess who owns all of those long-term care homes where most covid deaths have happened, and who got Doug Ford to deregulate LTC inspections.