General Suburban Updates and Rumours

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Block line has bicycle lanes on each side. Fischer-Hallman has MUTs on both sides. The Region has been actively putting MUTs and bike lanes on arterial roads so the suburbs are continually getting better. There are also trails through the parks and the hydro right-of-ways. I have cycled in that area and have not found it to be too bad.

Block Line has MUTs on the section between Strasburg and Homerwatson and bike lanes everywhere else, Bleams is supposed to be getting MUTs when they widen it, Homerwatson also has a MUT, Ottawa is slowly getting a MUT, then Strasburg will have a MUT from Ottawa to the new bridge. So it is definitely not a bad area to bike in compared to other neighborhoods, the only road that doesn't have decent cycling infrastructure in the neighborhood is Westmount, it did have the covid bike lanes though and numerous people were using them so they might put bike lanes or a MUT in eventually. 

If you were someone living in the townhouses that Activa is planning biking downtown wouldn't be all that difficult, you'd bike up to block line, cut through McLennan park, take the Ottawa MUT to Strasburg then the new bridge, then down Stirling and from their your at the east end of downtown. So it's anything but a desert when it comes to cycling infrastructure and as neonjoe already mentioned it's far from a transit desert.

I haven't been down there for a while and had checked Google Maps and only seen paint on the road, though I am aware of MUTs. It's definitely getting better.

Also the planned number of parking spots is less than 1.5 per unit. At some level I'd prefer 0, but we also live in the world. At least it's less than 2.