There are a lot of standards. To make it easier for you, the standard being updated is the "ramp style" sidewalk, which is SC13.

No, not publicly. The standards are available upon request by emailing StandardsSection@ottawa.ca. If you email now you will likely receive the 2025 standards, so you will have to email again later for the 2026 standards OR ask to be subscribed for future updates.

I believe the standard should be updated as-of the 2026 specification/standard update if all goes well.

We heard positives and negatives about each style, and have now developed a design that is a hybrid between the two: a smaller dip than the "traditional" sidewalk combined with a smaller "ramp" taking up less of the overall sidewalk width. The hybrid will be the new go-to standard for sidewalks.

The City's standards for basic sidewalks have been relatively consistent since the 2015 City of Ottawa Accessibility Design Standards. Results from the recent consultation (where you got those slides from) revealed a real split between which sidewalk style people preferred.

Correct! And sometimes wider next to schools and other high traffic areas.

Do you have a shot of the suburbs? I imagine most of the newest suburbs are blue due to their higher density?

You can walk to the bus stops you just can't walk through the bus entrance, which is true for most fare paid bus loops. Leitrim gets service from Route 93 & 94. Bowesville doesn't currently get bus service but almost certainly will as Riverside South expands.

The sidewalks aren't being "redone", it is an entirely new sidewalk built as one of the first pedestrian projects from the new TMP. While we don't know exactly what happened, the situation appears to be a cruel irony.

Ottawa has something like that. Is this what you had in mind? youtu.be/Cf4kWI5L1v4?...

This is the south end of a project to widen and urbanize Carp Road between Hazeldean Road and Highway 417. Therefore north of this intersection the road will be rebuilt with the latest standard in cycling facilities, but east, south, and west of the intersection will need to transition to existing.

No City staff would have claimed a design they are proposing in unsafe, let alone a local street contraflow design that is a well accepted facility type. It's the equivalent of an architect claiming the building they are designing is unsafe. Your statement is dangerously close to professional libel.

Agreed. There is still a lot I like about Montreal Road, but continuous raised side street crossings would have really improved the experience.

I'm relatively sure it will get planted in a similar fashion to the existing portion of Robert Grant south of Abbott, which often has double rows of trees per side.

Most regions of Canada do not have natural population growth - so that is probably not a contributor.

I love some of the features on display here: wide crossings, bollards on the corner islands, and near side bicycle signals (even if they are still placed a touch too high)