Newly elected taxi union president Pierre Nakhle said cabbies remain opposed to the legalized Uber. Jolson Lim, Centretown NewsA new city bylaw legalized ride-sharing services like Uber on Sept. 30, but for the city’s main taxi union, legalization of the industry’s chief competitor after a fierce two-year struggle is still hard to accept.
Month: October 2016
Design plan gets OK
A long-running battle over the development rules that frame Centretown’s future has finally come to an end after the Ontario Municipal Board approved a series of amendments to the community’s controversial official design plan.
Busy street gets traffic calming — 20 years later
The City of Ottawa is proceeding to install speed humps on MacLaren Street this fall, two decades after announcing the planned traffic-calming project. Cassandra Wood, Centretown NewsA traffic calming project in Centretown — the construction of seven speed humps along MacLaren Street between Bank Street and Bronson Avenue — is seeing the light of day after spending almost two decades on the books.
Bilingual push for Canada 150
A coalition of French-language advocates who hope to make Ottawa officially bilingual in 2017 — the year of Canada’s 150th anniversary – say they now have the numbers to back up their campaign.