Denley: Thank goodness Ottawa has the NCC telling us how to get around town

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Denley: Thank goodness Ottawa has the NCC telling us how to get around town
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The mayor’s insistence on making transportation decisions based on facts is quite concerning. Luckily, the NCC takes the opposite approach.

Active transportation, for those not familiar with the term, is the latest way to describe what we would once have called cycling and walking. The new terminology reflects the critical importance of these activities and is certainly an upgrade over cycling, which sounds recreational, and walking, which sounds, well, pedestrian.Active transportation is just one element of the new climate religion.

in this newspaper. Sutcliffe attempts to defend his outlandish position by relying on facts and rationality. Closing part of The Driveway offers few additional benefits to cyclists, the mayor says, but it increases traffic congestion elsewhere and makes it hard for emergency responders to get into the Glebe. Oh, and there is already a perfectly good bicycle path right beside the road.

Ottawans are fortunate to have such an enlightened government agency. While Sutcliffe says the city has given the NCC data detailing the problems The Driveway closure causes, the NCC will not let itself be deterred by facts.

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