Will definitely be looking at doing saint John’s and/or halifax rather soon! These take a bit more research and editing than my other videos but I really enjoyed the end product! Hope you guys do too!
Kelowna, British Coloumbia is a rapidly growing little city. Choices made right now will determine if it takes advantage of that impetus or just becomes another sprawling mess eating away at the rich agicultural land and fabulous nature that make it attractive. Worth some study. Guelph, Ontario is a little city which has made some interesting progressive planning choices in recent years, choosing to maximize density instead of sprawling. Kingston, Ontario, which was Ontario's first capital, has a fascinating history and some of the province's best old architecture. With its strategic location halfway between Toronto and Montreal, it's the logical place for growth.
I love Kelowna and Kamloops, the BC government should focus more on them and implement good city planning measures BC also needs more cities outside the Lower Mainland
Ottawa must reconsider the horrific scar that runs through it. The elevated Queensway should be levelled, and a proper boulevard built in its place. Many cities have done this -- Seattle, Detroit and Seoul to name a few -- and all have designed a pristine city landscape that caters to people first, and cars second.
It was the original plan of Gréber, remove the rail tracks for boulevards and green space however they took half and left half… which ends up having a highway replicate what railways did : divide the city and cause congestion in the downtown area… with the LRT now being built a downtown highway is just not necessary and doesn’t promote alternative commuting methods
@@TheUrbanique You are absolutely correct. Perhaps Greber's plan was far too progressive for the time, but one would think that today it is purely logical. If only the politians had your common sense, but I have yet to come across one who will even listen to my argument without countering with excuse after excuse
Seattle didn’t get rid of Highway 99 though, it buried it underground. It was a win for pedestrians/waterfront as well as motorists since it’s used as an alternative to I-5.
Just posted a map that I made showing Ottawa’s CURRENT LRT system… it could’ve been something truly amazing at a fraction of the price if we just kept them…
Ottawa in the 80s and 90s had awful traffic and the worst thing was that cars back then had much worse exhaust, and because Ottawa sits at the bottom of a valley, the smog just collected there and never moved.
HI, I hate to be that guy, so I'll start off by saying I enjoyed the video and you raised several points that would merit their own deep dives. At 30 seconds in while discussing the creation of Parliament Hill you made a rather glaring error when you stated that the "iconic Peace tower setting the skyline limit at 150 feet". You are correct that a height limit of 150 feet was put in place, however it was the "Victoria Tower" that stood at 180 feet tall that set the limit. The Peace Tower which stands at 302 feet didn't exist until after a fire in 1916 Destroyed the original Parliament and a new one was constructed. The "Peace tower" is named as such to commemorate and honour those who fought in WW1 and was completed in 1927
Sith happens as I like to say@@TheUrbanique It's an easy oversight to make and you still got the height restriction (the most important bit of info) correct
The 417 through the downtown core should be decommissioned. Instead a new bypass should be erected along Barnsdale, Rideau & Thunder Rd. to allow for a bypass around the core. The 417 corridor should be converted to rail & light modal transport. I’ve get for a long time now that King Edward Avenue should be buried and resurface to connect to the east end of the 417 south of Sandy Hill. This way, there’s a fast connection to Gatineau from Ottawa & there’s less traffic in the core & in the east end.
The former City of Cumberland has already built a bypass, minus fhe interprovincial crossing. Truck traffic would exit at Vars, down Frank Kenny Road to Brian Coburn Blvd. That's where the dream has ended.
Great video. Interestingly, Ontario has another Greenbelt and it is probably the most successful on Earth, should do a video on the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Greenbelt.
Moved to Ottawa recently from TDOT. Relatively boring, but a lot more peaceful city and I find it weird that the only way to access Gatineu/Quebec is through downtown Ottawa, very inefficient way. Interesting vid tho, didn't know all those big roads are just railways turned into big roads.
I moved to Ottawa from Edmonton and I feel it’s 20 years behind in urban planning. The lack of bridges across the Ottawa river and functional lrt makes the downtown core a traffic mess that will take years to resolve. I shake my head whenever I see loaded logging trucks drive by my office on Rideau.
@@keithiverson6687Still better than Toronto traffic. You don't want to see the mess Toronto is. It isn't just a lack on infra, it's just too many people for a city that could only support half of it's population. But I agree, Ottawa is a few years of becoming a Toronto style nightmare.
I am from Ottawa. What we lack is a ring road expressway. The green belt divides the city into unban and suburban areas. This was an idea developed in the 1960’s which should be reviewed. Also, is there any other metropolitan area in the world that had a huge farm smack dab in the middle of the city? We have the “Experimental Farm” from Agriculture Canada. This is prime development land inside the city that doesn’t add anything to our local economy. Ottawa has the Federal Government as the major landowner in Ottawa as a result, and as such development in this area is impossible. Just examine the fiasco of picking a site for our new Ottawa Civic Hospital.
There's a area northish of the Bi-Ward market where street after street runs one way in the same direction ... five of them as I recall ... before you hit one that goes the other way. I suppose that it made sense ... to somebody ... somewhere ... after committee after committee debated it for years, no doubt.
North of the Market is nothing. Almost every street from Parliament to the highway is one-way. There are at least a dozen east-west one-way streets and most of the north-south streets are also one-way.
Oh Ottawa... It is one of the most boring capitals in the world. It's not a cultural hub, lacks unique-ness, for it's age has poor design, lots of areas are lacking any character and feels like public transit was an after thought. It's like Canada is afraid to look at how other cities in the world did things and what worked and what didn't and learn from that. Instead, just do it their own way trying to re-invent the wheel ending making it look like a copy and past job of part of other Canadian cities (yes, there's Exception like Kingston).
@@TheUrbanique maybe slow down your image transitions and keep them simpler. They can be distracting at times. The section of the video zooming around Lebreton Flats in Google Earth was a bit dizzying. Less fancy is better sometimes.
Could you let me know of some errors I’ve done! I could share some of my sources… most of peer-reviewed academia but I am always looking to advance my research! For the pronunciation, English is my second language so I have a certain accent and sometimes mispronounce, however I’m always trying to get better!
Colonel By (Kernel By) and LeBreton Flats (le brett-en (said quickly)) are the most notable pronunciation errors but you can also always say them in French! The national capital region is very bilingual :)
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Let me know what city I should look at next 👇
You should maybe talk about the Atlantic City’s like Halifax St. John’s and st John
As a Newfoundlander, im biased in saying I’d love to see a St. John‘s video
Will definitely be looking at doing saint John’s and/or halifax rather soon! These take a bit more research and editing than my other videos but I really enjoyed the end product! Hope you guys do too!
@@TheUrbanique Yeah man it’s great! I came across your channel around 2 weeks ago now and have enjoyed what you’ve produced. Keep up the work man! 👍
Kelowna, British Coloumbia is a rapidly growing little city. Choices made right now will determine if it takes advantage of that impetus or just becomes another sprawling mess eating away at the rich agicultural land and fabulous nature that make it attractive. Worth some study.
Guelph, Ontario is a little city which has made some interesting progressive planning choices in recent years, choosing to maximize density instead of sprawling.
Kingston, Ontario, which was Ontario's first capital, has a fascinating history and some of the province's best old architecture. With its strategic location halfway between Toronto and Montreal, it's the logical place for growth.
I love Kelowna and Kamloops, the BC government should focus more on them and implement good city planning measures
BC also needs more cities outside the Lower Mainland
Bro, you're moving the camera too much. I can't get a fixed point of reference
Ottawa must reconsider the horrific scar that runs through it. The elevated Queensway should be levelled, and a proper boulevard built in its place. Many cities have done this -- Seattle, Detroit and Seoul to name a few -- and all have designed a pristine city landscape that caters to people first, and cars second.
It was the original plan of Gréber, remove the rail tracks for boulevards and green space however they took half and left half… which ends up having a highway replicate what railways did : divide the city and cause congestion in the downtown area… with the LRT now being built a downtown highway is just not necessary and doesn’t promote alternative commuting methods
@@TheUrbanique You are absolutely correct. Perhaps Greber's plan was far too progressive for the time, but one would think that today it is purely logical.
If only the politians had your common sense, but I have yet to come across one who will even listen to my argument without countering with excuse after excuse
Cars cater to people.
@@AllenGraetz I really think it's the other way around. People cater to cars.
Seattle didn’t get rid of Highway 99 though, it buried it underground. It was a win for pedestrians/waterfront as well as motorists since it’s used as an alternative to I-5.
Shout out for getting a video clip of our train actually operating… albeit on a nice sunny dry day.
Great video !
3:55 remember what was taken from us
Just posted a map that I made showing Ottawa’s CURRENT LRT system… it could’ve been something truly amazing at a fraction of the price if we just kept them…
@@TheUrbanique Yeah, makes you think what we could have done with the Transitway if we already had these tram corridors to compliment it
That's almost LA Metro's official slogan.
We used to be a real country :(
Ottawa in the 80s and 90s had awful traffic and the worst thing was that cars back then had much worse exhaust, and because Ottawa sits at the bottom of a valley, the smog just collected there and never moved.
HI, I hate to be that guy, so I'll start off by saying I enjoyed the video and you raised several points that would merit their own deep dives. At 30 seconds in while discussing the creation of Parliament Hill you made a rather glaring error when you stated that the "iconic Peace tower setting the skyline limit at 150 feet". You are correct that a height limit of 150 feet was put in place, however it was the "Victoria Tower" that stood at 180 feet tall that set the limit. The Peace Tower which stands at 302 feet didn't exist until after a fire in 1916 Destroyed the original Parliament and a new one was constructed. The "Peace tower" is named as such to commemorate and honour those who fought in WW1 and was completed in 1927
Thank you for the correction! You are completely correct! Apologies for such an error… thank you though for the constructive feedback! 🙏🙏
Sith happens as I like to say@@TheUrbanique It's an easy oversight to make and you still got the height restriction (the most important bit of info) correct
The 417 through the downtown core should be decommissioned. Instead a new bypass should be erected along Barnsdale, Rideau & Thunder Rd. to allow for a bypass around the core. The 417 corridor should be converted to rail & light modal transport. I’ve get for a long time now that King Edward Avenue should be buried and resurface to connect to the east end of the 417 south of Sandy Hill. This way, there’s a fast connection to Gatineau from Ottawa & there’s less traffic in the core & in the east end.
The former City of Cumberland has already built a bypass, minus fhe interprovincial crossing. Truck traffic would exit at Vars, down Frank Kenny Road to Brian Coburn Blvd. That's where the dream has ended.
Great video thanks again ❤
Great video.
Interestingly, Ontario has another Greenbelt and it is probably the most successful on Earth, should do a video on the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Greenbelt.
Will definitely go over Toronto at some point!
Moved to Ottawa recently from TDOT. Relatively boring, but a lot more peaceful city and I find it weird that the only way to access Gatineu/Quebec is through downtown Ottawa, very inefficient way. Interesting vid tho, didn't know all those big roads are just railways turned into big roads.
I moved to Ottawa from Edmonton and I feel it’s 20 years behind in urban planning. The lack of bridges across the Ottawa river and functional lrt makes the downtown core a traffic mess that will take years to resolve. I shake my head whenever I see loaded logging trucks drive by my office on Rideau.
@@keithiverson6687Still better than Toronto traffic. You don't want to see the mess Toronto is. It isn't just a lack on infra, it's just too many people for a city that could only support half of it's population. But I agree, Ottawa is a few years of becoming a Toronto style nightmare.
You can get to Gatineau via the Champlain Bridge, which is a few km west of downtown.
I am from Ottawa. What we lack is a ring road expressway. The green belt divides the city into unban and suburban areas. This was an idea developed in the 1960’s which should be reviewed. Also, is there any other metropolitan area in the world that had a huge farm smack dab in the middle of the city? We have the “Experimental Farm” from Agriculture Canada. This is prime development land inside the city that doesn’t add anything to our local economy. Ottawa has the Federal Government as the major landowner in Ottawa as a result, and as such development in this area is impossible. Just examine the fiasco of picking a site for our new Ottawa Civic Hospital.
There's a area northish of the Bi-Ward market where street after street runs one way in the same direction ... five of them as I recall ... before you hit one that goes the other way. I suppose that it made sense ... to somebody ... somewhere ... after committee after committee debated it for years, no doubt.
North of the Market is nothing. Almost every street from Parliament to the highway is one-way. There are at least a dozen east-west one-way streets and most of the north-south streets are also one-way.
Winnipeg stopped changing its roads in 1950 and never changed
I met the city manager to discuss ideas of how to save the city tens of millions of dollars - he was an idiot.......
Oh Ottawa... It is one of the most boring capitals in the world. It's not a cultural hub, lacks unique-ness, for it's age has poor design, lots of areas are lacking any character and feels like public transit was an after thought. It's like Canada is afraid to look at how other cities in the world did things and what worked and what didn't and learn from that. Instead, just do it their own way trying to re-invent the wheel ending making it look like a copy and past job of part of other Canadian cities (yes, there's Exception like Kingston).
I hate this city so much, I cant wait to move.
Interesting, but really poorly edited
Apologies if it isn’t up to par yet, always trying to get better! Any tips ? 🙏 thanks for watching though!
@@TheUrbanique maybe slow down your image transitions and keep them simpler. They can be distracting at times. The section of the video zooming around Lebreton Flats in Google Earth was a bit dizzying. Less fancy is better sometimes.
If there's one thing that's bad for citys is train lines, and streetcars. Cars are the way to go just add more lanes it'll work this time
Nah.
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Ottawa is cursed...
I can fix it
The LRT is an embarrassing failure
Great video, boring city.
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@@TheUrbanique cool vid regardless my fault for being a dick
ahahah don’t worry, I can always do better though sometimes I catch myself lacking!
720p video in 2024? Really?
So many factual and pronunciation errors in this post. If you don’t understand ottawa don’t make such erroneous comments.
Could you let me know of some errors I’ve done! I could share some of my sources… most of peer-reviewed academia but I am always looking to advance my research! For the pronunciation, English is my second language so I have a certain accent and sometimes mispronounce, however I’m always trying to get better!
Colonel By (Kernel By) and LeBreton Flats (le brett-en (said quickly)) are the most notable pronunciation errors but you can also always say them in French! The national capital region is very bilingual :)
Thank you for that! I said them with a mix of my French pronunciation and my English which might of sound weird… thank you for the help though! 🙏🙏