Miranda Gray

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Ottawa Canada tweets; inclusive, smart city, data driven, transit, aunt, @BB4Radio podcast fan, she / her Mastodon: @Mirgray@mstdn.ca Living on unceded Algonquin Land, (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

Screenshot. Review status: Comment period in progress. Summary of what the consultation is on (RTO related parking changes). File lead:[blank]. Phone[blank].
Fake bus shelter ad. Picture of pasta dish. "Your bus is probably late anyway. Might as well grab dinner."
Danger! Do not cross tracks! high voltage Danger! Ne traversez pas les voies! Haute tension
Full text: Routes: 57, 61, 62, 63, 74, 75, 87 Date effective: May 08, 2026 Beginning on Saturday, May 9, NCC Weekend Bikedays returns to the Kichi Zībī Mīkan! Until October 12, routes 57, 61, 62, 63, 74, 75, and 87 will detour on weeknights and weekends in both directions around the parkway, between Lincoln Fields station and Churchill Avenue. Please allow extra time for your travels. NCC Weekend Bikedays detour schedule Planned detours start on Friday, May 8: On weekends, routes will be detoured from Friday at 10:30 pm until the following Monday at 6 am (in the case of Monday being a holiday, routes will be detoured until the following Tuesday at 6 am) On weekdays (Monday to Thursday), routes will be detoured nightly (10:30 pm - 6 am)
Very complicated alert message for 8 routes which seem to have different detours for entering / exiting Limebank station. However the date says the detours starts Aug 2025 and ends in Dec. It doesn't say which December but it seems to refer to December 2025.
Screenshot listing all 45 routes with at least one detour. Some routes have different detours are different times of day or have more than one detoured section.
OCT's website displays this message on each route info page: "The next service change is on Sunday, June 28".
Screen of OCT's English alerts page at 3 am July 12 2026. Key details routes tab indicates there are 45 routes with an alert. The Station tab is selected. It says there are 11 stations with alerts. They are: Mackenzie King, Westboro, Baseline, Blair, Place d'Orléans, Trim, Airport and Aéroport. Yes, this is not a list of 11 stations.
Yet another crappy picture of a broken plasma screen. It dies because it's in full light.
Transit app screenshot. Bus 30 Millenium leaves in 56 min, 86 min and at 15:40.
Photo of brilliantly white new concrete, new soil on inner edge of didewalk and black asphalt gutter. 3 large pylon remain on roadway. Another 3 pylons are on grass side of sidewalk. Sidewalk is open for use.
Infrastructure failure due to July 1 st 2026 rain storm. A 2 m section of Watt's Creek Pathway has collapsed. The hole in at least 1/2 m deep, 2 m across and a bit wider than the pathway. Photo via Glen Gower.
Two bright orange Daylily flowers in front of a wooden fence.
A light green glass wall bus shelter with a curved roof. There is a massive pharmacy add wall panel facing the camera.
3 m of sidewalk have been totally removed. The area is barricaded by many pylons and yellow caution tape.
A nearly dead plasma screen at Blair is orange rather than white. Multiple night buses are missing from plasma screen at night stop.
Orange spray paint outlines the segment of sidewalk concrete to be repair. It is adult snow angle in size and shape.
Brightly coloured Amazon Basics ad for school supplies.
An orange and white cat looks towards the photographer. He is on a lead which he has tangled around the same tree in the cedar hedge behind him. As usual
Yellow and blank safety tape line. In bold text: "Cancelled: Place d’Orléans Drive at Eastbound Highway 174 - Long Duration Ramp Closure - June 18 to July 3". In red text: " The outstanding permit has not been received. This closure will occur later in the summer."
Large green plastic utility access panel. 50% is missing (well, it seems to be in broken pieces in the hole).
Stop 8124.
Text of email: "The following will be picked up on Tuesday, Jun 9 2026. Black Bin - Paper and Cardboard; Green Bin - Food Waste; Yard Trimmings.
An official OCTranspo sticker on the doors of one elevator. It reads: "Out of service due to vandalism." Someone has scratched out "due to vandalism" with a pen. The sticker is bilingual. The vandalism isn't.
Photo of ceiling at EB end of St Laurent pedestrian bridge level. The electrical conducts attached to the ceiling have previously been wrapped in a waterproof membrane. It's hard to see but rain water is dripping through.
A two towers are connected via curved staircase of units .
The stamp is a circle surrounding these words "Castelli Concrete Const. Co 1957".
Big yellow "Test train" messages are displayed on doors of LRT train. Inside you can see empty seats and aisles
On the left, Mac the orange and white cat lounges behind my straggling cedar hedge while watching the house. On the right, Mush the large grey cat lounges across the path out of my rowhouse's tiny backyard while watching the communal path behind my house.
A grand piano is dwarfed by the black circle on a tile floor. Once the 10 m circle was a busy info desk and display booth.
Screenshot of tweet by City of Kitchener: "Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We will have our parks crew look into this today."
Majestic orange and white cat roars behind bars of the cat carrier.
A golden lab is wearing a white blue Croc sandal as a tall hat. The strap is under the chin. The caption is "It's called fashion, Brenda. Look it up."
Bright pink harness (empty) lies on concrete patio tile.
Image of a pedestrian traffic light. Here the green light is a green silhouette of Mary Poppins taking a stride and swinging her umbrella up over her head.
A large grey cat is sprawled on the back of a blue armchair. He looks to be about to snooze.
A mostly white Jack Russell terrier mix looks towards the camera. The right sides of her face and right ear are brown. Her left ear is a darker brown. There are 3 black freckles above her black nose.
Screenshot from Transit app with English labels but French detour message.
Very badly damaged sidewalk. The damage covers two slabs from edge to edge.
CNN headline from minutes before the shooting. It reads: "Expect the unexpected for Trump's first White House Correspondents' Dinner as president".
Screenshot. Route numbers are missing. The icon looks like a battery. The descriptions are fine.
A major sidewalk repair area has been outlined in orange paint. It is human size and reminds me of chalk outlines around murdered bodies in old detective shows. A blue banner with white text shows I took the photo on April 17 2026.
View from 18 floor on Elgin St looking east. Confederation Park in foreground left. Traffic's EB on Laurier is backed up due to construction on the bridge.
The bright white concrete had pink spray paint marking the tripping hazard between section. Fresh asphalt now patches the gap. A pylon has been left in the sidewalk for no obvious reason.
This night time shot is not recognizable as a flat sidewalk. It has a grand canyon and several little canyon. See the quoted post. In October 25, the sidewalk was flat after the asphalt patch was added.
This night time shot is not recognizable as a flat sidewalk. It has a grand canyon and several little canyon. See the quoted post. In October 25, the sidewalk was flat after the asphalt patch was added.
This heritage building was a popular fine restaurant before a fire reduced it to just a front wall. The plywood hoarding is covered by posters. Plastic wrap flaps at the roofline.
Photo of powder coated steel bench which is brown with rust
Today Council approved the immediate cessation of raising national flags of countries other than Canada on the city flagpole originally intended for charities and associations. Our citizens come from all over the world, leaving conflicts to become Canadians. We welcome all. Come to City Hall with proof of Mississauga address and pick up a free, full sized Canadian flag!
Text from screenshot of part of a Twitter thread: "Rick Leary also resigned from the TTC on Aug 30, 2024, but appears on the 2025 Sunshine List with a total compensation of $694,985.41, 18.75% more than he was paid in the year he still worked for them. (2)"
October 2025: Even from a metre away, you can see the grains of the asphalt after the crew has completed the patch. The surface is not smooth so water will enter the crevices, Water expands while freezing so the grains are popped up out of the matrix.
On May 2026, the pothole was a large sneaker wide and was mostly in one square of the sidewalk.
At Jeanne d'Arc Westbound station, OCT plows the bus shelter area and City staff plow the sidewalk of JdA. This photo shows the unplowed section and the numerous footprints in the 5-10 cm of snow.
Large grey cat is sprawled on the top of the armchair back rest.
Masses of road salt along the bottom of a bus shelter.
A path has been plowed down to the asphalt from the sidewalk to the road.
Bella is a small white Jack Russel mix. Her left ear and right side of her face ranges from light brown to black. She is giving me side eye as she sits on my front step. She is wearing a bright blue sweater.
10 Ottawa councillor are wearing black /dark blue suits. Some are wearing pink ties. 2 men have no suit jackets and are wearing pink dress shirts. 1 woman is wearing a pink or red pant suit. This was the Wear Pink photo from 2016. In the past decade, pink T-shirts have become common as a fundraiser for kindness community initiatives.
Grimy metal sign on track divider fence in LRT station (likely Lees). It reads "Danger! Do not cross tracks! High Voltage" in both languages. The left image shows someone stepping off the platform onto the tracks with the red don't circle plus bar. The right image is a black lightning bolt pointing down on a yellow triangle.
Top right of poster indicates "2026/2028 B".