cleber figueiredo
@cleberfig.bsky.social
good cities for all
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from Centretown ottawa, canada
crfig.myportfolio.com
from Centretown ottawa, canada
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*slaps roof of car*
You could easily fit 10 million people here
You could easily fit 10 million people here
December 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
*slaps roof of car*
You could easily fit 10 million people here
You could easily fit 10 million people here
It would be glorious
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
It would be glorious
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What a great thread
The City of Ottawa is nearing the finish line on its new zoning bylaw. Did you know Ottawa's zoning is only two degrees from Kevin Bacon? 🧵...
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
What a great thread
The ‘neighbourhood character’ of our stroads is unique
Bacon, in Ottawa for six days, was joined by Sir Robert Matthew, a renowned Scottish architect. Together they produced a 6 page report whose recommendations were largely rejected by Ottawa’s planners, who said the consultants didn’t appreciate local history or understand "the Ottawa experience".
December 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The ‘neighbourhood character’ of our stroads is unique
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Hey Podcast listeners, are you a Nebula subscriber? If yes, you can listen to my NEW INTERVIEW with #NotJustBikes @theurbanistagenda.com TODAY. We cover LOTS of interesting ground. Don’t worry, if you’re not on Nebula, watch for the FULL release on many platforms on FRIDAY! nebula.tv/agenda/how-t...
The Urbanist Agenda — How to Actually Improve a City (w/Brent Toderian)
Brent Toderian is the former chief planner of Vancouver, Canada. He has worked with dozens of cities around the world to achieve real change, and he has some advice for advocates who want to do the sa...
nebula.tv
December 9, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Hey Podcast listeners, are you a Nebula subscriber? If yes, you can listen to my NEW INTERVIEW with #NotJustBikes @theurbanistagenda.com TODAY. We cover LOTS of interesting ground. Don’t worry, if you’re not on Nebula, watch for the FULL release on many platforms on FRIDAY! nebula.tv/agenda/how-t...
Entitlement. It’s amazing how this guy amassed this power
WATCH: This happens everyday and it’s a disgrace.
Doug Ford never has the guts to get up and answer my questions.
Doug Ford never has the guts to get up and answer my questions.
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Entitlement. It’s amazing how this guy amassed this power
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WATCH: This happens everyday and it’s a disgrace.
Doug Ford never has the guts to get up and answer my questions.
Doug Ford never has the guts to get up and answer my questions.
December 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
WATCH: This happens everyday and it’s a disgrace.
Doug Ford never has the guts to get up and answer my questions.
Doug Ford never has the guts to get up and answer my questions.
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This was a scurrilous ad hominem attack on the integrity of City Council colleagues by @timtierney.ca. During a Term of Council when we've all sought to avoid the petty divisiveness of the last term, Councillor Tierney sadly brought us all lower yesterday. 1/ ottawacitizen.com/opinion/budg...
Is your councillor a chronic no-voter on city budgets? | Opinion
Tim Tierney: Ottawa has traded safety and security for policing alternatives – experiments that have repeatedly failed. | Opinion
ottawacitizen.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This was a scurrilous ad hominem attack on the integrity of City Council colleagues by @timtierney.ca. During a Term of Council when we've all sought to avoid the petty divisiveness of the last term, Councillor Tierney sadly brought us all lower yesterday. 1/ ottawacitizen.com/opinion/budg...
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Vision Zero Ottawa has entered the chat.
Our goals: to overturn the culture of accepting tragedy as inevitable; human health over all other objectives; take a safe systems and design approach to safety; and to hold those who govern our transport systems accountable.
Join us.
visionzeroottawa.ca
Our goals: to overturn the culture of accepting tragedy as inevitable; human health over all other objectives; take a safe systems and design approach to safety; and to hold those who govern our transport systems accountable.
Join us.
visionzeroottawa.ca
Vision Zero Ottawa
A site for Vision Zero Ottawa, a non-profit community advocacy group committed to promoting Vision Zero principles. The site serves as a landing spot for campaigns, volunteer recruitment, and donat…
visionzeroottawa.ca
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Vision Zero Ottawa has entered the chat.
Our goals: to overturn the culture of accepting tragedy as inevitable; human health over all other objectives; take a safe systems and design approach to safety; and to hold those who govern our transport systems accountable.
Join us.
visionzeroottawa.ca
Our goals: to overturn the culture of accepting tragedy as inevitable; human health over all other objectives; take a safe systems and design approach to safety; and to hold those who govern our transport systems accountable.
Join us.
visionzeroottawa.ca
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Convenient low cost storage for private vehicles is a huge part of their competitive advantage as a mode of transportation.
No wonder people fight so hard to maintain it. Otherwise they may have to face the reality that cars don't work well in cities without a ton of public subsidy.
No wonder people fight so hard to maintain it. Otherwise they may have to face the reality that cars don't work well in cities without a ton of public subsidy.
December 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Convenient low cost storage for private vehicles is a huge part of their competitive advantage as a mode of transportation.
No wonder people fight so hard to maintain it. Otherwise they may have to face the reality that cars don't work well in cities without a ton of public subsidy.
No wonder people fight so hard to maintain it. Otherwise they may have to face the reality that cars don't work well in cities without a ton of public subsidy.
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In case anyone needed a better visual to show why the bus lane is "empty" and the car lane is "filled".
It's pretty simple. Cars are realllyyyy bad at moving large amounts of people.
They're definitely great for specific uses! But to rely on them for every single trip is where we have failed.
It's pretty simple. Cars are realllyyyy bad at moving large amounts of people.
They're definitely great for specific uses! But to rely on them for every single trip is where we have failed.
December 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
In case anyone needed a better visual to show why the bus lane is "empty" and the car lane is "filled".
It's pretty simple. Cars are realllyyyy bad at moving large amounts of people.
They're definitely great for specific uses! But to rely on them for every single trip is where we have failed.
It's pretty simple. Cars are realllyyyy bad at moving large amounts of people.
They're definitely great for specific uses! But to rely on them for every single trip is where we have failed.
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Any activist #coders out there want to get on the ground floor of a winter project?
Going to try to build an automated road law enforcement + #ALPR application for phones. For data collection, police & policy harassment.
It'll be a language learning experience in:
- Phone
- #ReactNative
- #OpenCV
Going to try to build an automated road law enforcement + #ALPR application for phones. For data collection, police & policy harassment.
It'll be a language learning experience in:
- Phone
- #ReactNative
- #OpenCV
November 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Any activist #coders out there want to get on the ground floor of a winter project?
Going to try to build an automated road law enforcement + #ALPR application for phones. For data collection, police & policy harassment.
It'll be a language learning experience in:
- Phone
- #ReactNative
- #OpenCV
Going to try to build an automated road law enforcement + #ALPR application for phones. For data collection, police & policy harassment.
It'll be a language learning experience in:
- Phone
- #ReactNative
- #OpenCV
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At Strong Towns Ottawa we're always looking for ways to expand our options when it comes to housing!
That's why we wrote a letter in response to ERO 025-1100 in support of reducing lot size minimums to help support more diverse housing types!
This will help combat our housing shortage
That's why we wrote a letter in response to ERO 025-1100 in support of reducing lot size minimums to help support more diverse housing types!
This will help combat our housing shortage
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
At Strong Towns Ottawa we're always looking for ways to expand our options when it comes to housing!
That's why we wrote a letter in response to ERO 025-1100 in support of reducing lot size minimums to help support more diverse housing types!
This will help combat our housing shortage
That's why we wrote a letter in response to ERO 025-1100 in support of reducing lot size minimums to help support more diverse housing types!
This will help combat our housing shortage
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It’s amazing that we’re going to cause a societal population collapse and steal away the pleasure of starting a family from a generation so that boomers can feel like they made a good bet on the housing market
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It’s amazing that we’re going to cause a societal population collapse and steal away the pleasure of starting a family from a generation so that boomers can feel like they made a good bet on the housing market
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There are two speed cameras on Walkley Rd between Bank and St Laurent that were installed in 2024. In 2022 that stretch of Walkley had 34 collisions with injuries. In 2024, after the cameras were turned on, there were just 4 collisions with injuries. Speed cameras work.
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
There are two speed cameras on Walkley Rd between Bank and St Laurent that were installed in 2024. In 2022 that stretch of Walkley had 34 collisions with injuries. In 2024, after the cameras were turned on, there were just 4 collisions with injuries. Speed cameras work.
The occasions where the city of happy to find for art
That bottom one was done because you repaired a sidewalk with patch asphalt instead of fixing the brick and the owners thought it looked horrible so they hired artists to cover it up.
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The occasions where the city of happy to find for art
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That bottom one was done because you repaired a sidewalk with patch asphalt instead of fixing the brick and the owners thought it looked horrible so they hired artists to cover it up.
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
That bottom one was done because you repaired a sidewalk with patch asphalt instead of fixing the brick and the owners thought it looked horrible so they hired artists to cover it up.
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One of the strategic failures of #OttCity Road Safety Action Plan is the lack of communications about where speed camera revenues are spent.
I got the list via #ATIP. Here are some projects that were only made possible because of these revenues. Full data at tinyurl.com/4brrmh9j
#Rideau-Jock
I got the list via #ATIP. Here are some projects that were only made possible because of these revenues. Full data at tinyurl.com/4brrmh9j
#Rideau-Jock
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
One of the strategic failures of #OttCity Road Safety Action Plan is the lack of communications about where speed camera revenues are spent.
I got the list via #ATIP. Here are some projects that were only made possible because of these revenues. Full data at tinyurl.com/4brrmh9j
#Rideau-Jock
I got the list via #ATIP. Here are some projects that were only made possible because of these revenues. Full data at tinyurl.com/4brrmh9j
#Rideau-Jock
I cannot believe in this
The 2026 Draft Budget is out.
The mayor was nice enough to instruct staff to include a donation link to help crowdfund additional revenue to make up for all the efficiencies 🙃
Who's gonna pitch in with me to make sure we have funding to repair water main breaks?
The mayor was nice enough to instruct staff to include a donation link to help crowdfund additional revenue to make up for all the efficiencies 🙃
Who's gonna pitch in with me to make sure we have funding to repair water main breaks?
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I cannot believe in this
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The depths of the housing crisis are mind boggling… zoning, building codes, fire codes, stairs, elevators, plumbing… just mind boggling how every regulation was allowed to rot
If NIST and HUD were properly funded, they would rebuild the drainage testing tower that they removed several decades ago, and build it as a single stack with clear drainage piping - then invite AHJs, plumbing code TC members, engineers, plumbers, architects, ect to see for themselves.
This demonstration I saw last year at the Geberit HQ in🇨🇭 shows a typical Swiss sanitary drainage configuration - no vent piping at each floor (similar in the rest of 🇪🇺 and the 🇬🇧 ). You can see the trap seal barely moving, despite a stack flow that far exceeds probabilistic overlapping fixture use.
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The depths of the housing crisis are mind boggling… zoning, building codes, fire codes, stairs, elevators, plumbing… just mind boggling how every regulation was allowed to rot
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SAVE THE DATE
We’re organising a rally to protest against Bill 60. Details:
Marion Dewar Plaza
City Hall
Thursday, November 13
8:30am
More info here:
bikeottawa.ca/2025/11/09/r...
We’re organising a rally to protest against Bill 60. Details:
Marion Dewar Plaza
City Hall
Thursday, November 13
8:30am
More info here:
bikeottawa.ca/2025/11/09/r...
Rally to protest Bill 60
Dear residents, Next Thursday, Bike Ottawa is organising a rally to protest Bill 60 that, among other things, will ban any new bike lanes involving road reconfiguration. Whether you bike, walk, rol…
bikeottawa.ca
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
SAVE THE DATE
We’re organising a rally to protest against Bill 60. Details:
Marion Dewar Plaza
City Hall
Thursday, November 13
8:30am
More info here:
bikeottawa.ca/2025/11/09/r...
We’re organising a rally to protest against Bill 60. Details:
Marion Dewar Plaza
City Hall
Thursday, November 13
8:30am
More info here:
bikeottawa.ca/2025/11/09/r...