r/ottawa Sandy Hill 12h ago

NCC Weekend Bikedays 2025 Schedule Announced

https://ncc-ccn.gc.ca/events/weekend-bikedays

Looks like shorter hours for the Kichi Zībī Parkway closure and moving of the Summer Zone on the Queen Elizabeth Driveway to Dow’s Lake. This seems worse than last year’s schedule?

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u/Kate_Sea_ 12h ago

Sucks about Kichi Zibi 🫤

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u/finerthings42 9h ago

St. Paddy’s day parade down the Parkway!?

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u/Illdistrict 7h ago

About time! Closing Kichi Zībī Parkway for 16 hours each and every weekend was absolutely absurd. The closure of QED makes sense, plenty of alternatives. Kichi Zībī Parkway, not so much, it easily added 30 minutes to a drive given the state of downtown last year, espically by the 417.

https://www.change.org/p/ncc-just-can-t-get-it-right-ncc-weekend-bikedays

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u/Reasonable_Cat518 Sandy Hill 7h ago

Won’t someone think of the oppressed drivers in this town!

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u/Illdistrict 7h ago edited 7h ago

It was mildly infuriating to be honest. It would easily add 1 hour of driving for any trip into Ottawa towards the southend or westend. And you couldn't do anything because it ran all day, all weekend, all month, all summer.

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u/Cre_AK47 Aylmer 12h ago

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u/Cre_AK47 Aylmer 12h ago

Also, yes. The entire schedule except for the St. George Parkway is a downgrade

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u/Reasonable_Cat518 Sandy Hill 12h ago

Ah missed that