The City of Ottawa and the federal government need to see that a street closed to cars should be open to people.
It has been a year since protestors took over Ottawa’s downtown core, rendering streets impassible and fundamentally shifting how we think about public space in our core. Restaurants and small businesses, already hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic, are attempting to rebrand the downtown area as SoPa and, like residents, gird against possible future protests.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
To begin, public space downtown is precious. There are few public places where one can walk, ride a bike or play in the street without fear of being run over. Riding a bike on Sparks Street is forbidden and our city’s penchant for painted lines instead of proper infrastructure doesn’t help create safe places to get around.
That said, we also shouldn’t cordon off our city as if it were under some sort of perpetual security threat. This is Canada, after all, and we have fewer worries than, say, Washington. But between last winter’s truck protest and a brazen assault at Rideau Hall in 2020, we know we aren’t immune from violent, vehicle-incited protests.
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