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Ottawa River MUP Report:

-Flooding is mostly west of Relic Rapids, around the Carleton Ave underpass (which is not itself flooded). There is space to go around on the grass but it's a decent amount of trail underwater.

-Minor flooding east of Remic, but it looked about as high this afternoon as this morning. A bit of space to go around, but it wasn't completely covering the MUP.

#OttBike #OttRun

meborn1990 1d ago

As expected, #ottbike bike path from Greens Creek eastward is impassible 70 metres east of bridge over Bilberry Creek. Bilberry Drive easily accessible though. Before that, I went down to Ottawa River path at Blair and it's flooded west of that and flooded east of Rebecca (short amount dry).

Eric Goodwin 1d ago

Fucking cyclists. #ottbike

Michael D'Costa 1d ago

I'm cycling in 2 weeks to raise money for kids' cancer care in Ottawa. Please donate if you can! #ottbike #cheo
https://cheofoundation.donordrive.com/participants/66326

Pete Anderson 🚲2d ago

We risked the forecast and won. Got to dinner and the show dry. Soaked when we got home, sure, but it was a fun #OttBike

Richard W. Woodley 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️3d ago

Everybody congratulate me. I was sure I was going to be either over or under dressed for today's #ottbike ride but I got the layers right. We did a slightly different route today, a variation on the ponds route through Bridlewood, Glen Cairn and Stittsville. We were pleasantly surprised by a couple of newly paved connections between pathways When we got home the duck was back on the pool for first time this spring, He took off before we got a photo but they usually hang around for a few weeks every spring so await photos in a few days. I didn't have to use the #ebike assist but still glad I had it available.

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Pete Anderson 🚲3d ago

#OttBike #OttRun Report

-The Ottawa is rising. The New Orchard tunnel is flooded at the north end. I was on my little trucker and got wet feet, you might be ok on a normal adult sized bike. Detour up around to Richmond and then cross after the bridge and loop around if you want to avoid the water.

-Dry all along the main MUPs west to at least the greenbelt trail turn off.

-The detour around Watts Creek and Corkstown is a bit of a mess. Signage isn't clear but the road had no cars and that worked out.

-Greenbelt trail is crossed by seasonal streams especially on the north end, but totally passable.

-Rail trail west to Stittsville is fine. I hate the Kanata crossings but the city hates bikes so 🤷🏼‍♂️

That's as far as I went today. 50km round trip.

WTL 3d ago

Some #OttBike news; I suspect the Rideau River Eastern Pathway will flood a bit north of the O-Train bridge in a day or two, and the Voyageurs pathway is currently half-flooded in one spot between the Portage bridge and the Canadian Museum of History (AKA Civilization). I expect it will be fully flooded tomorrow or the day after.

#Ottawa

Pete Anderson 🚲3d ago

A few weeks ago my boss asked me to switch my compressed day from Monday to Friday this week.

Today, from the vantage point of a patio at the turnaround point of a nice first long #OttBike ride from home and remembering Mondays soggyness, I have no regrets having agreed to the switch.

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Charles A-M 5d ago

@mayintoronto yes but only because they're mainly #OttBike tw-tter diaspora, many of whom used to meet up semi-regularly in The Before Times. (I actually suggested it a while back but there wasn't much interest and I didn't try very hard)