u/SmileRemarkable8876

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Ottawa River Path is a Disgrace

As someone who uses the pathway, from Remic Rapids to downtown is an embarassment. Multiple benches have permanent sleeping quarters on them. People have either been discarding large quantities of garbage in the wooded areas or have been living there and left all their trash.

This is the most scenic part of our city, next to the War Memorial and on route to Parliament. Have we just given up? How hard is it for the NAC to clean all this up? Why are homeless people allowed to destroy every public area? Why don't we have some better options for housing these people?

This is a capital city and I saw many obvious tourists on the path today. This is embarassing and how much money do we spend on tourism promotion? The Tulip festival is going on right now and the parkway is closed to promote pedestrian traffic on weekends. But we can't pay some teenagers to remove piles of garbage? We can't remove soiled sleeping bags from public benches?

If you don't believe me then go down there, there is garbage everywhere. I'd think a prospective mayoral candidate might do something since it is his ward.

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u/SmileRemarkable8876 — 2 months ago