OttawaStart's new Ottawa Golf Guide

Some housekeeping notes:Yesterday we introduced a new Ottawa Golf Guide on OttawaStart.We also renamed a couple of guides. The Traffic Guide becomes the Ottawa Driving Guide, and the Transit Guide becomes the OC Transpo Guide.As always, you can suggest great local web sites, blogs, etc. by visiting our Suggest A Site page.Related: Ottawa Sports Guide

Rant of the Day: Richard Akerman on Ottawa's new transit plan

Check out Richard Akerman's take on Ottawa's new light rail plan. (Warning: swear words!)

Honestly, just call the train a tram, which is more accurate, and build the f*****g thing. Everyone's all "billions of dollars blah blah blah". We're the capital of a rich country, this is ridiculous.

So far we can't build:
* a new central library
* a new central concert hall
* a new tram-based rapid

Rant of the Day: City council raises bus fares

Several local bloggers are complaining today about city council's decision to hike bus fares by 7.5% in each of the next three years. Blake Batson writes:
I’m mad, disappointed and discouraged at 16 Councillors who feel that solving budget problems should be done on the backs of those who can least afford it. Ottawa council has just voted to raise transit fares almost 3 times the rate of