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With new bike lanes coming to three different roads in the span of three years, Coun. Tim Tierney says his east-end ward is no longer the “black hole” of Ottawa’s cycling network.

There was very little cycling infrastructure in Beacon Hill-Cyrville before he was elected in 2010, Tierney says, and there were several missing links in the network that left some cyclists and would-be cyclists feeling unsafe.

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On Ogilvie Road, for example, there are painted-on bike lanes in each direction between St. Laurent Boulevard and Blair Road.

But just east of Blair, the lines vanish and cyclists are left to fend for themselves alongside two lanes of heavy-moving traffic. Bike lanes re-appear near the intersection with Montreal Road and link up with more cycling infrastructure there that connects riders to Orléans.

“We were the black hole of the cycling network,” he said.

He’s hoping three projects will change that.