Coverage

A thanks to Jeff Lee, now doing the Vancouver Sun’s urban beat, who followed up on a story that Lori Culbert did on the impact of blogs in Vancouver politics.  She named a lot of them.

Jeff noted one that wasn’t:

One notable omission from the stories was former Vancouver councillor Gordon Price’s “pricetags” blog that specializes on urban livability issues. His alexa.com ranking is higher than anybody in the list other than Bula and citycaucus.com.

Thanks, Jeff.   That more than makes up for curious slant the Sun gave me (under Jeff’s byline) after I spoke to Council in favour of the Hornby cycle track.  The original copy read:

Those critical of the bike lane included current Non-Partisan Association councillor Suzanne Anton, as well as former NPA councillor Gordon Price.…

Price warned of traffic congestion problems and spoke out against having lanes on both sides of the one-way street.

Jeff was quick to respond with an online correction.   But a few readers were surprised.  Metrobabel, for instance:

Now anyone who reads Price Tags would be perplexed by this part of the article.  The writer almost implies that Gordon is against the bike plane. 

Not likely.  In fact, you can judge for yourself.  Here’s the video of the Council meeting, and I’m at 2:23:50.

Mike Howell’s piece in the Courier – Pedal Power – captured my remarks:

“It’s a click moment,” he told council as he stood at the lectern in the chambers. “There are times in the growth of the city when networks begin to fill in, when connections are made, when the infrastructure gets to a certain point where things just go…” He snapped his fingers. “…click.”