A pedestrian perspective.
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UPDATE: GASTOWN WALKING TOUR
The Vancouver Heritage Foundation Walking Tour series starts this Friday, April 13th (it can be only good luck being on this interesting tour!).
Kicking off the series is a tour around Gastown. We know that Gastown is a magnet for tourists and that Vancouverites think they know all about Gastown, but guide Maurice Guibord will be sure to fill you in on the ‘real deal’ (ie. researched) early history of the city…Tours will also be conducted by guide John Atkin starting in May. Walks are only $12. For more information and to register visit www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org or call 604.264.9642.
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UPDATE: THE CRISIS IN AMERICAN WALKING
Tom Vanderbilt discusses in a new series in Slate – here.
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A GOOD CITY, DEFINED
From a tweet by Jon Stovell, President of Reliance Properties:
Times are a changin’: 200 units in Telus Garden sold with no parking .85 per unit. In a good city, everything less convenient than walking.
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WORST PRACTICES
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From Richard Campbell:
…. a marvellous example in Vancouver of worst practices. Embarrassingly enough, this is the entrance to the City of Vancouver works yard on Kent, just a block and a half from the Marine Drive Canada Line station.
While the flowers make it rather nice looking, not only is there no sidewalk on either side of the road, the yellow jersey barriers force people to walk in the road or step over them. I have no idea what someone in a wheelchair would do. Actually, that is not true, they would be forced to brave the road.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY WALKING TOUR
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 – 6:30 pm
JOHN ATKIN – CIVIC HISTORIAN
WANDER THE OLD SECTION AND MEET SOME INTERESTING CITIZENS INCLUDING VANCOUVER’S FIRST MAYOR, AN UNFORTUNATE BANKER, A PHOTOGRAPHER AND THE MAN WHO FOUGHT THE CPR FOR HIS BEACH
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LORRAINE IRVING – BC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
A LOOK AT SEVERAL PEOPLE THAT DIED IN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENTS. A UNIQUE MONUMENT TO A TRAIN ACCIDENT, A BIRTHDAY CAR ACCIDENT, A NORTH SHORE MOUNTAIN ACCIDENT AND A PLANE ACCIDENT IN ENGLISH BAY ARE A FEW OF THE STORIES. THE TOUR WILL END WITH A TITANIC CONNECTION
$10 PER PERSON – CASH ONLY PLEASE!
TOURS GO RAIN OR SHINE
MEET AT CELEBRATION HALL – 5445 FRASER ST (ENTER AT 39TH Ave)
PARKING AND WASHROOM FACILITIES AVAILABLE)
Link to poster here.
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While there still is no sidewalk, they did move the jersey barriers back a bit a few months ago so one does not have to walk in Kent to avoid them so it is marginally better.
Perhaps worse though, there are a few brand new business parks to the east a km or along Kent South south and the city did not require sidewalks nor improvements to the bike route. The only real option now is to make Kent one-way to create space for a ped/bike path.