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Oct. 20, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

The Mayor of Bogota, Mobility and the Vote

  Enrique Penalosa is the Mayor of Bogota and brother to Canadian bicycle advocate Gil Penalosa. Enrique expounds publicly on…
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Oct. 20, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Designing or Ticketing Our Way to Safer Streets?

Fastcoexist.com weighs in on something we all think about: is the way to stop vehicular crashes a design one? Should we be…
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Oct. 19, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

If it's free, does it work? The Tallinn Free Public Transit experiment

As reported in The Guardian Tallinn in Estonia has been providing free public transit to its citizens since 2013, and also…
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Oct. 19, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Mexican Uber Advertising in the Annoying Drone Category

  In the movie classic Back to the Future II Marty McFly encounters a drone walking a dog down the…
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Oct. 18, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Parking at the Tsawwassen Mills Mega Mall-Motordom's last gasp?

Business in Vancouver‘s Glen Korstrom  reports that Tsawwassen Mills has no intent to change the way the traffic circulates in the…
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Oct. 18, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

The Future for Oldsters? It's all about walkable communities

The New York Times reports on a new phenomenon-the seniors are leading the way in retirement by showing us how we…
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Oct. 17, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

New York City taxi license prices fall with Uber and Lyft in market

This article from Business Insider shows what these two representatives of disruptive technologies are doing to the price of a New…
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Oct. 17, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Ecological Values and the Tsawwassen Mills Mega Mall

Columnist Pete McMartin  went to the Tsawwassen Mills mega mall on opening day October 5 stating “The mall is alarmingly big, and its…
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Oct. 17, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Thirty km/h School Zones reduce accidents in Edmonton

 Some municipal transportation staff  believe that lower speed limits do not in fact slow vehicles, making it safer for pedestrians…
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Oct. 14, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Pedestrian Deaths, Seniors and the Walk and Be Seen Project 2016

    So far this year 11 pedestrians have died on Vancouver streets, the latest being a senior who was…
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Oct. 14, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Friday File-which came first, the tree or the path?

Courtesy of the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner, John Edwards…
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Oct. 14, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

A New School Use-Housing Teachers

In the “why didn’t I think of that” department, The St. Louis Dispatch reports on an innovative idea-they are planning to turn…
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Oct. 14, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Tunnel vs. Massey Bridge Once Again

  Douglas Massey, the son of George Massey the MLA that championed the design and development of the Massey Tunnel…
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Oct. 14, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Spare the Driver, Kill the Pedestrian-Driverless Car Programming

There are a whole bunch of people (and I am included) that are seriously concerned with how driverless car technology…

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