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May. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

Action! (At Last) Vancouver’s first 12 km of Slow Streets are underway

  It’s taken a few months, but now we have some action.  This just out from the City of Vancouver…
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May. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

What the ‘Park’ in Park Board really means

Why isn’t there a Kits Flow Way – an allocation of street space that both takes the pressure off the…
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May. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

A World Rebranded: “Go By Bike”

It used to be ‘Bike to Work Week’ – typically the end of May. Well, a lot of us will…
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May. 20, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Why Open Streets Are Good for Everyone & What They are Doing in Newcastle

I have been writing about Open Streets, and how they are being used Post-Covid to make accessing services more comfortable…
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May. 19, 2020 / Gordon Price

Street Conversions: Notable by Our Absence

CNU – the Congress for the New Urbanism – has just provided an extensive list of cities that have transformed…
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May. 19, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Take a look at the “Parking Circles” for Covid Protection at NYC’s Domino Park

Commissioner of New York City Parks Mitchell Silver sends  this unique approach to maintain physical distancing while sunning in Brooklyn’s…
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May. 19, 2020 / Gordon Price

Is this the biggest challenge TransLink faces?

We’re well-trained: Keep six feet of separation – or two meters, the length of a bicycle, two extended arms, three…
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May. 18, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Where is the Leadership in Post Pandemic Vancouver?

Gordon Price and I have been discussing how internationally cities are responding to the Covid-19 lock-downs by making it easier…
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May. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

Slow and Muddled at 12th and Cambie

Sandy James and I were both struck by Daphne Bramham’s recent column in The Sun.  She asked the question many…
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May. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

What will happen to car traffic?

Traffic went effectively overnight to nothing at all.   Didn’t expect that. But what now?  Will it return to previous levels…
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May. 16, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Georgia Hotel in the Spring of the Virus.

From the Heart…
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May. 15, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

The Longest Time~Quarantine Edition

Via Portland’s Tim Davis, here’s Vancouver’s Phoenix Chamber Choir putting to song what everyone is feeling. So very well done.…
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May. 15, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

SMAK Debuts New Streetwise Design~City Ponies Up Potential Covid Road Measures

I have been pretty outspoken on the need to support  local retailers as they start opening up their businesses in…
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May. 15, 2020 / Gordon Price

Beach Flow

On Beach Avenue in May of 2020…

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