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May. 21, 2021 / Gordon Price

Small Changes – One Block of Helmcken Street

Another pandemic-created space in one block of Helmcken between Mainland and Hamilton, in the heart of Yaletown: A block has…
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May. 19, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Alex & Michelle Stoney’s Inspirational Aerial Landform Art

True artists express their creativity and do great works of art because it is the right thing to do. During…
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May. 17, 2021 / Gordon Price

Numbers

Good news in numbers. From Burnaby Now, a poll and article by Mario Canseco: Vancouverites of all age groups support…
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May. 13, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Post-Pandemic Seasonal Restaurant

Here in the Gilford Street minipark in the West End, there is a restaurant – once the fabled Delilah’s (ask…
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May. 12, 2021 / Gordon Price

What’s the Perfect Number of Days to Work from Home?

From The Atlantic: If you’ve been able to work from home, you’ve had an enormous privilege. But devoid of choice…
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May. 11, 2021 / Gordon Price

Small Changes – On the Ontario Bikeway

Friend of PT Sam Khany: “Look at this artfully done interim plaza in a unique part of our eclectic industrial…
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May. 06, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Breckenridge Colorado: Pedestrian Main Street too Successful, Council Votes to Return Traffic on Street Instead

In the “you just can’t make this stuff up” department, here’s Breckenridge Colorado with a population of 5,000  nestled close…
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May. 03, 2021 / Gordon Price

Crooning in Robson Square on a Sunny Afternoon

(Click title for videos.) Buskers are quickly discovering that the 800 Block is the best place to perform in the…
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Apr. 29, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

STAR AWARD to “Central Perk” Set on Vancouver’s Marine Drive

If you are on Southwest Marine Drive near Balaclava, you may have seen Anne Bruinn  doing wonderful things to transform…
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Apr. 27, 2021 / Gordon Price

Pucher and Buehler: “COVID Impacts on Cycling, 2019-2020”

Ralph Buehler and John Pucher, two friends of PT, just published an article in the international journal ‘”Transport Reviews” about…
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Apr. 21, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Great Britain Suffers Severe Shortage of Garden Gnomes

There are six million of them in Great Britain and interest in having them has increased twenty percent during the…
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Apr. 19, 2021 / Gordon Price

Streeteries: We’re not going back

One confident post-pandemic prediction: the curbside patio – or streeterie – is here to stay.  Like these on Yew Street…
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Apr. 12, 2021 / Gordon Price

The First Day at School Street

This morning on the Comox Greenway side of Lord Roberts Elementary School, an experiment began.  “School Street” – a pilot…
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Apr. 08, 2021 / Gordon Price

Our Real-World Experiment in Traffic

Imagine if some all-powerful researcher suggested that as a society we shut down a good part of the economy for…

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