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Apr. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge-If We Had 3.5 Billion Dollars…

The Province published an opinion piece by Eric Doherty, Bob Chitrenky, Harold Steves and Peter McCartney that provides one more flip…
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Apr. 26, 2017 / Gordon Price

Mayors' Council #CURECONGESTION Voters' Guide

The Mayors’ Council released the #CureCongestion Voters’ Guide summarizing commitments and policy positions from the BC Green Party, BC Liberal…
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Apr. 24, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge, Billion dollar Boondoggle?

Imagine in fifty years what people will say about the decision-making occurring in Metro Vancouver. For some reason the Province…
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Apr. 20, 2017 / Gordon Price

Cote on Congestion: Beyond 'cap' or 'scrap'

An op-ed in The Sun from Jonathan Cote, the mayor of New Westminster and chair of the Funding Strategy Committee…
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Apr. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Vision Zero in London – Nix Digital Signs, Reduce Speed on Bridges

London England is always slightly ahead of the curve and the Evening Standard reports on the cutting edge work of a community…
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Apr. 19, 2017 / Gordon Price

Urbanarium #9: Candidates Debate – Taking Action on Housing Affordability

    City Debate #9: Candidates Debate – Taking Action on Housing Affordability Greater Vancouver is gripped by a housing…
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Apr. 19, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Back to Tsawwassen Mills Mall, Being Afoot, and Crossing Highway 17

If you have ventured out to this mall which takes up 1.2 million square feet of real estate, you will…
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Apr. 19, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Peter Ladner, the Provincial Election, and the Threat on Urban Mobility Initiatives

Peter Ladner writing in Business in Vancouver is a former city councillor, an avid bike rider, and a proud citizen of…
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Apr. 17, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

A Provincial Election, Tolls, and Public Transit

There has been some disappointing rhetoric about bridges, tolls, and congestion coming out of the stirred soup of next month’s…
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Apr. 13, 2017 / Gordon Price

PT Political Forum: What policies do we need?

Here’s an opportunity to weigh in on the current provincial election – inspired by this comment from cityflaneur: Someone please…
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Apr. 10, 2017 / Gordon Price

The Mayors' Council Cure for Congestion: Vote

From the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation: There is a lot at stake in this provincial election. Already, transportation is…
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Apr. 07, 2017 / Gordon Price

Port Mann Parameter: How to measure the cost of bike lanes

It happened again today: someone mentioned that if only we hadn’t spent so much on bike lanes, we could afford to…
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Apr. 07, 2017 / Gordon Price

Trump’s Dystopian View of the City

From MTV News: In 1984, Donald Trump wanted to build a castle in Manhattan. Not a metaphorical castle, a literal…
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Apr. 06, 2017 / Gordon Price

Mayors' Council Futile Election Strategy: 'Curing Congestion'

Here’s how the Mayors’ Council is trying to make transit a provincial election issue: Curing congestion – who could be…

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