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Apr. 12, 2008 / Gordon Price

Some speculation on some speculation

Here’s the unedited text of my most recent column in Business in Vancouver: News item: Metro Vancouver’s transportation authority is…
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Apr. 10, 2008 / Gordon Price

Real Affordability in Seattle

We need the equivalent of this map for Vancouver: You can find the full explanation here in the Slog Blog…
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Mar. 23, 2008 / Gordon Price

Flying Balloons in Paris

Here’s the unedited text of my most recent column in Business in Vancouver: Ah, Paris: the city that lives up…
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Mar. 19, 2008 / Gordon Price

Civic Substitution

Given the messy state of municipal politics, wouldn’t it be better to replace councils with appointed boards of business people…
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Jan. 25, 2008 / Gordon Price

The Dying Canary

Here’s another sign that we should be thinking about how to get out of the mine shaft: a huge and…
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Jan. 21, 2008 / Gordon Price

TransLink's unstrategic strategy

So: The new chair of the Translink board of directors says media will not be allowed into regular board meetings.…
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Jan. 12, 2008 / Gordon Price

Memoriam

Allan McEachern  Ian Mulgrew pens a fine memoriam to the recently departed Chief Justice of B.C., in today’s Sun. Among Allan McEachern’s many…
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Jan. 10, 2008 / Gordon Price

The Hillsdon Plan

This is astonishing: A comprehensive strategy for transit south of the Fraser, costed out, well presented and persuasive.  At first…
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Jan. 07, 2008 / Gordon Price

Think Piece

Occasionally I come across a piece of writing that’s really memorable.  (At least it sticks in my mind until the…
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Jan. 05, 2008 / Gordon Price

"Urban Melt Down"

You have to be impressed with a city councillor who can actually write a book: in this case, Clive Doucet,…
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Jan. 04, 2008 / Gordon Price

An Edible Blog

I was researching “Paris height limits” the other day. (I’m heading for the City of Light in February – actually,…
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Dec. 29, 2007 / Gordon Price

Cool Stuff, TransLink division

This popped up in the email a few weeks ago from Dan Freeman, a transportation planner at TransLink: I know…
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Dec. 28, 2007 / Gordon Price

Say something, dammit

Lorin, a PT reader, reminds us:  Metro Vancouver is getting to the end of public meetings on the new regional growth strategy…
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Dec. 18, 2007 / Gordon Price

Bike sharing? Blog aboard.

Bike-sharing systems are gaining momentum: at least 75 cities have implemented similar systems, with many more cities in various stages of…

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