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Oct. 27, 2022 / Gordon Price

Love the Lane! (Why Is this even necessary?)

  We’re inviting anyone who loves cycling in Stanley Park to join us for #LoveTheLane, a celebration ride around Stanley Park…
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Oct. 24, 2022 / Gordon Price

“Cycling Through Covid” in Canada

The latest from Buehler and Pucher: How 14 large cities around the world adjusted their cycling policies during the first…
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Oct. 18, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver’s Park Board, New ABC’s & Back to Two Lanes of Traffic in Stanley Park

  In the   October 15 2022 Vancouver civic election,  the new Mayor-Elect Ken Sim and the ABC (A Better City)…
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Oct. 12, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Lowering Emissions By Getting Men To Travel Like Women

Viewpoint Vancouver has been writing about a big gap in how transportation and city planning is perceived, and that is…
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Sep. 26, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

One More City Looks At Restricting Driver Right Turn on Red

Last month Viewpoint Vancouver covered the peculiar story of how vehicle drivers were able to legally turn right on a…
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Sep. 20, 2022 / VWPT Vancouver

New Podcast: ‘Vanbikes’ Chronicler Colin Stein tracks the history of Vancouver’s Bicycle Revolution

In this very special podcast, author Colin Stein unveils an epic portrait of our place and time: Vanbikes: Vancouver’s Bicycle People…
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Sep. 14, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Biciman on The Heat Island Effect & How To Save Your City: A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words

One of the creative characters on Twitter is @_biciman_ who has a wonderful take on cities with his colourful and…
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Sep. 01, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Guest Writer Rob Grant on “Granville Island-A Question of Accessibility”

Guest writer Rob Grant is a retired architect who has been the designer/project architect on a variety of work including …
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Aug. 30, 2022 / Gordon Price

How to get “VanBikes” by Colin Stein

Collin Stein’s epic aural history (I exaggerate only slightly) of bike activism in Vancouver for the last half century has…
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Aug. 25, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Edinburgh Saves 60 Million Canadian Dollars Just By Slowing Driver Speed Limits to 30 Km/h

While we are still struggling to urge the Provincial government to allow municipalities to declare areas of their towns as…
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Aug. 24, 2022 / Gordon Price

Monument to a Bike Lane

Not surprising that Harry Jerome would be multi-model next to the Stanley Park bike lane.  …
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Aug. 22, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

“Vanbikes” by Colin Stein: Finally a Definitive History & Recounting of the Modern Cycling Movement

Vancouverite Colin Stein has written what is arguably one of the most important books of this year, and one  that…
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Aug. 16, 2022 / Gordon Price

60 Riders in 10 Minutes: Stanley Park Dedicated Bike Lane

Data-loving planner Michael Mortensen sends in ten minutes of fresh numbers taken at Prospect Point on August 14 at 11…
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Aug. 07, 2022 / Gordon Price

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