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Sep. 28, 2020 / Gordon Price

Take the Beach Avenue Survey

The City is asking for feedback to decide on improvements to the temporary path, to take us through into 2021. …
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Sep. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Bike Boom and Winter: Will Vancouver Become a ‘Conventional’ City?

The Park Board has justified the removal of the bike lane in Stanley Park because “The data tells us we…
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Sep. 19, 2020 / Gordon Price

Park Board to Cyclists: Fight It Out

A blunt announcement from the Park Board: This is what the Park Board is essentially saying to cyclists who still…
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Sep. 14, 2020 / Gordon Price

The NPA Co-opts Seniors and the Disabled for the Sake of Motordom

  A report from Global News reporter Nadia Stewart, with a headline that distorts the story: The protest had three…
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Sep. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

Reports from Stanley Park (and Beach Avenue)

Peter Ladner reports: The Stanley Park Hill Klimb (SPHK) now exists. It’s a thing. (The K is for one kilometre long but…
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Aug. 18, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Stanley Park’s Prospect Point Ice Cream Shop~A Look Back

From photographer Ken Ohrn this wonderful image located at  today’s Stanley Park Prospect Point Ice Cream shop. The shopkeeper handing…
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Aug. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

12,700 – Jeff Leigh explores the Beach Bikeway datapoint

Jeff Leigh from HUB, responding to the preceding post – Beach Bikeway Gets a Datapoint: 12,700   Jeff:  Some comparisons…
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Aug. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

Beach Bikeway Gets a Datapoint: 12,700

Beach Bikeway (no one’s calling it a flow way) is obviously and surprisingly high-volume.  Many cyclists, many different kinds of…
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Aug. 07, 2020 / Gordon Price

Make the Beach Avenue Bikeway Permanent!

Let’s make the Beach Avenue Bikeway (connecting Stanley Park to False Creek North) permanent. This incredibly popular and scenic route…
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Jul. 28, 2020 / Gordon Price

A fail-safe political safety net for Park Commissioner Coupar

  An Open Letter to NPA Park Commissioner John Coupar, from Peter Ladner.   Peter Ladner:  John, I hear you’d…
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Jul. 23, 2020 / Gordon Price

Priorities in a Pandemic: Will We Cut Cycling Infrastructure?

Dan Fumano at The Sun nails it: Although polling — and election results — consistently show most Vancouverites generally support spending on…
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Jul. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

Astroturfing in the West End

This has all the marks of astroturfing*.  Seen in the West End on Bute at Harwood. There has to be…
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Jul. 15, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar~The Bruntletts on Pedaling Through the Pandemic

Pedaling Through Pandemic: How (E-) Cycling Can Keep Post-COVID Cities Moving In a short time, the coronavirus crisis has forced…
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Jul. 07, 2020 / Gordon Price

Measuring Cycling in the Hundreds of Thousands

Let’s just repeat these numbers from the Daily Hive: According to Green Party commissioner Dave Demers, Park Board staff estimate…

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