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Jun. 30, 2020 / Gordon Price

Bikes and Business: The Ice Cream Indicator

Jeff Leigh of HUB reports: My wife and I rode Stanley Park last Monday, and stopped in at the Prospect…
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Jun. 29, 2020 / Gordon Price

“What Is Going On in Stanley Park”

Never say PT isn’t open to a range of points of view.  Here’s one by David* – who argues for…
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Jun. 25, 2020 / Gordon Price

How Cyclists Can Save Stanley Park Businesses

  Peter Ladner knows how to help restaurants and businesses in Stanley Park thrive in these disrupted times.  He describes…
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Jun. 22, 2020 / Barry Rueger

Dueling Petitions in North Van

The North Vancouver City News Facebook group exploded on Sunday with duelling petitions, one for and one against maintaining the…
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Jun. 20, 2020 / Gordon Price

Virus Pastorale Before the Return of the Cars

Friday, June 9th – just up from the Rowing Club on Park Drive.  Mid-afternoon. This was what it was like,…
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Jun. 19, 2020 / Gordon Price

One More Futile Round: Fighting Change on Park Drive

  How many times will we go through this? Hornby Bike Lane.  Burrard Bridge Bike Lanes (three times).  Point Grey…
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Jun. 18, 2020 / Gordon Price

The NPA on Cycling: Weaponizing Wokiness

  “He is not anti-bike, he said.” That’s NPA Park Commissioner John Coupar in today’s Sun.  Problem is, he’s not…
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Jun. 14, 2020 / Gordon Price

Variations on a Flow Way (Bach to Bach)

As someone who has been doing presentations on the physical form of Vancouver and how it has changed, I’ll admit…
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Jun. 10, 2020 / Gordon Price

In the Spring of the Virus

When the line-up at the bike store is longer than the one at London Drugs. West Point Cycles, Kerrisdale Village…
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Jun. 05, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Latest NPA Strategy: Seniors versus Cyclists

No matter how many times the NPA lose elections when they include anti-cycling dog whistling, they just can’t stop themselves. …
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Jun. 03, 2020 / Gordon Price

English Bay Ballet – from ‘Virus Pastorale’

I’ve been posting the occasional video vignettes of city life in the time of covid – especially along the Slow…
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Jun. 02, 2020 / Gordon Price

On The Edge

As our world gets claustrophobic, catastrophic, and even apocalyptic, Nature finds a way to take the edge off. Arbutus Greenway…
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Jun. 02, 2020 / Gordon Price

Will the temporary become permanent … or Motordom Redux?

PT: With respect to the future of urban transportation, we are in a fragile moment: the pandemic has resulted in…
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May. 31, 2020 / Gordon Price

That New Bike Lane Smell

The striping is on the asphalt like a new suit of well-cut clothes: It makes the Richards Bike Lane look…

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