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May. 29, 2020 / Gordon Price

Richards Street Bike Lane: Decades in the Making

From Jeff Leigh of HUB, with photos by Clark. Construction continues on Richards Street, with the new protected bi-directional bike…
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May. 28, 2020 / Gordon Price

Discoveries, Memories and Sounds on the Slow Streets

At the very moment when Vancouver Council was discussing and approving Lisa Dominato’s motion to move forward on a network…
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May. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

Seaside Redesigned: Why Seaside won’t go back to the way it was

Seaside Greenway: all the paths along the waterfront, from Coal Harbour to Spanish Banks. One of the best continual waterfront…
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May. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

A World Rebranded: “Go By Bike”

It used to be ‘Bike to Work Week’ – typically the end of May. Well, a lot of us will…
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May. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

Slow and Muddled at 12th and Cambie

Sandy James and I were both struck by Daphne Bramham’s recent column in The Sun.  She asked the question many…
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May. 15, 2020 / Gordon Price

Beach Flow

On Beach Avenue in May of 2020…
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May. 13, 2020 / Gordon Price

It’s a Thing: Flow Streets, Slow Streets, just not Closed Streets

PT: Originally published in April.  The video is one of the best so far, from the initial use of the…
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May. 02, 2020 / Gordon Price

Beach Flow on a Friday Afternoon

This is what Beach Avenue looked like at 3 pm on Friday afternoon – May 1: Here’s the video: Beach…
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May. 01, 2020 / Gordon Price

Oakland’s Open Streets: How they do it, what they look like

Thank you, Streetfilms, for a close-up look at what Oakland, California’s ‘Open Streets’ look like.  The lessons for Vancouver are…
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May. 01, 2020 / Gordon Price

How will bikeshare perform in a post-covid city?

Maybe pretty well. From The Cityfix: Reviving Bike Sharing as a Reliable, Low-Carbon Mobility Mode Unlike public transport, the pandemic…
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Apr. 29, 2020 / Gordon Price

Early Signs of Life …

.. in a new West Davie highrise welcoming its first tenants.…
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Apr. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

Faster Progress on Slower Streets

Cllr Lisa Dominato was interviewed on ‘NW’s Simi Sara show this morning, touching all the points on why slow streets…
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Apr. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

HUB Cycling Petition: Go for the Flow

In the face of civic reluctance or intransigence to move on making the move to flow streets, good for HUB…
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Apr. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

Flow / Slow Streets: Vancouver Fails

Some of the biggest names in mobility are supporting the momentum for re-purposing streets. Jeff Tumlin, Director of Transportation in…

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