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Apr. 19, 2020 / Gordon Price

Dianna’s Covidiary – The Park Drive Chicane

This week the Park Board placed big red jersey barriers to create S-curves on Park Drive on the steep downhill…

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Apr. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

Priorities for Flow Streets

A work in progress from Aaron Licker, By taking available data on population density overlaid with access to public and…

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Apr. 16, 2020 / Gordon Price

Park Board Signage: Benefit of the doubt – or just doubt

Guest writes below: … maybe that sign was placed instead of a “hazard” sign to make visible the massive dark…

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Apr. 15, 2020 / Gordon Price

What does the Park Board really think of cyclists?

Presumably, that they are obedient idiots. The Board placed a log to prevent access to the Kits Beach parking…

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Apr. 15, 2020 / Gordon Price

A Kitsilano Flow Way

What can be done – quickly – to solve the problem illustrated in the post below: unsafe crowding, as walkers,…

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Apr. 15, 2020 / Gordon Price

“Pandemic Approved” – and Not – along Seaside

After a cycle from the West End to Jericho, the contrast between those parts of Seaside that allow for…

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Apr. 14, 2020 / Gordon Price

Dianna’s Covidiary: Stanley Park in Reverse

Good morning, world! Here we are at Prospect Point shortly after dawn this morning, and you just have to trust that…

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Apr. 13, 2020 / Gordon Price

Dianna’s Covidiary: Stanley Park

Dianna’s covidiary from Stanley Park: Day three in the park: lots Lycra-clad roadies are mixed with the families, couples and…

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Apr. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

What Does “Stay Home” Mean?

Here’s the latest advice, in The Sun: But what does “stay home” mean? Not go outside? Not take discretionary…

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Apr. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

How to Design a Neighbourhood Flow Street

Now is the time to adapt our existing streets, especially the greenways and relief roads, to accommodate a multitude…

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Apr. 09, 2020 / Gordon Price

How We Safely Space on a Street

It’s near the height of cherry blossom season, there are only so many beautiful springs in one’s life, and we…

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Apr. 08, 2020 / Gordon Price

In Stanley Park – 2: How to Get to Your Yacht

From a guide sent to members from the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club: The Vancouver Parks Board is permitting visitors to…

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Apr. 08, 2020 / Gordon Price

On the Road in Stanley Park – 1

Dianna reports in: The first hour of the first day of the first (?) closing of Stanley Park to cars.…

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Apr. 08, 2020 / Gordon Price

Road Reallocation: Two Down, More to Come?

The City is now moving on reallocating road space for safe movement of walkers and cyclists: Oddly, the City is…

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