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Nov. 30, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Metro Vancouver: Why Can’t We Just Have Public Washrooms?

Viewpoint Vancouver has continually written about the need for public washrooms as a basic need for everyone. It is also…
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Nov. 29, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Stop! Changing Driver Behaviour At Schools As If Every Life Matters

Prairie Paul on twitter is King’s Counsel  lawyer Paul Doroshenko. He has  posted a series of images on twitter as…
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Nov. 01, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Sewer-That Infrastructure We Take For Granted, with Jessica Leigh Hester

It is one of the most important pieces of infrastructure but we never think of it working below the feet…
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Oct. 26, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Welcome to Metro Vancouver Pedestrian Danger Months: Featuring Halloween, International Day of Death

Here we go into another rainy dark, damp Metro Vancouver winter, which is also when the majority of pedestrian fatalities…
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Oct. 25, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Left Hand Turn Drivers Kill, Maim Pedestrians-Here’s NYC’s Solution

Last month Viewpoint Vancouver covered how the right hand driver turn on red lights at intersections came about. That movement …
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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. 08, 2022 / Gordon Price

A Bad Idea That Sounds Like a Good Idea

Let’s make safer roads compulsory. We don’t really need to change the law.  Just give unlimited resources and lots of…
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Aug. 29, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

A Tale of Two Cities: Seattle now Providing Electric Vehicle Charging Stations on Residential Streets

In  “Green” Vancouver which has adopted a transportation hierarchy which supposedly favours the lowest  level of micromobility, walking and rolling, …
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Aug. 23, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Rethinking the Right Turn on Red

Do you know the history of how vehicle drivers were allowed to turn right at a red light? And did …
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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. 19, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Former Expo 86 Plaza of Nations Site Now Redeveloping for Condos, Public Waterfront

There is one more piece of False Creek North that will now be developed, the former “Plaza of Nations” property…
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Aug. 04, 2022 / Gordon Price

Nominations for Worst Urban Infrastructure

John Graham’s nomination in Saanich. Send in yours.…

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