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Apr. 18, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Unhappy Story of the Sydney Monorail

Who doesn’t like an unhappy monorail story – even with unhappy miking by a guy who does urban archeology ……
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Apr. 17, 2019 / Gordon Price

A Tasty Infobite from Joe Sulmona

Management consultant Joe Sulmona, in his wide-ranging consulting around the world, particularly for airports, typically comes up with some interesting…
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Apr. 17, 2019 / Gordon Price

Forum: The Future of Mobility – Apr 25

  As TransLink prepares to update Metro Vancouver’s transportation plan through to 2050, it will be convening discussions with the…
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Apr. 16, 2019 / Gordon Price

HUB Cycling’s #UnGapTheMap Awards

105 Avenue Connector Road, Surrey  At the 6th Annual Bike Awards on February 28th, HUB Cycling awarded five municipalities for…
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Apr. 12, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Granville Grind

Michael Alexander came up with a great name (‘Granville Grind’) for the opportunity to include a stairway from the Granville…
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Apr. 08, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

London’s New Ultra Low Emission Zone Reduces Pollution, Sickness, Deaths

London leads in the intersection of  health and transportation planning for safer, healthier cities.  Asthma is a lung disease where…
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Apr. 05, 2019 / Gordon Price

Future of the Granville Bridge

  In these two current Streetviews of the Granville and Burrard Bridges, I counted the number of pedestrians, cyclists and…
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Apr. 04, 2019 / Gordon Price

Congestion Charging comes to New York … and maybe to us

This is a very big deal. You know the line: “If you can make it there …” The fees are…
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Apr. 02, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

How to Solve the Mutual Dislike of Sharing the Road?

Design editor Lloyd Alter of Tree Hugger sums up what is truly happening in the “sharing the road” adage that…
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Apr. 01, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Dale Bracewell, A Bicycle and the Driver from Hell

Today this was so real as an aggressive driver knocked me over while I was biking to work. I’m in…
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Mar. 26, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

If It Saves Pedestrian Lives, Why Isn’t Vancouver Implementing it Everywhere?

  I have written before about leading pedestrian crossing intervals  for pedestrian crossings.  Last summer I wrote about New York…
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Mar. 26, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Study shows Living Near a Vancouver Greenway Keeps You Fit

The City of Vancouver’s Greenway system comprises of a network of 140 kilometers of streets that are designed for walking…
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Mar. 25, 2019 / Gordon Price

Dreams of Motordom – and Nightmares that Never Happened

Over the years, I thought I had seen all the renderings and sketches for the various freeway proposals that had…
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Mar. 18, 2019 / Gordon Price

For West Van buses, ‘Park Royal’ isn’t

It’s not a park, and, at least for buses, not very royal.  Nor for their riders, waiting in the rain:…

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