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Oct. 23, 2017 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge: This is About Traffic Flow

A fascinating model (if you’re into this kind of thing) to demonstrate the impacts of intersection redesign at Pacific and…
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Oct. 22, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Amazon HQ2 — Metro Vancouver's Proposal

Kenneth Chan writes in Dailyhive.com:  The Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC) has delivered its proposal to Seattle, so our hat is…
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Oct. 21, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Burrard Bridge Opening

A happy event today as the renovations and improvements are essentially done — and the official opening of the Burrard…
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Oct. 19, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Carson City's Carson Street Revamps for the 21st Century

Earlier this year Price Tags Vancouver reported on a phenomenon that is occurring in many towns that are reclaiming their historic downtowns…
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Oct. 19, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

City of Richmond~Agricultural Land, not Mini Estates!

The Richmond News reports that Green Party leader Andrew Weaver is serious about his proposal to ban foreign ownership of land on…
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Oct. 18, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Google 's Sidewalk Lab Chosen for Toronto's Quayside Development

As reported in the Toronto Star a federal-provincial-city agency overseeing Toronto’s Quayside 12 acre  project site  announced that Sidewalk Labs a sister…
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Oct. 18, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Double Dipping MLA Has Time for Massey Tunnel Billboards

The Province Images In the “you just can’t make this stuff up” department, double salary dipping Provincial MLA Ian Paton…
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Oct. 17, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

George Massey Bridge Boondoggle-"A Large Expensive Napkin"

You can learn a lot about the previous Provincial government’s Massey Bridge process by looking at how other observers view…
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Oct. 13, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

What's TransLink Up To?

Keeps me awake at night, I’ll tell you.  Especially with NDGreens in Victoria and Mobility Pricing getting good press and…
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Oct. 13, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Friends Of Mobility Pricing

I’ve been surprised at the benign press coverage of current efforts to design a BC-specific mobility pricing scheme.  Lord knows,…
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Oct. 12, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Tsawwassen Mills Mall Marks Its Mega First Birthday

It’s been one year now since Tsawwassen Mills, the highly touted Ivanhoe Cambridge offering  was opened as the latest ‘megamall’…
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Oct. 09, 2017 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge: Pioneering Intersection Design in North America

In 2014, Vancouver pioneered a first in North American intersection design: protected phasing. At the south end of the Burrard…
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Oct. 07, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Gastown Streets — More Than Repairs?

With visions of a car-light area in Gastown, City of Vancouver is consulting residents on a transportation area plan. Tour…
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Oct. 06, 2017 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge: This is Not About a Bike Lane

One of the biggest undertakings in the Burrard Bridge project was one we never really saw.  And it had nothing…

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