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Apr. 07, 2017 / Gordon Price

Port Mann Parameter: How to measure the cost of bike lanes

It happened again today: someone mentioned that if only we hadn’t spent so much on bike lanes, we could afford to…
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Apr. 05, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver Art Gallery Asks Feds for $100 Million for New Building

The Vancouver Sun reporter Kevin Griffin  gives the latest on the Vancouver Art Gallery’s missive to build the proposed Herzog &…
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Apr. 05, 2017 / Gordon Price

Recent Developments 7b – Arbutus Greenway in Transition

Recent development that was designed to face the Arbutus corridor, even when it was unused, decrepit, weed-strewn and rusting, was…
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Apr. 04, 2017 / Gordon Price

Recent Developments 7a – Arbutus Greenway in Transition

The new paved pathway of the Arbutus Greenway pushes beyond Burrard, into the near-nameless neighbourhood north of Broadway. (Burrard Slopes, I…
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Apr. 02, 2017 / Gordon Price

Recent Developments 7 – Arbutus Greenway in Transition

Discovering the new Arbutus asphalt path – almost road-width – is like revisiting the 1990s in Vancouver, when the City…
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Apr. 01, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Ladner On Uber

Writing in Business In Vancouver, Peter Ladner gazes into the changing future of one segment of our local transportation mix…
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Mar. 31, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Heard On Arbutus Greenway

City of Vancouver has published this summary report on the recent Arbutus Greenway consultations.  Peoples’ ideas and hopes heard via…
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Mar. 30, 2017 / Gordon Price

The Provincial Vision: Restoring Motordom to Metro

It should be clear by now. March 28: Another piece of the plan.  Just consider all the commitments – built,…
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Mar. 30, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

No Federal Funding for Massey Bridge? No Problem for Province

In that Provincial story that just doesn’t change and won’t go away the Delta Optimist’s Ian Jacques lets us know that Peter…
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Mar. 30, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Paris, Road Closures, Traffic Evaporation and the Braess Paradox

  The website h2020 has a very interesting examination of “traffic evaporation”-what happens to all that traffic when you close urban…
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Mar. 29, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Four Minute Video Explores 1955 Road Safety Innovations in New Zealand

It’s easy to forget how important motordom was to the 20th century and how it was really seen as the…
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Mar. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

A Flood "Utility Pod" New York City Style

Ny.Curbed.Com describes the interesting “utility pods” commissioned by the New York City Housing Authority and designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)…
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Mar. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

A Movie of the Missing Middle

Christopher Cheung in The Tyee has prepared a  ten minute video featuring “Patrick Condon, chair of the urban design program at…
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Mar. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Feds Not Funding Massey Bridge. Province Not Matching Metro Vancouver Transit.

The Federal government’s budget came down last week and it was called “Building a Strong Middle Class”. With that sentiment,…

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