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Oct. 29, 2020 / Gordon Price

Motordom Redux: The Reality on Our Roads

PT: We’re in a sudden, massive, global real-life experiment in how we live and move in our cities.  While there…
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Oct. 16, 2020 / Gordon Price

From LA to BC, the Futile Future of Congestion Pricing

  On Thursday, the Eno Transportation Centre presented another of their webinars, this one with an irresistible title: The webinar…
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Oct. 09, 2020 / Gordon Price

Risk-Taking on the North Shore, CNV-style

North Van City does it again.  Whenever the City or Park Board of Vancouver looks like they will consider doing…
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Oct. 08, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Dutch Road Innovation~Bye Bye Bitumen, Hello Lignin!

  Do you know what the biggest use of bitumen is? Bitumen is “low-grade crude oil which is composed of…
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Sep. 29, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Workers Create Illegal Bachelor Pad Below Grand Central Station

  In the “you just can’t make this stuff up” department, three railway workers at Grand Central Station in New…
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Sep. 28, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Less Car More Transit, Walking, Cycling in a Post Pandemic World?

It was Eric Doherty that started it all in this article by Jennifer Saltman in the Province.  In the summer…
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Sep. 28, 2020 / Gordon Price

Take the Beach Avenue Survey

The City is asking for feedback to decide on improvements to the temporary path, to take us through into 2021. …
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Sep. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

Urbanist in the Okanagan 4 – Two Kind of Towns: Bisected or Bypassed

There are two kinds of towns in the Okanagan (and most of BC). It depends on the provincial roads that…
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Sep. 19, 2020 / Gordon Price

Park Board to Cyclists: Fight It Out

A blunt announcement from the Park Board: This is what the Park Board is essentially saying to cyclists who still…
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Sep. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

How do we start limiting congestion NOW?

A challenge question for PT readers: How should we start to limit congestion before it becomes unacceptable? There’s a real-life…
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Sep. 14, 2020 / Gordon Price

The NPA Co-opts Seniors and the Disabled for the Sake of Motordom

  A report from Global News reporter Nadia Stewart, with a headline that distorts the story: The protest had three…
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Sep. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

Reports from Stanley Park (and Beach Avenue)

Peter Ladner reports: The Stanley Park Hill Klimb (SPHK) now exists. It’s a thing. (The K is for one kilometre long but…
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Aug. 17, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Lowering Road Speeds for Sustainability Reasons More Palatable than for Safety?

    CBC Science reporter Emily Chung writes for CBC’s excellent “What On Earth?”  podcast and weekly newsletter that  explores…
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Aug. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

12,700 – Jeff Leigh explores the Beach Bikeway datapoint

Jeff Leigh from HUB, responding to the preceding post – Beach Bikeway Gets a Datapoint: 12,700   Jeff:  Some comparisons…

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