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Aug. 24, 2015 / Gordon Price

Twinning Tweets: Innovative infrastructure for Cycling

These two items just came in together.  From Tim Pawsey via Minds: . What better way to use solar panels…
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Aug. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Copenhagen 11 – The Opening of Cirkelbroen

While we are celebrating the one millionth cycling trip across the Burrard Bridge (any moment now), Copenhageners are celebrating the…
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Jul. 28, 2015 / Gordon Price

Auckland Perspective: Darren Davis on the chicken-and-eggs of road tolling

Via Architect This City Guest Post: For whom the road tolls? . For those of who were following Architect This City…
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Jul. 27, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Next Stage of the Bateman Strategy

I described the Bateman Strategy back in August 2013: … getting people to vote against their self-interest in order to effectively…
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Jun. 17, 2015 / Gordon Price

Morning Thought: Dealing with Congestion

Here’s the live traffic map at 8:30 am on Tuesday morning.  Red equals congestion. . . Remind us again why…
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Jun. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Carmageddon Cycle – 3: Point Grey Road

“Every time we go through this, it seems to be the same pattern. There’s predictions there’s going to be ‘Carmageddon,’”…
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May. 27, 2015 / Gordon Price

Bike lane design, safety and split responsibility

Lisa Moffatt writes: A friend of mine was involved in a bike-on-bike collision where the two-way cycling facility turns onto…
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May. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Challenge: Find the Canadian equivalents on infrastructure spending

Excerpts from a visual essay by Streetsblog:  . Infrastructure Spending is Fairly Stable as a Share of GDP – But Costs Have…
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May. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn: Commute

On my way to HUB’s “Share the Road” Commuter Challenge, I stopped to get a few pix of commuters on…
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May. 15, 2015 / Gordon Price

Transit Funding and the Illusion of Small Numbers

The ever-helpful Sun editorial writer thinks the Mayors really need a Plan B in the event of a No vote.…
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May. 07, 2015 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Month – Bilboa

Haven’t a good passerelle for awhile, so thanks to Doug Dosdall for his contribution. . This is from Bilbao where I…
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May. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Images: The April Count

Another month of significant growth in people riding bikes across the Burrard Bridge. Total trips counted in April                      110,155   (29.6%…
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Apr. 28, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Images: Abuse

I was quite startled the other day to see a motor vehicle take the path shown (below) along the bike…
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Apr. 16, 2015 / Gordon Price

In Japan, it’s illegal to bike to work

Jean Chong sends in this article with details: JAPAN’S NATIONAL BIKE TO WORK BAN Strict government policies regarding employee travel…

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