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Jan. 26, 2015 / Gordon Price

Pete McMartin on the Port Mann Bridge, and what we really need

Pete McMartin critiques the PMB in The Sun: . Port Mann Bridge: It’s better at racking up debt than carrying commuters…
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Jan. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Fun Fact: Port Mann Debt = 48 percent of referendum transport package

From the Vancouver Sun: The number of drivers taking the tolled Port Mann Bridge steadily declined last year, as the…
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Jan. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Motordom Fail: Port Mann in Denial

By Michael Mui in 24 Hours – curiously, one of the only papers to high-profile this. The tolled Port Mann Bridge is…
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Jan. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

NRU: “Financing Density”

Karenn Krangle, in Novae Res Urbis, covered the Planning Department’s report on the City’s use of Community Amenity Contributuins (CACs)…
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Jan. 14, 2015 / Gordon Price

Passerelles from Fiction: The Euro banknote bridges

Gladys We discovered these in dezeen: Dutch designer Robin Stam was inspired by the seven images of archetypal bridges originally created…
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Jan. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Images: It’s a Wrap

Scene off the Burrard Street bridge. Permanent colour, impermanent colour and non-coloured sky. .…
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Jan. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

Motordom Fail: Traffic Forecasting

The Transportationist has done a public service by putting in one place the failed traffic forecasting charts that have been…
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Jan. 05, 2015 / Gordon Price

Motordom Fail of the Year

This one almost deserves a new category of its own: Seattle’s unbelievable transportation megaproject fustercluck  . . Mark Landman sends…
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Jan. 01, 2015 / Gordon Price

New Point Grey Road: The Cycle of Success

This is too good to leave to Monday.  The Globe and Mail has done the first piece on the success…
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Dec. 01, 2014 / Gordon Price

Report: “Intensifying Melbourne”

From Cole Hendrigan at Curtin University: I was not involved in this, though I wish I had been. I just…
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Nov. 27, 2014 / Gordon Price

Another beautiful theory mugged by a gang of ruthless facts

Alone with her trolls, Frances Bula wanders into the bike-lane debate yet again: . Does Vancouver really have a new…
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Nov. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

Is Climate Change Consequential? – 2

So far the comments to the post below have been disappointing: ‘Comments not worth commenting on’ – the usual back-and-forth…
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Nov. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

Is Climate Change Consequential?

The Prime Minister went to the Arctic for nine days and never spoke of climate change. The words didn’t cross his…
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Nov. 20, 2014 / Gordon Price

How brick streets are laid in The Netherlands

From a tweet by way of Jennifer Keesmaat: .…

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