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Oct. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Images: Scoff

This is Point Grey Road, just west of Trafalgar. .…
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Oct. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

Motordom in Australia: A tunnel for Melbourne

Peter Whitelaw passes this along this piece from the Guardian Australia on the East West Link – “the most contentious, emotionally charged…
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Oct. 08, 2014 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Future: Providence

Via Brent Toderian and Streetsblog: . . Pretty soon, folks in Providence, Rhode Island, will be able to stroll casually…
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Oct. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Image: PGR Park

Is there a greater place to take in the harbour scenery than this little park on the new Point Grey…
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Oct. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

Castro widens its sidewalks – 6

We’ve been following the progress on San Francisco’s Castro Street as they widen the sidewalks – part of an overall…
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Sep. 26, 2014 / Gordon Price

World Premiere: "Seacycles"

A stunning visual portrait of the new bike route from Burrard Bridge to Point Grey Road, by Kathleen Corey and…
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Sep. 25, 2014 / Gordon Price

Seacycles: Breathtaking new video on Point Grey Road/Cornwall debuts tomorrow

Get ready. Seacycles –  the new video by Kathleen Corey and Brian Gould – is set to be launched tomorrow. …
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Sep. 16, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Berkeley Bugle: Financing cities with mini-bonds

Berkeley links to this NextCity story: Crowdfunding Fans Are Crazy About Denver’s Mini-Bonds. Denver gained notice in the municipal funding…
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Sep. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

A Phrase for Our Times: "Soft Denialism"

This is from Tom Athanasiou in, among other places, EcoEquity:  … we’ve been so long distracted by the hard denialists…
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Sep. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Future: 11th Street Bridge

We haven’t had one of these for awhile – but finalists for Washington, D.C.’s proposed 11th Street Bridge are already worth highlighting. …
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Sep. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

By Comparison: If you think SkyTrain is crowded …

Try Beijing.   From The Guardian: Each day 9.75 million passengers ride the lines across Beijing: nearly three times as…
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Sep. 08, 2014 / Gordon Price

Violating a Meme: Bike lanes can speed up traffic

Not news to many of you, since this has been widely circulated since appearing on CityLab.  But worth repeating – and…
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Sep. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

George Poulos: "Comprehensive Costs of Transportation in Vancouver" – 3

The third section of George Poulos’s essay: Moving Towards the Comprehensive Costs of Transportation in Vancouver. [Part 1 here]   [Part 2 here]…
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Sep. 04, 2014 / Gordon Price

George Poulos: "Comprehensive Costs of Transportation in Vancouver" – 2

The second section of George Poulos’s essay: Moving Towards the Comprehensive Costs of Transportation in Vancouver [Part 1 here] . Investing…

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