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Apr. 03, 2014 / Gordon Price

Panel: “A Century of Liquid Waste Services” – Apr 16

Yeah, I know, this is definite wonk territory.  But I’ll bet this will be way more intellectually appetizing at that hour…
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Apr. 03, 2014 / Gordon Price

Panel: “World Class Roadways in B.C.” – Apr 23

Transportation 2014: Past, Present, Future Innovative Design and Development for World Class Roadways in British Columbia Innovative opportunities allowing British…
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Apr. 03, 2014 / Gordon Price

A Change in Scale: Evergreen Line

SkyTrain guideways are a common sight in Vancouver, particularly along the Lougheed Highway – and now up North Road as…
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Mar. 26, 2014 / Gordon Price

The New Point Grey Road – 11: Numbers

. Ken Ohrn’s “An Hour on Point Grey Road ” is attracting lots of traffic (ahem). “B” has counted the people…
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Mar. 26, 2014 / Gordon Price

The New Second World

In the American Mid-West, the gravel road is making a comeback: The paved roads that finally brought rural America into…
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Mar. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

The New Point Grey Road – 10: One hour and 245 images on PGR

Ken Ohrn does something amazing: “An Hour on Point Grey Road – photos of everyone who passed by me, whether…
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Mar. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

The New Point Grey Road – 9: Sunny Sunday

PGR still doesn’t connect to finished bikeways or lanes at either end where active construction is still underway, but people are beginning to flock there…
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Mar. 21, 2014 / Gordon Price

Transit and Bridges: It’s hard to understand the double standard

In a surprising editorial, The Vancouver Sun paper opines that Densification must include livability. That’s sure to be controversial. After observing that “feelings of…
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Mar. 18, 2014 / Gordon Price

The New Point Grey Road – 8: Keeping Count

Stephen Rees sends along shots of transportation cyclists on PGR: . . At least they look to me to be less…
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Mar. 17, 2014 / Gordon Price

Exhibition: Motordom in Britannia

From The Guardian: Carscape: how the motor car reshaped England – in pictures Roundabouts, petrol stations and ringroads feature in…
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Mar. 17, 2014 / Gordon Price

The New Point Grey Road – 7: Rainy Day

Alex P takes up the challenge: I tore myself away from some work for a bit of shopping, and included…
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Mar. 16, 2014 / Gordon Price

The New Point Grey Road – 6: Surf’s Up

In response to the pic in the previous post of the new green space on Point Grey Road, regular commenter…
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Mar. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

A Small Green Space on Point Grey Road

It may be small, but it’s a big problem for any politician or candidate who promises to remove it: .…
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Mar. 13, 2014 / Gordon Price

Why please the rich on Point Grey Road?

Peter Ladner added a comment to The New Point Grey Road – 4 that I wanted to copy here – first,…

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