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Jun. 02, 2020 / Gordon Price

Will the temporary become permanent … or Motordom Redux?

PT: With respect to the future of urban transportation, we are in a fragile moment: the pandemic has resulted in…
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May. 31, 2020 / Gordon Price

That New Bike Lane Smell

The striping is on the asphalt like a new suit of well-cut clothes: It makes the Richards Bike Lane look…
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May. 29, 2020 / Gordon Price

Richards Street Bike Lane: Decades in the Making

From Jeff Leigh of HUB, with photos by Clark. Construction continues on Richards Street, with the new protected bi-directional bike…
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May. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

Seaside Redesigned: Why Seaside won’t go back to the way it was

Seaside Greenway: all the paths along the waterfront, from Coal Harbour to Spanish Banks. One of the best continual waterfront…
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May. 07, 2020 / Gordon Price

“Stay Healthy Streets”: Seattle Catches Up

Cities large and small are moving to create a network of streets for the same reason – as reported in…
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Apr. 30, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Davie Queue Lane

We’re going to need a list of descriptors for the different kind of lanes that are being improvised to respond…
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Apr. 25, 2020 / Gordon Price

Where It Began: the Chilco Cul-de-Sac

This is the view that inspires me. I not only appreciate the privilege, I appreciate the irony.  I’m an urbanist…
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Apr. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

Recommendations for Reallocation: MoTI makes the leap

Guess who has come out with a quick response on how to design for our changing street uses in the…
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Apr. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

Faster Progress on Slower Streets

Cllr Lisa Dominato was interviewed on ‘NW’s Simi Sara show this morning, touching all the points on why slow streets…
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Apr. 16, 2020 / Gordon Price

Park Board Signage: Benefit of the doubt – or just doubt

Guest writes below: … maybe that sign was placed instead of a “hazard” sign to make visible the massive dark…
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Apr. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

How to Design a Neighbourhood Flow Street

  Now is the time to adapt our existing streets, especially the greenways and relief roads, to accommodate a multitude…
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Apr. 09, 2020 / Gordon Price

How We Safely Space on a Street

It’s near the height of cherry blossom season, there are only so many beautiful springs in one’s life, and we…
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Apr. 08, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Lost Normal of Sydney (and Brisbane and Melbourne)

In this case, good riddance: You won’t see these naked ‘beg buttons’ in Sydney at the moment.  Nor in Brisbane…
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Apr. 06, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

The Covid Diaries~Time for the City to Open Streets, Agrees Moura Quayle

Gordon Price and I have been posting on the need to rethink open streets in the times of the Covid…

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