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Dec. 06, 2012 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Month: Des Moines High Trestle Bridge

From The Sidewalk Ballet: The High Trestle Bridge, located along the High Trestle Trail between Woodward and Madrid, Iowa spans…
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Dec. 05, 2012 / Gordon Price

We Beat Baghdad! And other infrastructure stories

Of course, so did everyone else: Overall, Vienna retains the top spot as the city with the world’s best quality…
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Nov. 27, 2012 / Gordon Price

Live from New York: 21st-Century Streets

Michael Alexander alerts us: New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan released a report that discusses key approaches…
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Nov. 21, 2012 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Month: Calatrava’s L’Umbracle

Agustin contributes: I’m not sure if this counts as a passerelle but it’s pretty neat nonetheless. And it’s from the…
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Nov. 19, 2012 / Gordon Price

Motordom in Brisbane: Another tunnel in the hole

First it was Clem 7: (In March 2010,) Brisbane opened the “Clem7” – a tolled tunnel under its central area…
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Nov. 16, 2012 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Future: The Paris Wobbly

From Taxi: French architecture studio bureau faceB is developing an unusual new bridge on Paris’ Seine River—one that is designed…
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Nov. 15, 2012 / Gordon Price

Pattullo versus Pedal: Guess which one gets cut?

Today is the 75th anniversary of the Pattullo Bridge.  (The New Westminster News Leader tells the story here.) But its…
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Nov. 01, 2012 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Future: Edinburgh’s Leith/Leaf Bridge

A proposal: Cycling through Edinburgh in between roof-tops on the tracks of the former Caledonian Railway’s Leith New Lines.   The…
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Oct. 30, 2012 / Gordon Price

How does the pattern of urban growth affect the cost of city infrastructure?

Guess what: the infrastructure needs of a rapidly growing population can often overwhelm the capacity of a city.  Not news. …
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Oct. 29, 2012 / Gordon Price

History as it’s happening

While that last image I retweeted (ominous clouds behind the Statue of Liberty) was fake (but of great symbolic value!),…
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Oct. 24, 2012 / Gordon Price

The most interesting fact I found in Australia

This one: Sydney’s traffic peaked in 2005 and had been falling steadily ever since.  The number of vehicle kilometres travelled…
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Sep. 08, 2012 / Gordon Price

A lifetime on Broadway? – Stephen Quinn’s take on my take

Stephen Quinn pens a more serious column than usual in the Saturday Globe and Mail – and does a fine job…
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Aug. 29, 2012 / Gordon Price

Falcon’s Legacy

Kevin Falcon’s legacy: Port Mann Bridge, almost finished. . What an icon!  Whatever else will be said about it, the…
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Aug. 23, 2012 / Gordon Price

The Hovenring: A new level of bike infrastructure

In The Netherlands, of course.  This is the Hovenring under construction: … this was an extremely large rural roundabout (officially…

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