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Jul. 26, 2012 / Gordon Price

How San Francisco (and a landscape architect) got a viaduct demolished and reinvented a road

While we’re in California (below), let’s check in with San Francisco to see how it got rid of Doyle Drive,…
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Jul. 25, 2012 / Gordon Price

The Kitsilano Seawall Extension: One or the Other

News update: Point Grey seawall plan put off by park board After 21 speakers voiced their concerns over a proposed…
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Jul. 25, 2012 / Gordon Price

Dead Aim: Marohn on Engineering

I go through a lot of items in a day, as you might have noticed, and select what I think…
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Jul. 24, 2012 / Gordon Price

A History of the Main Street SkyTrain Station

Andrew T. Jones, an Urban Studies student at SFU, has just started to post excerpts from his research project on the…
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Jul. 23, 2012 / Gordon Price

Price Points: Coming Soon to a Highway Near You

Lots of free asphalt: . Where exactly is this – and what’s the problem it creates a few kilometres away?…
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Jul. 11, 2012 / Gordon Price

Visions of Surrey and Sydney

Further to the discussion of congestion and transportation choice, Surrey is trying to take a visionary step by promoting the…
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Jul. 11, 2012 / Gordon Price

The TomTom Beat: Car Congestion and Choice

Province columnist Jon Ferry does a pretty even-handed job of covering the TomTom report on traffic congestion: Vancouver may no…
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Jul. 10, 2012 / Gordon Price

BIV Part 2: “… if no transit, then no bridge.”

My Business in Vancouver column – Part 2: The question, to clarify, is not the safety issues on the Pattullo…
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Jul. 09, 2012 / Gordon Price

“The message couldn’t be clearer: transit is not to be taken seriously …”

My Business in Vancouver column – Part 1: TransLink has no more money. Gas-tax revenue is down, there’s no new…
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Jul. 09, 2012 / Gordon Price

Banks Account: Road pricing in Vancouver, 1961

From David Banks: Most of Vancouver’s bridges (and Massey Tunnel) were under 10 years old when they had the tolls removed…
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Jun. 26, 2012 / Gordon Price

Extraordinary Facts from the Past: How traffic projections were done

As shown in a previous post, it turns out that Downtown Vancouver traffic volumes in 2010 are equal to those…
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Jun. 14, 2012 / Gordon Price

Marohn: Three Generations of the Suburban Experiment

Charles Marohn’s latest in Better! Cities & Towns: .   The first generation of the Suburban Experiment — let’s say…
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Jun. 12, 2012 / Gordon Price

The Pattullo Compromise

Chris Bryan, editor of the New Westminster NewsLeader, tweets: Wonder what @MayorWatts and #Surrey might think of this Pattullo pitch,…
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Jun. 11, 2012 / Gordon Price

Gordon Price at his best – Pattullo Bridge Forum June 6 2012

“… at his best” – really?  Those aren’t my words, so you can be the judge.  My thanks to Daniel and…

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