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Dec. 03, 2009 / Gordon Price

Contested Congestion

Most congested city in the U.S.? Seattle, apparently.    According to global positioning system (GPS) company TomTom of Concord, Mass., the…
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Dec. 02, 2009 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Month: Calgary’s Peace Bridge (cont.)

Good news from Calgary: City of Calgary officials have announced that construction of the “Peace Bridge,” a signature-design by world-renowned…
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Oct. 27, 2009 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Month: Kurilpa Bridge

Brisbane’s latest passerelle just opened.  (They have five now; see them all in Price Tags 93.)  The $63 million(Aus) ped bridge connects…
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Sep. 02, 2009 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Month: Ward’s Island

Keeping with the New York theme this week, here’s a submission by Angus Grieve-Smith of what is probably one of…
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Aug. 20, 2009 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Month: Qingpu (Shanghai)

Andrew Curran sends a long a link to this new pedestrian bridge in the Qingpu district of Shanghai. … this…
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Jul. 29, 2009 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Month

We haven’t had a new passerelle on the blog for awhile – so thanks to Brent Toderian for passing along…
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Jul. 06, 2009 / Gordon Price

A new bridge (and a new option) for False Creek

Lots of buzz about the ped/bike bridge proposal floated by the Mayor as an alternative to the lane closure or widening…
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May. 20, 2009 / Gordon Price

Aussies do infrastructure right

Australia’s Peter Newman (Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and author of The Reslient City) is on the Infrastructure Australia Advisory Council. …
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Mar. 05, 2009 / Gordon Price

Passerelle Update

Good for Calgary: they’ve commissioned designs for two footbridges across the Bow River, and they want them to be spectacular.  (Bit…
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Jan. 27, 2009 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Week: Ottawa’s Corktown Footbridge

Chris Bradshaw, loyal PT reader in Ottawa, writes: Ottawa is very slowly,  very tentatively talking about adding a second passerelle. …
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Jan. 12, 2009 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Week-Aarschot

I’m glad John Wilson is keeping track of the latest in fancy passerelles. Here’ s an entry winner from Aarschot, Belgium: West…
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Jan. 05, 2009 / Gordon Price

Passerelles of the Year

All the entries from the past year on assorted passerelles (and, at the end, the issue as it relates to the Burrard…
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Dec. 22, 2008 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Week-Stockholm

PT reader John Wilson submits this competition entry by Foster and Partners and Berg Arkitektkontor for a pedestrian bridge in…
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Dec. 15, 2008 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Week-Willamette Crossing

Not quite a passerelle, I suppose, since this proposed crossing is designed for light-rail transit.  But since it’s in Portland,…

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