Arduous Driver Tests Make Safer Roads: Lessons From the DutchWhile media in British Columbia are chatting up the high cost of vehicle insurance for drivers that are eighteen years…
A Bad Idea That Sounds Like a Good IdeaLet’s make safer roads compulsory. We don’t really need to change the law. Just give unlimited resources and lots of…
One Pedestrian Death a Month in Vancouver & Vision Zero-“At Least You Are Talking to Each Other”Vision Zero refers to zero road deaths and no serious injuries on roads, with the philosophy that every life matters. …
The Antiquated 85th Percentile & Why It Is Killing American DriversThe quickest way to find out a transportation engineer or planner has not kept current with work and research is…
Things will happen in the futureDon’t know any details about this, other than it’s a TikTok complication from a Chinese site called @VFXHD that does…
LA Revelations 4 -Vancouverism in Los AngelesThis I did not expect. Driving down La Cienega Boulevard at night, a block of lights in the distance rose…
Danger Months for Pedestrians: Vancouver, where Sidewalks are not SafeWinter are the danger months for pedestrians in this Province. Almost double the number of pedestrians are seriously injured in…
Fall Leaves: Traffic Calming & False Creek South Public ArtWhat to do when you have too many leaves and a very wide street? Why not create your very own…
Sneckdown without Snow: A Needledown?“Sneckdown” now has a wikipedia reference. The word refers to “snowy neckdown, a curb extension that mitigates the travelled portion…
Welcome to the Danger Months for Vancouver Pedestrians-Ten Deaths to November 16I will be regularly updating this post to the end of the year to recognize the pedestrians that die on…
No Free Parking: Paying to Park Curbside Goes to Council This WeekThe City of Vancouver has given everyone three months to think about it and now the the Climate Emergency Parking…
Motorways to Waterways: The Utrecht MoatThe Utrecht City Moat is the Cheonggyecheong* of Europe – the demolition of an underused motorway for an historically significant…
Delta’s Federal Conservative Candidate Says Massey Tunnel will Proceed Immediately if ElectedThink of the current Federal election as the warm up for the next main event, the municipal elections in British…
Dec. 19, 2022Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their TimeSandy James Planner