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Apr. 16, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

European Cars Take Ship to Nanaimo

What happens when Port facilities in Metro Vancouver and their associated auto processing centres are filled to capacity with automobiles?…
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Apr. 13, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Friday File~Road Trip Golden Gate to Lions Gate in Two Images

  Thanks to former City of Vancouver staff Jacquie O’Keeffe Nowlan that sent two excellent illustrative images of her trip…
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Apr. 12, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Tsawwassen Mills Mall, Design & Over Eight Thousand Parking Spaces

Price Tags Vancouver has been reporting  on the ongoing saga of Tsawwassen Mills, a 1.2 million square foot retail mall…
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Apr. 12, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

More Support For MVA Update

Written in 1957, with now-outdated thinking, the BC Motor Vehicle Act is ripe and ready for major update. As PT…
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Apr. 09, 2018 / Gordon Price

Seattle considers congestion charging

From the Seattle Times, via Daily Durning: Seattle will develop a plan to toll city roadways as part of its…
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Apr. 09, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Selling Motordom: Safe and Sexy & Get Out of the Way

If you picked up Friday’s Vancouver Sun, you were treated to a front page advertisement from Hyundai in bold letters…
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Apr. 09, 2018 / Gordon Price

Car-Free Superblocks for Melbourne?

From The Age: Melbourne’s CBD could become largely ‘car-free’ under a proposal to counter a growing pedestrian crush, and planning…
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Apr. 06, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Friday File~Bollards to Slow Traffic Removed Because they Slowed Traffic

In the kind of story that reminds how much motordom dominates over pedestrian safety and comfort , The Toronto Star reports that…
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Apr. 05, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Washington State Road Pricing Project Seeks Canadian Drivers

As reported in the Province by Jen Saltman the City of Surrey is looking for two hundred Canadian drivers to participate in…
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Apr. 05, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Driving Vehicles When You Are Over Eighty (Years Not Speed)

In March the Province of British Columbia enacted new rules for drivers of eighty years of age or more. Those…
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Apr. 03, 2018 / Gordon Price

Car-sharing in China: Cheaper than bike-sharing

From South China Morning Post, via Thomas Beyer: A Chinese carmaker has launched a vehicle sharing service in Shenzhen by…
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Apr. 03, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

What Will Amazon do with that City Data?

Price Tags Vancouver has been writing about the cities vying to be the next “big thing” with Amazon. As we now…
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Apr. 03, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Proposed Casino Motors to Delta Council

Meanwhile South of the Fraser River where the 20th century rhetoric of motordom and industrialization reign supreme, Gateway Casinos soldiers…
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Mar. 30, 2018 / Gordon Price

If houses were designed like car-dominant cities ….

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