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Feb. 08, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Yaletown Retail Businesses To Lose On~Street Parking with Axing of City Metered Cash Cow

Various media sources including the Vancouver Sun have reported on the City of Vancouver Engineering’s plan to reduce 80 to 90 …
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Feb. 08, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Rail to Where? Abbotsford!

  When Henry Braun, the Mayor of Abbotsford was 14 years old the Highway 1 freeway was built.  As he…
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Feb. 07, 2018 / Gordon Price

Pricetags on Congestion

Another one of those distracting and deceptive reports on congestion – this time from INRIX.   Here are my comments in…
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Feb. 07, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Getting Revenue and Making the Province's Streets Safer~Should Photo Radar Make a Comeback?

Besides the media flurry on the new Liberal leader of the Ten Lane Massey Bridge party, there has been discouraging…
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Feb. 06, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

No Massey Bridge Decision but Delta Gets A Casino Right Beside Tunnel!

Despite all you have been reading in the Vancouver Sun and other media sources about casinos and money laundering, the City of…
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Feb. 05, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Want to Save Lives? Then Champion "Leading Pedestrian Intervals" in Metro Vancouver.

Like most things, when you look at pedestrian crashes and fatalities, these tragedies can be averted in a very simple…
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Feb. 05, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Northeast False Creek Plan and View Corridors~The View From Larry Beasley & Neal LaMontagne

  The Northeast False Creek Plan is currently before City Council and city staff are recommending three tall towers that…
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Feb. 02, 2018 / Gordon Price

The TSP Pledge: Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities

From Curbed: Fifteen leading technology and transportation companies announced the Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities, a voluntary set of…
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Feb. 01, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Road Violence, Speed Enforcement and The City of Delta's Vision Zero Approach

There are four main elements to protecting the lives of vulnerable users of the street system. Vulnerable users are defined…
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Feb. 01, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

With Autonomous Vehicle Testing, Waymo is Way Ahead

The California Department of Motor Vehicles have just released some new statistics on test autonomous vehicles (AV’s)  operating in that…
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Feb. 01, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Rise of the TSP: Uber targets cycling

Gord Price: I’ve been predicting the rise of the “Transportation Service Provider” – a consolidator of every mode of movement…
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Jan. 31, 2018 / Gordon Price

Northeast False Creek and the Viaducts: Send an email

A request from Michael Alexander: If you support removal of the viaducts and approval of the North East False Creek plan,…
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Jan. 30, 2018 / Gordon Price

Streetfilm: Unsustainable – Traffic 2018

It’s New York day here at PT, apparently.  Including the latest Streetfilm – Unsustainable: Traffic 2018.  There’s a special relevance…
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Jan. 30, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Bike Lanes, Vancouver and the 21st Century

No one will argue with advocating for better walking facilities~wider sidewalks, brushed concrete with non-glare finishes, benches and amenities to…

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