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Jan. 29, 2018 / Gordon Price

Quote: The Zen of Car Share

From The Sun on the VanCity car-share report: Younger car-share members are least likely to say they enjoy not owning…
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Jan. 29, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

2,500 cases of Beer Missing in Metro Vancouver

Thirty-five years ago before there was an internet, a remarkable thing happened on Galiano Island. The island is located a…
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Jan. 26, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Changes In Motordom's Fundamentals

One reigning paradigm of Motordom is that we all buy a car as soon as we can, and just keep…
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Jan. 26, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Viaduct Rationale — An Insider's View

Many thanks to Ralph Segal for this wonderful background on Vancouver’s Northeast False Creek (NEFC) plan, and the thinking that…
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Jan. 26, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Friday File: Wearable Infrastructure Art

  This excellent YouTube video provides a perfect way to occupy a dry day in Vancouver~printing t-shirts on manhole covers.…
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Jan. 25, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Toronto Transit Commission's New Five Year Plan

Via Toronto writer Ben Spurr, here  is the shiny new video describing the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC)  new Corporate Plan…
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Jan. 25, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Officer, the Autonomous Car Caused the Crash.

It is not a good thing to smash your Tesla into the back of a parked fire truck on San…
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Jan. 24, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

NE False Creek Project

Vancouver staff released a 368 page PDF today to council recommending the approval of the next big steps forward for…
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Jan. 24, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Public Art and the City~Montreal and the Snow DeLorean

If you have lived in the snowy parts of Canada you will be familiar with the requirement to move your…
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Jan. 24, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

London England's "People Parking Bay"

From Time Out in London comes this unfailingly forward story about Brenda Puech. Brenda believes in sustainability, and she had a…
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Jan. 22, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Don't Give Up on Mass Transit~Driverless Cars Equal Driverless Traffic Jams

The Economist offers an interesting look at traffic congestion and solutions in the North American context. While on this continent traffic…
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Jan. 22, 2018 / Gordon Price

Something people don't believe – 2

A comment from the previous post by Barry Rueger: I had cause to drive over the new Burrard bridge this…
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Jan. 22, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Getting Old,Giving up the Car and Why Ride Share May be Important

As cities mature and the population ages, the classic use of cars as the main way to get places is…
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Jan. 19, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Friday File~ Veronica Moss, Auto Lobbyist

From StreetsBlog comes this cameo from  Saturday Night Live actress Kate McKinnon depicting Auto Lobbyist Veronica Moss. As StreetsBlog observes:…

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