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Sep. 30, 2017 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge: This is About a Bike Lane – 3

It’s not a detour anymore. Today the City removed the fencing and added new jersey barriers, formally creating the east-side…
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Sep. 30, 2017 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge: This is Not About a Bike Lane – 2

The final pieces are coming together – and some testing to see it all works.  Here’s city staff doing a…
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Sep. 28, 2017 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge: This is Not About a Bike Lane

Changes to the Burrard Bridge are about much more than bike lanes. This is much more than a Vancouver project.  This…
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Sep. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Twinning the Lions Gate Bridge

Eve Lazarus photo In one of those utterly cool moments The Richmond News reports that the historian of the North Vancouver Museum…
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Sep. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Speed Humps on Richmond's "Misery Mile" Despite Local Opposition

As reported by the Richmond News, a nasty stretch of road made infamous by four road deaths from 2013 to 2016 is…
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Sep. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Walking, the Economy, and Northeast False Creek

The Walk21 Conference Series held its 17th conference last week.  Canada is the only country that has hosted the conference…
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Sep. 26, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Triple Tweet

Something old, something new, and a nifty picture too. First, another round with sometime PT contributor and SFU City Program…
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Sep. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Go Gambling Beside the Massey Tunnel!

One more  reason for the Mayor of the Corporation of Delta supporting the Massey Bridge, despite all the other Mayors…
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Sep. 19, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Richmond Car Condos for $600,000!

You can tell a lot about people by the way they treat their neighbours and their pets-but does the same…
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Sep. 18, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge & Surrey Environmental Awards?

In truly one of the most bizarre events south of the Fraser River, the  Mayor  of the Corporation of Delta…
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Sep. 14, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Another day,Another document,Another Diatribe from the Liberals over Massey Bridge

You can feel the desperation of the Liberal party in this latest incident-someone in the defeated Liberal provincial party came…
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Sep. 13, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Plugging your Electric Vehicle into the Street Light Pole

One of the big questions as we go towards electric car technology is where all those new vehicles are going…
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Sep. 13, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

No Democracy in Delta-MLA's Dual Role Approved to Prevent By-election

Price Tags Vancouver reported yesterday about the dual mandate or double jobbing of the new Rookie MLA from Delta who was also…
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Sep. 12, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Massey Bridge, The Mayor of Richmond and the MLA that still wants to be a Councillor

Back to the south of the Fraser River where the Massey Bridge is getting a serious rethink by the Province,…

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