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May. 27, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Drivers Prepared to Take A Walk in Post Pandemic Great Britain

Everyone has been enjoying bluer skies, better views, great sunsets and better air quality with the reduction of vehicular and…
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May. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

Slow and Muddled at 12th and Cambie

Sandy James and I were both struck by Daphne Bramham’s recent column in The Sun.  She asked the question many…
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May. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

What will happen to car traffic?

Traffic went effectively overnight to nothing at all.   Didn’t expect that. But what now?  Will it return to previous levels…
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May. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

A World Redesigned: The End of Rush Hours

  As a consequence of flattening the covid curve: … we’ll also have to flatten these curves: The hand-drawn chart…
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May. 07, 2020 / Gordon Price

“Stay Healthy Streets”: Seattle Catches Up

Cities large and small are moving to create a network of streets for the same reason – as reported in…
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May. 06, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Speedsters Take Advantage of Open Road during Pandemic

ICBC (the Insurance Corporation of B.C. that provides mandatory vehicular insurance) has been posting extra social media reminders for drivers…
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May. 02, 2020 / Gordon Price

Beach Flow on a Friday Afternoon

This is what Beach Avenue looked like at 3 pm on Friday afternoon – May 1: Here’s the video: Beach…
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Apr. 30, 2020 / Gordon Price

A Simple Request to the Transport Modelers Out There

Expect to hear a lot more of this: ‘Transit is contagious. Cars are clean. Gas is cheap. Density is dangerous.…
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Apr. 30, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

New Report Shows Protecting the Car Industry More Important than Saving Vulnerable Road User Lives

You would think that people dying on the road would attract a furore of voices for change. But somehow we…
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Apr. 29, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Car Commercials Cozy Up in these Covid Times

Don’t doubt for a minute that the automobile industry is already strategizing how to sell vehicles in the post Covid…
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Apr. 23, 2020 / Gordon Price

‘Transit is contagious. Cars are clean. Gas is cheap. Density is dangerous. Let’s drive!’

  PT: As predicted, the rationale for more driving (and priorizing road space for it) is underway – this one…
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Apr. 17, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Friday File: Highway as Flyway~Drivers Tailgate Anyway

Yesterday motorists south of Quebec City witnessed a Piper PA-28 Cherokee airplane do a classic textbook descent landing squarely in…
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Apr. 06, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

British Cars Shipping to Vancouver, British Cars Dunking into Burrard Inlet

Another wonderful image from Diane Sampson of a  British cars cargo from the SS “Mostun” Vancouver January 24, 1959 .…
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Mar. 02, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Automobile “Explosion Whistles” & Sounds of New York City in 1920’s

  I was researching the evolution of vehicular traffic in New York City and stumbled across a series of letters…

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