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Feb. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

What to do with underground parking – 2

Another example from Ian Robertson.  From Commercial Real Estate: As public transport usage among Sydney’s CBD workforce surges, and the…
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Feb. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

What will happen to traffic with a congestion charge?

It will probably get worse. From The Guardian: London has achieved the impossible by eradicating the private car – and…
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Jan. 06, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Women are More At Risk In Car Crashes Because Vehicles Are Not Designed for Them

Last Fall Consumer Reports revealed that although most Americans killed in car crashes are male, data shows that it is…
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Dec. 17, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Contractor for Pedestrian Crossing Construction Goes His Own Way

In this Strange But True tale from Tsawwassen, this image was sent in of a brand new crosswalk installation on…
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Dec. 11, 2019 / Gordon Price

Every Airplane Crash

Morbidly fascinating.  From Maps on the Web: Every Airplane Crash from 1919 to 2019. Spoiler: After a hundred years, the…
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Dec. 05, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Three Metro Vancouver Pedestrians Die in 30 Hours-This is Not Okay

Last week three people within 30 hours in Metro Vancouver lost their lives doing a very simple act-walking on the…
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Oct. 22, 2019 / Gordon Price

Broadway: Awaiting Transformation

As noted below, the Expo Line, which opened in 1985, has transformed the corridor along which it runs, especially at…
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Oct. 17, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Global Growth of SUVs Means the ICE Age is Not Over

You can forget about reducing vehicular emissions, a major source of climate change, if we can’t change our habits. As…
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Oct. 07, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Why We Should Ban SUVs in Cities

I have been writing about how SUVs and trucks which make up 60 percent of all vehicle purchases have been…
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Oct. 02, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Rolling too Much of the Red Carpet in Vancouver Bus Zones

So much to unpack with some of the City of Vancouver’s most recent initiatives, so let’s get started. If you…
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Sep. 23, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Paris, Vehicular Noise & Acoustical Radar

Besides the sights of Paris, the sounds can be fairly intense, especially if you are walking close to a motorway.…
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Sep. 09, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

UBC International Road Safety Symposium~Nov 7-8

Following great feedback from the Vision Zero Summit, UBC’s Bureau of Integrated Transportation Safety and Advanced Mobility, in partnership with…
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Aug. 02, 2019 / Gordon Price

Twiggy Little Devices with Silly Names

They’re on their way, Vancouver is behind, it’s going to be messy, but it’s inevitable: electric scooters and, no doubt,…
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Jul. 23, 2019 / Gordon Price

Greenest City: Two Charts You Need to See

From today’s staff report on the 2019 Greenest City Action Plan Implementation Update: The chart says that by 2018 people in…

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