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Oct. 18, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Ten Commandments of Micromobility

Brendan Ladner was the first to introduce us to Horace Dediu here.  Let’s call him a pioneer/philosopher of micromobility (How…
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Oct. 06, 2021 / Gordon Price

Pricetags is glad he lived long enough to see this

  Excerpts from an unsigned editorial from the Globe and Mail  Bike lanes, in Vancouver and across Canada, have grown…
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Sep. 24, 2021 / Gordon Price

North Shore Cargobike Festival – Sep 26

From Tony Valente: The first annual North Shore Cargo Bike Festival is coming up on September 26 2021. The event…
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Sep. 07, 2021 / Gordon Price

Report from Calgary: E-scooters, Helmets and Accidents

Orchid Chong, now living in Calgary, sends in this report on one of the issues that will shape the adoption…
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Jul. 28, 2021 / Gordon Price

Webinar: Todd Litman on New Mobilities – Aug 11

From the Eno Center for Transportation: August 11 11 am PDT Online Register   New transportation technologies are coming online…
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Jul. 23, 2021 / Gordon Price

Beach Avenue Comes to Hornby Street

Construction work on Hornby Street has required that vehicle traffic be limited to one lane – notably the 700-block between…
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Jun. 29, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Here’s the Best Climate Investment for California. Is it the Best Here Too?

No matter what you personally think about electric bikes, they are the next darling of micromobility and can be ridden…
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Jun. 22, 2021 / John Graham

Every way you can move on and around False Creek

False Creek correspondent John Graham reports: I sat in the middle of False Creek last night on my cousin’s boat,…
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Jun. 22, 2021 / Gordon Price

Guilt Trip

The subhead says it all: But the author lives in Baltimore, and transit isn’t ‘robust,’ nor does she have carshare,…
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Jun. 16, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Future in Lanes and Everyday Life

We used to rely on the front covers of cheap sci-fi paperbacks for images of the future. The cities were…
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May. 26, 2021 / Gordon Price

Little Batteries, Little Boxes – Classifying the Micromobility Revolution

We love our little boxes.  Everything classified and in its place: cars/drivers bikes/cyclists rollerblades/skaters scooters … um, scootists? Then we…
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May. 14, 2021 / Gordon Price

Recommended Read: E-Scooters in New York

A must-read article (from, not surprisingly, The New Yorker) recommended by Peter Ladner, and seconded by me.  It’s about more…
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May. 11, 2021 / Gordon Price

How Micromobility Might Save the World

From Peter Ladner: My son Brendan put me on to Horace Dediu.  He’s a cycling advocate who has done pioneering…
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Apr. 23, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Futility of Free Parking

  This one is for the textbooks. From The Hive: … temporary free parking that began last year as a…

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