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Mar. 26, 2021 / Gordon Price

Recommended Reading: The Fairness Finesse in London and San Francisco

Here’s a report on the changes being levered by the pandemic to accelerate the move to active-transportation infrastructure and design…
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Mar. 24, 2021 / Gordon Price

North Shore Tour 3 – The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Whee

When Tony Valente invited me over for a tour of recent cycling developments in the City of North Vancouver, he…
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Mar. 24, 2021 / Gordon Price

Estonia free transit didn’t reduce auto travel (but did walking)

Defying hope and common sense, it appears (at least in Tallinn, Estonia) that providing free transit to local users, while…
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Mar. 23, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Pandemic Walking, Mood & Fake (Faux) Commuting

The coronavirus pandemic has made walking an easy and attainable way to continue exercising, and figures from Transport for London…
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Mar. 23, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Flu Rate on Public Transit. (Not what you might think)

Take a guess: Between a low-density mostly suburban metropolis in the US, or New York City, in which do you…
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Mar. 20, 2021 / Gordon Price

View from the 1920s: “Indian Park” and a Driveway

Michael Gordon, doing research in the bunker we call an Archives, came across “a proposal to declare the still-existing Kitsilano…
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Mar. 19, 2021 / Gordon Price

Master Class: Green and Livable Cities

Anthony Perl at SFU passes along (with a recommendation) this online course on how cities can become more green and…
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Mar. 18, 2021 / Gordon Price

North Shore Tour 2 – Complete Streets and Lolo Lanes

Councillor Tony Valente has been advocating for ‘complete streets’ even before he ran for council in the City of North…
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Mar. 17, 2021 / Gordon Price

North Shore Tour 1 – Lonsdale Quay

  A trip across the water last week to meet City of North Vancouver Councillor Tony Valente for an e-bike…
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Mar. 11, 2021 / Gordon Price

Stan Douglas’s Art in the Moynihan Train Hall

The greatest loss in the heritage history of America was the demolition of Pennsylvania Station in 1964.  From the grandeur…
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Mar. 11, 2021 / Gordon Price

Don’t let NPA Park Commissioners hear about this

From Canadian Cycling Magazine: Marcel Steeman, a regional councillor in the Netherlands, is the voice behind hundreds of people advocating…
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Mar. 10, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Pandemic -Why Did Fewer Cars on the Roads Not Result in Fewer Fatalities?

Here’s a test that it is not fewer vehicle drivers on the road but lower speed that is the determining…
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Mar. 09, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Stanley Park & “Automobile Bubble Privilege”-David Sadoway

David Sadoway is on faculty and is an instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He sent the following in response to…
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Mar. 09, 2021 / Gordon Price

Another Traffic High for Vancouver

We don’t have many Traffic Highs in this city, so those we do feel extra special. Like the downhill slope…

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