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Sep. 24, 2020 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Transit from the Inside Out (with DownieLive)

Heads up, transit nerds (or anyone curious about the literal insides of our transit system): local Vancouver blogger Mike (born…
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Sep. 24, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver’s Chinatown on an Afternoon ~Not What You Think

This is the way we like to think of Chinatown~a place to buy fresh groceries with wide sidewalks for stopping…
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Sep. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

Urbanist in the Okanagan 4 – Two Kind of Towns: Bisected or Bypassed

There are two kinds of towns in the Okanagan (and most of BC). It depends on the provincial roads that…
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Sep. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Bike Boom and Winter: Will Vancouver Become a ‘Conventional’ City?

The Park Board has justified the removal of the bike lane in Stanley Park because “The data tells us we…
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Sep. 22, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Autonomous Vehicles Still Need a Hand at Driving

  In the last three years there has been a lot of chest thumping at how autonomous vehicles would infiltrate…
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Sep. 22, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Webinar On Equitable Mobility with the Vision Zero Network

How Metropolitan Planning Organizations can champion Vision Zero & Equitable Mobility Regional leadership for Vision Zero – with a focus…
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Sep. 21, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Sleeping While Driving a Tesla~The Alberta Edition

In the “you just can’t make this stuff up” file,  the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP ) saw a Tesla…
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Sep. 21, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Commercial Vehicles Are A Road Hazard

You would think that road safety would be top of mind for commercial vehicles on the road in British Columbia.…
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Sep. 19, 2020 / Gordon Price

Park Board to Cyclists: Fight It Out

A blunt announcement from the Park Board: This is what the Park Board is essentially saying to cyclists who still…
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Sep. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

How do we start limiting congestion NOW?

A challenge question for PT readers: How should we start to limit congestion before it becomes unacceptable? There’s a real-life…
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Sep. 17, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Jimmy Pattison, The Environment & the E-bike Revolution

Sometimes change happens when you least expect it~as Natalie Obiko Pearson  and Divya Balji write in the Vancouver Sun Jimmy…
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Sep. 14, 2020 / Gordon Price

The NPA Co-opts Seniors and the Disabled for the Sake of Motordom

  A report from Global News reporter Nadia Stewart, with a headline that distorts the story: The protest had three…
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Sep. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

Reports from Stanley Park (and Beach Avenue)

Peter Ladner reports: The Stanley Park Hill Klimb (SPHK) now exists. It’s a thing. (The K is for one kilometre long but…
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Sep. 11, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Enough Talk~Provide Downtown Public Accessible Washrooms Now

  We have a culture that makes excuses about the fact we don’t require a public basic service for a…

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