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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. 30, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Davie Queue Lane

We’re going to need a list of descriptors for the different kind of lanes that are being improvised to respond…
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Apr. 29, 2020 / Gordon Price

Early Signs of Life …

.. in a new West Davie highrise welcoming its first tenants.…
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Apr. 29, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

How do we support Public Transit in the Post-Covid World?

  The gifted and talented CBC videographer Uytae Lee has produced  a compelling short video about the crisis facing public…
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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. 28, 2020 / Gordon Price

Dr. Bonnie Henry’s most important point today

It was in the Sun‘s lead article today, but it might get missed: There were just 11 new cases reported…
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Apr. 27, 2020 / Gordon Price

Frozen City: Idling Times

A two-minute layover on the No. 7 Nanaimo.  Waiting for time to catch up with the schedule. The buses have…
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Apr. 25, 2020 / Gordon Price

Where It Began: the Chilco Cul-de-Sac

This is the view that inspires me. I not only appreciate the privilege, I appreciate the irony.  I’m an urbanist…
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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. 23, 2020 / Gordon Price

Park Commissioner John Irwin: Committed to keeping a flow way on Beach

On Wednesday afternoon, I had a fun and enjoyable conversation with John Irwin, the COPE member of the Park Board. …
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Apr. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

Recommendations for Reallocation: MoTI makes the leap

Guess who has come out with a quick response on how to design for our changing street uses in the…
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Apr. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

Faster Progress on Slower Streets

Cllr Lisa Dominato was interviewed on ‘NW’s Simi Sara show this morning, touching all the points on why slow streets…
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Apr. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

Frozen City

SkyTrain Station: Commercial and Broadway – Tuesday, April 21, 11 am…

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