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Sep. 08, 2022 / Gordon Price

A Bad Idea That Sounds Like a Good Idea

Let’s make safer roads compulsory. We don’t really need to change the law.  Just give unlimited resources and lots of…
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Sep. 05, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

ICBC & Transportation BC Tries “Schooling” Children, Outraged Parents Provide 21st Century Response

Here we are starting another school year in Metro Vancouver, and Transportation BC and the provincial vehicle insurance provider, ICBC…
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Sep. 01, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Guest Writer Rob Grant on “Granville Island-A Question of Accessibility”

Guest writer Rob Grant is a retired architect who has been the designer/project architect on a variety of work including …
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Aug. 30, 2022 / Gordon Price

How to get “VanBikes” by Colin Stein

Collin Stein’s epic aural history (I exaggerate only slightly) of bike activism in Vancouver for the last half century has…
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Aug. 29, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

A Tale of Two Cities: Seattle now Providing Electric Vehicle Charging Stations on Residential Streets

In  “Green” Vancouver which has adopted a transportation hierarchy which supposedly favours the lowest  level of micromobility, walking and rolling, …
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Aug. 25, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Edinburgh Saves 60 Million Canadian Dollars Just By Slowing Driver Speed Limits to 30 Km/h

While we are still struggling to urge the Provincial government to allow municipalities to declare areas of their towns as…
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Aug. 24, 2022 / Gordon Price

The ultimate comment on right turn on red

So says Dianna, our cultural critic:  …
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Aug. 24, 2022 / Gordon Price

Monument to a Bike Lane

Not surprising that Harry Jerome would be multi-model next to the Stanley Park bike lane.  …
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Aug. 24, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

New York City Installing 30,000 Window Sized Heat Pumps in City Owned Apartments

In Vancouver sixty percent of carbon pollution is due to the use of natural gas to heat buildings and hot…
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Aug. 23, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Rethinking the Right Turn on Red

Do you know the history of how vehicle drivers were allowed to turn right at a red light? And did …
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Aug. 22, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

“Vanbikes” by Colin Stein: Finally a Definitive History & Recounting of the Modern Cycling Movement

Vancouverite Colin Stein has written what is arguably one of the most important books of this year, and one  that…
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Aug. 19, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Former Expo 86 Plaza of Nations Site Now Redeveloping for Condos, Public Waterfront

There is one more piece of False Creek North that will now be developed, the former “Plaza of Nations” property…
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Aug. 16, 2022 / Gordon Price

60 Riders in 10 Minutes: Stanley Park Dedicated Bike Lane

Data-loving planner Michael Mortensen sends in ten minutes of fresh numbers taken at Prospect Point on August 14 at 11…
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Aug. 15, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

One Pedestrian Death a Month in Vancouver & Vision Zero-“At Least You Are Talking to Each Other”

Vision Zero refers to zero road deaths and no serious injuries on roads, with the philosophy that every life matters. …

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