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Apr. 08, 2020 / Gordon Price

How transit helps prevent the collapse of civilization – Jarrett Walker

Excerpts from Jarrett Walker’s perspective on the importance of transit in a time of pandemic.  Full essay here from Citylab. …
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Apr. 07, 2020 / Gordon Price

“Lifeline:” The Bicycle in a Pandemic

The current cover of the New Yorker, titled “Lifeline.” Here’s my version – an image taken on March 17, 8…
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Apr. 07, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Hastings and Main Street Car Tracks, Vancouver 1912

Man with generator laying streetcar tracks for reconstruction of Hastings and Main lines Here’s another great photo from the Vancouver…
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Apr. 06, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

British Cars Shipping to Vancouver, British Cars Dunking into Burrard Inlet

Another wonderful image from Diane Sampson of a  British cars cargo from the SS “Mostun” Vancouver January 24, 1959 .…
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Apr. 06, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

The Covid Diaries~Time for the City to Open Streets, Agrees Moura Quayle

Gordon Price and I have been posting on the need to rethink open streets in the times of the Covid…
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Mar. 24, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Practicing Physical Distancing While You Bike

  And Surprise!  That highly sought after Covid-19 virus product, toilet paper, seen in the wild on one of the…
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Mar. 19, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

BC Transit Buses Are Free In Victoria and Nanaimo B.C. During COVID-19 Crisis

BC Transit has announced for the next thirty days that they are implementing rear door bus boarding in Victoria and…
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Mar. 12, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Back to Vancouver’s Future North Shore Rapid Transit Connection

I wrote earlier about the six proposed routes that could connect the North Shore municipalities of West Vancouver, the City…
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Mar. 12, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Accessibility Fail In Puerto Vallarta

Our man in Mexico photographer Ken Ohrn chronicles why you don’t walk home at night without knowing the local geography.…
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Mar. 11, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Canada Goose Zamboni Adaptation Outstanding in the Field

There’s nothing more Canadian than a Canada Goose, perhaps with the exception of a Zamboni. The Zamboni is a rideable…
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Mar. 10, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Settecani Italy where Taps Turned Water into Wine

Just the very best story from Settecani  Italy where villagers in this town of 200 people had a wee surprise…
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Mar. 09, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

The Congestion Myth: Building New Roads, Bridges Doesn’t Help

In the last 24 years the  United States has created over 30,500 miles of road, a 42% increase in road…
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Mar. 07, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Job Jar~School Active Travel Planner with the City of Vancouver

We are posting this on the weekend because it’s a chance to work with some pretty creative and innovative people…
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Mar. 06, 2020 / Barry Rueger

Make it Easy!

A few years ago I was part of a group for whom Translink (then still under the Liberal governent) presented…

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