An occasional update on items from the Transit City. ______________________________________________________________ . WHO TAKES TRANSIT – AND WHY From the Sightline…

Though some of them are a little personal ….  …

From Forbes: “If you look at the current dominant modes of transportation—highways and aviation—they are capacity constrained, capital starved, and…

” … creeping like overgrown ivy across the city streetscape. “ So begins an article in the New York Times. …

An occasional update on items from the Velo-city. ___________________________________________________________________ . SHOCKING “Humans really shouldn’t be able to do this”: ___________________________________________________________________…

If you’re a car company, this does not look good: The New York Times notes that less than half of potential…

Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, and SFU are the educational equivalents of Sister Cites.  Both of their urban studies departments…

Just in case things can sometimes seem too bleak, it helps to remind ourselves that incremental change makes a difference. …

An occasional update on items from the Velo-city. ___________________________________________________________________ . WHY ARE THREE OUT OF FOUR CYCLISTS MEN? It’s been…

Sigh. Premier Christy Clark has ordered an audit of TransLink to address a shortfall in funding for the transportation authority.…

There will be limited seating for this one, so sign up soon. Tolling? Road pricing? New technologies? The Sustainable Transportation…

I’ve covered Project 200 – the massive urban-renewal proposal for Vancouver’s waterfront – a few times in the past: in…

An occasional update on items from Motordom – the world of auto dominance. _________________________________________________________ . COMING DOWN John Norquist (CEO…

A pedestrian perspective. ______________________________________________________________ . THE WALKING WARS From the Sidewalk Ballet: … behind Nanaimo’s City Hall you encounter the…