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Oct. 27, 2010 / Gordon Price

Cycle Tracks and Controversies

Mike Klassen over at City Caucus does a nice piece on “Why are separated bike lanes so controversial? – with an…
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Oct. 26, 2010 / Gordon Price

Kleiber’s Law: Growth and Creativity in Cities

Michael Alexander sent along this excerpt from Steven Johnson’s book, “Where Good Ideas Come From.” Scientists and animal lovers had…
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Oct. 25, 2010 / Gordon Price

Airbags and Platoons

For those who would like to cycle with full protection, but just can’t handle the helmet hair, at last ……
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Oct. 20, 2010 / Gordon Price

You say you’re at a Rail-volution

Here I am in Portland, attending the Rail-Volution conference.   Here’s some of the coverage. From The Oregonian: Let’s not forget…
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Oct. 18, 2010 / Gordon Price

Annals of Motordom – 14

 An occasional update on items from Motordom – the world of auto dominance. DAVID BYRNE IN DETROIT Yule Heibel passes…
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Oct. 15, 2010 / Gordon Price

A Small Army on Hornby Street

 Friday at noon on Hornby Street: The Engineering Department has occupied the Hornby Street corridor with an impressive display of logistics.  Military-like? …
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Oct. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

New York Way of Life

In a conversation about the Hornby cycle track with a distraught Vancouverite, who just couldn’t grasp that the urban world she thought…
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Oct. 13, 2010 / Gordon Price

Quote: The Canadian bridge

There have been a lot of Australians coming through Vancouver recently – something, indeed, that has been going on for…
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Sep. 24, 2010 / Gordon Price

Bikes and Business – 5

Smart kids are good for the economy. Any disagreement there? Didn’t think so.  So what makes kids smarter?  Aerobic exercise, apparently.…
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Sep. 23, 2010 / Gordon Price

Annals of Motordom – 13

 An occasional update on items from Motordom – the world of auto dominance. THE GREAT CRAWL The Economist explains why…
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Sep. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

Why do trolley buses require two wires?

Okay, not the most pressing question on your agenda.  But, nonethess, how come Vancouver’s trolleys need two parallel wires when…
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Sep. 16, 2010 / Gordon Price

Bikes and Business – 4

Yet another report on the benefits for business and real estate in the emerging ‘velo-city’: From the London Evening Standard:…
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Sep. 15, 2010 / Gordon Price

Commonwealth Coincidence

Even as Vancouver goes through some mild angst over making its core more pedestrian and cycling friendly, similar actions (and…
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Sep. 11, 2010 / Gordon Price

Four thousand cyclists in one place

This Saturday morning at 7 am, close to 4,000 cyclists released their brakes and started to freewheel down Georgia Street. …

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