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May. 25, 2010 / Gordon Price

Annals of Motordom – 1

An occasional update on items from ‘Motordom‘ – the world of auto dominance. Tom Vanderbilt Interview Whether you’re a transportation…
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May. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Australian Connection

My current Business in Vancouver column: Why B.C. needs to exploit more of its Australian connections All things considered, Aussies…
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May. 20, 2010 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Week: Taiwan

Ronald Chen reports in from Taiwan. I recently visited a brand new bike overpass that connects a botanical garden to…
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May. 19, 2010 / Gordon Price

More change at City Hall

A few additions to the City Hall post below. The Canada Line station has some cutsey public art: the always-popular…
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May. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

Real Time Solution

The greatest single loss due to insufficient TransLink funding (or more directly, the failure of Provincial will to authorize what…
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May. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

Re-rant

Michael Alexander sent in a response to the Province editorial on cycling (which I ranted about below) – but curiously,…
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May. 10, 2010 / Gordon Price

Freeway Buzz

Over at TransLink, Jhenifer Pabillano edits the terrific Buzzer Blog, both informative and entertaining, and another example of TL’s embrace of new…
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May. 10, 2010 / Gordon Price

Cycle Rant

Every half year or so, editorial writers in the print press cycle out a rant on cycling.  This time it’s the…
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May. 07, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Ice-Cream Shop Solution

Or, How a Boston Ice-Cream Shop revealed the future of transit for $300. In recent years, transit operators in Portland, Oregon,…
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May. 05, 2010 / Gordon Price

Motordom Defined

I use the term ‘Motordom‘ a lot in my posts.  So here’s an explanation.  (One thing for sure: it’s not…
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May. 04, 2010 / Gordon Price

Update: Dallas street-claiming

Scot Bathgate reports: An update on the guerilla street design project in Dallas that you put on your blog: the city…
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Apr. 30, 2010 / Gordon Price

Cycling in New York

Rutgers prof John Pucher and colleagues have just done a definitive critique of cycling in New York City. Don’t be…
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Apr. 27, 2010 / Gordon Price

What on Earth!

Herb Auerbach passes along a little gem: Many years ago I saw this film when it was first produced, lost…
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Apr. 24, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Ten Million Barrel shortfall

This piece on peak oil from a report by the U.S. military was published in the Guardian a few days…

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