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Apr. 23, 2010 / Gordon Price

Toronto, the Good and the Bad

Two articles on the state of Toronto: Toronto, the Good: The Ryerson Revolution – “How the once dumpy polytechnic is…
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Apr. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

Vancouver’s Green Gold

ULI’s Urban Land magazine has just published a piece on Vancouver’s Olympic transportation experience. Martin Zimmerman’s piece provides a remarkable…
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Apr. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

Passerelles of the Month: WXY Architecture

Michael Alexander passes along links to the work of New York’s WXY Architecture + Urban Design. On home ground, they’re…
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Apr. 19, 2010 / Gordon Price

Mind the Gap

Mr. Human Transit, Jarrett Walker, is fast off the mark in commenting on TransLink’s options for the Broadway corridor, just…
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Apr. 19, 2010 / Gordon Price

Portland comes to Dallas

It was a very Portland kind of thing to do in an inner Dallas neighbourhood: Citizens taking their streets back? …
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Apr. 15, 2010 / Gordon Price

Purifying the stream of cash

You may have already seen this op-ed ithat I wrote for the Sun.  But if not … Backsliding aside, here are…
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Apr. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

Dan Burden comes to town

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE new! Active in Action: New principles for a sustainable world April 21, 7 pm Venue: SFU Harbour…
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Apr. 08, 2010 / Gordon Price

Visions of Transit Futures Past

John Calimente, writing  in re:place, unearths a fascinating document from 1975 that tells us a lot about how Vancouver got…
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Apr. 07, 2010 / Gordon Price

Auto trips in decline … and more good news from TransLink

Some important news here on this just-released travel survey by TransLink: Metro Vancouver’s Travel Profile: Getting Greener Two key travel…
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Apr. 06, 2010 / Gordon Price

Quote: Engineering health

From Stephen Ingrouille’s Transportation Newsletter: SI:  Do you think our governments are getting the message about active transport?  There still…
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Apr. 06, 2010 / Gordon Price

Family Friendly

The best summary I’ve read so far on the success of the Olympic Transportation Plan is here in re:place, by John…
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Apr. 02, 2010 / Gordon Price

On the right (cycle) track

An excellent little video on Portland’s new bike path experiments – or, to use the New York term after which…
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Mar. 30, 2010 / Gordon Price

Yike!

Herb Auerbach shoots another arrow my way to put in the alternate-transportation quiver: To see what that piece of carry-on…
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Feb. 25, 2010 / Gordon Price

Let the Debate Begin

Yesterday, prompted by a release from Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson’s office, the media went after the transportation story.  It’s the…

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