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Feb. 19, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Portland App

Maybe it’s the ex-councillor in me, but I find this very cool. Porltand is testing an app that will allow…

Feb. 17, 2010 / Gordon Price

Raising the Bar

We may have the greenest neighbourhood in the world, the greenest building bylaw in North America, the greenest aspirations anywhere…

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Feb. 12, 2010 / Gordon Price

Missives from Post-Motordom

It was “one of (the) most radical experiments in a generation,” watched both locally and globally – and now it’s permanent. New…

Feb. 11, 2010 / Gordon Price

O4 – Lessons

Is it just me – a carless West Ender – who finds the quiet streets of downtown downright eerie? I…

Feb. 02, 2010 / Gordon Price

Bike People

Will Vancouver be the first Winter Olympics host city with the greatest number of people using bikes for transportation during the…

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Feb. 02, 2010 / Gordon Price

Missives from Motordom

The owner and operator of Sydney’s Lane Cove Tunnel has been placed in receivership, after creditors finally refused to grant…

Jan. 31, 2010 / Gordon Price

iAdvantage: Transit

How more appealing has riding rapid transit become since the ban on hand-held devices while driving? This is not a…

Jan. 27, 2010 / Gordon Price

Doing Vancouver One Better

Nick Christensen, a writer with the Hillsboro Argus (Hillsboro is a distant suburb of Portland), spent a recent weekend in…

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Jan. 27, 2010 / Gordon Price

Post-Motordom Melbourne

Australia’s great southern city is, as Vancouver, on its way to Post-Motordom. The inner city at least is seeing a drop in traffic…

Jan. 25, 2010 / Gordon Price

Link to link to link

Stephen Rees linked to Eric Doherty who linked to the Campaign for Better Transport in the UK. And what did…

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Jan. 25, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Fast Lane

I usually start my week with James Kunstler’s blog entry. The rest of the week only seems more, um, optimistic by comparison. …

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Jan. 25, 2010 / Gordon Price

Missed opportunity

Back in 2005, “City Comforts” guy David Sucher recommended this for Whistler: Those of you who know the winter resort…

Jan. 15, 2010 / Gordon Price

Transportation Nerd Alert

The editors of Transport Reviews, to celebrate their 30th anniversary, have chosen 30 of the best articles in the journal and are making…

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Jan. 06, 2010 / Gordon Price

More Underground Art

Further to our underground exploration of great transit stations, here are recent photos of some new stations in Kaohsiung City,…

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