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Jan. 04, 2010 / Gordon Price

The ALO Triangle – Aberdeen

[The third of a series.  Start here.] It may be one-and-a-half times as long as the route from Lansdowne Station, but…
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Jan. 02, 2010 / Gordon Price

The ALO Triangle – Lansdowne

The ALO Triangle lies between the Aberdeen and Lansdowne Canada Line stations and the Olympic Oval – the territory to be traversed by…
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Dec. 30, 2009 / Gordon Price

Oh Canada Line!

Another piece from the Globe, this time Ian Bailey’s evaluation of the Canada Line.  (I include my own quotes because…
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Dec. 28, 2009 / Gordon Price

Suddenly … nothing happened

Globe reporter Rod Mickleburgh does a nice year-end summary on the Burrard Bridge bike lane.  And, in addition to the Monty…
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Dec. 22, 2009 / Gordon Price

Khazzoom-Brookes in action

Years ago I came across a description of the Khazzoom-Brookes Postulate (it has several names) and wrote about it in…
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Dec. 20, 2009 / Gordon Price

Refusing sweaters in the cold

“How many people, right at this moment, are stuck in traffic on their way to ride a stationary bicycle in…
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Dec. 18, 2009 / Gordon Price

A little bit of balance

Jarrett Walker responds to the ‘transit isn’t green ’cause it runs empty’ argument in his Human Transit blog: If public…
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Dec. 15, 2009 / Gordon Price

Why car drivers should love transit

My post on the Sun’s Community of Interest blog: Kevin Libin has apparently never heard of an electric trolley bus.  Otherwise…
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Dec. 10, 2009 / Gordon Price

Live from New York …

Here’s what New Yorker architectural critic Paul Goldberger listed as No. 2 in his summary of the Ten Most Positive…
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Dec. 09, 2009 / Gordon Price

The Road-Building Paradox

As work proceeds on the Gateway project – $3.3 billion worth – and as we put on hold any investment…
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Dec. 07, 2009 / Gordon Price

Flexity, C’est Ici!

The Bombardier streetcars have arrived. Live (8:45 am on Dec 7) from the east end of the Olympic Line (the…
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Dec. 04, 2009 / Gordon Price

(Rail) Road to the Future

So if highways (and probably airports) are not likely to be the symbols of a more optimistic and practical future…
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Dec. 04, 2009 / Gordon Price

Magic Highways

Ah, there’s nothing so dated as the future.  Here’s the Disney version, literally, of the highways of the future. They…
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Dec. 03, 2009 / Gordon Price

Contested Congestion

Most congested city in the U.S.? Seattle, apparently.    According to global positioning system (GPS) company TomTom of Concord, Mass., the…

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