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Dec. 02, 2009 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Month: Calgary’s Peace Bridge (cont.)

Good news from Calgary: City of Calgary officials have announced that construction of the “Peace Bridge,” a signature-design by world-renowned…
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Nov. 24, 2009 / Gordon Price

Back from Portland – 2

I was down in Portland last week to give my annual lecture for the ‘Transportation and Traffic” class – a course…
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Nov. 23, 2009 / Gordon Price

Why Ant-like Agents Love Paris

From MIT’s Technology Review: Luciano da Fontoura Costa at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil and few pals created…
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Nov. 10, 2009 / Gordon Price

Quote: Peak Oil and the IEA

From The Guardian: Now the “peak oil” theory is gaining support at the heart of the global energy establishment. “The…
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Nov. 10, 2009 / Gordon Price

The $1.5 billion Urban Myth

“If you have been following debates over new freeways,” notes Peter Ladner in his blog, “you will be familiar with…
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Nov. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

Images from Motordom

Benny Chan’s pics of LA freeways have been mounted for a show at, appropriately,  the Pasadena Museum of California. Rush hour…
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Nov. 06, 2009 / Gordon Price

Dept. of Clarification

The indispensable Jeff Nagel, who covers transportation issues for the Surrey Leader (and should be doing it for a larger…
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Nov. 04, 2009 / Gordon Price

Bike Stations

On the opening weekend of the Canada Line, the Brighouse station was jammed … with bikes.  But with nary a rack to be…
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Nov. 02, 2009 / Gordon Price

IPhone Rhapsody

Just got an IPhone.   And quickly realized that it is not in fact a phone.  It is a computer that…
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Oct. 31, 2009 / Gordon Price

Bicycles, Vacuum Cleaners and Sacred Bulls

Some great insights from Copenhagenize’s Mikael Colville-Andersen: “Our relationship to the bicycle in Copenhagen is much like the vacuum cleaner. We…
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Oct. 30, 2009 / Gordon Price

Bike to Work when it counts

Don’t forget, next week: And don’t forget what the Swedes say: Det finns inget dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder’…
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Oct. 29, 2009 / Gordon Price

Funding Showdown – Part 1

My latest Business in Vancouver column: Is TransLink going to be put on life support? According to insiders, that may…
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Oct. 27, 2009 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Month: Kurilpa Bridge

Brisbane’s latest passerelle just opened.  (They have five now; see them all in Price Tags 93.)  The $63 million(Aus) ped bridge connects…
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Oct. 22, 2009 / Gordon Price

Vancouver’s bus service tops in the world

I missed this piece in Business in Vancouver.  Thanks to Glen Korstrom for passing it along. Staff at TransLink subsidiary…

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