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Jul. 23, 2009 / Gordon Price

Creative Accounting

There’s going to be lots of attention paid to transit financing in the next few weeks, as funding for TransLink’s…
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Jul. 10, 2009 / Gordon Price

Tear it down and they will go away

From The Infrastructuralist: Here are several examples of how three cities (and their drivers) have fared better after highways that…
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Jul. 09, 2009 / Gordon Price

Traffic calming and fact checking

I had just about missed Michael Mccarthy’s Courier piece on traffiic calming until it popped up on a listserv.   He’s…
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Jul. 09, 2009 / Gordon Price

The Challenge of the Golden Gate

Last week we completed Sierra to the Sea – an eight-day bike-and-camp tour across California.  Most of the trip was on…
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Jul. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

Fall Arrivals: Seattle’s Link Light Rail

Seattle may be generations behind (see today’s Crosscut story here) when it comes to rapid transit, but it makes up…
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Jul. 06, 2009 / Gordon Price

A new bridge (and a new option) for False Creek

Lots of buzz about the ped/bike bridge proposal floated by the Mayor as an alternative to the lane closure or widening…
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Jul. 05, 2009 / Gordon Price

Cycling in Victorian Victoria

From John Luton’s Bike Walk News in the Capital Regional District, this extraordinary bike-route map from 1897 Victoria: How long has…
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Jun. 05, 2009 / Gordon Price

Falcon changes course?

I’ve been holding off on reprinting this article, in part to see what response it would get.  So far, nothing.…
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Jun. 04, 2009 / Gordon Price

Gateway consequences

Engaged in a heated but friendly debate last evening with an engineer who worked on Gateway.  His position: Gateway –…
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Jun. 02, 2009 / Gordon Price

Walking Around the World

A free lecture as part of the “Shifting Gears” series: Walking Around the World: Innovation and inspiration for Designing, Engineering…
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Jun. 01, 2009 / Gordon Price

Good News, Bad Laws

The Sun reports reports the good and bad for Vancouver cyclists. The bad news is that during June, Bike Month in the city,…
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May. 30, 2009 / Gordon Price

Business Friendly?

$1,500?  Really? Is that what’s stopping a second Amtrak train from Seattle?  A major roadblock to a second train is…
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May. 29, 2009 / Gordon Price

Our European Correspondent’s train of thought

David David Godin, with some insightful observations: I’m racing across Germany by bullet train en route to Paris and I’m…
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May. 26, 2009 / Gordon Price

Bikes on Bloor

Here’s a study that asks businesses along Bloor Street how they’d feel about losing parking for a bike lane. The…

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