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May. 26, 2009 / Gordon Price

Spring Arrivals – Eagleridge Cut

You can now see Eagleridge Bluff – what’s left of it – at a hundred kilometres an hour.   As you…
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May. 25, 2009 / Gordon Price

They did it!

New York City has closed off five blocks of  Times Square to vehicles.  You can check it out for yourself…
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May. 21, 2009 / Gordon Price

A Post-Motordom World

Off to the BC Land Summit in Whistler for a few days.  The subject of our panel (with Deborah Curran and…
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May. 20, 2009 / Gordon Price

Aussies do infrastructure right

Australia’s Peter Newman (Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and author of The Reslient City) is on the Infrastructure Australia Advisory Council. …
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May. 19, 2009 / Gordon Price

Paris Autolib

While we’re in a European mood, let’s go to Paris: Here’s a wonderful little video from E2, the PBS program…
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May. 19, 2009 / Gordon Price

From Our European Correspondent

David Godin writes: This is David Godin from Vancouver and I’m writing this to you on my Blackberry while standing…
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May. 15, 2009 / Gordon Price

Coming Attractions: False Creek streetcar

They’re laying down the tracks along the South Shore of False Creek, to be ready for the new streetcars that…
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May. 13, 2009 / Gordon Price

Bixi, c’est ici!

The first big bike-sharing scheme in Canada has started in Montreal: Three-thousand bikes are available for short-term rental around Montreal’s…
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May. 07, 2009 / Gordon Price

Two New Blogs

Two recommendations for those interested in transportation – particularly transit, walking and cycling.  (I hesitate to label them ‘alternative’ transport ’cause…
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May. 06, 2009 / Gordon Price

Pucher Posts

Rutgers prof and cycling advocate John Pucher is in no danger of perishing if his recent publishing is an indication. …
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Apr. 06, 2009 / Gordon Price

Spring Arrivals: Convention Centre

It’s good.  Very, very good.  As a convention centre, it might even be great, operationally.  As architecture, though, it isn’t.  It’s…
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Apr. 01, 2009 / Gordon Price

Motordom in Saskatoon

Back from New York, and now off to Saskatoon (there’s a contrast) to make a presentation to “RoadMap 2020” –…
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Mar. 09, 2009 / Gordon Price

Copenhagenizing the City

In this City Program video, Niels Tørsløv, the Traffic Director of Copenhagen, explains the remarkable strategies that have made Copenhagen…
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Mar. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

Civilization, civility and cycling

If you’re a cyclist, you may be getting a link to this article by Robert Sullivan in the New York…

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