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Mar. 06, 2009 / Gordon Price

Freeway Dreams

Vancouver wasn’t the only city fighting off freeways in the late 1960s.   The Map Scroll reviews “failed efforts to destroy urban…
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Mar. 06, 2009 / Gordon Price

An Entire Ideology

From Tom Vanderbilt’s blog: “Level of Service” is a staple of traffic engineering. … It sounds clinical, inoffensive, and with…
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Mar. 05, 2009 / Gordon Price

Bad Connections

A story out of Sydney on bad news for toll roads and bridges.  Skip the details on the complications of BrisCon…
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Mar. 05, 2009 / Gordon Price

Passerelle Update

Good for Calgary: they’ve commissioned designs for two footbridges across the Bow River, and they want them to be spectacular.  (Bit…
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Mar. 03, 2009 / Gordon Price

Rail for the Valley

Andrew Luchkow has some fun with Google Maps – a proposal for West Coast Express-style rail service throughout the Fraser…
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Feb. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

Tear down that Viaduct

Paul Hillsdon makes a case for removing the Georgia Viaduct.  And includes some great shots:…
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Feb. 03, 2009 / Gordon Price

Parallel Bridges

David Bragdon, the Chair of Portland’s Metro Council, has a fine piece in the Oregonian on a subject of direct…
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Feb. 03, 2009 / Gordon Price

Nerd Alert

Two items for those of you who love transportation policy. Paul Krueger sends in a fascinating challenge to Level of…
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Feb. 02, 2009 / Gordon Price

Evidence for the Trial

As the Burrard Bridge trial approaches (and in a way, it will be a metaphorical trial too), lots of ideas…
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Jan. 30, 2009 / Gordon Price

Jordan Bateman in Vancouver

Jordan Bateman can normally be found in Langley Township, where he’s a second-term councillor.  As a journalist-cum-politician, he’s good at self-promotion…
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Jan. 28, 2009 / Gordon Price

Give My Regards …

Lisa Brideau sends along a link to every streetcorner in Manhattan: Photographer Richard Howe has indeed captured every intersection in…
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Jan. 27, 2009 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Week: Ottawa’s Corktown Footbridge

Chris Bradshaw, loyal PT reader in Ottawa, writes: Ottawa is very slowly,  very tentatively talking about adding a second passerelle. …
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Jan. 26, 2009 / Gordon Price

Change Blindness

Another brilliant ad from, of all places, Transport for London: Thanks to Tom Vanderbilt’s blog.…
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Jan. 26, 2009 / Gordon Price

Shopping List

Lisa Brideau, a planner at the City of Vancouver, sends along a chart she culled from a Canada Line study. …

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