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Nov. 05, 2007 / Gordon Price

TransLink: Beyond Google

Info VP at TransLink, Bob Padden, has some follow-up to the Google presentation: … the partnership with Google is just…

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Nov. 04, 2007 / Gordon Price

News that Fits: Flyovers in India, Bikes in Portland

Two good pieces in yesterday’s New York Times. Tom Friedman writes from India, where last week … I was driving…

Nov. 04, 2007 / Gordon Price

Plan C for sensible transportation

The Livable Region Coalition isn’t the only west-coast group fighting for more sensible options to highway widening. Down in Santa…

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Nov. 03, 2007 / Gordon Price

Taking Transit to the Giant Crab of Doom

It was one of those days. TransLink launched their new trip-finder service with Google – the first city in Canada…

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Nov. 02, 2007 / Gordon Price

Viva La Velorution

It’s a cliche, I know, but sometimes you can tell a Tipping Point has been reached. It seems to be…

Nov. 02, 2007 / Gordon Price

Washington to L.A.: Charge!

Oh boy, things are changing when the Bush administration tells Los Angeles they should seriously think about congestion charging: To…

Nov. 01, 2007 / Gordon Price

Queue the buses – now!

Independent film maker Damien Gillis has just released a mini-doc that exposes one of the weakest arguments of the provincial…

Oct. 30, 2007 / Gordon Price

Feedback on the Feedback

I spent all day yesterday at a Stakeholder Transportation Forum – part of the public consultation process for Transport 2040, to help…

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Oct. 23, 2007 / Gordon Price

Olympic Legacy

The Times of London got their hands on the proposed transport plan for the 2012 Olympics: Olympics chiefs set to…

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Oct. 17, 2007 / Gordon Price

Down the Slope

The bell curve that marks a change in history: This is the original sketch of M. King Hubbert – a…

Oct. 08, 2007 / Gordon Price

Bits and Pieces

I’m working on a couple of presentations in the Bay Area this week – so blogging will be spotty. I’ll…

Oct. 02, 2007 / Gordon Price

Raining on the Gateway Parade

Some fine comments by Gary Mason in the Globe and Mail on Al Gore’s presentation last Saturday, and the Gateway…

Sep. 30, 2007 / Gordon Price

Ladner Learns from Lyons

From Councillor Peter Ladner’s newsletter: U-Bike everywhere: The Lyon/Paris model of thousands of rental bikes placed in electronically-linked racks around…

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Sep. 23, 2007 / Gordon Price

Street of the Future – at least in New York

A street design that has been used in cities in Europe but never in New York City: The city is…

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