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Jun. 21, 2007 / Gordon Price

Getting Goosed

Margaret Mahan – the new Executive Director of BEST – and I were just discussing over lunch how the auto-dominated…
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Jun. 21, 2007 / Gordon Price

Back to the Sixties

The Project Manager for PM2, Gary Dawson, noted at a recent meeting that the widening of the highway was always…
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Jun. 11, 2007 / Gordon Price

Toll Tales

First Singapore, then London, Stockholm, maybe Manhattan … then Seattle? King County Exec Ron Sims thinks road pricing is inevitable,…
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Jun. 03, 2007 / Gordon Price

June is Bike Month

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May. 30, 2007 / Gordon Price

Driving Lessons

A brilliant series of articles on transportation in the current Vancouver Magazine here, here and here.  The most important piece is…
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May. 29, 2007 / Gordon Price

Faith-based Transportation Policy

George Monbiot asks the question in The Guardian that we should be asking about Gateway: … it should be pretty obvious…
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May. 29, 2007 / Gordon Price

Moscato on the Streetcar

Derek Moscato, a previous Price Tags contributor (here’s an issue he did on No. 3 Road), is a regular contributor…
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May. 28, 2007 / Gordon Price

Vancouver: City of Bikes

“City of Bikes”?  Well, more than usual: It’s Bike to Work Week. Bike to Work Week starts tomorrow! The forecast…
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May. 25, 2007 / Gordon Price

Auckland: City of Cars

Here’s what you can do with a $950 camera, some free time and lots of commitment.  Michael Tritt of New…
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May. 16, 2007 / Gordon Price

Sic Gloria Transit

Sightline praises Vancouver’s transit system (SkyTrain in particular), compares us with Portland and Seattle – and sets off an interesting…
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May. 16, 2007 / Gordon Price

Guess the Writer

If you saw the following recommendations, what kind of organization would you guess had written them? Coordinate national policy approaches…
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May. 13, 2007 / Gordon Price

Ramsey Online

Stu Ramsey, Burnaby’s engineer extraordinaire, now has his own web site – Transport Planet – here.   You can find downloadable…
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May. 09, 2007 / Gordon Price

Highly Charged

Congestion charging is emerging as the No. 1 issue in transportation planning.  Come and hear the latest: May 16, 7…
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May. 08, 2007 / Gordon Price

"What we should have realized…"

Liberal MLA Ralph Sultan in Legislature Monday during debate on merits of gas price caps: A recent Ministry of Transport…

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