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May. 08, 2007 / Gordon Price

Two New Lectures

The SFU City Program has just added TWO new lectures to our Spring schedule: Congestion Pricing: An alternative to highway…
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May. 06, 2007 / Gordon Price

Correction: The First Bus Bridge in Australia

This is what we like.  David Igglesden, a senior transport planner in Perth, Australia, writes: Issue 93 says the Brisbane…
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May. 06, 2007 / Gordon Price

Woeful Tale of Three Cities

In the Saturday Sun, editied by Canada’s most renowned environmentalist, David Suzuki, a feature story provides some counter-opinion (including mine)…
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May. 05, 2007 / Gordon Price

A Losing Game of Bridge

Here’s my latest column in Business in Vanouver  (May 1-7, 2007, Issue 914) – to whom I am continually grateful for…
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May. 03, 2007 / Gordon Price

End of an Era

It feels like an era is ending. The freeway era. Seattle begins to face up to reality as B.C. goes…
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Apr. 30, 2007 / Gordon Price

Where Bike Racks Should Be

Globe architecture critic Lisa Rochon profiles Vancouver developer Ian Gillespie here.    (You’d think that by now the hometown Sun would…
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Apr. 29, 2007 / Gordon Price

TransLink: The Smell Test

No doubt the Minister of Transportation, Kevin Falcon, would like to thank all those who criticized TransLink for its failings…
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Apr. 27, 2007 / Gordon Price

Congestion Charging: It's a Good Thing

London’s Mayor, Ken Livingstone, comments about his congestion charge with the prospect of adoption by New York City.  Hint: he…
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Apr. 27, 2007 / Gordon Price

TransLink: A Special Interest Group.

The Minister of Transportation is turning TransLink over to a special-interest group. One board member will be appointed by the…
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Apr. 15, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Standard Argument

Those with a stake in more and wider roads have relied on the Standard Argument (the one the Province is…
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Apr. 05, 2007 / Gordon Price

Gateway project will fail, planning prof warns

In today’s Province, Valley columnist Brian Lewis reports on the panel discussion in Surrey yesterday, sponsored by the GVRD. (By…
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Mar. 27, 2007 / Gordon Price

No Silver Bullet

I usually try to wait a day or so before putting up a post on a hot issue.  But this…
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Mar. 24, 2007 / Gordon Price

Paris, City of Bike Lights

From the Washington Post:  On July 15, the day after Bastille Day, Parisians will wake up to discover thousands of…
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Mar. 12, 2007 / Gordon Price

Dead Cyclists and Idiots

Back from Australia (much more on that later), but to get things rolling again, here’s an item from my Inbox…

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