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Oct. 03, 2006 / Gordon Price

Sound Familiar?

From Civic Strategies (worth subscribing to): How the Wheels Came Off a Highway Proposal When a local highway authority proposed…
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Oct. 01, 2006 / Gordon Price

Another Good Question

What happened to car alarms? I may be totally wrong on this – especially since we moved to a quieter…
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Sep. 27, 2006 / Gordon Price

GVRD Fights Back on Gateway

It’s not clear yet whether this motion from the Greater Vancouver Regional District on elements of the Gateway Project –…
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Sep. 19, 2006 / Gordon Price

Contested congestion 2

Stockholm extra — more analysis of the congestion-charge vote from Streetsblog: On Sunday, residents of Stockholm, Sweden voted to continue…
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Sep. 18, 2006 / Gordon Price

CONTESTED CONGESTION CHARGE

Transportation planners around the world were waiting with anticipation to see how the electorate in Stockholm would vote on whether…
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Sep. 15, 2006 / Gordon Price

Another (Alaskan) Way

Vancouver planner Jeffrey Patterson sends along a media release from the Congress for the New Urbanism, which has decided to…
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Sep. 15, 2006 / Gordon Price

TODD LITMAN STRIKES AGAIN, AND AGAIN

Here’s the latest from Todd Litman.  He’s the guy behind the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, which, if it were somewhere…
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Sep. 13, 2006 / Gordon Price

AN OLIVE BRANCH FOR A BRIDGE

The GVRD has politely asked the Province whether it would like to talk about our future. It wants to know…
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Sep. 12, 2006 / Gordon Price

Frontiers in Traffic Calming

Mary Jo Porter from Seattle knew I’d love this piece from Monday’s Seattle Times: a ladybug painted on an intersection…
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Sep. 07, 2006 / Gordon Price

Google Transit

Okay, TransLink, get on the phone immediately to Google – (650) 253-0000 – and ask to be the next partner…
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Aug. 21, 2006 / Gordon Price

Car-less in Vancouver

I first met Alan Durning, the executive director of what was then Northwest Environment Watch, in the mid-90s when he was…
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Aug. 20, 2006 / Gordon Price

Revelation

Here’s a revealing editorial from the Langley Times Caught up in the congestion, Seattle experience shows advantage of rapid transit By…
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Jul. 21, 2006 / Gordon Price

Traffic Calming in the West End

Here’s a cool thought for a hot day: As far as I can tell, the diverter at Chilco and Robson marked…
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Jul. 19, 2006 / Gordon Price

U-Turn

Couldn’t say this better …. Translink Report: Commuters will abandon transit and take cars 19 July 2006 VANCOUVER – Today…

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