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Nov. 20, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Rise of the TSP: The end of the self-owned vehicle

As Transportation Service Providers (TSPs) provide a suite of options in the form of a service contract, rather like telecommunication…
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Nov. 19, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

London’s Commercial Areas Designed for Pedestrians and Cyclists Boon for Retail Businesses

Of course it makes intuitive sense that active transportation users and bus commuters would frequent retail businesses more often than…
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Nov. 14, 2018 / Gordon Price

Autonomous Vehicles not going to work in Canada?

I had the pleasure of attending a meeting of transportation professionals and policy-makers yesterday, with an agenda devoted to new…
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Nov. 13, 2018 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: “How Vancouver can inspire a better Perth”

Durning picked this feature by Chris Bruntlett in the Brisbane Times: Bike city, great city: How Vancouver can inspire a better…
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Nov. 13, 2018 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Antipodes

A tweet from Chris and Melissa of Modacity, touring Australia: When Perth’s new 60,000 capacity Optus Stadium opened earlier this…
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Nov. 13, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Flag Waving Pedestrians at Crosswalks Encouraged by Halifax Council

  From Halifax Nova Scotia,  The Globe and Mail reports on the “Crosswalk Safety Society” that are placing “high-visibility flags” on crosswalks…
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Nov. 13, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

School Crosswalks and Doing The Right Thing for Pedestrians in Victoria B.C.

City of Victoria says school crosswalk "fix" may be hundreds of thousands of dollars,need data to prove its https://t.co/TzXSMmtMBJ~slow traffic…
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Nov. 12, 2018 / Gordon Price

Should Vancouver apply a ‘congestion charge’ when Uber arrives?

Now is the time for the new council to consider a ‘congestion charge’ when (if?) it licences Uber and other…
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Nov. 09, 2018 / Colin Stein

SFU: Want More Skytrain? Do the Numbers (Part II)

Yesterday’s post about the Vancouver Sun op-ed by Alex Boston scraped the surface of what could comprise an effective business case for…
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Nov. 08, 2018 / Colin Stein

SFU: Want More Skytrain? Do the Numbers (Part I)

This week, Alex Boston, the Executive Director of the Renewable Cities program at SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue,…
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Nov. 07, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Province Nixes Those Faster Highway Speeds After Increased Accidents, Fatalities

Image: CBC Increasing speed limits on several British Columbia highways caused  carnage and a higher accident rate and was a …
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Nov. 07, 2018 / Gordon Price

Ubernomics

From The Economist Ubernomics: The social costs of ride-hailing  A new working paper by John Barrios of the University of Chicago…
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Nov. 06, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Rise of the TSP: Walled Gardens

This piece very much confirms my thesis: transportation choices will be consolidated (and restricted) by ‘Transportation Service Providers”, in the…
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Nov. 05, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Autonomous Vehicle Nightmare

  Beth Osborne, Director of Transportation for America, was asked: Can you paint a vivid picture of your nightmare scenario of what…

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