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Oct. 28, 2021 / VWPT Vancouver

Translink unveils TRANSPORT 2050, and Policy Development Manager Eve Hou is here to spill the beans.

Big news for the Region! Translink has just unveiled Transport 2050: its blueprint for the next 30 years of regional…
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Oct. 18, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Ten Commandments of Micromobility

Brendan Ladner was the first to introduce us to Horace Dediu here.  Let’s call him a pioneer/philosopher of micromobility (How…
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Oct. 10, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

The Climate Emergency Parking Program: How the Mayor of Vancouver Saved His Council

The Climate Emergency Parking Plan was considered by Vancouver City Council last week. The plan has first been introduced earlier…
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Oct. 06, 2021 / Gordon Price

Pricetags is glad he lived long enough to see this

  Excerpts from an unsigned editorial from the Globe and Mail  Bike lanes, in Vancouver and across Canada, have grown…
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Oct. 04, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

No Free Parking: Paying to Park Curbside Goes to Council This Week

The City of Vancouver has given everyone three months to think about it and now the the Climate Emergency Parking…
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Sep. 27, 2021 / Gordon Price

Biennale Viewpoint Vancouver Walk & Ride

From the Vancouver Biennale: Welcome to the VIEWPOINT VANCOUVER RIDE. This self-guided tour was curated by Gordon Price of Viewpoint…
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Sep. 24, 2021 / Gordon Price

North Shore Cargobike Festival – Sep 26

From Tony Valente: The first annual North Shore Cargo Bike Festival is coming up on September 26 2021. The event…
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Sep. 23, 2021 / Gordon Price

Motorways to Waterways: The Utrecht Moat

The Utrecht City Moat is the Cheonggyecheong* of Europe – the demolition of an underused motorway for an historically significant…
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Sep. 16, 2021 / Gordon Price

The universal visitation law of human mobility

Ian W passes along this article from Scientific American that shows “urban travel patterns worldwide are, in fact, remarkably predictable…
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Sep. 13, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver’s Richards Street: First Large-Scale “Blue-Green” System Implemented

  The City of Vancouver has been working on “Blue-Green” systems innovations, building upon the work previously done under the…
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Sep. 09, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Bye Downtown Department Store, Hello Post-Covid Downtown Public Space

What to do with the new economic reality of many downtown “anchor” flagship stores unable to survive changing shopping trends?…
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Sep. 08, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

The Downtown Department Store: Purveyor of Women’s Independence?

Vancouver has already seen the reuse of large downtown retail floorplates for other purposes. Take a look at Simon Fraser…
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Sep. 07, 2021 / Gordon Price

Report from Calgary: E-scooters, Helmets and Accidents

Orchid Chong, now living in Calgary, sends in this report on one of the issues that will shape the adoption…
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Sep. 07, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Delta’s Federal Conservative Candidate Says Massey Tunnel will Proceed Immediately if Elected

Think of the current Federal election as the warm up for the next main event, the municipal elections in British…

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Dec. 22, 2022

Human Rights and Cities – How Can Municipalities Do the Right Thing?

David Sadoway

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Dec. 21, 2022

Goodbye and Thanks!

Sandy James Planner

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Sandy James Planner

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