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May. 12, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Provincial Government Versus Mayors Council-"Ethical Issues Chipped Away Credibility"

Rob Shaw’s article today in the Vancouver Sun does not pull any punches-and finally there is some truth-telling in the…
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May. 11, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Election-Site C and LNG may be Done Deal-But Massey Tunnel Rethink/Reboot?

Some interesting comments from  CKNW’s Emily Lazatin who asked Helmut Pastrick the chief economist with Central 1 Credit Union about…
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May. 08, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Sound of One Mayor Clapping Against Mayor's Council #CureCongestionGuide

In one of those puzzling moments, the Mayor of Delta has spoken out against the Mayor’s Council on Regional Transportation-which…
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May. 04, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

How Can the Province Support a 3.5 Billion Dollar Sinking Massey Bridge?

. One of the great things about the readership of Price Tags is that the readers are a well-educated bunch who…
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Apr. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge-If We Had 3.5 Billion Dollars…

The Province published an opinion piece by Eric Doherty, Bob Chitrenky, Harold Steves and Peter McCartney that provides one more flip…
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Apr. 24, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge, Billion dollar Boondoggle?

Imagine in fifty years what people will say about the decision-making occurring in Metro Vancouver. For some reason the Province…
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Apr. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Vision Zero in London – Nix Digital Signs, Reduce Speed on Bridges

London England is always slightly ahead of the curve and the Evening Standard reports on the cutting edge work of a community…
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Apr. 19, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Peter Ladner, the Provincial Election, and the Threat on Urban Mobility Initiatives

Peter Ladner writing in Business in Vancouver is a former city councillor, an avid bike rider, and a proud citizen of…
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Apr. 17, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

A Provincial Election, Tolls, and Public Transit

There has been some disappointing rhetoric about bridges, tolls, and congestion coming out of the stirred soup of next month’s…
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Apr. 11, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

New York City Subway Trash Talk

  Global news describes the end of a demonstration project in New York City   that installed garbage bins at…
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Mar. 30, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Paris, Road Closures, Traffic Evaporation and the Braess Paradox

  The website h2020 has a very interesting examination of “traffic evaporation”-what happens to all that traffic when you close urban…
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Mar. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge Becomes Election Tunnel

In the  Globe and Mail  Ian Bailey  reports that the proposed Massey Bridge which is slated to replace the Massey…
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Mar. 13, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Granville Island History-Who What and Why

Granville Island has a different history than the rest of Vancouver. The CBC has prepared  a short precis of the creation…
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Feb. 21, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Bad Congestion? It's Good For You!

  Remember the Tom Tom Annual Survey of  Traffic Congestion suggesting that Vancouver is a parking lot of traffic?  …

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