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Feb. 05, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

London Underground’s 90 years of Interior Design

Here is a new word for you~”moquette”. Moquettes refer to the thick-pile fabrics used for carpets and upholstery, and if…
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Feb. 04, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Surrey Langley Skytrain — TransLink Website

Skytrain rapid transit continues to be a much-discussed topic in Metro Vancouver.  HERE’s Nathan Pachal, Langley City Councillor and friend…
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Jan. 31, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Nanaimo to Province — Your Government Is Safe

The NDP’s Sheila Malcolmson has won the January 30, 2019 byelection, and our Province’s slim GreeNDP coalition lives on. Congratulations…
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Jan. 30, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Council to World — We Like Transit

Vancouver’s new City Council showed it’s stripes today, in a long discussion around extending rapid transit to UBC.  …
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Jan. 21, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

UBC Skytrain Campaign

UBC has launched a campaign aimed at getting Canada’s Federal Gov’t and the Provincial Gov’t of BC to throw in…
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Jan. 21, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Tokyo Motivates Transit Use, Encourages Off~Peak Commuter Travel

I have been writing about the importance of making public transit fun and accessible and the dearth of publicly accessible…
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Jan. 20, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver City Council: Climate Stuff

Vancouver City Council has declared there is a “global state of climate emergency“.  Staff are to return in 90 days…
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Jan. 16, 2019 / Colin Stein

South of Fraser Rail Proposal Includes Salvo Fired at Surrey’s McCallum

Former Township of Langley Mayor Rick Green is advocating for 99km of passenger rail to connect Surrey to Chilliwack. In…
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Jan. 07, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Paradigm Shift In Transportation

That good old new transportation paradigm is getting an elevation in profile. TransLink, Modo, Evo and Mobi have formed a…
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Dec. 28, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Bruce Springsteen Gets His NYC Subway Station~Temporarily

Some times ingenuity and imagination sparks reinvention as this temporary renaming of New  York City’s Spring Street Station attests. As…
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Dec. 25, 2018 / Gordon Price

Merry Vancouver Christmas, PT Readers

This Christmas card from the 50s via the Museum of Vancouver is just the thing for PT.  It looks west…
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Dec. 13, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Christmas Wish Granted? Universal Internet and Public Washrooms on TransLink System Coming!

As public transit for a major city we have been wondering why TransLink does not have continuous public internet along the system,…
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Dec. 12, 2018 / Gordon Price

Rudolf, the Blue Bus Reindeer

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Dec. 10, 2018 / Gordon Price

Canada Line: Why We Got It Wrong

Bob Ransford posted this: When the Canada Line was being planned more than 15 years ago, the public was shown…

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