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Dec. 05, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Riding an early SkyTrain in 1986 with Jack Webster

There is an extraordinary video on YouTube with Vancouver television host Jack Webster taking an early ride on the SkyTrain…
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Nov. 28, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Rise of the TSP: The Battle is Underway

Let me quote myself: I’ve been predicting the rise of the “Transportation Service Provider” — a consolidator of every mode of…
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Nov. 22, 2018 / Gordon Price

Number of the Month: October – 39.65 million

The number of boardings on all TransLink services in October: 39.65 million. The busiest month in TransLink history, including February…
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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. 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. 02, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Paris Bus Driver Accessibility Hero

You find heroes in the most unlikely places. The Evening Standard  reports on the plight of Francois Le Berre who…
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Nov. 01, 2018 / Gordon Price

“One of the best ideas in the history of transportation”

More common sense from Jarrett Walker.  In The Atlantic: Microtransit, or “Uber for public transit,” as some advocates call it,…
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Nov. 01, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Where the Buck Stops — McCallum’s Surrey Skytrain

Despite the Mayor’s Council and its 10-year transportation plan that’s been around for a while now, along with a bunch…
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Oct. 29, 2018 / Gordon Price

Mayor McCallum’s Langley Express

None of this for Surrey, thank you.   Let’s call Mayor McCallum’s proposal to scrap the LRT L-line for SkyTrain…
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Oct. 29, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Mayor McCallum’s Surrey Skytrain

Like 15 other Metro Vancouver munis, the City of Surrey has a new Mayor — Doug McCallum. He’s also an…
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Sep. 26, 2018 / Gordon Price

Why traffic congestion is like the housing market

Traffic congestion on Georgia and Pender last night.  What could we possibly do about it?  Scott de Lange Boom provided…
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Sep. 24, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Triple Tweets — 2018 Vancouver Civic Election

On the emerging election issue of a subway to UBC, we have a few diverging opinions — within the same…
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Sep. 19, 2018 / Gordon Price

We Won! North America’s Sorriest Bus Stop

  From bclocalnews: “There was something about Vancouver’s abomination that stood out. Maybe it was the sad guy in the…

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