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Apr. 30, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Davie Queue Lane

We’re going to need a list of descriptors for the different kind of lanes that are being improvised to respond…
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Apr. 25, 2020 / Gordon Price

Where It Began: the Chilco Cul-de-Sac

This is the view that inspires me. I not only appreciate the privilege, I appreciate the irony.  I’m an urbanist…
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Apr. 23, 2020 / Gordon Price

Park Commissioner John Irwin: Committed to keeping a flow way on Beach

On Wednesday afternoon, I had a fun and enjoyable conversation with John Irwin, the COPE member of the Park Board. …
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Apr. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

Faster Progress on Slower Streets

Cllr Lisa Dominato was interviewed on ‘NW’s Simi Sara show this morning, touching all the points on why slow streets…
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Apr. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

Cllr Lisa Dominato on slow streets: “A little bit more”

From News1130: She’s the first to say anything.  Testing the waters.  And “a little bit more” is one step up…
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Apr. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

Taking Possession of the Pinkways

Neighbourhoods are taking possession of their greenways. Or, rather, pinkways. It’s that time of year in Vancouver East.  From the…
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Apr. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

HUB Cycling Petition: Go for the Flow

In the face of civic reluctance or intransigence to move on making the move to flow streets, good for HUB…
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Apr. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

Flow / Slow Streets: Vancouver Fails

Some of the biggest names in mobility are supporting the momentum for re-purposing streets. Jeff Tumlin, Director of Transportation in…
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Apr. 20, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

New Zealand considers Bikes, E-Bikes and E-Scooters to be Allowable on Sidewalks

Known internationally as industrious with a sporty outdoors culture, New Zealand has a population of 4.8 million people, 300,000 less…
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Apr. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

Priorities for Flow Streets

A work in progress from Aaron Licker, By taking available data on population density overlaid with access to public and…
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Apr. 16, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

“Gutless & Counterproductive Policy” City of Toronto’s Unbelievable Reason for Nixing Open Streets During Covid Crisis

It’s strange times when you want to get out of the house to  grocery shop or to “exercise, not socialize”…
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Apr. 15, 2020 / Gordon Price

A Kitsilano Flow Way

What can be done – quickly – to solve the problem illustrated in the post below: unsafe crowding, as walkers,…
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Apr. 15, 2020 / Gordon Price

“Pandemic Approved” – and Not – along Seaside

  After a cycle from the West End to Jericho, the contrast between those parts of Seaside that allow for…
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Apr. 13, 2020 / Gordon Price

Point Grey Road: How do you like it now?

This just in from Peter Ladner: The Point Grey Road Seaside Greenway has come into its own as a big…

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