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Sep. 20, 2018 / Colin Stein

Pavement to Plaza: Vancouver’s 14th & Main (Video)

Any macchiatto tour of Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant hood must now begin (or end) at one of the most west coast…
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Sep. 13, 2018 / Gordon Price

Great Streets for Seniors – Sep 26

Join PT editor (and director of Walk Metro Vancouver) Sandy James for this ULI event — a morning conversation to…
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Sep. 11, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Pedestrian Push Buttons and Pedestrian Priority~Australia, where the Car is still King

Image Sandy James If you think the car is king in Metro Vancouver and in Canada generally, you need to…
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Sep. 04, 2018 / Gordon Price

What will Vancouver do about scooters?

They’re back in San Francisco. As locals hop aboard, complain about the scooters taking up street space, compete to collect…
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Aug. 28, 2018 / Colin Stein

New West End, with Neil & Phoebe (Video)

Brian Gould and Kathleen Corey are urbanist filmmakers well-known to Price Tags readers, and anyone else following Vancouver’s progress with…
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Aug. 23, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Disabled Taxi Customers Charged More for Being “Disabled”

In the “give your head a big shake” department comes this alarming story of  Paralympic curler Chris Daw who was…
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Aug. 21, 2018 / Gordon Price

Autonomous Vehicles: The sacrifice humans may have to make

Finally, an article which deals with a critical question regarding self-driving cars: will they require isolation in the urban environment…
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Aug. 15, 2018 / Gordon Price

Late Summer in the City as Gym

By late summer, we’re in shape. Good weather, longer days, more trips on bikes, more running, more hiking, more walking.…
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Aug. 14, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver’s New Oakridge — Pedestrian Thoroughfare

Thanks to several commenters on THIS Price Tags post who are concerned about the pedestrian realm planned for Vancouver’s new,…
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Jul. 30, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Creating Diversity: Richard Sennett on the Ethics of Planning Places

Here’s an interesting take on equity and diversity in  planning places . Simon Fraser University’s Duke of Data Andy Yan…
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Jul. 27, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Free Conference Registration to Walk21 Bogota

If you’ve never been to Bogota, Colombia, nor to a Walk21 Conference, here’s your chance. Walk21 is a global conference series…
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Jul. 26, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar on “The Business Case for Walking”

From the Next-Generation Transportation Webinar Series: “What gets measured gets managed”, conventional wisdom dictates. In the case of quantifying the…
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Jul. 25, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

London Gives Pedestrians The Green Man Priority

As part of Mayor Kahn’s plan to increase daily walking trips in London from 6 million to 7 million by…
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Jul. 19, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Speed Cameras Save Lives in New York City, But State has Funding Hold-Up

In 2014 New York City installed speed cameras to monitor speeds around 140 schools in the city. Data collected from…

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