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Sep. 05, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

ICBC & Transportation BC Tries “Schooling” Children, Outraged Parents Provide 21st Century Response

Here we are starting another school year in Metro Vancouver, and Transportation BC and the provincial vehicle insurance provider, ICBC…

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Sep. 01, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Guest Writer Rob Grant on “Granville Island-A Question of Accessibility”

Guest writer Rob Grant is a retired architect who has been the designer/project architect on a variety of work including …

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Aug. 29, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

A Tale of Two Cities: Seattle now Providing Electric Vehicle Charging Stations on Residential Streets

In “Green” Vancouver which has adopted a transportation hierarchy which supposedly favours the lowest level of micromobility, walking and rolling, …

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Aug. 25, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Edinburgh Saves 60 Million Canadian Dollars Just By Slowing Driver Speed Limits to 30 Km/h

While we are still struggling to urge the Provincial government to allow municipalities to declare areas of their towns as…

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Aug. 23, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Rethinking the Right Turn on Red

Do you know the history of how vehicle drivers were allowed to turn right at a red light? And did …

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Jul. 25, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Portland Loo Finally Flushes in CRAB Park, Rest of Vancouver ‘Underserved’

After over a year saying they were going to do this, Vancouver Park Board is finally doing what the City…

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Jul. 18, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Bicycles Sharing the Road? Stanley Park Mobility Study at Park Board this week

At Viewpoint Vancouver we have followed some of the Park Board Commissioners’ continual hand wringing about the changing use of…

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Jul. 01, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Summer Solstice Sidewalks on Charles Street, Vancouver

We asked Viewpoint Vancouver readers to send in photos of their favourite summer sidewalk in our summer solstice post. Artist…

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Jun. 14, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Why Won’t the NDP Government Give Municipalities the Authority for 30 km/h Areas?

A few months ago, a major active transportation advocacy group in British Columbia asked me to review a response they…

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Apr. 27, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Despite Pedestrian Deaths & Serious Injury, Province Ignores Request for Slower Municipal Streets

As the weather warms up, everyone is out walking, rolling, biking…or driving their vehicle. Last year in Vancouver there were…

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Apr. 14, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

How Japan Encourages Independent, Free Roaming Children in their Cities

I have talked about the popsicle test for neighbourhoods, where your neighbourhood is connected, safe and convenient. In that test…

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Apr. 05, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

The Antiquated 85th Percentile & Why It Is Killing American Drivers

The quickest way to find out a transportation engineer or planner has not kept current with work and research is…

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Apr. 04, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

There’s an App for That! New Technology Turns Phone into Portable Vehicular Speed Camera

Here’s a novel twist: now you can turn your smartphone or ipad into a portable speed camera, proving how fast…

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Mar. 24, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Want to Get Women Walking & On Public Transit? Address Safety

There’s a new research study from the Technical University of Dublin that shows that TransLink is going in the right…

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