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Jan. 12, 2018 / Gordon Price

SFU City Conversations: Whose Chinatown? – Jan 18

SFU City Conversations – Whose Chinatown?   Vancouver’s recent denial of a development permit for Beedie Living’s 105 Keefer project…
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Jan. 08, 2018 / michaelkluckner

SFU Philosophers' Café: What Are We Losing and What's Worth Saving?

Thursday January 11, 7 pm Vancouver Public Library, Joe Fortes Branch, 870 Denman Street Come and participate in a free…
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Dec. 22, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Why Truck Side Guards Save Lives and Why We Need Them On Trucks NOW

  Lloyd Alter in Tree Hugger has written about two completely avoidable accidents~one in Brooklyn and one in Toronto where bicyclists…
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Nov. 16, 2017 / Scot Bathgate

Daily Scot – Seattle Congestion Pricing

I came across this live traffic report on KIRO 7 Seattle the other morning.  What stuck out besides the brutal…
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Nov. 03, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Baby Amazon Steps

HQ2 is way out there in the future, but today the Feds, Provs, City and Amazon announced that the tech…
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Nov. 01, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Having a Spooktacular Time and Why This Matters

Vancouver’s Duke of Data and Director of the City Program Andy Yan is interested in all things related to statistics. …
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Oct. 26, 2017 / Gordon Price

Mobility Pricing (and the danger of literal transciptions)

Good interview on mobility pricing with Jonathon Brown at News1130 – where they took the trouble to transcribe the interview…
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Oct. 24, 2017 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot: A Package Deal

Scot thinks Jeff Speck would approve (see below).  From the Toronto Star: A new type of vehicle is about to…
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Oct. 18, 2017 / Gordon Price

What's Missing from Granville Street?

The Downtown Vancouver BIA would like to know. Survey here.…
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Oct. 11, 2017 / Gordon Price

Bike to Work Week starts Oct 23

From HUB: Bike to Work Week starts October 23rd. It’s not too late to start a team, join a team or…
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Oct. 11, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Public Health & Pot Policy

As we move steadily towards widespread legalization and distribution of cannabis, how can we learn more when setting policies? Here’s…
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Oct. 09, 2017 / Gordon Price

Training Consumers for Technology

I saw a first the other day at the local Safeway. No, not the self-service scanner technology.  It’s been in…
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Oct. 09, 2017 / Gordon Price

The real revolution in new vehicle technology

From Car and Driver: If the driverless economy is imminent, and the endgame is fleets of fully utilized robot vehicles…
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Oct. 06, 2017 / Gordon Price

Canadian Thanksgiving from an American Friend

From Jarrett Walker, an American who helps people think … in particular about transportation in their communities … Happy Thanksgiving…

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