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Sep. 30, 2017 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge: This is About a Bike Lane – 3

It’s not a detour anymore. Today the City removed the fencing and added new jersey barriers, formally creating the east-side…
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Sep. 30, 2017 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge: This is Not About a Bike Lane – 2

The final pieces are coming together – and some testing to see it all works.  Here’s city staff doing a…
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Sep. 28, 2017 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge: This is Not About a Bike Lane

Changes to the Burrard Bridge are about much more than bike lanes. This is much more than a Vancouver project.  This…
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Mar. 24, 2017 / Gordon Price

Recent Developments 5 – Bike Box

Wraps on utility boxes have been around for awhile.  But typically the coverings have been, um, pedestrian – appropriate, I…
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Mar. 23, 2017 / Gordon Price

Recent Developments 4 – Let there be light from below

More new lighting on Robson – but this time from below, at 545 Robson. These glass sidewalks are a contemporary…
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Mar. 22, 2017 / Gordon Price

Recent Developments 3 – Change on Robson / Thurlow

New lighting on Robson – all sparkly blue and white – filling the crowns, encircling the trunks, giving the street…
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Mar. 21, 2017 / Gordon Price

Recent Developments 2 – Lower Burrard Street

The City took the opportunity, at the time it was doing major water-and-sewer pipe upgrades under the street, to reconfigure Burrard…
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Mar. 20, 2017 / Gordon Price

Recent Developments 1 – Burrard Bridge, West Side

Sun on a Sunday, warmth in the air, a new project to explore – the finally finished sidewalk, bike lane…
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Dec. 28, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Deco-Decorating On Burrard

As renovations continue on the venerable art-deco themed 1932-era Burrard Street Bridge, here is an architectural detail of the new…
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Dec. 16, 2016 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge Barriers

The ‘suicide barriers’ (the black metalwork in the rear) going up on the refurbished Burrard Bridge don’t look that bad.…
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Sep. 07, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Yes — A Million

I visited the Burrard Bridge bike counter on Monday, Sept 5, 2016 at around 11:30, but I missed the big…
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Jun. 30, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

More Steps In the Transportation Revolution

From a year ago, but worth repeating, Peter Ladner in BIV looks at another big change in how we think about…
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Apr. 04, 2016 / Gordon Price

Burrard Transformed – 1

The City wasn’t kidding when it warned us that a large part of Burrard Street and the bridge would be…
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Mar. 27, 2016 / tanyapazzy

Putting Puzzle Pieces Together #ArbutusCorridor #bikeshare @SouthGranville

1) Bikeshare system area On February 24th, the City of Vancouver announced the Summer 2016 launch of our first bikesharing…

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