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Dec. 28, 2009 / Gordon Price

Suddenly … nothing happened

Globe reporter Rod Mickleburgh does a nice year-end summary on the Burrard Bridge bike lane.  And, in addition to the Monty…
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Oct. 15, 2009 / Gordon Price

Olympic Bike Lane?

In all the coverage of the Olympic transportation plan, there was an interesting omission: no mention of the removal of…
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Sep. 07, 2009 / Gordon Price

Det finns inget dåligt väder …

It’s Swedish: “There’s no bad weather, just bad clothes.” Something to remember this week, as we return to work and…
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Aug. 04, 2009 / Gordon Price

A Burrard bike-lane breakthrough in local transportation culture

From my latest Business in Vancouver column: So, where did the traffic go? On the first official day of the…
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Aug. 03, 2009 / Gordon Price

Switching Yards

Standing at the corner of Burrard and Pacific, 5 pm on Monday, watching the traffic flows.  Something seems familiar. The…
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Jul. 31, 2009 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge Stats

The City has posted the traffic counts on the Burrard Bridge for the first few weeks here.  The City says:…
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Jul. 20, 2009 / Gordon Price

Timely coverage

The New York Times’s Freakonomics blog picked up on the Burrard Bridge: The city of Vancouver has turned one lane…
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Jul. 13, 2009 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge Day Three – Monday afternoon

So where did the traffic go? Burrard flowed smoothly: Granville had capacity to spare: There was some back-up on Pacific,…
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Jul. 13, 2009 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge Day Three – Monday morning

So far, so good. The media predicted chaos; they got “trouble-free start.”  Since first impressions can establish the frame from which…
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Jul. 12, 2009 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge Day Two – Sunday

The paving is complete, the traffic is flowing.   From watching the webcams for most of the day, there hasn’t been any…
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Jul. 11, 2009 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge Day One – Saturday

It was a good strategy.  By paving Pacific Street where it crosses Burrard Street two days before the introduction of a separated bike…
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Jul. 06, 2009 / Gordon Price

A new bridge (and a new option) for False Creek

Lots of buzz about the ped/bike bridge proposal floated by the Mayor as an alternative to the lane closure or widening…
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May. 28, 2009 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge – One more time

My Business in Vancouver column on an old favourite … Bridging the transportation gap requires experimenting with the status quo…
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Feb. 05, 2009 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge Basics

From the heat already being generated by letters to the editor on the Burrard Bridge, it’s clear that this is…

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