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Apr. 07, 2017 / Gordon Price

Port Mann Parameter: How to measure the cost of bike lanes

It happened again today: someone mentioned that if only we hadn’t spent so much on bike lanes, we could afford to…
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Mar. 23, 2017 / Gordon Price

Patrick Condon on Point Grey Road

A plea for a lighter, greener, cheaper, more collaborative approach to building the “Greenest City” The sad case of Point…
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Jun. 14, 2016 / Gordon Price

Challenging Architecture: The Point Grey Road house

A few weeks ago, an email discussion among some high-profile urbanists appeared in the PT inbox about this:   It’s a new…
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Apr. 28, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Seaside Greenway Completion and Upgrade

At Vancouver City Council on May 4, two reports will come forward for debate and approval: South False Creek, and…
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Jun. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Carmageddon Cycle – 3: Point Grey Road

“Every time we go through this, it seems to be the same pattern. There’s predictions there’s going to be ‘Carmageddon,’”…
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May. 27, 2015 / Gordon Price

Bike lane design, safety and split responsibility

Lisa Moffatt writes: A friend of mine was involved in a bike-on-bike collision where the two-way cycling facility turns onto…
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May. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn: Commute

On my way to HUB’s “Share the Road” Commuter Challenge, I stopped to get a few pix of commuters on…
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May. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Images: The April Count

Another month of significant growth in people riding bikes across the Burrard Bridge. Total trips counted in April                      110,155   (29.6%…
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Apr. 28, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Images: Abuse

I was quite startled the other day to see a motor vehicle take the path shown (below) along the bike…
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Mar. 17, 2015 / Gordon Price

Photo Essay: A Seattle Family’s Vancouver Bicycle Cruise

Sightline author Alyse Nelson reports back, in a well-researched and beautifully illustrated piece, on what she discovered in Vancouver: When…
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Mar. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

PGR: Stumped

I either missed this, or it’s new. In the triangle where Point Grey Road meets 1st and Macdonald, there’s an…
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Jan. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Images: It’s a Wrap

Scene off the Burrard Street bridge. Permanent colour, impermanent colour and non-coloured sky. .…
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Jan. 01, 2015 / Gordon Price

New Point Grey Road: The Cycle of Success

This is too good to leave to Monday.  The Globe and Mail has done the first piece on the success…
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Nov. 27, 2014 / Gordon Price

Another beautiful theory mugged by a gang of ruthless facts

Alone with her trolls, Frances Bula wanders into the bike-lane debate yet again: . Does Vancouver really have a new…

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