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Jan. 13, 2008 / Gordon Price

SkyTrain to UBC!

Well, we’ll see.  Global TV’s Victoria reporter Keith Baldrey prepared the way for Gordon Campbell and Kevin Falcon’s “huge” announcement…
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Dec. 22, 2007 / Gordon Price

Gateway: The Carbon Price?

In today’s Guardian: Ministers ordered to assess climate cost of all decisions. Coal-fired power stations, airport expansions and new road…
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Nov. 04, 2007 / Gordon Price

Plan C for sensible transportation

The Livable Region Coalition isn’t the only west-coast group fighting for more sensible options to highway widening.  Down in Santa…
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Nov. 01, 2007 / Gordon Price

Queue the buses – now!

Independent film maker Damien Gillis has just released a mini-doc that exposes one of the weakest arguments of the provincial…
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Oct. 30, 2007 / Gordon Price

Feedback on the Feedback

I spent all day yesterday at a Stakeholder Transportation Forum – part of the public consultation process for Transport 2040, to help…
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Oct. 26, 2007 / Gordon Price

Putting Car Dependence in Place

My current column in Business in Vancouver:   Twenty buses in six years. That was the extent of the commitment…
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Oct. 02, 2007 / Gordon Price

Raining on the Gateway Parade

Some fine comments by Gary Mason in the Globe and Mail on Al Gore’s presentation last Saturday, and the Gateway…
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Sep. 20, 2007 / Gordon Price

Gateway Rumour of the Week

This is really delicious – and it comes from a pretty reliable source: Regarding the Evergreen Line, a mayor of…
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Sep. 14, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Obliviously Obvious

Stephen Rees has a nice post on how Gateway will generate and induce traffic. Here’s a key point: Land use…
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Sep. 11, 2007 / Gordon Price

One Way Road

David Pereira was listening to Kevin Falcon on the Bill Good Show last Friday.  He tried to go online to the document…
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Aug. 17, 2007 / Gordon Price

Not Getting Gateway

Here’s today’s Province editorial: One of the main problems about the current debate over Lower Mainland transportation is that it…
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Jun. 21, 2007 / Gordon Price

Back to the Sixties

The Project Manager for PM2, Gary Dawson, noted at a recent meeting that the widening of the highway was always…
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Jun. 19, 2007 / Gordon Price

Gordon Campbell Gets Religion

The Sun reported on the Premier’s speech to the Board of Trade conference “A Climate for Change” – another indication…
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May. 29, 2007 / Gordon Price

Faith-based Transportation Policy

George Monbiot asks the question in The Guardian that we should be asking about Gateway: … it should be pretty obvious…

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