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Jan. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Motordom Fail: Port Mann in Denial

By Michael Mui in 24 Hours – curiously, one of the only papers to high-profile this. The tolled Port Mann Bridge is…
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Jan. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

Motordom Fail: Traffic Forecasting

The Transportationist has done a public service by putting in one place the failed traffic forecasting charts that have been…
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Aug. 27, 2014 / Gordon Price

Motordom Madness in Australia

In Kent Acott’s comparison of transportation strategies between Vancouver and Perth, he highlighted these comments on the Australian Prime Minister’s…
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May. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

How to spend $14 billion on roads and bridges: The Strategies

The transit proposals currently being developed by the Mayor’s Council have to be submitted to Transportation Minister Stone in June 2014, after which…
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May. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

Port Mann: The Rise of a Bridge and the Fall of its Use

I missed this last month, but Nathan Pachal and Fraseropolis picked up on the data – Port Mann Bridge: The…
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Apr. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

Next Generation Transportation: The BAU/ST Dichotomy

Never heard of the BAU/ST Dichotomy? That’s probably because we just coined the term.  And by “we” I mean the…
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Apr. 22, 2014 / Gordon Price

SCARP symposium: “Disasters – Natural and Otherwise”

Karenn Krangle, the rigorous reporter from Novae Res Urbis, did comprehensive coverage of the two-day symposium called “Planning the Metropolitan Vancouver…
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Mar. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Risk of Risk: Canada Line and Motordom

France Bula does an even-handed article – How Vancouver’s Olympic Legacy Is Shaping the Future of Transit – for ULI’s UrbanLand…
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Feb. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

Dude, Where are my Toll-Paying Cars? – 3: “New Forecasts, Same Delusion”

Here’s the post in the Sightline Daily that more fully explains Clark Williams-Derry analysis of forecast traffic on the Port…
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Feb. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

Dude, Where are my Toll-Paying Cars? – 2: Wishful thinking on the Port Mann

What do the revised Port Mann revenue forecasts mean for traffic?  Clark Williams-Derry at the Sightline Institute compares past and…
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Feb. 08, 2014 / Gordon Price

Dude, Where are my Toll-Paying Cars? – Port Mann joins the watch list

Less than a month ago, PT was wondering whether the Port Mann would be joining the growing list of toll roads,…
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Jan. 13, 2014 / Gordon Price

Will the Port Mann Bridge be joining this list?

From D.C. Streetsblog: Toll roads aren’t the cash cows they used to be. The assumption that the roads will “pay…
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Oct. 10, 2013 / Gordon Price

The End of the Region as we know it?

Charlie Smith at the Georgia Straight has picked up on where things seem to be going: Why Christy Clark’s bridge to…
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Oct. 03, 2013 / Gordon Price

Sightline: British Columbia’s Traffic Delusion

Yes, it’s Motordom #Fail here at Price Tags.  This time Sightline Institute researcher Clark Williams-Derry (whose must-read series “Dude, Where…

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