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Sep. 13, 2017 / Gordon Price

2017 Summer: Record cycling on five major routes

This just in from the City of Vancouver: 2017 summer sees record cycling volumes on five major bike routes across…
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Aug. 12, 2016 / Gordon Price

Modern Cycling: A Summer Day on Hornby Street

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Mar. 24, 2016 / tanyapazzy

You have 24 hours to email comments on 5 bike lanes downtown #bikeyvr #Vancouver

Let’s work backwards from September, 2016. Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place, almost always held in the US, will be in…
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Jun. 23, 2015 / Gordon Price

Modacity in the Morning: Permanence

Picked from Chris Bruntlett’s Twitterfeed:  . It was only installed four years ago, but the Hornby Street bike lane looks…
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May. 27, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Words: Downtown Business and Bike Lanes – A Welcome Change

Ken Ohrn: Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association president Charles Gauthier says separated bike lanes are “here to stay”. From CBC:.…
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May. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

Intersections 2: A Redesign for Hornby at Dunsmuir

Further to making cycling safer at intersections (below post), the City just took another helpful step over the long weekend…
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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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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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Oct. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

Multiple Modality on Hornby Street

From AverageJoe: .…
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Oct. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: How Business would improve transportation in the region

From Business in Vancouver: Transit top of mind for Vancouver businesses as election approaches  … according to a survey released…
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Oct. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Words: Parking perception on Hornby Street

Ken links to a piece he thinks worth reading from Average Joe: No Lack of Parking on Hornby Street –…
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Sep. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

Streetsblog USA features Vancouver bike lane design

Don’t we always pay attention when the Americans pay attention to us? . . How Vancouver Designs Intersections With Bike…
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Sep. 08, 2014 / Gordon Price

Violating a Meme: Bike lanes can speed up traffic

Not news to many of you, since this has been widely circulated since appearing on CityLab.  But worth repeating – and…
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Aug. 20, 2014 / Gordon Price

How bike lanes hurt business

Remember the predictions that separated bike lanes would hurt businesses along Dunsmuir and Hornby?  Or already had.  Just to remind…

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