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Apr. 19, 2021 / Gordon Price

Buildings that Changed Vancouver: 2280 Cornwall

Michael Kluckner riffs off the post from Michael Gordon below to recount the story of the building that marked the…
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Apr. 15, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Last Highrise in Kitsilano

Michael Gordon* explores a misconception about Kitsilano in the Seventies – that, in a reaction to what was felt to…
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Apr. 16, 2020 / Gordon Price

Park Board Signage: Benefit of the doubt – or just doubt

Guest writes below: … maybe that sign was placed instead of a “hazard” sign to make visible the massive dark…
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Apr. 15, 2020 / Gordon Price

What does the Park Board really think of cyclists?

  Presumably, that they are obedient idiots. The Board placed a log to prevent access to the Kits Beach parking…
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Apr. 15, 2020 / Gordon Price

A Kitsilano Flow Way

What can be done – quickly – to solve the problem illustrated in the post below: unsafe crowding, as walkers,…
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Mar. 19, 2018 / Gordon Price

Kits Point and Bikes Lanes: What this is really about – 2

By Jeff Leigh The Vancouver Sun has posted an editorial about the controversy regarding the proposed Kits Beach Park bike…
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Mar. 13, 2018 / Gordon Price

Kits Point and Bikes Lanes: What this is really about

On the surface the conflict on Kits Point is about a continuation of the Seaside Route through and around park…
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Apr. 05, 2017 / Gordon Price

Recent Developments 7b – Arbutus Greenway in Transition

Recent development that was designed to face the Arbutus corridor, even when it was unused, decrepit, weed-strewn and rusting, was…
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Apr. 04, 2017 / Gordon Price

Recent Developments 7a – Arbutus Greenway in Transition

The new paved pathway of the Arbutus Greenway pushes beyond Burrard, into the near-nameless neighbourhood north of Broadway. (Burrard Slopes, I…
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Apr. 02, 2017 / Gordon Price

Recent Developments 7 – Arbutus Greenway in Transition

Discovering the new Arbutus asphalt path – almost road-width – is like revisiting the 1990s in Vancouver, when the City…
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Mar. 28, 2017 / Gordon Price

Recent Developments 6 – Community Building on Point Grey Road

Don’t you love a city where people care so passionately about public improvements. That’s the polite way of putting it.  Once…
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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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Aug. 18, 2014 / Gordon Price

Making Bubbles along the New Point Grey Road

You know those little parks that line Cornwall and Point Grey Road, now nicely accessible by small children on bicycles? …

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