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Aug. 19, 2011 / Gordon Price

Amazing Grace

You might have missed it: the 25th anniversary of SkyTrain.  Four billion dollars invested so far, and a billion passengers…
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Jun. 30, 2011 / Gordon Price

Metro Reform

My take on the idea of a separately elected Metro Vancouver board: Vote reform mulled to directly elect Metro reps…
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Dec. 13, 2010 / Gordon Price

Memories, from Metro

Peter Cech is the “Communications Specialist” in Metro Vancouver’s Corporate Relations Department. Don’t know quite what that is, but I’m guessing…
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Jun. 10, 2010 / Gordon Price

Suburbs (gasp!) Thriving

The Sun quotes some ‘authority’ who doesn’t think the suburbs are all that sub: The lure of the backyard and…
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Feb. 27, 2010 / Gordon Price

Surrey Rises

Let’s see if this gets a rise: “Surrey should rightfully bypass Vancouver. It can learn from Vancouver and do things…
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May. 04, 2009 / Gordon Price

An Inquiring Metro wants to know …

From our friends at Metro: What will our region look like when the population increases by 50% to 3.4 million…
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Apr. 28, 2009 / Gordon Price

Metro Dialogues

From Metro Vancouver (what us old-timers used to call the GVRD): What will our region look like when the population…
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Dec. 14, 2008 / Gordon Price

Where Is This?

This is Richmond – or more appropriately, the New Urban Richmond.    More particularly, it’s here, where the blue arrow points…
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Apr. 21, 2008 / Gordon Price

Horse + Carriage, Rail + Density

Here’s an intriguing map, produced by Mike Kushnir, a UBC geography student with an even more intriguing blog – Twilight City.…
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Dec. 28, 2007 / Gordon Price

Say something, dammit

Lorin, a PT reader, reminds us:  Metro Vancouver is getting to the end of public meetings on the new regional growth strategy…

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