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May. 11, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Province Part Two: “Compromise” on “Co-Promise”-A View from an Informed Reader

  Price Tags is blessed with an educated base of very informed readers, who richly  contribute to the comment section.…
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May. 11, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Election-Site C and LNG may be Done Deal-But Massey Tunnel Rethink/Reboot?

Some interesting comments from  CKNW’s Emily Lazatin who asked Helmut Pastrick the chief economist with Central 1 Credit Union about…
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May. 10, 2017 / Gordon Price

Metro Conversations | The Sacred Single Family Home – May 17

From Metro Conversations:   The Sacred Single Family Home: What are we trying to protect and why? . With the…
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May. 08, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Sound of One Mayor Clapping Against Mayor's Council #CureCongestionGuide

In one of those puzzling moments, the Mayor of Delta has spoken out against the Mayor’s Council on Regional Transportation-which…
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May. 08, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Job Jar-Must be Willing to Photo 1,500 km of roads in Surrey

If you are an engineering type there are lots of interesting jobs out there. Some people get to drive all…
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May. 05, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Port Mann Bridge, the Massey Bridge and the French Connection

  If you go  through the Massey Tunnel, you’ve seen an increase in machinery and people wearing hard hats at…
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May. 04, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

How Can the Province Support a 3.5 Billion Dollar Sinking Massey Bridge?

. One of the great things about the readership of Price Tags is that the readers are a well-educated bunch who…
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May. 04, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Census Canada Says: We Are Getting Old

  Yesterday was a very exciting day for planners and statisticians who eagerly anticipated the new release of Census Canada…
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May. 03, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge Crossing in "heart" of Musqueam Territory, but First Nations Not Consulted

In a press release from the Musqueam Nation, Chief Wayne Sparrow stated  “Musqueam has not been meaningfully consulted nor accommodated for…
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May. 02, 2017 / Gordon Price

City Conversation: Cities in a Sea of Uncertainty – May 4

Cities in a Sea of Uncertainty: Metro Vancouver at Risk Have we lost our way? For the last half century,…
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Apr. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

"Show Courage, Please U-Turn on the Massey Bridge Decision"

Another cogent letter in the Richmond News written by Andy Hobbs questions the expenditure of $3.5 billion dollars (now forecast to…
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Apr. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Harbour to Harbour Vancouver to Victoria Coming Soon

Scot Hein, architect and urban designer said that once you had a  subway system that connected your downtown, you had…
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Apr. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

McArthurGlen YVR Mall-Parking for Customers, Employees not so much.

According to The Richmond News (and thanks to Scot Bathgate for alerting Price Tags) there is a season of discontent with the…
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Apr. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Port's Dirty Secret-Vancouver Biggest Exporter of Coal in North America

Alberta Oil Magazine reports that Vancouver is now North America’s largest coal  exporting port. Imagine-even though 66,000 people in China died…

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