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May. 23, 2017 / Gordon Price

Who gets the best view in the world?

Well, maybe one of the best views in Vancouver: Who regularly accesses this marvelous view?   Easypark Lot 10: Absurd,…
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May. 09, 2017 / Gordon Price

Dunsmuir: A New Robson Street

No, not the Robson of the last two decades.  More like the Robson that emerged in the late ’70s and…
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May. 01, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

1451 Wellington-"Even Your Car Gets Special Treatment"

  You just can’t make this stuff up. Mizrahi developments is preselling a twelve storey boutique apartment building in Ottawa…
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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. 18, 2017 / Gordon Price

Philosopher's Cafe: Housing or Parking? – May 1

Housing crisis or parking crisis? How are mobility rights to be weighed against other human rights? Does our current political…
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Mar. 13, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Granville Island History-Who What and Why

Granville Island has a different history than the rest of Vancouver. The CBC has prepared  a short precis of the creation…
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Feb. 26, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Apple – stuck in the '50s?

[I had to revert to the old-fashioned way of stealing content as I couldn’t find this brief story from the…
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Dec. 28, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Big Software Services Sale

Or:  there’s gold in them-thar smartphones. Vancouver tech company “PayByPhone” has a new owner – Volkswagen Financial Services AG. Thanks…
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Nov. 25, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

The Friday File-A Barnacle on your Windshield, instead of getting the Boot.

For those folks that like to park but don’t pay their parking fines, there is a new device to replace…
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Nov. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

Jake Fry: Making Heritage and Housing a Win-Win

A proposal for increasing attainable home ownership and/or rental that builds on the City of Vancouver’s Heritage Revitalization Agreement (HRA) policy…
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Nov. 16, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

The Tenth Avenue Hospital District, the Bikeway, and Parking Spaces

Anyone that is travelling by bike going east/west across the city knows what a super cycling street Tenth Avenue is…
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Nov. 03, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

The Tenth Avenue Hospital Precinct, the Bikeway, and those parking spaces

Tenth Avenue between Oak Street and Cambie Street in Vancouver is a designated bikeway. It also hosts the welcome mat for…
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Oct. 27, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver Meter Maids and the Smarties

  The Vancouver Sun has written an article about the the first meter maids in the City of Vancouver. And they were…
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Oct. 06, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Tsawwassen Mills First Glimpse-An Initial Review

Despite fears of record crowd crushes, the parking lots were not completely full as Tsawwassen Mills, the 1.2 million square…

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