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Dec. 17, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Adventures in Parking

Scot picks up on another chapter in Surrey’s East Clayton parking saga: From Frank Luba in The Province: When Clayton was…
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Dec. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

An hour’s worth of parking space without SkyTrain

What would it look like if all the people who use rapid transit into downtown Vancouver at the peak hour…
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Oct. 21, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Cities vs Apps

From CBC San Francisco: More Cities Join SF In Effort To Ban MonkeyParking App That Auctions Off Spaces To Highest Bidder …
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Oct. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

Sharing Economy: Disruption at Sea-Tac

From Joe Sulmona: In my global teaching, expansion of this program will have significant planning implications for airports, and will…
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Oct. 09, 2014 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Words: Rob Ford-lite

And it’s beginning to look like Rob-Ford-lite: protect and defend motor vehicle operators. In this new policy announcement, Mr. LaPointe…
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Oct. 08, 2014 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Words: Bikes and (the parking) Business

Business In Vancouver‘s Melanie Jackson writes about a Surrey company, Urban Racks, who are thriving in the business of providing…
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Oct. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Parking for Housing

The theme today is … parking!  Here’s Tom’s contribution from the New York Times’s Michael Kimmelman: . Trading Parking Lots…
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Oct. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

Extraordinary Statistics: Real traffic only half projected rate

I came across a slide as part of a presentation by Tim Barton, a transportation planner at Bunt & Associates,…
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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. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

Prohibitive Luxury: The Cost of a Car in Toronto

Reporter Mike Lloyd at News1130 passed along this blog post from Jason Tang in TO: Cost of Car Ownership Living…
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Sep. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Berkeley Bugle: Mapping unused parking

New Tool Maps Bay Area’s Expensive, Unused Parking. Oakland-based non-profit TransForm wants to cut down this pricey — but often…
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Sep. 09, 2014 / Gordon Price

Berkeley Bugle: "Parking Policy in the Smartphone City"

From the Harvard Political Review: … two teams of entrepreneurs have released smartphone apps that they claim will make (finding…
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Aug. 29, 2014 / Gordon Price

The New Point Grey Road – 29: The Coupland Report

From Penny Coupland: . Today I counted 31 kids under 14 on bikes during my trip from Chinatown to Jericho and…
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Aug. 27, 2014 / Gordon Price

Speaking of signage …

It’s just not for bikes: . . Decipher Culver City’s parking puzzle; avoid $73 fine.  Video here. Thanks to Gladys…

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