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Feb. 17, 2018 / Gordon Price

Pattullo: A question for Andrew Wilkinson

From the CBC: B.C. Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson questioned why the provincial government couldn’t get federal funding for the Pattullo Bridge…
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Sep. 11, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

A New Relationship with Metro Mayors and Province~Transportation and the Region

Get a little bit of rain and everyone gets back to business in Vancouver where the The CBC reports on the…
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Aug. 25, 2017 / Gordon Price

Eliminating tolls – and other goals

“The B.C. government is getting rid of tolls on the Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges starting Sept. 1, Premier…
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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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Apr. 17, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

A Provincial Election, Tolls, and Public Transit

There has been some disappointing rhetoric about bridges, tolls, and congestion coming out of the stirred soup of next month’s…
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Mar. 30, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

No Federal Funding for Massey Bridge? No Problem for Province

In that Provincial story that just doesn’t change and won’t go away the Delta Optimist’s Ian Jacques lets us know that Peter…
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Feb. 08, 2017 / Gordon Price

Why does the Right oppose road tolls?

Yet another case (like New York and initially Stockholm) where senior governments oppose city’s instituting road tolls. Especially (but not…
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Sep. 23, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Asphalt Noose – Revised

For years I have used a slide in my presentations that illustrate the various highway and bridge projects that are…
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Jan. 26, 2015 / Gordon Price

Is the Pattullo taking the Port Mann traffic?

While traffic counts are below expectations on the Port Mann Bridge, is this a result of ‘peak car,’ changing demographics,…
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Mar. 12, 2014 / Gordon Price

Money and Motordom: A Suspension of Belief, an Acceptance of Waste

When it comes to spending hard-earned taxpayers dollars (of which there is no other kind), why do we fail to appreciate…
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Mar. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Risk of Risk: Canada Line and Motordom

France Bula does an even-handed article – How Vancouver’s Olympic Legacy Is Shaping the Future of Transit – for ULI’s UrbanLand…
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Feb. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

Dude, Where are my Toll-Paying Cars? – 3: “New Forecasts, Same Delusion”

Here’s the post in the Sightline Daily that more fully explains Clark Williams-Derry analysis of forecast traffic on the Port…
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Feb. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

Dude, Where are my Toll-Paying Cars? – 2: Wishful thinking on the Port Mann

What do the revised Port Mann revenue forecasts mean for traffic?  Clark Williams-Derry at the Sightline Institute compares past and…
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Feb. 08, 2014 / Gordon Price

Dude, Where are my Toll-Paying Cars? – Port Mann joins the watch list

Less than a month ago, PT was wondering whether the Port Mann would be joining the growing list of toll roads,…

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