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Nov. 25, 2013 / Gordon Price

Portugal’s Ghost Roads (and maybe New Zealand’s)

Road traffic has fallen more in Portugal than in any other European country in the past 15 months. Financial Times…
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Oct. 28, 2013 / Gordon Price

Biking Uphill to Peak Car

News from Altantic Cities: Bicycle sales outpaced new-car sales last year in all of the 27 member countries of the…
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Oct. 28, 2013 / Gordon Price

Peter Ladner: The Need for a “Core (Belief) Review”

Peter’s column in Business in Vancouver: . Core review needs to focus on core changes in urban car use .…
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Oct. 11, 2013 / Gordon Price

The Post-Motordom City: Auto use drops as population rises

And it’s not just happening in Vancouver. From Better! Cities & Towns: . Boston sees remarkable decline in automobile registrations…
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Oct. 03, 2013 / Gordon Price

Sightline: British Columbia’s Traffic Delusion

Yes, it’s Motordom #Fail here at Price Tags.  This time Sightline Institute researcher Clark Williams-Derry (whose must-read series “Dude, Where…
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Sep. 16, 2013 / Gordon Price

The evidence accumulates: Moving to post-Motordom

Another story from the Sightline Institute’s Clark Derry-Williams on ‘peak car’ in Oregon: The Oregonian ran an interesting piece in today’s…
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Aug. 21, 2013 / Gordon Price

Annals of Motordom – 67: Sun cartoon … Driving Uncool … Generation Neutral?

An occasional update on items from Motordom – the world of auto dominance ______________________________________________________________   HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD From…
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Aug. 07, 2013 / Gordon Price

Streetsblog: "Can we all just pause for a moment and give Vancouver a standing ovation?"

Posted on D.C. Streetsblog: Can we all just pause for a moment and give Vancouver a standing ovation? The perennial…
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Aug. 01, 2013 / Gordon Price

Peak Car – 2: The Impact of Car-Sharing on your 'Money Mind'

Marc Lee writes on his Policy Note blog: The choice of owning a car works out to about $5,000 per…
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Jul. 31, 2013 / Gordon Price

Another Peek at Peak Car

It’s not just in Vancouver where driving is dropping (see post below).  Here’s an update from below the border via…
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Jun. 20, 2013 / Gordon Price

"The ‘driving boom’ is over"

Robert Steuteville in Better! Cities & Towns explores what ‘peak car’ means for urban places, transportation, and policy: Per capita driving (in…
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Jun. 13, 2013 / Gordon Price

Vancouver: Driving Drops … again

While the news coverage concentrated on the issues related to the Adanac Bikeway at Union Street (as usual, framed as…
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Apr. 17, 2013 / Gordon Price

Annals of Motordom – 63: Car $, History, Peak car, Parking

An occasional update on items from Motordom – the world of auto dominance ______________________________________________________________ . ANNUAL COST OF A CAR…
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Mar. 21, 2013 / Gordon Price

"Declining car use" Story of the Day

This one from Charlie Smith in The Georgia Straight: For more than a decade, some environmentalists have been warning about…

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