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Jun. 13, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: Us and Them

Bob Ransford on the SkyTrain heading out to a meeting in Surrey. Two younger 30-ish people are talking about what…
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Jun. 13, 2014 / Gordon Price

McMartin on the Transportation Issue: “Governing from behind.”

Just when I think I may be being a bit harsh on the transportation issue … well, there always Pete…
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Jun. 12, 2014 / Gordon Price

Initial Thoughts: The Metro Mayors’ Transportation and Funding Proposal

There have been very few times in my political life when I have seen such a well-choreographed consensus around such…
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Jun. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Mayors present – Jun 12. What Next? What’s It All About?

The Mayors of Metro Vancouver will do tomorrow what the Province requires: Put forth a package of investments, primarily for transit,…
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Jun. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

Handy Transportation Facts for Metro Vancouver

Metro mayors have been working for the past several months to develop a regional transportation investment plan that will be announced…
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May. 22, 2014 / Gordon Price

Transit referendum-itist is catching

This time in Winnipeg: The simmering debate on the $590-million rapid transit project looks about to boil over, with a…
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May. 21, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: Mr. Rennie’s Support

I got very excited when I saw this headline in Business in Vancouver: Bob Rennie supports city’s CAC system, opposes…
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May. 16, 2014 / Gordon Price

Jordan Bateman’s Position: Satisfaction with the Second Rate

Thinking about the CTF release below, and concluding … . Jordan Bateman and the CTF strategy assumes we will accept second-rate transportation. …
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May. 16, 2014 / Gordon Price

Twinning Tweets: Grist for the Comment Mill

While I’m at the B.C. Land Summit, here are a couple of items that came in this morning, dealing with…
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May. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

Good news for transit users: Fantastic network has room to grow

From Global News, in an interview with Premier Christy Clark: Vancouver has a fantastic transit network, it has room to…
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May. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

Transit and Business: Attracting the Best and the Brightest

Here are Microsoft’s soon-t0-be new Vancouver offices  – basically on top of the Canada Line station, in the heart of the…
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Apr. 30, 2014 / Gordon Price

BIV: “Transit at the Crossroads” – a backgrounder

The Business in Vancouver series on the transit referendum continues.  Here are some excerpts from Transit at the crossroads,  by Jen…
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Apr. 29, 2014 / Gordon Price

Analysis: Why the Metro Transit proposition failed in Seattle

From Crosscut: King County’s great city-suburban divide  Proposition 1 votes were hugely polarized between Seattle and King County’s suburban communities. …
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Apr. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

A Survey, a Referendum and an Agenda: Links

From USA Today: More than half the adults between ages 18 and 34 questioned about transportation said they would consider…

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