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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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Jan. 26, 2015 / Gordon Price

Pete McMartin on the Port Mann Bridge, and what we really need

Pete McMartin critiques the PMB in The Sun: . Port Mann Bridge: It’s better at racking up debt than carrying commuters…
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Jan. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Fun Fact: Port Mann Debt = 48 percent of referendum transport package

From the Vancouver Sun: The number of drivers taking the tolled Port Mann Bridge steadily declined last year, as the…
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Jan. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Motordom Fail: Port Mann in Denial

By Michael Mui in 24 Hours – curiously, one of the only papers to high-profile this. The tolled Port Mann Bridge is…
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Jan. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

Motordom Fail: Traffic Forecasting

The Transportationist has done a public service by putting in one place the failed traffic forecasting charts that have been…
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May. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

How to spend $14 billion on roads and bridges: The Strategies

The transit proposals currently being developed by the Mayor’s Council have to be submitted to Transportation Minister Stone in June 2014, after which…
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May. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

Port Mann: The Rise of a Bridge and the Fall of its Use

I missed this last month, but Nathan Pachal and Fraseropolis picked up on the data – Port Mann Bridge: The…
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Apr. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

Next Generation Transportation: The BAU/ST Dichotomy

Never heard of the BAU/ST Dichotomy? That’s probably because we just coined the term.  And by “we” I mean the…
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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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Jan. 13, 2014 / Gordon Price

Will the Port Mann Bridge be joining this list?

From D.C. Streetsblog: Toll roads aren’t the cash cows they used to be. The assumption that the roads will “pay…
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Aug. 01, 2013 / Gordon Price

Peak Car – 1: Where is the data for the Port Mann Bridge?

I’ve been wondering what the vehicle counts are for the Port Mann Bridge – especially since the financial viability of…

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