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May. 09, 2014 / Gordon Price

Annals of Cycling – 128: Folding … Sniffing … Mapping

From Dzine Trip: A Bike the Size of an Umbrella The Sada Bike is a hubless bike featuring a frame that…
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May. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

Cat, Meet Pigeons: Was Portland Light-rail worth it?

From OregonLive: With TriMet on the verge of opening its fifth MAX route, the $1.4 billion Orange Line between downtown…
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May. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

Kudos for Vancouver Cycle Chic (and Critique for Portland)

Chris Bruntlett woke up in a happy (if hungover) mood today: #CycleChicFilms had won best documentary/non-fiction at @VanWebFest. Congrats to Chris…
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Mar. 17, 2014 / Gordon Price

Car-lite in Portland

How Portland advertises itself for tourists: Notice anything missing? There are three bicycles, a trike, a bus, an Amtrak engine,…
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Mar. 12, 2014 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Scores! – 2: Background to the “Case for Rapid Transit”

Further to the post below, here are some background facts used by the City of Vancouver to make the case…
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Mar. 12, 2014 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Scores! How we rate on transit

I often say that Vancouver has one of the best transit systems in the world – to the sound of…
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Feb. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Snow Riders of Portland

We may have dodged an icy bullet, but Portland got hit good: the first major snowstorm of the year.  Did…
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Jan. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

From Residential to Retail in Portland

Neil Salmond writes: You know those old West End photos you posted, where a single-family home adds a retail frontage…
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Dec. 02, 2013 / Gordon Price

Another fun idea from Portland

From bikeportland.org: An idea, based on a Sightline suggestion, from Chris Smith, Portland’s Planning and Sustainability Commissioner: Instead of the…
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Nov. 13, 2013 / Gordon Price

Portland Transportation Lecture – Nov 14

A short week, since I’m off to Portland for the annual PSU/City of Portland Traffic & Transportation Course lecture. If…
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Nov. 05, 2013 / Gordon Price

Parking in Portland

Back in the 90s, Portland was so influenced by Vancouverism that it created its own version: the South Waterfront neighbourhood:…
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Jul. 30, 2013 / Gordon Price

Population Drop on the West Coast

It seems unimaginable that the population of Vancouver could ever have dropped – not a drop in the rate of…
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Jul. 19, 2013 / Gordon Price

Portraitlandia – 5

Kirk Crippens, a photographer from San Francisco, made 45 portraits for his series Portraitlandia. If you think the title Portraitlandia is…
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Jul. 18, 2013 / Gordon Price

"Breaking the eggs to make the omelet"

Here’s a story in the New York Times of Portland and that other Vancouver – now that the Washington legislature refused to help…

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