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Jul. 03, 2015 / Gordon Price

The TransLink Dilemma: Punishment for Perfection

What do we do with TransLink? Since so many people justified a No vote on the referendum because they believed…
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Jun. 30, 2015 / Gordon Price

After the Referendum: What needs to be done?

What actions do I think need to be agreed on after the referendum? No more referenda Reform of TransLink’s governance…
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Jun. 30, 2015 / Gordon Price

Morning Thought: Yes or No – What happens next?

Word has it that the results of the referendum will be out on Thursday at 10am. Like a lot of…
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Jun. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

Referendum Post-Mortem: Tessa Holloway

  Price Tags will be posting a lot of post-referendum analysis.  (We welcome your submissions!)  It’s not too early to…
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Jun. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

Morning Thought: A Lesson from Toronto

Here’s a tweet from reporter Don Peat during the debate over the removal (or not) of the Gardiner Expressway along…
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Jun. 03, 2015 / Gordon Price

Changes in Price Tags during the next two months

  HOW PRICE TAGS WILL CHANGE FOR THE SUMMER … . The results of the referendum should be out sometime…
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Jun. 02, 2015 / Gordon Price

Flight Money and Affordability: global impacts and local politics

USA Today joins the chorus: . Where the world’s super-rich send residential prices soaring . … vast injection of wealth…
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May. 28, 2015 / Gordon Price

Quote from the Premier: on continuing to build transit

From the Vancouver Sun: Clark, who voted Yes, said while it was important to ask people what they thought about…
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May. 27, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ed Glaeser (“Triumph of the City”) on Vancouver … and Sullivanism

From Ryan McLaughlin: “Here’s an interesting interview with Harvard Urban Economist Edward Glaeser.  He talks about Vancouver a bit, among…
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May. 15, 2015 / Gordon Price

Transit Funding and the Illusion of Small Numbers

The ever-helpful Sun editorial writer thinks the Mayors really need a Plan B in the event of a No vote.…
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Apr. 07, 2015 / Gordon Price

Referendum: What is it doing to us?

Human Transit guy Jarrett Walker posted this on his blog on March 27: Vancouver: Yes, you have a cost-effective transit…
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Mar. 18, 2015 / Gordon Price

B.C. on the Move. Metro Van, Not so Much.

Transportation Minister Todd Stone released this yesterday: .   . For Matt Taylor, this jumped out: 93% of Lower Mainland residents…
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Mar. 11, 2015 / Gordon Price

Defining Plan B: The Default Scenario

From Vanessa Calatano in comments: The vast majority of no votes represent the public interest, and that has to be respected.…

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