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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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Apr. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

Clarification: “Service optimization is not a cut to service”

In the post below commenting on the loss of the proposition to fund Metro transit service in King County, I…
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Apr. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: Bad news from Seattle

This is not a good sign.  From today’s Seattle Times: “Voters rejecting new money for transit; bus cuts coming” A list…
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Mar. 26, 2014 / Gordon Price

Let Us Count the Ways: Local options for funding transit

Or at least let Todd Litman count the ways – which he does in this issue of the Journal of…
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Mar. 18, 2014 / Gordon Price

Breaking Bread: The Politics of Transit Funding

Even those leaders committed to funding transit find it tough when they have to get specific about the recipe.  Kathleen…
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Mar. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: A Turning Point in Transit History

It’s not so much what Todd Litman said as where he said it and what it was about: “A lot of…
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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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Mar. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: Transit and property development – putting the economy at risk

 From Michael Alexander: From The Globe and Mail, March 1, on Rudy Nielsen, “BC’s biggest property owner” and owner of…
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Mar. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

BIV column: Wanted – Referendum champion to put transit funding on right track

From my Business in Vancouver column:  It’s time for Christy Clark to do what former premier Gordon Campbell did when he…
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Mar. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

Philosopher’s Cafe: Are We Losing Our Way – Mar 21

Philosophers’ Café Are We Losing our Way? . Date: Friday, March 21, 2014, 10:30 am (yes, in the morning). Location: West…

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