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Mar. 03, 2015 / Gordon Price

Twinning Tweets: Ironic Quotes of the Day

Two items that arrived together this morning from Ohrn: Metro Vancouver: “Compass card points to poor choices – but not…
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Feb. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

Quote: Where the money will go

In the event the referendum fails, people will say: ‘We didn’t vote against transit, we voted against Translink.  We still…
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Feb. 03, 2015 / Gordon Price

Quote: On reality

A comment in the NY Times with respect to the vaccine controversy – just as applicable to climate change: Richard…
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Jan. 29, 2015 / Gordon Price

Quote: On the Referendum

From Michael Mortensen: . This is more than a transit plan. This is a health plan, an ageing-society plan, a…
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Jan. 16, 2015 / Gordon Price

Quote: Flash Boys

I often use a quote from Michael Lewis, author of the “The Big Short” (soon to be a major motion…
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Aug. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: An All-purpose Risk-management Strategy

“If you had asked me two weeks ago if that could happen, I would have said it couldn’t happen.” –…
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Jul. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: Taras Grescoe on self-driving cars

The more I read about self-driving cars, the more I realize that nobody knows what they’ll mean for our cities.…
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May. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: Kevin Falcon on the Need for the Post-Motordom City

From The Tyee: Looking out 10, 20 years, the one biggest shift that I think the area should be aware…
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Apr. 29, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: Vancouver developer on Calgary cycle tracks

As our cities grow, so do our opportunities for the sharing of knowledge, ideas and creativity. … Unfortunately, supporting car…
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Apr. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: B.C. as seen from abroad

If you look at it, B.C. is basically one big gas tank. – Wilf Wakely, chairman of the Canadian Chamber…
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Apr. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: A Coloured View

Randall Jarrett: The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. . From…
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Jan. 30, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: The difference between roads and streets

“When a city matures and leaves its frontier status behind, roads become streets. A road leads somewhere; a street is…
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Jan. 22, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: On Infrastructure

When you stop planning for the long-term, you no longer have one. – Eva, on Tim Egan’s blog in New…
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Jan. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: Unaffordable Housing and Uncomfortable Trade-offs

Australian columnist Matt Cowgill addresses the issues behind unaffordable housing in The Guardian – and doesn’t think rising density is the…

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