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Jun. 17, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Feds and Province Pony Up for Public Transit Infrastructure-

  The Prime Minister was in town yesterday, and announced that the federal government would be providing $460 million dollars…
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May. 26, 2016 / Gordon Price

Give us transit so long as we don’t have to pay for it

From The Sun: Two-thirds of Metro Vancouver residents are calling for immediate transit improvements, saying better mass transit could help resolve…
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Feb. 10, 2016 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Words: Do CACs add to the cost of housing?

From Ken Ohrn: . Another piece of the discussion about housing prices in Vancouver. The City of Vancouver hired consultants…
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Nov. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

Quote: Ken Hardie on Surrey light rail

From Business in Vancouver: “We will certainly respect Surrey’s decision about the kind of technology it wants,” Ken Hardie, one…
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Nov. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

Why don't provincial politicians care about Metro?

It’s clear the Liberal government doesn’t really care much about Metro Vancouver, the City in particular.  Even as their policies…
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Nov. 05, 2015 / Gordon Price

Contrasting Cities: Seattle vs Vancouver

Good news out of the Emerald City – from the Seattle Times: . … the biggest winners in Tuesday’s election…
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Nov. 02, 2015 / Gordon Price

Strategic Avoidance: Ignoring the Big Issues of Housing and Transit

The reports keep coming in on the most important and least-addressed issue in Vancouver: housing.  In addition to the usual…
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Oct. 07, 2015 / Gordon Price

Transit in Metro: A More Appropriate Headline

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Oct. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

Post-Referendum: How we screwed ourselves – and how we might move on

From Business in Vancouver: Harper’s Surrey LRT pledge hinges on regional funding $700 million federal election campaign promise only part…
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Oct. 05, 2015 / Gordon Price

Transit: "Surrey should go first"

Yup, that’s what I said at a Surrey Board of Trade Forum last week.  Here’s the coverage from Novae Res…
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Sep. 30, 2015 / Gordon Price

Indictment of a Referendum: What was learned

In December 2012, the SFU Centre for Dialogue – well before the referendum – brought together between 25 to 50…
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Aug. 25, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Damage Being Done: Density in a Post-Referendum Region

  It’s just a matter of time before those fighting the densification of their communities figure something out: When high-density…
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Aug. 14, 2015 / Gordon Price

The end of the Region as we know it – Round 2

Don’t overlook this op-ed in the Vancouver Sun on August 10: the annual attack by Wendell Cox of Demographia on one…
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Jul. 24, 2015 / Gordon Price

Op-ed: Why the referendum defeat was a good thing

As Gabriel Metcalf notes in the post below, “San Francisco does not have a massive network of regional public transit…

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