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May. 12, 2018 / Gordon Price

Bus Power in Seattle

How did a transit-backward town become a national poster child for ridership success? So asks CityLab; since 2007, the fastest-growing…
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May. 04, 2018 / Gordon Price

Seattle: The single-family zoning lock-up

Another backgrounder on the housing dilemma from the Seattle Times.  And just so you know, it’s estimated that 80 percent…
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Apr. 20, 2018 / Gordon Price

Transit in Two Cities: A Comparison of Seattle and Vancouver

Last month the Seattle Times sent reporter David Gutman up to Vancouver for a story on the similarities and differences…
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Apr. 16, 2018 / Gordon Price

When Bikes Ruled Seattle

Seattle’s indispensable historian Knute Berger does a series on the city’s bike background: How bikes led Seattle’s first roads renaissance…
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Apr. 09, 2018 / Gordon Price

Seattle considers congestion charging

From the Seattle Times, via Daily Durning: Seattle will develop a plan to toll city roadways as part of its…
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Apr. 02, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Flying "Cascadia's Innovation Corridor" Vancouver to Seattle

Along with  a high-speed train link to Seattle as reported in Price Tags Vancouver, there is a new “by sea option”…
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Mar. 22, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Seattle Freeway Revolt

The Great Freeway Fight is one of the key mythologies of post-war Vancouver, still referenced as a key to understanding…
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Feb. 05, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Want to Save Lives? Then Champion "Leading Pedestrian Intervals" in Metro Vancouver.

Like most things, when you look at pedestrian crashes and fatalities, these tragedies can be averted in a very simple…
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Jan. 22, 2018 / Gordon Price

Modern Retail in the Age of Amazon – 2

From Recode: … the store’s real reason for being is to test what could be a breakthrough Amazon hypothesis: that…
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Jan. 05, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Gordies 2017-Potentially Most Polarizing Planning Work~Amazon HQ2

A unanimous pick by the Price Tags editors for the most Potentially Polarizing Planning Work~The Amazon solicitation from cities right…
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Dec. 22, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Daily Durning: What Vancouver Can Teach Seattle about Affordable Housing

It’s always interesting to see ourselves through other people’s perspectives, and this article from Crosscut.com via Tom Durning contextually examines Vancouver from…
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Nov. 21, 2017 / Gordon Price

The Downside of Dockless Bikesharing

From the Seattle Times via Guest Several months into the transportation experiment, three bike-share companies have already scattered some 4,000…
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Nov. 02, 2017 / Gordon Price

The Next Big Thing: Free-Floating Bike Share

I was amazed.  Having not been in Seattle for a few months, I didn’t realize what was happening with bike…
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Aug. 01, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Silliness in Seattle and No Talking and Walking in Honolulu

There is some weird silliness going on across North America as cities are increasingly pointing to pedestrians as being responsible…

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