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May. 31, 2017 / Gordon Price

Comparing High-Growth Neighbours: Seattle and Vancouver

From the Seattle Transit Blog: Seattle’s growth is still accelerating. Census estimates released yesterday show almost 21,000 new residents in…
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May. 16, 2017 / Gordon Price

Has Seattle Reached Peak Car?

A ‘data column’ from the Seattle Times.  (Note the irony of the header.) Has Seattle reached “peak car”? When it…
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May. 15, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

"It's Not About You, It's about Us" Lessons for Vancouver Art Gallery?

There is a fundamental change in philosophy in public facilities such as art galleries and museums being globally embraced. In…
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May. 02, 2017 / Gordon Price

Sounding Familiar: Pressure on Chinatown – in Seattle

From the Seattle Times: “The developers are coming in and whatever they want to do with Little Saigon, they’re going…
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Apr. 19, 2017 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: What killed Seattle's bike-share?

Durning finds the evidence in The Guardian: Did Seattle’s mandatory helmet law kill off its bike-share scheme?  Fundamentally, low ridership…
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Apr. 11, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Seattle's "Endurance" Docks at Ballard Parklet

Little parklets are those exciting hacks of previous parking spaces morphing into things that well, ordinary people walking around can…
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Mar. 16, 2017 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: A Single Block in Seattle

From Sightline: Returning Seattle to Its Roots in Diverse Housing Types  This is the story of a single city block…
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Mar. 15, 2017 / Gordon Price

How would high-speed rail get to Vancouver?

Frank Ducote sends along a Crosscut clipping on the Washington State initiative to study high-speed rail between Seattle and Vancouver:…
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Mar. 09, 2017 / Gordon Price

Ride-hailing, Congestion and Transit Use in Seattle

From the Seattle Times: A new study in New York City says the growth of the app-based ride services could…
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Mar. 08, 2017 / Gordon Price

Item From Ian: Saving Legacy Businesses

Chinatown? From NextCity:  The Broiler is the kind of old-school place that people mention when they talk fondly about “old…
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Mar. 06, 2017 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: POELs in Seattle

Tom wonders: an idea for Vancouver?  From NextCity: City Hall wants to hear from a more diverse set of voices…
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Jan. 16, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Seattle's Pronto Bike-Share Unsaddled

Geekwire reports an unsettling story that the City of Seattle’s Pronto bike-share service will shutter on March 31. “In October 2014,…
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Oct. 03, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Cascadia Tech Hub-The Next Big Thing?

The New York Times suggests that smoother immigration policies and Vancouver’s ambitious technological hopes can spark a “Cascadia Innovation Corridor”, noting that…
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Sep. 26, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: How Seattle should avoid Vancouver's crisis

We seem to have missed this when it first came out in Seattle’s “The Stranger.”  Fortunately, Durning picked it up.…

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