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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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Apr. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

Seattle – 5: Overhauling a cycling plan

From the Seattle Times’s veteran transportation reporter, Mike Lindblom: The Seattle City Council voted unanimously Monday to overhaul its Bicycle…
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Apr. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

Seattle – 4: More evidence of declining traffic

It’s one thing for a city like Vancouver, without freeways into its core, a high use of transit, higher densities…
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Apr. 01, 2014 / Gordon Price

Seattle – 2: Bust

If you think things are bad when it comes to transit in Vancouver, consider Seattle.  Due to a shortfall in…
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Apr. 01, 2014 / Gordon Price

Seattle – 1: Boom

If you haven’t been south to the Emerald City, you might not be aware of the construction boom underway –…
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Mar. 27, 2014 / Gordon Price

Visualization: the Oso landslide in Seattle

From Frank Ducote: “This analysis by a young urban designer in Seattle, Sean McCormick, helps put the magnitude of the…
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Mar. 25, 2014 / Gordon Price

Backstory: Bike-Car Battles in Seattlle

Crosscut’s historian/commentator Knute Berger has, as always, some unique perspective on the conflict between cyclists and motorists. Apparently it goes…
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Mar. 17, 2014 / Gordon Price

Walkability and Marketability: Seattle’s Via6

ULI’s UrbanLand magazine asked: How Are Developers Accommodating Walking and Cycling?   Four developers working in Houston; London; Memphis and Nashville,…
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Mar. 12, 2014 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Scores! – 2: Background to the “Case for Rapid Transit”

Further to the post below, here are some background facts used by the City of Vancouver to make the case…
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Mar. 12, 2014 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Scores! How we rate on transit

I often say that Vancouver has one of the best transit systems in the world – to the sound of…
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Mar. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

Collapse on Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct

Collapsing traffic, that is.   Sightline’s Clark Williams-Derry documents: Taffic volumes on the Alaskan Way Viaduct have collapsed since the state started…
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Mar. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

A Gondola Gamechanger in Seattle

If this really happens, if it really makes money, if it spurs a lot of related development, expect Gondolamania –…
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Feb. 13, 2014 / Gordon Price

Seattle: Consulting but not Engaging

Seattle P-I columnist Joel Connelly reports on a phenomenon in Seattle familiar to Vancouverites, for some of the same reasons: .…
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Jan. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

Neighbourly Advice: Affordability in Seattle

 How Seattle can create more affordable housing: Numerous Seattle Times reports, editorials and guest columns over the past year have…

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