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Apr. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

"Show Courage, Please U-Turn on the Massey Bridge Decision"

Another cogent letter in the Richmond News written by Andy Hobbs questions the expenditure of $3.5 billion dollars (now forecast to…
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Apr. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

McArthurGlen YVR Mall-Parking for Customers, Employees not so much.

According to The Richmond News (and thanks to Scot Bathgate for alerting Price Tags) there is a season of discontent with the…
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Apr. 26, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Tide Changing in Seattle as Neighbourhood Council Input nixed by City

Next City describes the changes occurring to the thirteen neighbourhood district councils in Seattle. These groups of activist homeowners have “held…
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Apr. 25, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

End of the Single Family Neighbourhood? Greater Vancouver Board of Trade

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade had a forum on  housing affordability and how to get young people living in…
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Apr. 24, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Is Driving a Privilege or a Right?

The National Post‘s Chris Selley tells the story of a woman in Toronto who by mistake drove a Mercedes SUV…
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Apr. 24, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge, Billion dollar Boondoggle?

Imagine in fifty years what people will say about the decision-making occurring in Metro Vancouver. For some reason the Province…
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Apr. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Vision Zero in London – Nix Digital Signs, Reduce Speed on Bridges

London England is always slightly ahead of the curve and the Evening Standard reports on the cutting edge work of a community…
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Apr. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Have Latte, Will Talk in the "Third Place".

In 1989, Ray Oldenburg coined the phrase “third place” in his book The Great Good Place.  The “third place” was…
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Apr. 19, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Back to Tsawwassen Mills Mall, Being Afoot, and Crossing Highway 17

If you have ventured out to this mall which takes up 1.2 million square feet of real estate, you will…
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Apr. 17, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

A Provincial Election, Tolls, and Public Transit

There has been some disappointing rhetoric about bridges, tolls, and congestion coming out of the stirred soup of next month’s…
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Apr. 14, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Friday File: Pay Attention to the Zebra in the Streets in Bolivia

The Atlantic Monthly describes the innovative attempts of the City of La Paz Bolivia in  changing driver behaviour in the streets,…
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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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Apr. 05, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver Art Gallery Asks Feds for $100 Million for New Building

The Vancouver Sun reporter Kevin Griffin  gives the latest on the Vancouver Art Gallery’s missive to build the proposed Herzog &…
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Mar. 30, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Paris, Road Closures, Traffic Evaporation and the Braess Paradox

  The website h2020 has a very interesting examination of “traffic evaporation”-what happens to all that traffic when you close urban…

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