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Apr. 29, 2019 / Gordon Price

The New Mobility – and Scooter Virgins

TransLink is hosting regional conversations on Transport 2050, the latest version of its strategic plan.  Last week at a packed…
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Apr. 17, 2019 / Gordon Price

Forum: The Future of Mobility – Apr 25

  As TransLink prepares to update Metro Vancouver’s transportation plan through to 2050, it will be convening discussions with the…
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Apr. 09, 2019 / Colin Stein

The Sea Captain, at Surrey Central Station

Kudos to TransLink, for making some space for Indigenous art that doesn’t shy away from engaging people on social and…
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Feb. 23, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Planning the New Broadway

Vancouver is getting a major Skytrain extension, a rapid transit line through the second-largest employment corridor in the Province of…
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Jan. 30, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Council to World — We Like Transit

Vancouver’s new City Council showed it’s stripes today, in a long discussion around extending rapid transit to UBC.  …
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Jan. 21, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

UBC Skytrain Campaign

UBC has launched a campaign aimed at getting Canada’s Federal Gov’t and the Provincial Gov’t of BC to throw in…
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Jan. 07, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Paradigm Shift In Transportation

That good old new transportation paradigm is getting an elevation in profile. TransLink, Modo, Evo and Mobi have formed a…
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Dec. 04, 2018 / VWPT Vancouver

Greg Moore — Once a Planner…

PriceTalks Greg Moore — Once a Planner... Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 10…
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Nov. 09, 2018 / Colin Stein

SFU: Want More Skytrain? Do the Numbers (Part II)

Yesterday’s post about the Vancouver Sun op-ed by Alex Boston scraped the surface of what could comprise an effective business case for…
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Nov. 08, 2018 / Colin Stein

SFU: Want More Skytrain? Do the Numbers (Part I)

This week, Alex Boston, the Executive Director of the Renewable Cities program at SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue,…
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Oct. 29, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Mayor McCallum’s Surrey Skytrain

Like 15 other Metro Vancouver munis, the City of Surrey has a new Mayor — Doug McCallum. He’s also an…
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Sep. 24, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Triple Tweets — 2018 Vancouver Civic Election

On the emerging election issue of a subway to UBC, we have a few diverging opinions — within the same…
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Sep. 13, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver’s Broadway Rapid Transit — Elevated or Tunneled?

Vancouver, in 2025, should be home to a new mostly-tunneled Skytrain route through BC’s second-largest jobs centre. It’s rapid transit…
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Sep. 11, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Pachal On Light Rail South of the Fraser

Nathan Pachal is a councilor in Langley City, and a friend of Price Tags.  HERE, he discusses the business case…

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