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May. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

Real Time Solution

The greatest single loss due to insufficient TransLink funding (or more directly, the failure of Provincial will to authorize what…
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May. 10, 2010 / Gordon Price

Freeway Buzz

Over at TransLink, Jhenifer Pabillano edits the terrific Buzzer Blog, both informative and entertaining, and another example of TL’s embrace of new…
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Apr. 19, 2010 / Gordon Price

Mind the Gap

Mr. Human Transit, Jarrett Walker, is fast off the mark in commenting on TransLink’s options for the Broadway corridor, just…
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Apr. 07, 2010 / Gordon Price

Auto trips in decline … and more good news from TransLink

Some important news here on this just-released travel survey by TransLink: Metro Vancouver’s Travel Profile: Getting Greener Two key travel…
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Apr. 06, 2010 / Gordon Price

Family Friendly

The best summary I’ve read so far on the success of the Olympic Transportation Plan is here in re:place, by John…
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Feb. 25, 2010 / Gordon Price

Let the Debate Begin

Yesterday, prompted by a release from Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson’s office, the media went after the transportation story.  It’s the…
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Jan. 27, 2010 / Gordon Price

Doing Vancouver One Better

Nick Christensen, a writer with the Hillsboro Argus (Hillsboro is a distant suburb of Portland), spent a recent weekend in…
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Jan. 25, 2010 / Gordon Price

Missed opportunity

Back in 2005, “City Comforts” guy David Sucher recommended this for Whistler: Those of you who know the winter resort…
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Nov. 06, 2009 / Gordon Price

Dept. of Clarification

The indispensable Jeff Nagel, who covers transportation issues for the Surrey Leader (and should be doing it for a larger…
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Nov. 02, 2009 / Gordon Price

IPhone Rhapsody

Just got an IPhone.   And quickly realized that it is not in fact a phone.  It is a computer that…
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Oct. 29, 2009 / Gordon Price

Funding Showdown – Part 1

My latest Business in Vancouver column: Is TransLink going to be put on life support? According to insiders, that may…
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Oct. 22, 2009 / Gordon Price

Vancouver’s bus service tops in the world

I missed this piece in Business in Vancouver.  Thanks to Glen Korstrom for passing it along. Staff at TransLink subsidiary…
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Sep. 21, 2009 / Gordon Price

TransLink Service

Some of you may have seen these comparisons of  TransLink’s service area with other regions, like Toronto: Or Chicago: These maps are…
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Sep. 17, 2009 / Gordon Price

The Bad Bet

My current Business in Vancouver article: The bets are in. The stakes are high. With billions on the table for…

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