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May. 10, 2016 / Gordon Price

Shocking News from Seattle: No Viadoom from Viaduct Closure

Something really bad didn’t happen when Seattle closed the Alaskan Way Viaduct to traffic, reported to carry 110,000 vehicles a…
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Mar. 24, 2016 / tanyapazzy

Traffic Cones. Orange is the New Urban: Mockery, Fashion, and Rogue Transformer @AwarenessCone #Philly @PBOTrans #PDX @Moschino

OMG traffic cones are all the rage. The revolution has begun and it has bounced off Twitter onto our streets.…
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Jun. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Carmageddon Cycle – 3: Point Grey Road

“Every time we go through this, it seems to be the same pattern. There’s predictions there’s going to be ‘Carmageddon,’”…
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Nov. 26, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Irony of ‘Peak Car’ – 2

Bringing an Agustin comment to the foreground: The absolute number of cars registered in the City of Vancouver is indeed…
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Nov. 25, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Irony of ‘Peak Car’ and the End of Induced Demand

From NewGeography, via Ron Richings: . Urbanists Need to Face the Full Implications of Peak Car . As traffic levels…
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Sep. 26, 2014 / Gordon Price

World Premiere: "Seacycles"

A stunning visual portrait of the new bike route from Burrard Bridge to Point Grey Road, by Kathleen Corey and…
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May. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

Credit Where It’s Due: The Design and Rebuilding of Burrard Bridge South

Let’s look at another infrastructure project, one that cost millions, not billions* – about $6 million in this case to design and re-construct the…
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Mar. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

What just happened to the widest street in the world?

It went on a diet. From citiscope: Avenida 9 de Julio in Buenos Aries – a triumphant boulevard (map here) that…
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Feb. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

When Bad Things Don’t Happen – 2: Georgia Street

Another in our series of how Carmageddon fails to cooperate when road space for vehicles is reduced. For much of the summer…
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Jan. 29, 2014 / Gordon Price

When Bad Things Don’t Happen – 1: Cornwall / Point Grey Road

Last weekend, after driving through the construction works at the south end of the Burrard Bridge and along Cornwall and MacDonald,…

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