LOCAL
• Transit ridership drops for first time in a decade [South Fraser Blog]
• Vanishing Vancouver: The Dilemma of Incompatible Values [Price Tags]
• A Change in Scale: Evergreen Line [Price Tags]
• Robson and Granville – sw corner [Changing Vancouver]
• Grandview-Woodland ad hoc group plans to launch its own citizens’ assembly [Straight]
• Don Cayo: Treat ferries like roads? Or treat roads like ferries? [Vancouver Sun]
• Analysis: Vancouver’s COPE moves back to the left [Vancouver Sun]
• Surrey’s new city hall a waste of money, says former mayor Doug McCallum [Vancouver Sun]
CASCADIA
• Southern Railway buoyed by tentative deal for Island service [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Tunnel: Bertha gets her bearings [Crosscut]
• Portland parking-lot tax? Controversial proposal pits connected developer against prominent Goodman family [The Oregonian]
INTERNATIONAL
• Bikes Beat Metro in Copenhagen [Copenhagenize]
• The Greek Economic Crisis Could Turn Athens Into a Major Beach Destination [The Atlantic Cities]
• The Hidden Side of Turkey’s Urban Transformation, Told in 10 Pictures [The Atlantic Cities]
• City of Los Angeles’ Initiative to Streamline Its Development Process Becomes Clearer [The Planning Report]
• Road Worrier: NCDOT asked to consider taxing drivers by the mile [News Observer]