LOCAL
• Civic minded Grilled Cheese Giveaway on Strathcona bike route Saturday! [Courier]
• Surrey Cycling Plan released and getting thumbs up [Straight] [Tyee]
• Zellers going like Woodwards? HBC set to close low-end department store chain [VancouverSun]
• Celebration of Light spectators expected to walk / transit / or bike [VancouverSun]
• Chinatown revitalization gets final nod from council [Metro]
• 1915-era home makes journey from Dunbar to Vancouver Island [VancouverSun]
• Will Malkin Avenue become the main vehicle route through Strathcona? [OpenFile]
CANADA
• Canada halfway to meeting Copenhagen emissions-reductions goal [Globe&Mail]
• Metrolinx not ready to follow LA’s lead for bikes on trains [OpenFile]
• Depanneurs in Upper Canada? Ontario corner stores push to sell booze [Globe&Mail]
• Montreal’s tourism stays rebounding despite continuing student protests [Gazzette]
INTERNATIONAL
• London’s Dickensian housing crisis right next to the main Olympic site [Bloomberg]
• Seattle council eases development rules to get leg up [SeattleTimes]
• How San Francisco got a viaduct demolished and reinvented a road [PriceTags]
• Is NYC the next great cycling city [SustainableCities]
• Why we continue locking activity up in Downtown Convention Centres [AmericanDirt]
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