LOCAL
• Metro directors promote their home turf to conference planners [Vancouver Sun]
• Fate of popular point in limbo after lease expires [Vancouver Sun]
• Do you want to know what’s going to happen with the Vancouver Art Gallery’s pitch to move to a new site? Read this for some clues [State of Vancouver]
• TransLink 101: Where does TransLink get its funding… and how do we spend it? [Buzzer Blog]
CANADA
• Map of the Day: Montreal, Then and Now [The Atlantic Cities]
• New Toronto streetcars hit the road for secret test [Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
• What the Steamship and the Landline Can Tell Us About the Decline of the Private Car [The Atlantic Cities]
• Lessons from Iceland: What the tiny country teaches us about building better places [Crosscut]
• Boston Schools Drop Last Remnant of Forced Busing [New York Times]