LOCAL
• Closing the Gender Gap in City Cycling [BC Business]
• Excess of luxury housing is suffocating Vancouver: An open letter to Donald Trump [Rabble.ca]
• Tower plan Drive-ing Vancouver’s East Side residents mad [Vancouver Courier]
• ‘Thin street’ proposal prompts backlash in Marpole [Vancouver Sun]
• Want to ease Vancouver traffic? Look to Stockholm [Globe and Mail]
• Council blinks (or maybe that was a wink) on the fate of the viaducts [Globe and Mail]
• Metro Vancouver to review salaries over concerns some employees make too much [Vancouver Sun]
• Proposed route would bring Kinder Morgan pipeline closer to Fraser River [Vancouver Sun]
• Is the Fraser Surrey Docks coal port proposal in the best interest of BC? [Centre for Policy Alternatives]
CASCADIA
• William’s Travels: #yvrtopdx Vancouver to Portland then Salem on public transit! [Buzzer Blog]
• Nanaimo could stop garbage-burning plan, lawyer says [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Segways in Portland bike lanes? Move over, they’re allowed [Oregon Live]
• Cycling symposium: Seattle’s primer for more urban biking [KPLU]
• Milwaukie voters are split on bond measure to fund light rail obligations, survey shows [Oregon Live]
Montreal
• More and more travellers taking a spin on bicycle tourism in Montreal [Montreal Gazette]
• Calgary residents grapple with ‘surreal’ devastation as Albertans lose cars, homes in massive floods [National Post]
• Downtown Calgary evacuated as flooding takes turn for the worse [Calgary Sun]
INTERNATIONAL
• The Dutch Prize Their Pedal Power, but a Sea of Bikes Swamps Their Capital [New York Times]
• Yes, Paris Is Wealthy, But Some Parts Are Much Wealthier Than Others [The Atlantic Cities]
• Aerial Views Show Just How Awful the Fire-Smog Over Singapore Has Become [The Atlantic Cities]
• Remembering America’s First Female Architect [The Atlantic Cities]
• Miami Beach takes infrastructure beyond gray [Better Cities & Towns]
• Why Slum Upgrading Requires a Light Touch [Next City]