LOCAL
• Vancouver gets a high-rise school downtown to serve the baby boom there [State of Vancouver]
• Vancouver cyclists score win over drivers with bike route along western beaches [Globe and Mail]
• What Colour is the Wall? [Price Tags]
• Point Grey Road: Seaside Completion, or …. [Price Tags]
• The Vancouver Art Gallery and the Eviction of a Political Idea — PART II [The Mainlander]
• Vancouver cyclist dies after falling off sidewalk into traffic [Vancouver Sun]
• Sad news: another Vancouver cyclist dies [Vancouver Observer]
• Vancouver’s Gay Pride Parade gets civic status [Vancouver Observer]
CASCADIA
• Detroit-style crisis can’t happen here, Frank Leonard says [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Stephen Hume: B.C. hems and haws over sealing Quadra Island real estate deal [Vancouver Sun]
• Portland’s bike thieves get busy when the weather gets warm [Oregon Live]
• Portland City Hall campers reignite questions over city’s storied camping ban [Oregon Live]
• 3 options to extend light rail to Lynnwood [Herald Net]
CANADA
• Bitter battle to preserve 119-year-old Newfoundland church descends into clandestine vandalism [National Post]
• Graphic: LRT Stations [Ottawa Citizen]
• Université de Montréal urged to develop around new campus [Montreal Gazette]
INTERNATIONAL
• Green World Cup Venue Opens in Brazil [Green Source]
• Biking at night: How to avoid hidden dangers and arrive in style [Grist]
• Is a Half-Mile Circle the Right Standard for TODs? [Access Magazine]
• Bank of America’s Toxic Tower [New Republic]
• Why Mega-Projects End Up Costing Way More Than Expected [The Atlantic Cities]
• China Has at Least 36 Local Governments With as Much Debt, on Average, as Detroit [The Atlantic Cities]
• Has Motorization Peaked? [Sightline Daily]