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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday

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LOCAL
• Whistler’s hydrogen buses to be scrapped, replaced by diesel [Globe and Mail]
• New app designed to help Vancouver residents search for safe apartments [Georgia Straight]
• Hollywood Theatre fight isn’t just about movies [Georgia Straight]
• Vancouver city councillor plans to travel to Sochi to advocate for LGBTQ rights at future Olympics [Georgia Straight]
• Green MLA Andrew Weaver describes Vancouver airport fuel plan as “madness” [Georgia Straight]
• Mayor Gregor Robertson promises no gambling expansion in Vancouver [Georgia Straight]
• Ming Sun Benevolent Society calls flooding of its building “suspicious” [Georgia Straight]
• Newton business district poised to become ‘Little India’ [Vancouver Sun]
• Metro Vancouver home prices to rise in 2014: Re/Max [Vancouver Sun]

CASCADIA
• Oregonians care less and less about road expansion, state survey finds [Bike Portland]
• How is Parking like a Sandwich? [Sightline Daily]
• Free bus pitched for downtown Victoria loop [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Victoria transit budget taps into surplus funds [Victoria Times Colonist]

CANADA
• Canada Post will phase out home delivery in urban centres [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Transit funding plan will eventually cost drivers $260 per year [Toronto Star]

INTERNATIONAL
• These Are America’s 10 Best Bike Lanes [Fast Co.Exist]
• This Old Coal Mining Building Is Now A Concert Hall That Is A Giant Musical Instrument [Fast Co.Exist]
• How a Few Dutch Children Fought for a Street Where They Could Play, and Won [The Atlantic Cities]
• Envisioning a Future Urban Dronescape [This Big City]
• Judge deals major blow to Hollywood growth plan [Los Angeles Times]
• Moving Crude by Railcar Stalls on the Track [Wall Street Journal]