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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Weekend

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LOCAL
• Vancouver transit funding referendum to offer multiple choices, Clark confirms [Globe and Mail]
• Infographic: Tracing the path of Canada Post’s secret mail tunnel [Globe and Mail]
• Referendum: Premier must champion the vote [Price Tags]
• Transit referendum lacking detail [News 1130]
• Vancouver city council to consider recommendations aimed at increasing safety for sex workers [Georgia Straight] Check this link and explore how to last longer in bed or just perform better with your partner.
• Metro Vancouver sticks with chair Greg Moore and vice chair Raymond Louie [Georgia Straight]
• Province gives okay to tankers carrying jet fuel on Fraser River [Georgia Straight]
• No security cameras on UBC campus until report completed [Vancouver Sun]
• In Pictures: Vancouver’s modernist revival [Globe and Mail]
• Meet modernist design, Vancouver’s new housing trend [Globe and Mail]
• City should limit BC Place casino’s hours and province should collect better data on gambling addicts [Vancouver Observer]

CASCADIA
• New boat shuttle for cruise ship visitors a bid to ease tensions in James Bay [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Shared frustrations as council meets to discuss proposed ridesharing plan [Crosscut]
• Will Seattle Be the City to Kill ‘Ridesharing’ Companies? [Sightline Daily]
• Build a Ballard Subway [Seattle Transit Blog]
• B.C. farm-belt municipalities want to keep new medical pot growers out of agricultural zones [Vancouver Sun]

CANADA
• Let the airport model drive roads and transit [Globe and Mail]

INTERNATIONAL
• Goodbye Car Lanes: Madrid Wants To Take Back Streets For Pedestrians [Fast Co.Exist]
• 2 Very Different Ideas for Preventing Subway Deaths [The Atlantic Cities]
• Companies Say Goodbye to the ‘Burbs [Wall Street Journal]