LOCAL
• Metro Vancouver malls go al fresco (with video) [Vancouver Sun]
• Plans to transform Vancouver mansion into care home to go to public hearing [Vancouver Sun]
• Brookswood/Fernridge Community Plan Public Hearing Tonight [South Fraser Blog]
• Beautiful Relationships: Local Biz Sees the Upside of Dung [The Tyee]
• Vancouver’s DTES plan will need help from senior governments to succeed: planning experts [Vancouver Sun]
CASCADIA
• Sidney’s Beacon Avenue to stay one-way [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Nanaimo’s CNG-powered buses a first for B.C. [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Chilliwack community up in arms over hazardous-waste plant [Globe and Mail]
• From Climate Change To Minimum Wage, Seattle’s New Mayor Is Pushing Forward [Fast Co.Exist]
• TriMet rolls out new generation of ‘talking buses’ to fight distracted walking [Oregon Live]
• Family-Sized Housing Open House [Seattle Transit Blog]
INTERNATIONAL
• Why Sweden has so few road deaths [The Economist]
• Five Things I Learned at the World Bicycle Forum [Everyday Rider]
• Guerillas on Two Wheels [Outside]
• Shared Spaces and Slow Zones: Comparing Public Space in Paris and New York [Project for Public Spaces]
• Per capita VMT drops for ninth straight year; DOTs taking notice [State Smart Transportation Initiative]