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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday

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LOCAL
• New Westminster wants toll bridge across Fraser River [Globe and Mail]
• Infographic: Vancouver’s soaring home prices, 1977 to the present [Globe and Mail]
• New Westminster asks for tolls and four lanes on new Pattullo Bridge [Vancouver Sun]
• HUB pushes for cycling network across Metro Vancouver region [Georgia Straight]
• City of Vancouver taken to court over view corridors [Georgia Straight]
• Delta’s Southlands farmland fight heats up [Georgia Straight]
• How cities can fight climate change: Public transit [The Mainlander]
• Talking about the Brookswood Plan on transit [South Fraser Blog]
• Smoking Ban in City of Langley Parks? [South Fraser Blog]
• The “mind-boggling” path toward Metro Vancouver’s $480 million incineration plan [Vancouver Observer]
• New Westminster in favour of replacing Pattullo with new toll bridge [Vancouver Sun]
• Mount Pleasant residents sue city to protect mountain views [Vancouver Sun]

CASCADIA
• Cell Service Coming to the Downtown Transit Tunnel [Seattle Transit Blog]
• Downtown Gondola [Seattle Transit Blog]
• Tri-Met’s Portland-Milwaukie transit bridge lands on the west side of the Willamette [Oregon Live]

INTERNATIONAL
• America’s Cities Are Still Too Afraid to Make Driving Unappealing [The Atlantic Cities]
• Cities Mobilize to Help Those Threatened by Gentrification [New York Times]
• To Grow Transit Ridership, Chicagoland Needs to Build Near Transit [Streetsblog Chicago]
• Accra’s art festivals make streetscapes into public space [The Guardian Cities]