LOCAL
• Cities poll: Watts 73 per cent approval in Surrey, where crime the biggest fear; Robertson 52 per cent, affordable housing tops the worry list [State of Vancouver]
• Grandview-Woodlands council election turns into tussle among different interests [State of Vancouver]
• Downtown Eastside plan puts 80 per cent of $1-billion total investment into housing [State of Vancouver]
• A new vision for the densifying Cambie Corridor [Globe and Mail]
• Imagine a year without pedestrian deaths [Globe and Mail]
• Gentrification in Paris c. 1870, Vancouver c. 2014? [Price Tags]
• The Risk of Risk: Canada Line and Motordom [Price Tags]
• Quote: Transit and property development – putting the economy at risk [Price Tags]
• A Reasonable Approach [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
• Evergreen Tunnel Boring starts today [Buzzer Blog]
• Gregor Robertson insists a SkyTrain-like project along Broadway is in the national interest [Georgia Straight]
• Vision Vancouver plans to eliminate the City’s definition of Social Housing [The Mainlander]
• Bikes Mean Business [South Fraser Blog]
• Downtown Eastside residents paint boarded-up building to protest city’s $1-billion plan [Vancouver Sun]
• Southlands housing development moves closer to reality in Delta [Vancouver Sun]
CASCADIA
• Cyclists pump up Victoria shops, study says [Victoria Times Colonist]
• ODOT’s first-ever ‘bicycle warning beacons’ start flashing next week [Bike Portland]
• Why Stadium Place is the best new development in Seattle [Crosscut]
• Ideas for Seattle’s waterfront: arts and play [Crosscut]
• Yakima’s future: Parks or parking lots? [Crosscut]
• The future of Old Town Chinatown: is city-subsidized ‘workforce housing’ Portland’s path forward? [Oregon Live]
• Gentrification: In Portland, as in Spike Lee’s Brooklyn, a complicated question of race and class [Oregon Live]
INTERNATIONAL
• Use of Public Transit in U.S. Reaches Highest Level Since 1956, Advocates Report [New York Times]
• London’s Plan to Move Cyclists to Side Streets [The Atlantic Cities]
• Local African Bikes To Help Africans Move More Freely [Fast Co.Exist]
• Economically Successful Cities Favor Space-Efficient Modes [Planeitzen]
• Dallas following national trend toward walkable neighborhoods [Dallas Morning News]