LOCAL
• The Other Side of the Beatty Bookend [Price Tags]
• Robertson can’t afford to ignore city’s need for affordable housing [Business in Vancouver]
• Vancouver rightists rising against the Downtown Eastside [The Mainlander]
• Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson files legal response to rival’s conflict-of-interest suit [Vancouver Sun]
• Residents push for injunction against public hearing into Casa Mia care-home rezoning [Vancouver Sun]
• Developing Story: Casa Mia opponents unleash the lawyers [Vancouver Courier]
CASCADIA
• Americans are using mass transit more than ever. So why is ridership on ‘gold standard’ TriMet down? [The Oregonian]
• Life After the CRC, What Now? [Portland Transport]
CANADA
• Southeast LRT funding to be announced by Alberta government [Metro News Edmonton]
INTERNATIONAL
• Paris: life in a storage cupboard has never been so expensive [The Guardian Cities]
• The Numbers Behind America’s Mass Transit Resurgence [The Atlantic Cities]
• Public Transit Is How We Can All Get Along [Fast Co.Exist]
• A Place and Time for Urban Art [Urban Design Collective]