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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday

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LOCAL
• No nays recorded for this move to improved horse-and-carriage transit in Stanley Park [State of Vancouver]
• Social enterprises, real-estate deals put PHS in precarious financial state [State of Vancouver]
• Interrupted Views: The Marine Building and its precedent [Price Tags]
• Let Us Count the Ways: Local options for funding transit [Price Tags]
• The Driving Force behind Autonomous Vehicles [Price Tags]
• The New Point Grey Road – 11: Numbers [Price Tags]
• Watch ‘Real-Time’ Transit Planning Help North America’s Busiest Bus Line [The Atlantic Cities]
• Gendered symbols should be removed from Vancouver community centres, report says [Georgia Straight]
• Attention turns to new Portland Hotel Society management and questions of what will change [Georgia Straight]
• Plan for former Avalon Dairy site once more up for review [Georgia Straight]
• Metro Mayors Face Tough Sell in Transit Referendum [The Tyee]
• Take the Train2Main to Main Street-Science World [Vancouver Observer]
• Big changes ahead for recycling in Metro Vancouver [Vancouver Sun]

CASCADIA
• Victoria battling stained image of city parkades [Victoria Times Colonist]
• A vote against bus funding is a vote against equity and a healthy environment [Crosscut]
• Bike-car battles: Time to get along [Crosscut]
• When clearcuts and planning negligence kill [Vancouver Observer]
• TriMet awards $14.3 million contract for e-fare system [The Oregonian]
• Traffic on the Viaduct: Falling, But Maybe Not So Fast [Sightline Daily]
• To Build a Seattle Subway We Must Restore Stable Bus Funding. [Seattle Transit Blog]

INTERNATIONAL
• Life in the slow lane [The Economist]
• Making a rural comeback: The old gravel road [Minneapolis Star Tribune]
• Millennials Don’t Care About Owning Cars, And Car Makers Can’t Figure Out Why [Fast Co.Exist]
• The Geography of Small Talk [The Atlantic Cities]
• Transit Ridership—Debunking the Debunkers (Sort Of) [Planetizen]
• Is the “menace of urban cycling” all about sprawl? [Crikey: The Urbanist]