LOCAL
• B.C. mayors given powers over fare increases, 10-year visions for TransLink [Globe and Mail]
• The End of the Region as we know it – 6: Tsawwassen Mills [Price Tags]
• A New Kind of Political Force in Vancouver [The Tyee]
• TransLink pushes for stiffer sentences for attacks on bus drivers [Vancouver Sun]
• Three Lower Mainland First Nations buy Crown lands in Burnaby and East Vancouver (updated) [Vancouver Sun]
• B.C. tables legislation on transit referendum and TransLink governance [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver’s green future an inspiration: Robert Kennedy Jr. (with video) [Vancouver Sun]
• Embracing accessible design outside of Surrey’s core [South Fraser Blog]
CASCADIA
• Evening pay parking off the table in Victoria — for now [Victoria Times Colonist]
• BC Loosens Restrictions on Swaths of Protected Farmland [The Tyee]
• B.C.’s Agricultural Land Commission chair calls new farm system unfair [Globe and Mail]
• B.C. town may end long holdout against daylight savings time [Globe and Mail]
• 3 lessons for Portland as Citi Bike struggles to break even [Bike Portland]
• Inequality in greater Seattle: Tracking the possibly healthy differences among us [Crosscut]
• A New Measure of Food Deserts [Sightline Daily]
CANADA
• Amid Calgary’s prosperity, Mayor Nenshi senses housing crisis [Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
• Londoners Like High Rises, But They Don’t Want to Live in Them [The Atlantic Cities]
• Is Your City’s Street Grid Really a Grid? [The Atlantic Cities]
• The 5 Best And Worst Food Desert Cities [Fast Co.Exist]
• Off The Grid [UrbDeZine San Francisco]
• Proposed taxing district for streetcar extensions shrinks [Kansas City Star]