LOCAL
• TransLink’s draft 2013 Base Plan [The Buzzer Blog]
• Little Mountain tenants appeal eviction notices [Vancouver Courier]
• BC Translink announces service cuts as part of new three year plan [Vancouver Observer]
• Design plans for new Nordstrom/former Sears building unveiled [OpenFile]
• Developer’s inexperience may be behind Little Mountain delays [Vancouver Sun]
• TransLink halts improvements [Globe and Mail]
• B-Line finally comes to Surrey under new TransLink plan [Civic Surrey]
INTERNATIONAL
• Let’s swim to work! [Salon]
• L.A.’s Transit Revolution [Slate.com]
• Hidden Transit: How Companies are Going the Last Mile [Urban Land Magazine]
• Fake, or So Real it’s Blowing Your Mind? [PlaceShakers]
• Inside the Secret Program to Build the World’s Best Maps [The Atlantic Cities]
• A historic new trail for Washington hikers [Crosscut]
• Climate change determined humanity’s global conquest [New Scientist]
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2 comments
Actually a tweet this morning by Ken Hardie
Lots of commentary on TransLink’s Base Plan in mainstream media focuses on taxation… @stephen_rees looks deeper: bit.ly/RpC01O
Also see Peter Ladner’s opinion in Business in Vancouver
http://www.biv.com/article/20120918/BIV0319/309189921/politicians-need-to-support-transit-tipping-point