LOCAL
• City explains housing project at former Ramada [Vancouver Courier]
• Cost and convenience won’t add up to increased transit ridership [Vancouver Sun]
• Evergreen Line spurs Coquitlam condos [Globe and Mail]
• Bikeways for Bottom Lines: The Portland experience [Price Tags]
• Poodle on a pole perplexes Main Street resident [Vancouver Courier]
CANADA
• As west LRT line goes into full operation today, commuters wonder: What’s next? [Calgary Herald]
INTERNATIONAL
• Light-therapy bus shelters set to cheer up Swedes in winter [Digital Trends]
• Suburban sprawl could destroy up to 34 million acres of forests, says new study [NRDC Switchboard]
• Pulling Carbon Dioxide Out of Thin Air [The New York Times]
• Australia Is So Hot, They Had to Add a New Color to the Weather Map [The Atlantic Cities]
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