LOCAL
• Garbage, garbage, garbage: Private collectors tussle with Metro Van over control of garbage flow [State of Vancouver]
• Vancouver committee debates paying for transit by taxing First Nations [Vancouver Sun]
• Heritage Vancouver’s annual list of endangered heritage sites includes entire neighbourhoods [Vancouver Sun]
• Changing Richmond [Metro 604]
• West Cordova Street – unit block [Changing Vancouver]
• Forty Years of Changing Attitudes in Metro Vancouver [Price Tags]
• Commercial Drive’s new food truck brings change to street and neighborhood [Vancouver Observer]
• Some worry Evergreen Line could make Tri-Cities too costly [News 1130]
CASCADIA
• Lessons from Deepwater Horizon: how oil spills could impact BC tourism [Vancouver Observer]
• Washington: Car Crashes Decline Again [Sightline Daily]
• Jack Knox: Saltspring Island lament is, ‘The ferry is killing us’ [Victoria Times Colonist]
• United Streetcar vehicles still aren’t ready: Portland City Hall Roundup [Oregon Live]
• Sound Transit’s South 200th Link extension breaks ground [RT&S]
CANADA
• Waterfront Toronto pumps billions into economy and now needs power to raise revenue: Hume [Toronto Star]
• Demise of Halifax’s ‘Road to Nowhere’ could lead to core renewal [Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
• Architype plans UK’s largest Passivhaus housing scheme [UK Green Building Council]
• L.A.’s New Light Rail Line Reports Strong Ridership, Without Cannibalizing Other Transit [Neon Tommy]
• The Best New Architecture in the Muslim World [The Atlantic Cities]