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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday

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LOCAL
• Vancouver viaducts get no help from council [Globe and Mail]
• Vancouver gets closer to removing viaducts [Vancouver Sun]
• West Vancouver to consider rotating weekend road closures for safer longboarding [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver leads region, trails Victoria in commuting by bike [Vancouver Sun]
• Barbara Yaffe: Metro Vancouver transit ‘quite spotless’ by world standards [Vancouver Sun]

CASCADIA
• Oak Bay councillors vote to pursue deer cull [Victoria Times Colonist]

CANADA
• Cuomo and Canada Have Peace Bridge Deal [New York Times]
• ‘There’s nobody there, there’s just no people’: Calgary downtown slow to re-open after flood [National Post]
• Rob Ford looking forward to ‘good discussion’ about proposed development fee hike [National Post]
• Premier Kathleen Wynne says she’ll do whatever it takes to fund GTA, Hamilton transit improvements [Toronto Star]

INTERNATIONAL
• Brazil uprising points to rise of leaderless networks [New Scientist]
• Brazilian Protesters Say Their Mass Transit Systems Are a Mess. Here’s What That Looks Like [The Atlantic Cities]
• What If You Could Reserve Your Daily Commute Like a Table at a Restaurant? [The Atlantic Cities]
• Civic Groups Win Decisive Battle in Effort to Rebuild NYC’s Penn Station [Planetizen]
• Coastal Cities Prepare For The Rising Tide [NPR]