LOCAL
• Granville Street – 500 block, east side [Changing Vancouver]
• Big money for one company if Metro Van pushes incinerator plan through. Here’s who’ll make it. [Vancouver Observer]
• Vancouver Coastal Health Authority agrees to changes to Pearson Dogwood lands redevelopment [Vancouver Sun]
• The TransLink Hate-on: No credit when it’s due [Price Tags]
CASCADIA
• North Saanich nixes grow-ops for medical pot [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Visualizing the cost of local transportation projects [Bike Portland]
• Portland will replace all 55,000 streetlights with blue-tinted LEDS (poll) [Oregon Live]
• Why Building Housing In Seattle Is Essential For Social Equity [City Tank]
• What The State Can Do Today to Help Renters [SLOG]
CANADA
• High-speed rail depends on developed LRT: Iveson [Edmonton Journal]
• High speed rail project between Edmonton and Calgary still up in the air [Metro]
• Kitchener to Waterloo, by LRT [Railway Age]
INTERNATIONAL
• Far Beyond Rush Hour: The Incredible Rise of Off-Peak Public Transportation [The Atlantic Cities]
• The Town That’s Building Life Around Sleep [The Atlantic Cities]
• Programmed to Need Urban Nature [Planetizen]
• National spotlight: Urban train stations plan for the future [Elevation DC]
• The slow decline of American Chinatowns [BBC]