LOCAL
• Officials hope Surrey greenway trails coax people out of cars [Vancouver Sun]
• Translink’s Year in Review [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
CANADA
• Critics peeved over new sidewalk ‘information pillars’ [Globe and Mail]
• Quebec City lights up the night [The Montreal Gazette]
INTERNATIONAL
• New City Slogans of 2011 [The Atlantic]
• Best of 2011: How Seattle grew itself a new ‘downtown’ [Crosscut]