LOCAL
• Vancouver city hall greenlights millions for bike lanes [Vancouver Courier]
• Gasoline taxes to take $1 billion from Metro Vancouver drivers: Taxpayers Federation [Vancouver Sun]
• Ninety-year-old statue in Vancouver park honours First Nations icon [Vancouver Courier]
• Bolt Bus busts into Vancouver, offers really cheap trips to Seattle and Portland [OpenFile]
• Condo king says talk of bubble just a lot of hot air [Vancouver Sun]
INTERNATIONAL
• Q. and A.: The Most Endangered Rivers [The New York Times Green Blog]
• How to Make Public Transportation Safer on a Shoestring Budget [GOOD Magazine]
• OMA-designed CCTV Headquarters in Beijing completed [Archinect]
• What’s Killing the Electric Car? The Price of Batteries [GOOD Magazine]
• The Secret to Tokyo’s Rail Success [The Atlantic Cities]
• The Well-Tempered Environment [Observatory: Design Observer]
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