By John Calimente
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Trolley buses return to Granville Street
After years of construction, hordes of Olympic visitors, and a number of chainsawed trees, Vancouver’s beloved trolley buses returned to Granville...
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Trolley buses return to Granville Street
After years of construction, hordes of Olympic visitors, and a number of chainsawed trees, Vancouver’s beloved trolley buses returned to Granville...
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Does Vancouver still need one way streets?
Like many cities in North America in the latter half of the 20th century, Vancouver converted a number of its streets to one way streets to allow...
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The Canada Line – One year, 36 Million Boardings
Has it been only a year since the Canada Line opened? Indeed, it was just last August that this major infrastructure project was completed, connecting...
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Seattle, Vancouver, and Portland: A comparison of real estate and economic strength
Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver are three cities linked geographically, climatically, and culturally. It often seems that we have more in common with...
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Freeways, funding, and a flawed 1962 rail plan for Vancouver
This week we look at another transit plan for Vancouver in the context of the freeway debates of the 1960s. Created by the British Columbia Research...
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Transit flies high post-Olympics
Well I spoke too soon! At the end of my last column I said “…life has returned to ‘normal’ in the region…” after the...
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Vancouver Becomes a Transit City for 17 Days
It was a cool experiment, and perhaps North America’s largest traffic trial ever. Take one auto-oriented-but-making-progress city and for 17 days...
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Operating the Olympic Streetcar Line
Vancouver’s Olympic Line streetcar drivers may have had years of experience driving heritage streetcars and city buses, but a modern streetcar is a...
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Are gas stations becoming an endangered species?
This piece investigates the phenomenon of closing and abandoned gas stations over the past decade, and asks whether this is part of a larger trend. By...
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Modern streetcars debut in Vancouver
It’s been a long wait. Sixty-five years in fact, since Vancouver last experienced the thrill of seeing brand-new streetcars travel our streets. The...
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No campfires, just lots of great ideas at TransportCamp
TheTransitFan takes us through the goings-on at the TransportCamp: A Sustainable Transportation Unconference that took place last Friday, October 30th...