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Downtown Historic Railway kickstarts the Vancouver rail renaissance (Part 3)
Now that he had the support of the City of Vancouver, Dale Laird’s dream of a historic railway along False Creek was nearing reality. But time was of the...
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Downtown Historic Railway kickstarts the Vancouver rail renaissance (Part 2)
In order to turn his idea of converting the old CPR tracks running parallel to 6th Avenue St into a historic streetcar line, Dale Laird first needed some...
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Downtown Historic Railway kickstarts the Vancouver rail renaissance (Part 1)
It has been more than 53 years since Vancouver’s last streetcar ran through the city. But with interest in rail growing around the region, could we be on...
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Vancouver’s north-south streets
As a follow-up to the last map depicting Vancouver’s east-west running streets, here is a drawing of all the north-south roads in the city. Very similar...
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Promoting better manners on transit, Tokyo-style
Graphics courtesy of Tokyo Metro Part and parcel of riding transit is dealing with the habits of other riders. However, the definition of bad manners...
By John Calimente -
The joy of riding a new transit route
This will be hard to explain to the non-transit fan, as well as those who still insist on driving everywhere in their horseless carriages. What is it...
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The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 5: Epilogue
Locally, the public is constantly bombarded by politicians and municipal officials who state that they are doing everything within their means to tackle...
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The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 4: Affordability in Vancouver
So far in this series, I’ve discussed affordability and its relationship to population diversity as well as the complex interaction between the...
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The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 3: Affordability and Environment
One of Vancouver’s greatest attributes is the environment in which it sits. The beauty and splendour of the mountains and ocean that are so intricately...
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The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 2: Affordability and Diversity
Diversity plays an important role in most, if not all, complex systems. Accordingly, it is a term used in a broad spectrum of professions and areas of...
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The Costs of Unaffordability – Introduction
The past few months have seen increasing concerns of recession and economic turmoil. With an American economy teetering on the edge of a dark precipice...
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Vancouver’s east-west streets
As the primary paths of access and circulation, streets play an extremely important role in any city – ancient and new. With this in mind, the...
By Erick Villagomez