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Downtown Historic Railway kickstarts the Vancouver rail renaissance (Part 5)
The Downtown Historic Railway has been an incredible success over the past ten years. Riders love riding in the historic interurban cars. And so do all...
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Downtown Historic Railway kickstarts the Vancouver rail renaissance (Part 4)
In an incredible coincidence, the two interurban cars coupled together for the last revenue ride run in Vancouver back in 1958 are the same ones now used...
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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...
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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...
By Erick Villagomez
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered