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Thoughts on a Manufactured Mayoral Debate

When I found out that CBC was opening their audience for Wednesday night’s mayoral debate between Robertson and Anton, I immediately slotted it into...

On Transportation: Affleck Seems to be Best NPA Bet, Viaducts Drive Carr, Cycling Survey Results Released

Transportation, always a major topic during a civic election, has spiked somewhat in the last few days with prompting from public forums and the release...

Video Vancouver: A Love Song to Public Transit

Taxicabs and the future of getting around

On October 5th, Maclure’s celebrated 100 years of operation as a taxicab business in the Lower Mainland. Those 100 years have seen a great deal of...

COPE Focuses in on Bus Riders, Cyclists, Pedestrians

Over the past week, the Coalition of Progressive Electors have rolled out plank after plank for their transportation platform, setting the bar higher than...

NPA’s Anton: Streetcar Yes, Bike Lanes No

The nomination deadline for Vancouver’s civic election passed on Friday, with 94 people stepping up for 27 spots across the mayoralty, council, and...

Video Vancouver: Sub City: New York

Funding SkyTrain’s Next 25 Years

TransLink formally celebrated SkyTrain’s 25th Anniversary this past week at the Edmonds Yard in Burnaby. As I listened to the speeches, I...

Release: Adorno and Nose

Adorno and Nose by Doupé and Whitman launched into transit shelters August 15 A new project by the City of Vancouver Public Art program invites the public...

Release – A Sign for the City

A Sign for the City, a year-long public art project by Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber, continues in transit shelters August 15. The regular nightly boom of...

Origami City: Transportation 2040 planning to bring Vancouver closer together

When Spacing made its formal debut in Vancouver this June, the city’s new urban generation was able to make good use of the bar on one side of the...

The Viaducts: Past, Present and Future – Part 2

This is the second part of a series – in tandem with In Focus: The Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts photo essay – looking at the past, present...