Transit
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Book Review: Trains, Buses People – An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit
Author: Christof Spieler (Island Press, 2018) Christof Spieler’s Trains, Buses, People – An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit is a refreshing look at...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
Video Vancouver: The Sounds of Transit
Via Price Tags Thank you to all our incredible employees and customers for making TransLink North America’s Transit System of the Year. Let’s...
By Yuri Artibise -
Book Review—Beyond Mobility: Planning Cities for People and Places
Authors: Robert Cervero, Erick Guerra, Stefan Al (Island Press, 2017) The cumulative consequences of this nearly singular focus on expeditious movement...
By Becca Mayers -
Book Review—Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
Author: Steven Higashide (Island Press, 2019) Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run and Win the Fight for Effective Transit is the ultimate...
By Marnie McGregor -
Metro Vancouver needs a more Multilingual Translink
Accessibility is a key priority of any public transit system. While much-needed efforts are underway in making bus stops and SkyTrain stations more...
By Max Kittner -
Urban Technologies: The Unintended Consequences
If you walk by the bike parkade at Main Street Science World in the evening you will see a handful of bikes. If you look closely, you’ll notice that a...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
Video Vancouver: Larry Beasley on Vancouverism
Via TransLink Larry Beasley, a TransLink board member and former planner chief planner for the City of Vancouver, talks about his new book...
By Yuri Artibise -
Track to the future: Advocates want to passenger rail back to the Fraser Valley
A century ago, interurban rail service helped Fraser Valley communities develop — and it could do the same thing today, says a group fighting to resurrect...
By Christopher Cheung -
Why New West Station’s Plaza 88 is one of a kind
You’ll lose your breath trying to describe Plaza 88. It wraps an elevated SkyTrain station with seven storeys of parking and two levels of shops and...
By Christopher Cheung -
Video Vancouver: Grandma On The Move
Via City of Vancouver: Commissioned by the City of Vancouver, Grandma on the Move, features award-winning children’s entertainers, Will Stroet and the...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: Could This Subway Car Save NYC Transit?
Are the cars the MTA uses currently the best for the way we ride the subway? In 2013, researchers from Operations Planning Group at NYCT submitted their...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: Surrey Central public artwork by Marianne Nicolson
Via TransLink: Marianne Nicolson is Dzawada’enuxw of the Kwakwaka’wakw peoples. She spoke to TransLink about The Sea Captain, her public...
By Yuri Artibise