{"id":20006,"date":"2013-04-08T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T21:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=20006"},"modified":"2013-04-07T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T01:22:44","slug":"next-generation-transportation-april-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2013\/04\/08\/next-generation-transportation-april-18\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Party Forum: Next Generation Transportation \u2014 April 18, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How do our provincial leaders propose to invest in transportation? How will transportation projects &#8211; from tunnels and bridges, to cycling paths, to light rail and subways &#8211; affect the\u00a0<\/strong><strong>economy and environment of our region?<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nMetro Vancouver expects another half million jobs and 1.2 million more residents over the next three decades.\u00a0 Our continued economic success\u00a0 depends on layered public transportation in our urban centres, strengthened connections to rapidly growing suburban communities, better use of existing space for goods movement, and more affordable and healthy options.<\/p>\n<p>Help make transportation an election issue! Come and listen to provincial candidates offer their party&#8217;s solutions to Metro Vancouver&#8217;s transportation woes. Ask them your questions, and get some answers.<\/p>\n<h3>Details:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>When:\u00a0<\/strong>April 18th, 7-9pm<br \/>\n<strong>Where:\u00a0<\/strong>SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1400-1430<br \/>\n<strong>Cost:\u00a0<\/strong>FREE\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nextgentransportation.eventbrite.ca\/#\" target=\"_blank\">REGISTER HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosted by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/publicsquare.html\">SFU Public Square<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbontalks.ca\/\">Carbon Talks<\/a>, SFU&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/content\/sfu\/continuing-studies\/about\/program-units\/city-program\/about-city-program.html\">The City Program,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/dialogue.html\">SFU Centre for Dialogue<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\">, and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablesfu.org\/\">Sustainable SFU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With confirmed participants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mary Polak<\/strong>, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jane Sterk<\/strong>, Leader of the Green Party of BC<\/li>\n<li><strong>Duane Nickull<\/strong>,\u00a0MLA candidate for Vancouver-Point Grey, of the BC Conservative Party<\/li>\n<li><strong>Harry Bains<\/strong>,\u00a0opposition critic for Transportation and Infrastructure, BC NDP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do our provincial leaders propose to invest in transportation? 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Metro Vancouver expects another half million jobs and 1.2 million more residents over the next three decades.\u00a0 Our continued economic<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2013\/04\/08\/next-generation-transportation-april-18\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;All-Party Forum: Next Generation Transportation \u2014 April 18, 2013&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6024,"featured_media":20009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11228,13,20,40],"tags":[11377,291,596,245],"class_list":["post-20006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bikes","category-civic-engagement","category-events","category-transit","tag-bc-election","tag-event","tag-sfu","tag-transportation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>All-Party Forum: Next Generation Transportation \u2014 April 18, 2013 - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2013\/04\/08\/next-generation-transportation-april-18\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"All-Party Forum: Next Generation Transportation \u2014 April 18, 2013 - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How do our provincial leaders propose to invest in transportation? 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