“Wake up and smell the exhaust” - Stephen Rees's blog

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That exhortation comes from Christopher Hume writing in the Toronto Star about a month ago. Devon Rowcliffe and Jim Harris picked it up on facebook today and I thank both of them since I missed it when it came out. While he is talking to the GTA he could equally be talking to the GVRD&we are rooted in the mindset of the 1970s, blissfully unaware that a new reality has dawned.Let s look instead to cities that lead, cities that are reinventing themselves as places where people live because the...

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topics: business, commercial-drive, delta, environment, planning

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“Say “no” to TransLink and Metro's Hong Kong model for funding transit”

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The title is taken from an opinion piece on the Straight s web page forwarded to me by reader Mike Harridon. It is written by Elizabeth Murphy who has a background in development and urban land economics and has worked in the private sector, for the...

aggregated: 29 weeks 6 days ago | 80 views

topics: business, city-of-vancouver, density, developer, developers

Canada Line opening – First Impressions

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My first impression? Crowds.I gave up trying to start at Waterfront Station, and took a trolley to Yaletown. Crowded too, but pleasant:Yaletown Station is a bit better than City Centre, but still has that affable blandness. I confess, I like...

aggregated: 30 weeks 2 days ago | 72 views

topics: business, downtown, planning, politics, richmond

‘A lost transit opportunity'

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What appears to be an article in the Times Colonist is uncreditted, and reads like a letter to the editor from an all ill informed reader. A journalist writing such a story would at the very least pick up a phone and call Translink s press office. T...

aggregated: 29 weeks 6 days ago | 49 views

topics: downtown, emissions, greenhouse-gas, transit, translink

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