aggregated from: Metroblogging Vancouver

I didn t win Best-kept Vancouver Secret, so I don t care, but there s a lot of other categories to go through some are a perennial (Best Place For Cheap Drinks The Cambie) and some are a surprise (Best Place to Pimp Your Ride Canadian Tire. I m...

topics: downtown, richmond, yaletown

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My current Business in Vancouver article:The bets are in. The stakes are high. With billions on the table for the Canada Line and the Gateway project, we have two very different visions for our region.The first, transit-oriented; the second, auto-dep...

topics: business, city-of-vancouver, coal-harbour, density, design

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

Vancouver SunFederal money in Canada does not come easily. It comes with conditions and a timetable. In this case infrastructure spending intended to boost the economy was authorised for only shovel ready projects that could start straight away...

topics: economy, election, environment, gateway, liberal

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Tessa, a regular PT reader, wonders:I've just been noticing recently how far apart stations on the skytrain system are compared to other metro systems in Canada & On the Expo Line, there's one station every 1.45 kilometres; on the Millennium line ...

topics: density, richmond, skytrain

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

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...

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

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

As luck would have it, I had to go to the airport today to pick up a package. So with that in the trunk, I drove back to River Rock casino, where I parked. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that parking there is free at present, even though they ha...

topics: density, design, developer, skytrain, taxes

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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...

topics: business, downtown, planning, politics, richmond

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

I said that I would not get on the Canada Line to-day, simply because I dislike crowds. I also do not much enjoy waiting in line and if I had tried to ride the Canada Line today, that is what would have happened. In somewhat the same vein as the op...

topics: carbon-footprint, coquitlam, density, eco-density, gateway

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

Charlie Smith in the Georgia Straight forecasts bad news for taxpayers and transit riders. it might take until 2013 before the Canada Line generates 100,000 riders per dayHe adds that peak oil will also add to Translink s woes and rehearses the hi...

topics: delta, richmond, skytrain, transit, translink

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

Fare Gate at Wilshire/NormandieThe CBC is reporting that not only will the Canada Line be turnstileless when it opens so will SkyTrain for at least another three years. That is when a new smart card system might start to be implemented. We could se...

topics: crime, election, political, skytrain, technology