That’s just one of the many fascinating facts contained in a 28-page, yes, you read that right, 28-page report about snow clearing, generated by I believe Coun. George Affleck’s concerns that bike routes had been ploughed before major arterials in Vancouver during our annual snowmaggedon. You can read the whole report right here (because really, […]
Entries from January 2016
Vancouver spends $2 M a year on fighting snow; Toronto, $87 million
April 5th, 2013 · 33 Comments
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Granville: regular street by day, low-rent Mardi Gras by night accompanied by police, ambulances, clean-up crews. Is this is good idea?
April 5th, 2013 · 34 Comments
Like most Vancouverites, I don’t usually go to Granville Street at 4 a.m. But I did a couple of months ago, to find out how things have evolved on this street with such a roller-coaster past — Great White Way, theatre row, heroin users’ hood, sex-shop central, home to some of the city’s best live-music […]
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Surrey to test out a new way of talking to the public with Vision Critical
April 5th, 2013 · 5 Comments
I’ve heard any number of bureaucrats and politicians express alarm at the state of public dialogue these days, as citizen groups start social-media campaigns at the drop of a hat to oppose casinos, funeral parlours, traffic going by their front windows, and more. As a result, many are looking for new ways to talk. Surrey […]
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Best of the April 1 posts in the urban world, where the fantastic always seems a little more plausible
April 2nd, 2013 · 1 Comment
I bowed out from April Fool’s efforts this year, but not everyone did. There seems to be something about city planning that inspires creativity in the “plausible but not actually true” genre. Like — the condo project by Bow-Haus on Cambie that lifted up the former single-family house on the lot and put it on […]
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What would happen if everyone got together and decided to come up with the money for transit utopia?
April 1st, 2013 · 54 Comments
This was a deliberately provocative article, so I’m expecting lots of challenges. Yes, there are many other futures that can be detailed (built $23 billion in transit and had no money left for anything else, is one I’m sure will turn up here). I found out a lot more about some of the details as […]
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