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Moving the Future

UPDATED Nov 14 I spent the day at the Vancouver Convention Centre (West) at what was billed as “A New Conversation about Transportation and the Economy”. Position papers, presentations, videos and...

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Pointless fence

Pointless fence, originally uploaded by Stephen Rees. Vancouver is not going to the the Greenest City while nonsense like this is allowed to continue. The seawall around False Creek is something to be...

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Choosing the happy city

  There is a storify based on the #happycity hashtag,which now features many more pictures thanks to the recent Twitter upgrade At SFU Woodward’s on Wednesday March 26, 2014 the third in the Translink...

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Roma

This is the third, and final, instalment on my trip to Italy. And, as is common to blogs, it’s backwards, in that Rome is where our trip began. On the way from the gate where we got off the plane, to...

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Election Impact on Transportation

I got a call this morning from Global BC, inviting my opinions for their live cable news show which only goes to Shaw customers. So if you have some other way of getting tv, this will help fill the...

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Study: ‘It’s hard to beat gasoline’ on Air Quality

I saw this on Planetizen and couldn’t resist the video Now, we don’t have much ethanol around here, and the electricity we use is mostly  from existing hydro. So some of these results from the US don’t...

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Granville Bridge

It’s huge. Eight lanes wide, it was the only bridge in the region which was never associated with congestion. Until the even wider Port Mann opened. There have recently been some proposals to dedicate...

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Equity, Opportunity and Good Health

A free public lecture from SFU Continuing Studies and The City Program How Transportation Affects the Essential Qualities of Life In Metro Vancouver Thursday, 30 April 2015 7:30 PM at SFU Segal School...

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Granville Island 2040

Photo by Alyson Hurt on Flickr  I went this morning to a workshop called “Getting to and Moving Through Granville Island”. It is part of Granville Island 2040, “a planning initiative that will set out...

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Reflection in a puddle

This post is response to the Photo Challenge on the Daily Post “Shine” This is a puddle in the parking lot of Kits Beach Park: we have been having a lot of rain lately. Together with a painful toe...

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