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Streets for Everyone – Commercial Drive Campaign
Streets for Everyone is a recent grassroot project that is advocating for better sustainable transportation and creating vibrant public spaces that encourage social interaction on Commercial Drive. The campaign advocates for changes such as widening streets for walkability, more street furniture, better bike lanes... Continue reading »
Transportation Costs: Impacts on Metro Vancouver (Part 5)
Reposted with permission from George Poulos and Price Tags. Part 5 of 5. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] A New Operations-Level Tool for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Transportation Projects Although the unit rates illustrated in Table 1 (in Part... Continue reading »
IN PHOTOS: Benches of the Beach District
photos and captions by Adam O’Neill We’ll have to wait until 2018 to test out the public furniture installed as part of the ambitious Vancouver House development. The new “Beach District” will be flanked by two great urban green spaces – George... Continue reading »
New & Events: Local Elections, Ghostly SkyTrains, and Placemaking
The next few weeks are busy ones for the VPSN crew! Our 9th Annual Halloween SkyTrain Party is in the works, followed closely by our third edition of Last Candidate Standing, our local election debate. Added to the mix is... Continue reading »
Transportation Costs: Impacts on Metro Vancouver (Part 4)
Reposted with permission from George Poulos and Price Tags. Part 4 of 5. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Transportation Equity and What it Means for Metro Vancouver One of the primary outcomes of full-cost accounting studies is to demonstrate the... Continue reading »