Originally written by Nate Storring for the Jane’s Walk Project Office and Knight Foundation. Jane Jacobs (1916–2006) was an American-born writer and activist best known for her writings about cities. Her first book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), upended the ideas of modernist city planning and building, and offered a new…
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I am a land use planner. I work for the Thompson Nicola Regional District.
I have been working on an alternative to the Broadway Subway project for a number of years. Please visit smartforvancouver.com
Forget about a Broadway subway, think LRT along West 16th
Adam Fitch, Special to The Vancouver Sun 12.10.2012 The City of Vancouver is wrong, at this time, to advocate for an underground LRT line along West Broadway to the University of British Columbia. Stop calling it the “Broadway line,” and start calling it the “UBC line,” and you will see my point. The city’s report…
City of Vancouver aims to have Broadway subway construction started by fall of 2019
Originally posted by Charlie Smith on May 2nd, 2017 at 10:58 AM at the Georgia Straight At this point, it’s unclear where all the money will come from to finance a subway line underneath Broadway in Vancouver. But that hasn’t stopped the city from issuing an optimistic projection. Today, the vice president of Colliers Canada, Dave…
Cost Comparison Chart
Take a look at the International Comparison of Modern Streetcar Systems and Cost Comparison of Modern Streetcar Systems at the Proposal, Planning or Construction Stage.
Opinion: Metro Vancouver needs an affordable transportation plan
Originally Published by Elizabeth Murphy on: June 26, 2016 | Last Updated: June 26, 2016 12:49 PM PDT at the Vancouver Sun All levels of government are now coming to the table to fund transit. However, their current proposals are not adequate, sustainable, affordable or in the public interest. We need a better plan. The federal Liberal…
Globe editorial: Why has building new infrastructure become so difficult?
Originally posted by The Globe and Mail on June 17, 2018 Citizens mostly do a good job of recognizing the hollowness of political stock phrases. Yet there is one bit of campaign rhetoric that still leaves many nodding their heads sagely, if not reaching for the Kleenex: the ubiquitous “infrastructure investment.” Just about every ambitious…
Future streetcar gets dedicated space in design concept for Vancouver’s Arbutus Greenway
Originally Posted by Carlito Pablo on April 23rd, 2018 at 2:01 PM on the Georgia Straight A streetcar is part of the proposed plan for the former Arbutus rail corridor in Vancouver. The City of Vancouver is sharing the design concept for the strip in a series of open houses, which started last weekend. The nine-kilometre belt stretching from West 1st…
Densification near SkyTrain stations could generate up to $2 billion for transit funding
Originally posted By Kenneth Chan at 5:12 PM PDT, Wed May 18, 2016, on vancitybuzz Could developers be a big part of the solution to Metro Vancouver’s funding gap to fulfill a multi-billion dollar public transit expansion and improvement plan? To help alleviate transit funding woes, TransLink’s Mayors’ Council and the provincial government are looking to charge developers…
Next stop for Metro’s transit expansion mystery train: mega-cost increases
Originally posted by By Kirk LaPointe | April 30, 2018 at bvi.com In an earlier era, a garage mechanic confessed to me about the leverage an auto body shop has over the customer once the car was up on the hydraulic lift. In short: pretty much limitless. Up goes the car, up goes the repair, up…
Last stop for the city’s $2 billion Broadway corridor subway line
Originally posted By Kirk LaPointe | April 12, 2016 on biv.com It is time to take stock of what was once the unthinkable: that the Broadway subway line might not be wise to build any longer. The brave faces of city leaders would have us believe they’re heading out to the hardware store to get the shovels to…
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