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Ken Sim’s traffic plan is a death knell for safe streets
Headlines about banana barriers obscure an insidious promise to permanently hobble progress on building safer streets
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Vancouver’s ballot naming rules are racially discriminatory
The City of Vancouver’s rule against Chinese names on ballots is racially disparate and reflects a double standard rooted in chauvinism.
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Should sewers dictate where bike lanes go?
Building bike lanes at the same time as roadwork was supposed to save money, expand the network and reduce opposition. Has it?
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Why hasn’t transit kept up with growth?
Sam Holland is the Chair of Better Transit YYJ In 1978, British Columbia had a robust public intercity bus network, two publicly owned intercity rail operators, robust and rapidly growing urban transit, and a brand new public ferry company. Nearly fifty years later, BC has effectively no functional public intercity transit, increasingly unreliable ferries, and…
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Housing demand isn’t fake
Why do people assume that demand for expensive apartments is fraudulent? If you follow housing news in Canada at all, you’re surely familiar with two competing ideas for what’s to blame for the housing crisis. The first is what can be called the market thesis, which holds that housing is expensive because the supply of…
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Who should pay for growth?
Municipalities charge developers money per home they build through DCC’s, and use that money to build critical infrastructure. Sounds smart, right?
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For transit, stagnation is regression
As an extension to the topic of the transit death spiral, there is another key element of transit funding that isn’t well known at all – something that industry insiders refer to as “schedule maintenance”.
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Vancouver quietly shelves Beach Ave bike lane removal
Buried deep inside the 2026 austerity budget, the City of Vancouver has seemingly dropped plans to remove part of the Beach Avenue bike lane.
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New study makes strong case for getting Westshore rail on track
Sam Holland is the Chair of Better Transit YYJ Key Facts Without any fanfare or announcement, the BC Ministry of Transportation and Transit, quietly released a technical review of a proposed rail corridor linking Downtown Victoria to the Westshore via Uptown. The report reconsiders the rail corridor identified in the 2011 Rapid Transit study, in…
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The Kingsway transit priority proposals are good, but we can do better
TransLink and the City of Vancouver are proposing transit priority measures and bus stop balancing along Kingsway, focusing on Route 19. And it’s a great place to start! The 19 is the 9th most used bus route in the entire region1, while also being the 4th slowest1, which means improvements that are made here will…
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The density debate is about values
We bring up a lot of facts and statements when discussing density, but rarely do we sit down and discuss differing values. It’s time to do that.
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