Category: BC
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For Transit, stagnation is regression.
Image credit: RealBuizel10 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Nic Laporte and Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders recently released a video discussing the phenomenon of a “transit death spiral”, and the converse positive feedback loop that comes with adequate investment. If you haven’t already seen it, definitely check the video out. As an extension to…
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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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A brief history of UBC’s confusing local government
In November 2024, just over a thousand residents from some (but not all) of the University of British Columbia (UBC)’s neighborhoods of permanent residents headed to the polls in what looked a lot like a municipal election, complete with an all-candidates’ forum, campaigns, and voting stations. However, the body that they elected — the University…
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Betting on parking is risky business
Curbspace is a finite resource. Should business communities go all in and rely on something that cannot grow?
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Missed your bus? Come back in 6 months
At the time of writing, there is no bus service in BC Transit’s Cowichan Valley Regional Transit System (read: Duncan, Lake Cowichan, etc.) due to an ongoing strike. In fact, there hasn’t been any bus service there since February 8 of this year, and we’re well into August now—that’s 197 days and counting. It’s a…
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Dear engineers: stop making cyclists dismount
In far too many places across the province, engineers continue to rely on the same old ineffective tricks to paper over their own inadequate designs.
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New Westminster Boulevard Debate Reaches Flashpoint at City Hall
Would landscaping made up of mulch, small logs, and ferns ever inspire comparisons to the destruction in Gaza? In New Westminster it did, and all it took was the removal of a few square meters of grass on public property to start a turf war. Why have a boulevard if you choose to destroy it?…