Knowledgeable fighters of parking tickets knew that it was relatively easy to game the system in Vancouver to get out of paying a fine. The city’s putting in a new system to change that. Details from Mr. Parking Expert, Vancouver Sun reporter Chad Skelton. A bold — or dastardly — new Vision initiative? No. I […]

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This is what was handed out at the news conference launching the new sales effort today (with a couple of comparisons with previous sales that I’ve dug out). BRIDGE BUILDING Studio: 349,500 – $354,900

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I called the long-suffering guy in charge of bike lanes, Jerry Dobrovolny, earlier this week to get more information about how the bike-lane statistics are gathered, since there have been allegations by some people (and not just anonymous ones on this blog) that the engineering department is faking data. “We do need to be able […]

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Sigh. Here we go. City news release on cycling has updates on statistics for Hornby and Dunsmuir bike lanes. Deconstruct away But in an effort to perhaps bring a new stream of ideas into the conversation, how about this? I’d love to hear your ideas for how, if the current lane were going to stay on […]

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When people like Dan Mangan and Gordon Gibson, Brian Jungen and Alex Tsakumis, and the Lutheran Urban Mission Society are all piling on to oppose casino expansion, there’s rough seas ahead suddenly for this proposal. This news release just out from the Little Train That Could, Vancouver Not Vegas. Vancouver, BC: A groundswell of support from […]

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Tomorrow is the official announcement but I went down to the sales centre on Sunday, which was hopping. All kinds of people had driven down on a whim to take a look and then parked their cars once they found out they could tour the four presentation suites available. (In contrast to the picture I’m […]

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Vancouver has seen massive protests in the past over expanded gaming. This time, the opposition has been strangely slow to muster. I looked at why, in brief. One thing I noted, but didn’t have spaceto go into, is the lack of political leadership. Every party has a mixed record on this. Although the NPA led […]

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We heard the anti-bike lane case from Rob Macdonald last week. In fairness, here’s the counter-argument from Peter Ladner. This column appeared in Business in Vancouver. “What do you think of the new bike lanes on Hornby Street?” asked my Aunt Glo over dinner a few weeks ago. She’s in her 80s and uses a […]

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This is the latest from Justason Market Intelligence, which has gone in for a series of polls on civic issues this year. (Usually, we have no idea what people are thinking in this town til close to election day.) Interesting numbers on Vision Vancouver, the mayor, casinos, bike lanes and more. Barb Justason notes that, […]

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Going through the 112-page report from the Olympic village receivers in detail makes it clear that getting the village into an upward spiral is not going to be easy. I itemize a few of the interlocked problems here. The receivers don’t mention it, but part of the problem is that the village has become a […]

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