Speakers (starting at #18, with a list currently going to 204) resume tonight at 6 p.m. to discuss the pros and cons of the “Seaside Greenway,” known to many as the Point Grey/Kits bike lane. A quick recap here of the doings at council on Tuesday.

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Okay, now it’s the the Downtown Eastside’s turn at the “emerging directions” for their area plan — the last of the four neighbourhoods that are getting new visions for development and services. The open house was yesterday, another one Saturday. Lots in there. (Here is the link to the city’s information boards.) A few of […]

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I didn’t have a chance to go to the open house. (Big project, still in a post-vacation funk, etc.) Rize/MP2014 doing an energetic job of tweeting out how they addressed all the city demands for changes. The building certainly looks better. But, as I say, I didn’t see it up close. Your thoughts?

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Oh brother, here we go, the bike debates. But can’t avoid it, as that seems to be the week’s news. Here’s my story on the city report re agreement with Alta Bicycle Share on the new public-bike share system. Still some news to come on this, as we don’t know who the sponsors will be. […]

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Cheer up. You can’t afford to buy a place here, but we have some darn good street parties. And other stuff that makes city living all worthwhile. FRANCES BULA Special to The Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Jul. 14 2013, 9:26 PM EDT Last updated Tuesday, Jul. 16 2013, 5:16 AM EDT     Sometimes […]

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As I say in this story in the Globe and Mail, which comes in at the tail end of a debate that Frank Ducote introduced us to a little over a month ago, many observers in the community thought that the city was going to do things differently when it adopted a go-slow approach to […]

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Okay, this is Friday fluff, but whatever. I feel I must contribute to the ongoing deep investigations into Mayor Gregor Robertson’s change of abode by reporting that his Douglas Park-area house has apparently sold, for the asking price of whatever it was, $1.95 million or something. I realize that where the mayor lives is significant. […]

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Whenever I go to Europe (if that doesn’t sound obnoxious), I’m always struck by the way the mythological view of it doesn’t match the reality. In conversations among urbanists, amateur and professional, here, European cities are always treated as though they have achieved the highest level of excellent city operation. They are walkable. They encourage […]

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I know that provincial election seems like it was years ago, but the lessons it taught are worth contemplating. I got to hang out extensively in Vancouver-Fraserview to see the ground war in action, which I wrote about here. Something for the NDP to ponder while they are reviewing what went wrong.

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Another brave soul has submitted a guest blog. I am back now, but thought this deserved an airing. It all started with a Trojan horse: The 2010 Olympic games. Granville and Robson have been closed to all traffic. Granville had been closed before due to the Canada line construction, and bus were using dedicated lane […]

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