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A weblog dedicated to dialogue on transportation and transit issues facing Greater Vancouver.
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Road-Building Myths Busted
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A recent column by the Vancouver Province's Driving editor, Keith Morgan (Upside of adding new asphalt to landscape, Province, Friday, November 14, 2008), has drawn our attention to an interesting report by the Royal Automobile Club Foundation.The re...
5 views | aggregated: 1 week 3 days ago
topics: busted
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Bridging the Infrastructure Gap
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Our thanks to Jordan Bateman for taking the lead as our spokesperson with the media on our bridge study earlier this week (Bridging the Infrastructure Gap). We're thrilled with the coverage and the public reception our study has received. We've had l...
32 views | aggregated: 10 weeks 5 days ago
topics: langley, liberals, mayor, planning, political
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Light at the end of the Port Mann tunnel
| aggregated from: Get Moving BC |
Excitement built quickly on Monday when news began circulating that Peter Kiewit Sons Co. had been awarded the contract to build the new Port Mann Bridge. CKNW was first to report the news and they even contacted us here at Get Moving BC to see if we...
24 views | aggregated: 15 weeks 23 hours ago
topics: provincial-government, transportation
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Thumbs up for Get Moving BC
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Get Moving BC has just received the nod of approval from Business in Vancouver. Here's what they had to say about us: Thumbs up: to the passionate and persistent folks at Get Moving BC, whose dedication to improving roads, bridges and transit systems...
23 views | aggregated: 16 weeks 1 day ago
topics: business, transit
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The sky (bridge) is falling
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Sources in New Westminster say big chunks of concrete have recently been falling from the SkyTrain SkyBridge that crosses the Fraser River between New Westminster and Surrey. Consultants have reportedly been out to assess the problem which appears t...
30 views | aggregated: 18 weeks 1 day ago
topics: new-westminster, skytrain, surrey
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Crane Collapse renews call
| aggregated from: Get Moving BC |
Get Moving BCFor Immediate ReleaseJuly 22, 2008GET MOVING BC RENEWS CALL TO ACCELERATE PORT MANN TWINNINGA twinned Port Mann Bridge would allow traffic to continue to flow during accidents and other shutdowns by providing a greater number of clear la...
20 views | aggregated: 19 weeks 1 day ago
topics: burnaby, mayor, transit, transportation
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Dwarfed by Portland
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A Get Moving BC supporter recently travelled to Portland, Oregon and volunteered to email us his observations and impressions of Portland's bridges and highways. With his kind permission, we're able to share some of what he wrote:-----Original Messa...
33 views | aggregated: 20 weeks 3 days ago
topics: downtown, skytrain, surrey, transportation
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Burnaby wants a Port Mann twin
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Get Moving BC Advisory Board member, Mike McBratney, has a great letter in today's Burnaby NewsLeader. Many thanks, Mike, for exposing - yet again - the methodological flaws in the City of Burnaby's anti-Gateway survey.Burnaby wants a Port Mann twinM...
61 views | aggregated: 30 weeks 1 hour ago
topics: burnaby, coquitlam, gateway, mayor, new-westminster
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Interurban, and Langley's Streetcar Possibilities
| aggregated from: Get Moving BC |
Last summer, I released my draft paper on bringing light rail to Langley, with a focus on the 200th Street corridor. In the months since that release, I have continued to dialogue with experts and to do my own research on the various forms of light r...
15 views | aggregated: 31 weeks 16 hours ago
topics: transportation
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Burnaby Resident Support Twinning
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The Port Mann should be twinned, writes Burnaby resident Gary Bizzo in this letter to the Langley Times:Editor: Regarding the misguided opposition to twinning the Port Mann Bridge and improving Highway 1, the Port Mann Bridge was built more than 40 y...
33 views | aggregated: 31 weeks 6 days ago
topics: burnaby, ndp, transit, transportation
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Gassy Jack
"Gassy Jack" by The Evaporators (SOCAN). Video directed by Jason Margolis from the CD/LP &...
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jumpfilm
active: 3 hours 30 min ago |
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When Jesse Was Born
Explores the turbulent, sometimes painful, and often humorous lives of one blue-collar family as the...
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active: 12 hours 8 min ago |
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A Piece of Glass
With the 2010 Olympics rapidly approaching, many people are concerned about the issue of homelessnes...
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active: 1 hour 55 min ago |
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