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BC needs a public intercity transportation service
Northern British Columbia is a vast, rugged, mostly mountainous area roughly the size of France. In winter, its two-lane public highways often get hit with…
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TransLink boss salary of $319,244+? Peanuts
Lately, there has been quite a fuss about how much the top people at TransLink get paid to provide road and transit services in BC’s…
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Bike to Work Week and our transportation culture
Pouring rain marked the start of Vancouver’s Bike to Work Week (May 11 – 17) this year, but those who braved the weather conditions are…
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Planet Before Politics
I signed the following open letter published in the Globe on the weekend. I cannot take any credit for organizing or writing the letter (hat…
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BC’s economy and the Liberal platform
With my oped last week on the NDP platform making me less than popular over at NDP HQ, today the Sun published my take on…
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Is funnelling money into shovel-ready projects the best strategy for infrastructure development?
I often get asked: “Shouldn’t we support the Olympics or the Port Mann bridge (or any of the multitude of poorly handled infrastructure projects in…
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And Another Thing About the Port Mann non-P3
Now that the government has abandoned private financing of the Port Mann, it’s time to make the bigger but equally sensible leap and abandon the…
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Cancelled P3 saves $200 million
Wow. Things can change pretty quickly in a day. Apparently the Port Mann Bridge P3 was just too ridiculous. Jeff Nagel already has a very…
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Death of a P3
And so the P3 financing deal for the Port Mann Super-Bridge died, conveniently right when it will get the least media coverage. Here’s the breaking…
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They don’t pay taxes in Surrey? Who knew?
Transportation Minister Keven Falcon had letters to the editor this week in both the Vancouver Sun and the Times Colonist saying, “The new Port Mann…
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