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“Vanbikes” by Colin Stein: Finally a Definitive History & Recounting of the...
Vancouverite Colin Stein has written what is arguably one of the most important books of this year, and one that will be referenced and have touchstone importance way in the future. This July Colin...
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Rethinking the Right Turn on Red
Do you know the history of how vehicle drivers were allowed to turn right at a red light? And did you know before fifty years ago while some places allowed drivers to turn right at a red light, nearly...
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A Tale of Two Cities: Seattle now Providing Electric Vehicle Charging...
In “Green” Vancouver which has adopted a transportation hierarchy which supposedly favours the lowest level of micromobility, walking and rolling, the current City Council has implemented a policy...
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A Bad Idea That Sounds Like a Good Idea
Let’s make safer roads compulsory. We don’t really need to change the law. Just give unlimited resources and lots of land to the road designers. Their record is really good: Road deaths for mile...
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Lowering Emissions By Getting Men To Travel Like Women
Viewpoint Vancouver has been writing about a big gap in how transportation and city planning is perceived, and that is that women are not included or thought about as users. Besides the late urbanist...
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Vancouver’s Park Board, New ABC’s & Back to Two Lanes of Traffic in Stanley Park
In the October 15 2022 Vancouver civic election, the new Mayor-Elect Ken Sim and the ABC (A Better City) team ran six candidates and claimed six of the seven commissioners positions on the Park...
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“Cycling Through Covid” in Canada
The latest from Buehler and Pucher: How 14 large cities around the world adjusted their cycling policies during the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as how those policies contrasted with...
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Left Hand Turn Drivers Kill, Maim Pedestrians-Here’s NYC’s Solution
Last month Viewpoint Vancouver covered how the right hand driver turn on red lights at intersections came about. That movement is a vestigial hold out from a half century ago. During the 1970’s gas...
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Welcome to Metro Vancouver Pedestrian Danger Months: Featuring Halloween,...
Here we go into another rainy dark, damp Metro Vancouver winter, which is also when the majority of pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries happen. So far this year nine pedestrians have died on...
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Sewer-That Infrastructure We Take For Granted, with Jessica Leigh Hester
It is one of the most important pieces of infrastructure but we never think of it working below the feet of the city. While water works and other amenities necessary to sanitary city life have been...
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Stop! Changing Driver Behaviour At Schools As If Every Life Matters
Prairie Paul on twitter is King’s Counsel lawyer Paul Doroshenko. He has posted a series of images on twitter as he waited to pick up his child at a west side Kitsilano primary school . The photo...
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Metro Vancouver: Why Can’t We Just Have Public Washrooms?
Viewpoint Vancouver has continually written about the need for public washrooms as a basic need for everyone. It is also an equity issue and one of universal comfort. Already some of the cracks are...
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