Transportation planning
Toronto Makes Room for Bike Parking
Former Vancouver Mayor Recieves City's Highest Honour
On July 6th, former Vancouver Mayor, Art Phillips receievd the Freedom of the City Award. Under Mayor Phillips, the City of Vancouver adopted socially and environmentally progressive policies that laid out the foundation for what is today one of the most livable cities in the world.
Mayors Fear Province Will Create New Tax for TransLink Funding Needed for $1.4 Billion Evergreen Line Northeast of Vancouver
Lower Mainland mayors and councillors are in duck-and-cover mode over TransLink as their alarm grows that the province is about to impose a new property tax to pay for the latest rapid-transit line.
That's a move they believe will create a huge political backlash, leave cities without money for improving basic services, and kill off any semblance of local control.>
“We all have that kind of fear,” Port Moody Mayor Joe Trasolini said. “And it would be something that would divide the region and leave a sour taste on future projects.”
West Coast Environmental Law Comments on Metro Vancouver 2040 Shaping Our Future
West Coast provided comments on Metro Vancouver’s latest draft of a new Regional Growth Strategy (RGS), entitled Metro Vancouver 2040: Shaping Our Future ( November 2009 draft). While West Coast supports the direction and goals of the new draft RGS and the range of strategies proposed, we have concerns that many of the actions and processes stipulated as the means to accomplish those goals reflect a lack of commitment to concerted, firm action by member municipalities.
Harold Steves decries potential loss of farmland with South Fraser Perimeter Road project
Veteran Richmond city councillor and long-time farmer Harold Steves believes the B.C. Liberal government's proposed South Fraser Perimeter Road is a "crime against humanity".
Steves, a former Richmond MLA and cofounder of the Agricultural Land Reserve, was addressing a January 16 town hall meeting organized by the South Fraser Action Network, an umbrella group incorporating opponents of both the road and the Gateway Program, of which the road is a part.
Netherlands to levy 'green' road tax by the kilometre
THE HAGUE (AFP) – The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a "green" road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion.
"Each vehicle will be equipped with a GPS device that tracks how many kilometres are driven and when and where. This data will be then be sent to a collection agency that will send out the bill," the transport ministry said in a statement.
Canada Line P3 to lose millions each year despite strong ridership
The new, $2-billion Canada Line will lose between $14 million and $21 million per year until 2025.
That's despite the fact the line is rapidly approaching the 100,000 riders per day on which the project was based.
Ontario Highway vs. Growth Plan
Proposed highway expansion at odds with provincial Growth Plan will test government's commitment – A case filed in Divisional Court will test the Ontario government’s commitment to the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe. The SMART Coalition has filed a suit alleging that the Ministry of Transportation’s plan to build a new highway between Cambridge and Brantford contradicts the province\'s own Growth Plan.TTC ponders double-digit fare increase
The TTC is considering double-digit fare increases in the New Year that would put the price of the popular Metropass up to $126 a month from $109 and see cash fares jump to $3 from $2.75.
The increase being proposed by TTC staff would generate about $62 million in revenue for the transit system.
Councillors who sit on the Toronto Transit Commission will debate the increase on Nov. 17.
TransLink's Broadway transit gambit condemned
Burnaby mayor Derek Corrigan believes the possible development of rapid transit along Broadway has blinkered Vancouver politicians to the funding constraints facing a regional transit authority he calls “bankrupt”.
“I think that Vancouver very much has seized on the idea that somehow they are going to get a Broadway line out of this and that there is a campaign issue for them [Vision Vancouver],” Corrigan told the Georgia Straight by phone.
