The provincial government has legislated that all public sector organizations, including government ministries, school districts, health authorities, post-secondary institutions and Crown corporations achieve carbon neutrality by 2010! Of course, with such a short in which to develop and implement plans to become carbon neutral, this is putting huge strain on our public institutions.
While municipalities aren’t [...]
When Shaun Yandell proposed to his longtime girlfriend Gina Marasco on the doorstep of their new home in the sunny suburb of Elk Grove, California, four years ago, he never imagined things would get this bad. But they did, and it happened almost overnight.
“It is going to be heartbreak,” Yandell told CNN. “But we are [...]
There’s a ton of reasons we are currently facing a housing affordability crisis in the Vancouver area, and I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t completely understand all the factors. One of the biggest reasons, I strongly believe, is due to high international demand to move to the region - I mean, we [...]
That’s $2.11 per litre in metric calculation.
This article is American, and thus doesn’t completely match our situation up north, but there’s still a ton of food for thought in this oped by Chris Pummer.
You’ll note that even though I may not specifically state that my platform is to confront the issue of peak oil, and [...]
I was thinking today about how the city could provide more rec centres, and it passed my mind about the possibility of having smaller community rec centres with maybe a small studio and weight room - similar to the Houston Public Library’s innovative Express branches. Then, as I turned my head and saw Sullivan Heights Secondary, [...]
Quite an interesting graph to me. We could easily compare the data sets to our region. Vancouver’s transportation mode shares fit generally with the right pie, while Surrey’s mode shares are similar to the left pie.
I think it says a lot about how to get people out of cars: Good Transit, Good Mixed Use.
Not to [...]
While I didn’t include any of my personal visions for transit in Surrey in my platform - because it is not in the City’s jurisdiction - I would very much like to see King George Hwy be redeveloped in the near future and transformed into King George Boulevard. It would have new street furniture, an [...]
Brazilian urban planning guru, Jaime Lerner, has cracked the problem of getting a city to run well. His idea - to put people before cars - has vastly improved residents’ quality of life.
Lerner has revolutionised transport in his hometown of Curibita, diverting traffic around the centre. Huge pedestrian areas and parks have replaced busy roads [...]
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