The City of Vancouver's rule against Chinese names on ballots is racially disparate and reflects a double standard rooted in chauvinism.

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Bike lanes tied to road resurfacing opportunities aren’t delivering on their promise.

Sam Holland is the Chair of Better Transit YYJ In 1978, British Columbia had a robust public intercity bus network, two publicly owned intercity rail operators, robust and rapidly growing urban transi...

Municipalities charge developers money per home they build through DCC’s, and use that money to build critical infrastructure. Sounds smart, right?

Why do people assume that demand for expensive apartments is fraudulent? If you follow housing news in Canada at all, you’re surely familiar with two competing ideas for what’s to blame for the housin...

Buried deep inside the 2026 austerity budget, the City of Vancouver has seemingly dropped plans to remove part of the Beach Avenue bike lane.

The province quietly updated the 2011 Westshore Rapid Transit Study. They determined that we need transit investment, now more than ever.

TransLink and the City of Vancouver are proposing transit priority measures and bus stop balancing along Kingsway, focusing on Route 19. And it’s a great place to start! The 19 is the 9th most used bus route in the entire region1, while also being the 4th slowest1, which means improvements that are made here will […]

We bring up a lot of facts and statements when discussing density, but rarely do we sit down and discuss differing values. It's time to do that.

Curbspace is finite. Are we sure we're using this extremely valuable resource to its fullest extent?

What responsibility does BC Transit (and therefore the province) have in creating or permitting the mess created by repeated shutdowns?

In far too many places across the province, engineers continue to rely on the same old ineffective tricks to paper over their own inadequate designs.

Government is silent on covering the $580 million required to stop service cuts. Protesters are asking electeds to save bus service across metro Vancouver.

Victoria's OCP draft is out, and while it goes far, it doesn't deal with a whole host of issues in getting housing built.

The City of Vancouver ran a very successful pedestrianization pilot in 2024. Will it be revamped, or could it be killed entirely?

A protected bike lane on King Edward Ave in Dunbar was cancelled at the last minute after local opponents complained.

Fare free transit can make sense in smaller transit systems, but such a policy deserves a closer look when talking about BC's cities.

Burnaby Mountain is a little slice of nature in the city. But how did Simon Fraser University end up on its peak?

On November 18th, Burnaby City Council voted to send the proposal for bus lanes on Hastings Street back to a second round of public engagement, scaling back the original plan.