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There's a reasonable chance that after the October 24 election, the NDP will hold 18 of the 20 seats in the Burrard Peninsula. That's up from just two seats in 2001 and nine seats in 2005.
TransLink is proposing changes to 10 Vancouver bus networks based on the latest feedback it received on its Burrard Peninsula Area Transport Plan.
Nov 16, 2008 - In some respects, the muncipal elections across Metro Vancouver were a dress rehearsal for the big show: the provincial election of May, 2009. Here are my calculations: * Bad news ...
The $500,000 put up by the government of British Columbia to study a fixed-link rapid transit connection across Burrard Inlet, connecting Vancouver, B.C., to the North Shore, revives an idea that ...
It’s an unusual landing. Leaning forward to peer out the plane’s tiny oval window, I have an amazing view of the lower mainland's Burrard Peninsula. I can see the downtown skyline; the mouth ...
Vancouver's Burrard Peninsula, for instance, has a rate of 5.8 per cent while Toronto's core is at 4.3 per cent, according to the numbers unveiled for the first time by CMHC, in its latest report ...
The peninsula is separated from the rest of the mainland by the Burrard Inlet to the north and the Frasier River to the south.
Can public transit through New Westminster and Burnaby be improved? TransLink's latest survey is asking that very question. The deadline for local residents to provide input on the regional transit ...
In 1996, Vancouver temporarily converted a car lane on the Burrard Street Bridge into a separated bicycle lane. The six-month trial was a spectacular failure: it lasted a week. In 2005, the city ...
Once upon a time, mixed-use transit-oriented development was going to revitalize cities and be the backbone of complete, compact communities from the Burrard Peninsula to the Fraser Valley. But ...