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Editorial: Reason will return one day to Vancouver city hall
Despite what the mayor and the rest of his crowd would have you believe, there’s nothing “permanent” about Vancouver’s downtown bike lanes. Someday a set of reasonable politicians — truly democratic...
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Jordan Bateman: Vision’s bike-share plan will hurt taxpayers
Vancouver’s Bixi public bike-share program may sound like good public policy but, in the end, it will be taxpayers who will get taken for a ride. It seems like a no-brainer in a city with three...
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Letters: Liberal insiders, pay hikes, Christy Clark, rats, bike share, teen...
They don’t care about us Re: Editorial on Liberal staff pay raises. “Absolutely disgusting” says it all. Unfortunately, this action may be a scary predictor of the future, as in “I’m all right Jack, so...
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Letters: Point Grey Road, Bike share, Vision, Gregor, cyclists, immigrants,...
Point Grey Road plan is ridiculous Dear Vancouver, Wake Up! A recent newspaper survey showed that a huge majority will not use the city’s rental bikes. Research has shown that this has not been...
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Letters: Bike-share, bike lanes, Point Grey Road, Vision Vancouver, CN...
Bike-share slams taxpayers So the Vision Vancouver crew think they are smarter than those in Toronto, New York and Montreal. They are going ahead with their bike-share program, which is a failure...
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Letters: School prayer, Lord’s Prayer, teachers, stop signs, helmet law,...
No prayers in schools Letter-writer Verne Winder wants us to “say the Lord’s Prayer in school, accept it, or get out!” Has Mr. Winder familiarized himself with something known as the “separation of...
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Letters: Point Grey bike route, Bruce Allen, bike share, Kafka, cyclists,...
Why isn’t all city land on Point Grey Road being used? The new mantra of the Visionistas is that rerouting traffic is a minor glitch in our lives but mobility is a huge issue in Vancouver A very small...
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Letter of the Week: Vision’s bike-share takes taxpayers for a very expensive...
On July 23, in typical dictatorial Vision-Vancouver style, our city councillors approved the initial $6-million stage of Vancouver’s bike-share. Coun. Heather Deal gleefully stated, “There are...
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Letters: Heart valves, TAVI, Dan Sammartino, the rich, bike-share, fish farming
No fun waiting for heart procedure I was interested in the story about Dan Sammartino, who has the aortic valve problem and about which surgical procedure he should have. I have the same problem,...
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Letters: Bike share, Gregor Robertson, traffic, development, curfew,...
Tell Vision to kill bike share Perhaps our Vancouver’s chief cycle path, Mayor Gregor Robertson, has an impending major pre-election announcement to make in light of the news that the bike-share plan...
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Letters: Genocide, Israel, Gaza, Pickton, dog breeders, bike share, Donald...
Use of term ‘genocide’ about Israel is wrong Letter-writer Ramona Dawe’s use of the word “genocide” to describe the Palestinian-Israeli situation is absurd. The word genocide was coined after the...
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Letters: Pay phones, disasters, cabbies, Uber, bike share, Vision, Israel,...
Pay phones needed for when a disaster strikes Re: Pay phones. Unless something has changed since I took emergency training seminars about 20 years ago, in all the literature handed out, pay phones were...
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