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Editorial: Lower parking rates at hospitals needed
It’s bad enough to be so sick or injured that you need to go to the hospital. But what really adds salt to those wounds is the high parking rates some hospitals charge, especially for patients who need...
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Dan Murphy: Vancouver mulls new high-tech parking meters
Editorial cartoonist Dan Murphy’s latest creation for Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. The editorial pages editor is Gordon Clark, who can be reached at gclark@theprovince.com. Letters to the editor can be sent...
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Province Editorial: TransLink audit is Christy Clark’s best idea in months
A request by Lower Mainland mayors to create yet another new levy to fund TransLink’s ever-expanding operations is quickly generating an HST-style tax revolt, if public comments to The Province and...
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Editorial: Vision Vancouver’s attack on motorists picks up speed
New evidence of Vision Vancouver’s blitzkrieg against regular citizens who drive was revealed this week in an article in our sister newspaper. Vancouver Sun reporters Jeff Lee and Tara Carman revealed...
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Letters: Ujjal Dosanjh, women, harm reduction, Jon Ferry, stabbings, mining,...
Dosanjh can’t be trusted It doesn’t surprise me that Ujjal Dosanjh said that apologizing for historical wrongs isn’t necessary. When Mr. Dosanjh was younger he was a communist. As he got older he...
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Diary of an Immigrant
YVR and me Part of living here as an immigrant is the intimate relationship you develop with the airport. I think I could probably drive to YVR (see how close we are – I even call it by its nickname)...
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Editorial: Citizens waking up to Vancouver’s unfair parking scheme
As reported Tuesday by Sam Cooper, hundreds of motorists have complained to Vancouver city hall about its new and profoundly unjust parking enforcement scheme. But those angry about the aggressiveness...
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Letter of the Week: Vancouver’s bad attitude to cars keeps us away
I will begin by confessing that I have sinned. I attended the Culture Crawl last Sunday in Vancouver and thoroughly enjoyed the event but the parking was a nightmare. I parked where no man should have...
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Diary of an Immigrant: You can take the girl out of the city…
Daughter Kerri was 14 when we heartlessly ripped her from the bosom of her bustling home town of Brighton and dumped her into the slow-paced, slightly less exciting suburbs of Cloverdale. Despite...
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Letters: B.C. Ferries, Todd Stone, B.C. highways system, Mike Smyth, Gregor...
Transportation Minister is ignorant or a liar Transportation Minister Todd Stone, like so many of today’s politicians, either doesn’t know what he is talking about or is lying through his teeth. Stone...
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Vancity Buzz’s City Happenings – May 22, 2014
Free parking no longer available for Grouse Grind The gravel parking lot for the Grouse Grind is no longer free as a pay parking metre is in effect. It will now cost visitors $2 for three hours and $4...
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Facebook founder’s neighbours un-friending him
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is irritating his neighbours in San Francisco’s Dolores Heights district by monopolizing the area’s scarce parking spots for construction crews working on his home...
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Letters: Lane-hog law, traffic, Port Mann, Vision Vancouver, parking,...
New ‘lane hog’ law is an ‘ill-conceived cash grab’ by Victoria The B.C. government’s new “lane hog” law is bad legislation. The law prescribes fines of $167 plus three penalty points to anyone who...
View ArticleWayne Moriarty: Why is traffic worse on weekends than weekdays in Vancouver?
For reasons that involve obscene volumes of traffic, I try and avoid driving my car on the weekend. This is not how it used to be. It used to be that weekend driving was a pleasure. In fact, so...
View ArticleWayne Moriarty: Life as a parking attendant can be a real page-turner
I first really took notice of Jane Wan maybe seven years ago. She appeared in my life as the woman who works the parking booth at the underground lot I visit regularly in the evening. She is...
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