Students declare “death of affordable transit”
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Murderous felines, sexy engineers, burning buses...
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Big Bird, full buses in B.C., hackers & Lena Dunham
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A fraternity shut, a prayer dropped and a mullet banned
View ArticleStudy shows cycling is safer in northern Europe
Injuries could be reduced with barriers, regulated speeds
View ArticleULethbridge student treated for TB
An Alberta student who was a passenger on a Greyhound bus last week has been diagnosed with tuberculosis. Spokesman Andy Hakin says the University of Lethbridge student is being treated for the...
View ArticleLaval students get free use of bicycles
According to the CBC, Laval University has teamed up with a Quebec City-based organization to provide its student population with free bicycles. The company, Véloville, currently repairs and maintains...
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A road that cleans the air
Getty Images Take crushed limestone, add some gravel, throw in a bit of cement and you’ve got the basic recipe for concrete. Then add a white coating of titanium dioxide and you’ve got a powerful air...
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Taking the higher road
Getty Images Drivers on the congested roads in Beijing’s Mentougou district may soon have to get used to sharing the road with a rather futuristic-looking bus. The light-rail “straddling bus,”...
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‘But it’s not a skateboard’
Photograph by Liam Richards Bradley Charles, 21, was killing time one day last summer near the Saskatchewan River in downtown Saskatoon, riding his longboard up and down a gentle hill on a concrete...
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What’s driving the car craze
Steve Russell/Toronto Star For the first time ever, vehicles outnumber people in Saskatoon. According to a new report, the city’s 218,000 people now own more than 245,804 vehicles. It’s the result,...
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Remembering a day of pain
Paco Serinelli/AFP/Getty Images Five years have passed since London’s transport system was hit by four suicide bombers during morning rush hour. Now, the official inquest into the 7/7 attacks is...
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Top 10 most (and least) expensive parking permits
Photo courtesy of Canadian Starhawk on Flickr Most students walk or take a bus to school, but some just need to have a car. For one, it makes grocery shopping much easier. It also tends to boost a...
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Dalhousie professor quits over parking
Photo courtesy of Kevin Krejci on Flickr A Dalhousie University professor told CBC News that a severe parking shortage forced him to quit. That’s how bad things have become for commuters on certain...
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UBC could have bike sharing soon
Photo by fudj on Flickr The University of British Columbia is poised to benefit from the likely arrival of the BIXI bike sharing service in Vancouver, reports The Ubyssey. Carole Jolly, Director of...
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The university’s war on the automobile
Photo courtesy of Kevin Krejci on Flickr From the 21st Maclean’s University Rankings issue. Get your copy from newsstands now. Watching Tommy Douglass on YouTube, one can’t help but recall Matthew...
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Canada’s best cycling schools
Cyclist at Dalhousie. By Andrew Tolson. From the 21st Maclean’s University Rankings—on newsstands now. Story by Jason McBride. If you were to design the perfect bicycling environment, it would include...
View ArticleThe more human way to travel
A couple days before he questioned Christy Clark, Conservative MP Brent Rathgeber wrote about a train trip he took and questioned VIA’s value as a publicly funded service. All of which raises a...
View ArticlePotholes on the road to progress
The Canadian Federation of Municipalities issues a report card on the nation’s infrastructure. The report card, which surveyed more than 120 municipalities representing 60% of the Canadian population,...
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L.A. to San Francisco in 30 minutes
Next Media Animation It sounds more like a riddle than a plan for mass transportation, and certainly tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Hyperloop—a “cross between a Concorde and a rail gun and an air-hockey...
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Bombardier’s secret weapon in China
Mark Leong / Redux In a business environment known for dirt and profligacy, Jianwei Zhang, the president of Bombardier China, a unit of the Canadian transportation and aerospace giant, is an ascetic....
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Bixi’s broken spokes
Jessica Darmanin Toronto has devised quite an ironic plan to save its cash-strapped “bike sharing” program: instead of building 11 hi-tech, self-cleaning public bathrooms—a plan originally announced in...
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