Montreal news has been awash with coverage of BIXI’s financial situation. After some delay, the city has approved $108million in loans and loan guarantees for the non-profit that operates BIXI.
Those numbers, as well as BIXI management’s confrontation…
Continue readingHere are some of the first bixis of 2011, notice anything different? New ads, mounted above the wheel and on the baskets, have raised a lot of criticism on Twitter so far.
Most of the docking-stations around town are still empty. But bixis are startin…
Continue readingIf you are in Montreal right now you’ve seen it: the Bixi docking stations are popping up all over the city. Sitting empty they have a strange sci-fi ghost town look. But the bikes are supposed to be back on the streets by April 15th. Ottawa has al…
Continue readingCalgary’s new Mayor Naheed Nenshi seems intent on shaking things up, and the Globe and Mail this weekend has a snapshot on some of the green shifts that he is pushing in the city formerly known as Cowtown. Walkability, denisty, transit oriented devel…
Continue readingI’m sitting on the West Coast Express, on my way into the LPCBC offices, enjoying a coffee I bought on the train, typing my blog entry on my laptop (which would be plugged into the provided power if I didn’t have a ridiculously good battery), connecte…
Continue readingWell, this is very predictable, the Point Grey neighbourhood association is against expanding rapid transit to UBC if it disturbs paradise. We all knew this was coming ever since the courts awarded and enormous $600,000 in damages to a business owner on Cambie who chose to relocate during the construction of the Canada Line. Note, […]
