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Winnipeg’s Plan to Catch Up with Vancouver

By | | Regional planning
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Winnipeg is the most affordable major housing market in Canada. According to Wendell Cox’s 2024 International Housing Affordability report, the average price of a 1,500-square-foot home in Winnipeg is $310,000, compared with $1.1 million in Toronto and $1.4 million in Vancouver.

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Don’t worry: Winnipeg planners have a plan to bring Winnipeg housing prices up to Toronto if not Vancouver levels. It’s called the 20-50 plan and it calls for adopting all of the land-use policies that have made Vancouver a mecca for anyone who can afford to spend well over a million dollars on a home. Continue reading →

Electric Buses Not a Panacea

By | | Transportation
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Last week, the city of Seneca, South Carolina decided to shut down the Clemson Area Transit System, which served Seneca and nearby Clemson University. Once touted as owning the world’s first all-electric bus fleet, just a few years later two thirds of its expensive electric buses had broken down, the company that made them went bankrupt, parts were no longer available, and the city can’t afford to buy replacement buses.

Seneca is not exactly a major metropolis. But Clemson Area Transit isn’t the only transit agency to have trouble with electric buses. Just the day before Seneca decided to shut down its transit system, Austin’s Capital Metro announced that it was giving up on its plan to electrify its bus fleet by 2030. Electric bus technology, said the agency, simply hasn’t progressed far enough to replace Diesels. Continue reading →

Welcome to Grizzly

By | | Housekeeping
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The Antiplanning family has a new member: Grizzly, a ten-week-old Belgian Tervuren puppy. He is our fifth dog of this breed and we look forward to many miles of hikes with him.

After we lost Smokey in January, I didn’t want to get another dog right away. But I was still grieving six months later when a breeder we admire contacted us and said she had a puppy for us. Suddenly, I found myself looking towards the future and not the past. I’ll never forget Smokey, but everything I wanted to do with him I’ll be able to do with Grizzly. Continue reading →