transportation
Bravery in Public Office discusses inclusive transportation
October 26, 2026On September 28, civil engineer, author, and planner Veronica O. Davis presented Bravery in Public Office to highlight ways public transit can be made more accessible. The event, hosted by SFU Renewable Cities and Movement YVR, intended to teach attendees about the municipal choices that need to be made for transportation to be more inclusive. The event was split into two portions. An examination of Davis’s book Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities was followed by a panel discussion with Alison Gu, Andrea Reimer, and Nadine Nakagawa, three outgoing city councillors from across the Lower Mainland. Davis shared…
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Mapping bicycle infrastructure across Canada
February 23, 2026How far can two wheels take you? For SFU health sciences professor Dr. Meghan Winters, this is a question worth exploring. Winters works in the cities, health & active transportation research lab, which focuses on “the intersection of population health,…
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TransLink is electrifying their bus routes
March 17, 2023At the beginning of 2022, TransLink released a Climate Action Strategy. A message from the chief executive officer Kevin Quinn stated, “It’s our responsibility, as the backbone of Metro Vancouver’s sustainable transportation system, to do everything we can to respond…
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SFU Burnaby is doomed to always be a commuter campus
April 11, 2022In 1963, after achieving formal assent in the BC Legislature, Dr. Gordon M. Shrum, first chancellor of SFU, decided that the best place for the new SFU would be atop Burnaby Mountain, ensuring two things: that we’d have beautiful views,…
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Gondola town hall presenters share benefits of proposed project
February 8, 2022On January 21, 2022 Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS), Graduate Student Society (GSS), and SFU collaboratively presented a virtual gondola town hall where the external relations representatives from each group delivered a presentation. The presentations highlighted the benefits of the…
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SFU launches gondola campaign for Burnaby Mountain
November 20, 2021SFU has launched a campaign in support of TransLink’s proposal to build a gondola from Production Way SkyTrain Station to the top of Burnaby Mountain. TransLink’s project plan is now complete and is awaiting approval by the Burnaby Mayor’s Council…
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SFU hosts provincial election forum on transportation
October 21, 2020The 2020 Provincial Election All Candidates' Forum on Mobility and Land-Use, hosted by the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, took place on October 15 via Zoom. The event was centred around a debate on various mobility and environmental…
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Affordable, convenient transportation is possible without the problems of ride-hailing
September 22, 2019As Vancouver’s public transit system continues to leave transportation needs unmet, private corporations such as Uber and Lyft are looking to fill these gaps. Unfortunately, these services have a history of leaving workers with much less profit than anticipated after…
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Board Shorts
August 28, 2018Board set date and appointed planning committee for AGM The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) Board of Directors resolved to host their annual general meeting (AGM) on Monday, September 24 at the Leslie and Gordon Diamond Family Auditorium at…
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Report: Canada has the tools to lower vehicle emissions
July 27, 2017A pair of researchers from Simon Fraser University recently released a report asserting that the time is now for the country to move vehicles away from producing carbon emissions. The report by master’s student Tiffany Vass and professor Mark Jaccard…
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