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Metro Vancouver home sales set new record in December with 53% spike

And more homes were sold in 2020 than in each of the last two years.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 6, 2021
White Rock homes next to the Semiahmoo Bay waterfront. (Shutterstock)
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Surrey and South of Fraser home sales break December records with 81% surge

The last six months of 2020 saw heated activity.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 6, 2021
TransLink Chief Legal Officer Gigi Chen-Kuo. (TransLink)
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Interim CEO named for TransLink ahead of Kevin Desmond's departure

Desmond is returning to the US for new opportunities.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 5, 2021
Luxury homes in West Vancouver. (Shutterstock)
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Assessed home values in Metro Vancouver see spike in latest BC Assessment

Almost every area of Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley saw increases.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 4, 2021
BC Transit's original 10 double-decker buses will enter retirement in early 2021. (BC Transit)
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BC Transit retiring North America's first double-decker transit buses after 20 years

They will be replaced by new double-decker buses in 2021.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 31, 2020
Amateur cyclists. (Shutterstock)
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BC government spending $6.5 million on new Lower Mainland bike lanes

This includes improvements leading to the Lions Gate Bridge and in UBC.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 31, 2020
Example of a tsunami evacuation tower in Sendai City in Miyagi Prefecture in Japan. (Shutterstock)
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BC public school to receive Canada's first-ever tsunami evacuation tower

Instead of a 10-km drive to the safe evacuation zone.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 31, 2020
Marine Drive utilities and road reconstruction project. (City of Vancouver)
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5 km of Marine Drive in Vancouver set for reconstruction in two-year project

Expect delays; construction begins in the first week of 2021.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 30, 2020
Artistic rendering of Jollibee at 12101 72 Avenue at Strawberry Hill Shopping Centre in Surrey. (WA Architects/Jollibee)
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Jollibee to open its second location in Metro Vancouver in new building

The Asian fast food giant is expanding šŸ—

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 29, 2020
Replacement cable for the Sea to Sky Gondola at the Fatzer factory in Switzerland, December 2020. (Fatzer)
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New haul rope for Sea to Sky Gondola manufactured at "record speed"

It arrived in Canada just before Christmas.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 29, 2020
LED real-time information sign at the northbound bus stop at Main Street-Science World Station. (TransLink)
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TransLink to dismantle LED real-time next bus digital displays along Main Street

27 digital signs at bus stops on Main Street will be retired.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 29, 2020
Water and sewage connections being opened by the City of Surrey to the Semiahmoo First Nation's reserve on December 18, 2020. (Semiahmoo First Nation)
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First Nation in Metro Vancouver will finally have clean drinking water in 2021

They have been under a boil water advisory since 2005.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 29, 2020
Distracted driving with a mobile device. (Shutterstock)
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70% of BC residents support seizing mobile devices of repeat distracted drivers: survey

And over half would like to see distracted drivers suspended for a year.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 28, 2020
December 2020 construction progress of BC Ferries' fourth Salish Class vessel in Poland. (BC Ferries)
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BC Ferries' new LNG-fuelled Salish Class vessel enters water

This is BC Ferries' fourth Salish Class vessel.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 28, 2020
Traffic congestion on Cypress Bowl Road to Cypress Mountain Resort on December 22, 2020. (couchtomato1986/Reddit)
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Cypress Mountain implements pay parking to help address traffic congestion

This is intended to create the "safe and orderly use" of parking lots.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 28, 2020
ICBC car insurance. (Shutterstock)
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BC car insurers saved over $900 million on payouts in 2020: report

Car-related claims fell by 34% due to lower traffic.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 28, 2020
CF Pacific Centre's north atrium, with the fountain pool and green wall waterfall. (Zeidler Architecture/Barry Freeman)
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CF Pacific Centre mall once had a massive atrium with a waterfall (PHOTOS)

This is what Pacific Centre in downtown Vancouver used to look like šŸ‘€

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 25, 2020
January 2020 artistic rendering of 555 West Cordova Street, Vancouver. (Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture/Cadillac Fairview)
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Waterfront Station crystal office tower proposal stalled yet again

It's part of the future transit hub with a new cluster of office towers.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Dec 22, 2020
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