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Eric Doherty: Big Auto fails to push transportation transformation off COP26 Agenda

Many of us know transformative changes are needed but want to believe that the status quo is sufficient.

Eric Doherty: Traffic evaporation means we can reach B.C.'s new climate roadmap promise of 25 percent less traffic

If all of B.C. follows Vancouver and Victoria's lead and embraces the reallocation of funds and road space, we could see traffic volumes and GHGs declining soon.

Eric Doherty: International Energy Agency report should spell end of urban highway and airport expansion

Policies discouraging car use in cities should lead to lower rates of car ownership.

Eric Doherty: B.C. must follow U.S. lead on transportation

It is time for people who want real action on the climate emergency to force B.C.'s three ministers responsible for transportation to make the right choice.

Eric Doherty: Best electric-bus charging system is already overhead in Vancouver

Isn’t it time TransLink stepped up efforts to replace their polluting diesel and gas buses with the highest performance electric buses available?

Eric Doherty: Alex Fraser Bridge climate misrepresentation must be challenged

Infrastructure and Communities Minister Catherine McKenna, like her parliamentary secretary Andy Fillmore, knows by now that adding capacity to urban highways only makes traffic...

Eric Doherty: It's time to challenge post-truth climate politics in B.C.

The public is being sold a bill of goods about the environmental impacts of a new 10-lane bridge and fracked natural gas.

Eric Doherty: Break Metro Vancouver’s transit impasse by declaring a climate crisis

The resounding No vote in the recent Metro Vancouver transit referendum leaves us in transit limbo.

Eric Doherty: Good jobs and climate stability hinge on transit decisions

Even if there is a “yes” vote in the Metro Vancouver transit referendum much more will have to be done to reduce carbon pollution from transportation.

Eric Doherty: Declare a people's climate emergency and make a better world possible?

Naomi Klein's new book, This Changes Everything, provides a road map to make it happen.