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Karen Quinn Fung is a Master's candidate at the School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia. She is interested in the impact of technology on society and cities, community engagement for open government and transportation planning. When she's not working on her thesis, she writes on these topics and more at countablyinfinite, her personal blog, and Translinked, a group blog about transit culture, or makes faces thinking about public transit for the Vancouver Public Space Network.

Taxicabs and the future of getting around

[caption id="attachment_3474" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Image courtesy of Tyler Ingram."][/caption]   On October 5th, Maclure's celebrated 100 years of operation as a taxicab business in the Lower Mainland. Those 100 years have seen a great deal of change in how we get around in Vancouver — from walking and cycling, to horse-drawn carriages, to streetcars, to, more recently, electric trolley buses, diesel buses, and cars big and small. While we can look back on it purely with nostalgia, we can also think about it through the lens of a sustainable urban transportation future, that involves single-occupancy vehicles and more of other modes that both emit fewer GHGs and keep us engaged with our communities. How might we draw upon our past to inspire us in creating what comes next?

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