My last post detailing the growing blight of mattresses and other trash left to rot in Vancouver’s back alleys may have left one or two erroneous impressions that I should like to clear up.

Has everyone noticed just how trashy long stretches of Vancouver’s back alleys have become in the past few years? My day-to-day experience is throughout Kitsilano, Fairview, South Vancouver ...

But there’s more coming with the announcement of the “Vancouver’s Awesome Alleys” project, a five-year strategy to create an interconnected network with some of the city’s 240 laneways.