https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAebaW4ZDLw
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Friday, November 28, 2025
San Francisco Megaprojects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiOC13McqdY
The Rise and Fall of The San Francisco Centre Mall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5rosHIbZhA
Why San Francisco's Newest Towers are So Empty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc0TTfC6wMQ
San Francisco’s Leaning Skyscraper Nightmare Isn’t Over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_p7hksWtUQ
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
The Vancouver Harbour Air Control Tower
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/1p7kqyv/did_you_know_the_vancouver_harbour_air_control
https://panethos.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/worlds-sky-high-civilian-air-traffic-control-towers
https://www.airport-technology.com/features/the-top-10-tallest-atc-towers-in-the-world/
https://simpleflying.com/tallest-air-traffic-control-towers , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sab2yAg5e8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_air_traffic_control_towers_in_the_United_States
Vancouver's Celebration of Light fireworks festival cancelled indefinitely
Some people say that there can't be anything like a No Fun Vancouver Mind Virus. Its just that throughout the decades, backwards Vancouver keeps getting sevela things wrong.
For some strange reason, Vancouver hasn't been able to convince other Canadian cities to give up on their summer fireworks.
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouvers-celebration-of-light-cancelled-indefinitely
Over the years, a lot of people living in the West_End of downtown have gotten very pisst-off with all the beer, pee and excremental antics by the masses of visitors.
https://604now.com/honda-celebration-of-light-vancouver-cancelled/
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/celebration-of-light-vancouver-fireworks-2026-cancelled
https://vancouversun.com/news/could-be-vancouvers-last-celebration-light-producer-warns
This cancelation make sense, since Vancouver also ended up being the only major Canadian city to no longer bother with NY Day fireworks. Even if Vancouver was some kind of an entity that could pee into a bottle and market it to other cities so that they also would cancel their NY Day fireworks, they just aren't interested in buying that PI$$!
Vancouver lost its Sea Festival after 2005, but was never able to convince Seattle to give up on its Seafair.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/sea-vancouvers-assets-to-be-liquidated/article4122853/
This No Fun Vancouver Mind Virus is such B$! It would breakdown other cities if it ever gets contagious.
It's all part of the overall Vancouver Mind Virus.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Toronto’s $13 billion Eglinton Crosstown Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVQ8CbZK7Mo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_5_Eglinton
So, what should have been a proper high capacity subway ends up being a little like an Edmonton LRT line.
https://www.metrolinx.com/en/projects-and-programs/eglinton-crosstown-lrt/what-were-building
Montreal’s New (REM) Rail Line Is the Future
https://macleans.ca/society/montreals-new-rail-line-is-the-future/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris_Express , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88nkbjsLbI8
| Formation |
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| Capacity | 932 per train (8 cars set) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP_14_(Paris_Metro)
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| Car length | 15.04 m (49 ft 4 in) |
Airport Rail Links
The Transit Every Airport Needs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YeVZVluQWI&t=247s
https://www.upexpress.com/en/about-up/things-are-looking-up Its only a two and three car train, when it should be between 4-6 cars, depending upon the time of day. https://www.torontopearson.com/en/transportation-and-parking/up-express
At least it's not a perpetual 2 car train joke that is the YVR-Canada Line. The eventual airport REM line should consist of 4 car trains, but the entire REM should eventually have 6 car trains.
Somehow, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane & Perth all are able to have longer trains to the airport. The 10 car SFO-BART trains are pretty cool.
Toronto’s Skyline Is About to Change Forever (again)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4V8jo8-NFg&t=113s
Drone View Of Toronto’s One Bloor West - Canada’s Tallest Building When Completed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26xU_Rx2ks0
How Toronto Is Slowly Becoming The Skyscraper Capital Of North America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z6w82sAYck
First Day in Sydney Australia was a Culture Shock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt3gjetsDtQ
How Sydney is Designed To Crush Poor People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni1bk-yEstg
Australia’s $5BN Mega-Airport Just Finished 7 Months Early https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7NpHKX1z_8
Monday, November 24, 2025
Canada's next tallest building just crossed the 100-floor mark
https://dailyhive.com/toronto/canada-next-tallest-building-100-floors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_108 Opened between 2018 to 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/875_North_Michigan_Avenue Chicago's first 100 story building opened in 1969.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building Opened in 1931.
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/07/09/one-park-lane-skyscraper-australia
An Overview of Urban Planning in Los Angeles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CipNVHhOER8
Why is the Purple Line in L.A. so Short? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4F0hB2nEcE
Why fixing LA’s transit crisis feels impossible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIlLC0KNCYc
Why Traffic Is So Bad In Los Angeles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S76lKWeU_xc
Why LA Destroyed Its World-Class Transit System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwKv3_WwD4o There was such a drive to have nice, wide highways, but no one seemed to realize that eventually just having an extensive highway system will become overloaded.
Why is LA traffic so bad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbiI9ainetY
The real cost of freeways in LA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS6WrJZKbjs Wide highways can certainly accommodate a large volume of traffic, but if there isn't an efficient bus and rail system, it all gets overloaded.
Did GM really kill the streetcar in Los Angeles? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnFVBfhpprU
LA's $40 Billion Plan to Transform for the 2028 Olympics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkKsiIaycU8
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Why Washington DC Doesn’t Have a Single Skyscraper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq9iJyNLY7Q
The High Price of Keeping DC’s Skyline very Low https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHjMQ8T5ZRI
The Real Reason Washington D.C. Doesn't Have Skyscrapers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDdxEHwsLcM
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Grand Paris Express
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmC8UJs9VYo
Paris Metro Expansion 1900-2030 (Métro, RER, Tram, Grand Paris Express) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppFzg6dIpS4
The future of Paris Metro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEqAMiUOHVE
The Paris Metro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sLxsIYjxrk
The Line Megacity Is Officially Dead— Here’s Why It Will NEVER Happen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqRTBzUfJmo
So, was it just a B$ publicity stunt?
Some Canada Mega-projects Under Construction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwsOVZ-j7hg
Oakridge_Park is on a much smaller scale than Metrotown, Brentwood and Lougheed. It will especially be on a much smaller scale than Parramatta in NSW.
Unfortunatly, the Oakridge-41st_Avenue_station was only designed to have 50m platforms, when it should have been at least 100m. Thus, the utter foolishness has meant that instead of allowing for a future level station clearance to accomodate 5 car trains, the Canada (embassament) Line was only designed to just have 2.5 car trains. While its extremely short stations might have been disguised as a cost saving measurer, there didn't seem to be any key people onboard to make sure that it could eventually become a proper big city train line. Its sad that a line which opened in 2009 is still only running 2 car trains. While the 2.5 car configuration is still a joke of a train, at least half of an extra coach-length is better than nothing. Plus, there should have been extra cars ordered by now so at least during the very busy times the trains could be operating at 1 minute headways. Unfortunatly, this goes against the Vancouver & BC congestion planning mentality.
Despite being built several years after the Sydney_Harbour_Bridge, the joke that is the Pattullo_Bridge was designed to only have 4 narrow lanes & only 1 sidewalk. Of course the replacement_bridge will only open with 2 lanes each way. It was as if someone really wanted to make sure that there won't be 2 bus lanes and no HOV lanes when the bridge opens. While the new bridge is designed to be expanded from a 4 lane joke to eventually having 6 lanes, it still won't be wide enough to accomodate 2 HOV lanes as well as 2 bus lanes. Of course the new bridge won't have any emergency lanes, just like the old bridge. However, it will have 2 bike lanes and 2 sidewalks. https://www.globalhighways.com/news/pattullo-bridge-completion-end-year Its only fitting that in backwards BC this new bridge wouldn't be designed to eventually have a lower deck to accomodate 2 bus lanes and 2 LRT tracks.
If the planners were afraid to symbolically have a wide bridge between NW and Surrey, the old Pattullo_Bridge should have been designed to eventually have a lower deck for trams, trucks and busses. Even when the SkyBridge between NW and Surrey opened in 1990, it wasn't designed to have any bus lanes or emergency vehicle lanes and especially, no bike and footpaths.
Is Vancouver the best city in North America? (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8dmVUrNt38
One of the biggest mistakes in Vancouver & SW BC is to have short trains combined with mostly narrow bridges. Thus, the region doesn't get to have long, high capacity trains and there isn't a proper regional network of bus-bridges. The refusal to twin most of the bridges means that it's almost impossible to have a proper and efficient regional network of rapid-bus and HOV lanes.
While Montreal built the REM to augment their long-train Metro system, Vancouver should have allowed for enough clearance to eventually have 500 foot long trains. 80m-50m Skytrain stations are going to become inadequate, when there should have been a 152.4m provision so that the trains could eventually become as long as the ones on the Montreal Metro.
Is Regional Rail in the Future of British Columbia? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PeIOVy6fFc
World’s Tallest Towers Comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09pmnf8npA8
There was a time when no structure in BC was allowed to be as tall as Blackpool Tower. Then there was a time when no building in Vancouver was allowed to be as tall as the Seattle Space needle or the Calgary Tower. Even in late 2025, only one Vancouver building has been allowed to be taller than the Calgary Tower.
Burnaby, Coquitlam and especially Surrey, don't have such imposed height restrictions as stumpy Vancouver. Thus, Burnaby, Coquitlam and Surrey will all be having taller buildings than Vancouver.
If Montreal can ever have its equivalent of La_Defense or Canary_Wharf, then it might be able to have some tall buildings that would be impressive by Melbourne and Toronto standards. Perhaps even Chicago or NYC standards.
The small Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/westin-bayshore-vancouver-best-luxury-hotel
https://vancouversbestplaces.com/vancouver-hotels/vancouver-westin-bayshore-hotel
Of course the Vancouver location wasn't allowed to be as big as the one in Seattle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_Seattle "The hotel originally consisted of a single 40 story tower, today's south tower, reaching a height of 121 m (397 ft). The tower was topped out in January 1969 and the hotel opened on June 29, 1969." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_Seattle#History "The 137 m (449 ft), 47-story north tower opened in June 1982..."
While Vancouver is only warm for half of the year, at best, the old Bayshore Inn wasn't allowed to be as big as anything in Waikiki.
https://corporatemeetingsnetwork.ca/2025/05/01/tackling-vancouvers-hotel-shortage-crisis/
Unlike Seattle, Vancouver no longer has its first 40 story hotel. Perhaps if the city had allowed a much taller condo tower, the hotel tower could have been saved. Or, a new double tower combination of a 55 story hotel and 65 story condo tower. Instead, the old landmark was replaced with 2 stumps that have less than 40 stories.
Other cities seemed to be more interested in cultivating their hotel and tourism industry. Even encouraging more hotel towers. However, Vancouver with its very strict (multigenerational) imposed height restrictions, kept falling behind.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/sep/27/wipe-out-era-1970s-vanish-vancouver
After several decades of keeping Vancouver hotels short and small, now the city realized that there aren't enough hotel rooms for the tourism industry.
https://globalnews.ca/video/11127278/biv-vancouver-needs-thousands-more-hotel-rooms
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-tourism-risk-hotel-development-construction-policies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_Seattle Vancouver has yet to permit a big, bulky hotel like this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Square_Tower While this isn't a hotel, its 60m taller than the tallest building in Vancouver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telus_Sky No hotel, just an office and residential tower. However, its about 22m taller than the tallest in Vancouver.
The (unofficial) rule is that almost everything in Vancouver has to be scaled back or watered down in size.
Friday, November 21, 2025
Why The Worst Designed Cities Are Always In Texas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCFxiQZfdGg
Texas has more people than Australia.
Cities around the world with the most monstrous traffic jams
https://smapse.com/5-cities-in-the-world-with-the-most-monstrous-traffic-jams
https://www.tomtom.com/newsroom/explainers-and-insights/tomtom-traffic-index-2024-london-is-slowest/
https://www.worldatlas.com/transportation/the-biggest-traffic-jams-in-history.html
https://www.discovercars.com/blog/worlds-busiest-roads
Thursday, November 20, 2025
The Post building complex sells for over $1.1 billion
https://vancouversun.com/news/quadreal-sells-the-post-heritage-building-vancouver This stump building+complex doesn't even have 26 floors. It's not much taller than this 22 story stump in LA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_National_Plaza This was the first office complex to rise over 50 floors in LA.
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2301 52 stories opened in 1972.
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/city-national-tower/1395
LA and then Calgary were able to have a double tower complex of over 50 floors, but Vancouver just has a double stump thats not even 25 floors.
https://www.brookfieldproperties.com/en/our-properties/bankers-hall-west-175 47 stories
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=6993 1989
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=7073 2000
52 floors in total.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bankers_Hall_Towers_%281%29_%288068206826%29.jpg
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
A Richmond encampment under the Oak Street bridge
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/11/19/growing-calls-to-clear-richmond-encampment
Of course any neighborhood will be concerned when a bunch of people are living under a bridge and wandering around.
Living under a bridge is hardly affordable housing. There needs to be proper secure housing with plenty of security and staff to help people who are stuck living outside.
That bridge is so narrow and inadequate.
SW-Vancouver needs a proper transportation upgrade. Granville Street should be extended across the Fraser River on a parallel bridge to the Oak Street Bridge (OSB). Then, the 2 bridges could provide 4 general lanes each way. Plus, another 4-lane parallel bridge to accommodate 2 BRT lanes and 2 HOV lanes.
Or, a totally built a new version of the Oak+St+Bridge that could provide 6 lanes northbound. Then, a Granville Street extension could provide 6 southbound lanes onto a new OSB. Four general lanes each way, plus a rapid bus lane each way & 1 HOV lane each way.
For the most part, the Oak+Street-Granville+Street+Corridor has 12 lanes. A yellow paint strip designates 3 lanes each way. Instead, Oak could have 6 northbound lanes and Granville could have 6 southbound lanes. The 5th & 6th lanes could be for the Oak & Granville BRT lane & HOV lane on complete one way streets.
Unfortunately, the OSB remains as a 4 lane traffic bottleneck or chokepoint.
The 2009 Canada (embarrassment) Line is still only using 2 car trains in 2025. A proper big city YVR-Canada Line should have been started with 5 car trains. Unfortunately, this joke of a train is only designed to ultimately run a 2.5 car train, someday.
This stunted infrastructure approach is so absurd. Transportation planning in the most populated parts of BC is so inadequate, but its all part of backwards BC symbolism. The symbolism is all about showing a thwarted or watered down a city can be. Narrow bridges and short trains are some of the best ways to increase congestion and inefficiency in backwater BC.
Is Greater Vancouver’s Transit in Trouble?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViGAY4xzdkU
How is TransLink's RapidBus Program Performing? | Brief History and Analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WW--T85dPY
Zara's billionaire founder buys Amazon-anchored The Post office complex from QuadReal in downtown Vancouver
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/the-post-amazon-vancouver-quadreal-pontegadea-acquisition
This stump building+complex isn't even 26 floors.
It's so incredibly small when compared to what big cities allow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankers_Hall 52 stories in Calgary.
https://www.stockaerialphotos.com/-/galleries/cities/calgary/-/medias/a1d07eb9-561e-4f75-9235-64c07d7320ee-penn-west-plaza-calgary The Post isn't that much higher than this stump in Calgary. https://www.stockaerialphotos.com/media/8e457764-fd2f-4e0c-9944-09fc86185f5d-penn-west-plaza-i-and-ii
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+building+complex
The LA Metro's Airport Station is a Huge Success!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TsUH1tmmBM , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAX/Metro_Transit_Center
https://www.flylax.com , https://www.flylax.com/lax-traffic-and-ground-transportation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAX_Consolidated_Rent-A-Car_Facility
Although not as grand as a 10 car BART train, at least LA never opted to have a 2 car joke of an airport train like YVR has.
Evolution of the Los Angeles Metro 1900-2028 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH9toJw6-k8
Newly-Opened overpass at Church Avenue on the B and Q Lines in NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9YON6kFIkU
New York City's Subway Infrastructure is absolutely WILD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We8_E8uX_tU
Houston's Unbelievable North Highway Improvement Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69aGW4L6VO0
Why Does Texas Use The Frontage Road Freeway System? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjXlCVD7yig
Why Dallas is Becoming the Economic Capital of Texas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W7aNcieKgc
Dallas’s Biggest Megaprojects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Dv1WwO7OQ
Why Dallas Is Growing so Fast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Qp6dUDEeU
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/n0l2b4/dallas_growth_in_20_years_20012021/
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
City of Vancouver exploring Olympic Line streetcar test revival after the 2026 FIFA World Cup
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-olympic-line-streetcar-demonstration-revival-proposal
The city and greater urban region should have never gotten rid of the streetcars and interurban tram-trains. Now, its extremely difficult to bring them back. Fortunately, backwards Vancouver was unable to get Toronto, Melbourne and SF to get rid of their street railways. Those cities and many others just never had anything like a Vancouver Mind Virus or BCMV to thwart them.
Of course Seattle & Portland would bring back some of their streetcar lines long before slow-moving Vancouver can.
The Tsawwassen, Delta Dilemma
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/tsawwassen-town-centre-redevelopment-delta-housing-supply-rejection
Unfortunatly, there are some serious examples of poor transportation planning in backwards BC. There never seemed to be a multistage plan to gradually have at least 5 car trains running between YVR and the BC Ferry terminal. Indeed, the YVR-Canada Line has stations that are only designed to eventually accomodate a 2.5 car train, not 5 cars. Plus, no train tunnel or bridge into Delta.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberts_Bank_Superport
https://www.portvancouver.com/project/deltaport-truck-staging-facility
Despite being on the same ocean, but half a world away, the Port_of_Brisbane has much better highway and freight railway infrastructure in place.
While the YVR Line or the Canada (Embarrassment) Line only runs trains that are a 2 car joke, Brisbane actually has a proper big city Airport_railway_line with longer trains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_railway_line,_Brisbane#Criticism While long trains are better for capacity, a frequent number of trains per hour is also important.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_Airport_railway_station,_Brisbane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Airport#Rail
Fortunately, Queensland was never stunted by anything like a BC Mind Virus (BCMV).
The Oldest and Most Dangerous Freeway In America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeLsQrP5s7k
Port Of Los Angeles | The World's Most Unusual Port https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2NdGb5XZy8
Monday, November 17, 2025
Broadway Subway Construction as of November 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uot7oIA9-ZE The station platforms will be 80m, which can only accomodate a 5 car train.
Unfortunatly, even if this segment had 500' or 152.4m long stations like the Montreal Metro, the rest of the first 2 lines only have 80m stations. Thus, 80m is only about 52% of the length of a Montreal Metro station, which can accomodate 9 car trains. It's taken until 2025 for the SkyTrain to gradually start running 5 car trains. In theory, if two Vancouver 80m trains run at twice the frequency as one 152m Montreal Metro train, a similar capacity could be attained.
However, in the long run, it would have been much more cost effective to have the first 2 SkyTrain lines stations already roughed out to 152m, or a least have enough level clearance to eventually become twice the length. But that's what a proper big city would do, something that Vancouver is against.
Even as an initial cost saving measure, the YVR-Canada Line should have opened with 100m stations, instead of the inadequate 50m joke. Then it could immediately accomodate 5 car trains. The station platforms should have had enough level clearance to eventually accommodate a 160m long train consisting of 8 cars reaching both ferry terminals. Of course there seems to be no plan to connect YVR to both ferry terminals.
Its very difficult for BC cities to allow proper big city size infrastructure, because that would symbolize a pro growth initiative. Since the world is mostly composed of non-white people, a slow growth agenda became a clever way to symbolically demonstrate a refusal to build big. BC is multicultural, but Canada has less than 1% of the worlds population. Even in the 2020s, BC still retains some of its colonial outpost mentality. Just keep things small and backwards and try to remain a backwater for as long as possible.
Canada Public Transit Fund
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-public-transit-fund-building-communities-strong-fund
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metro-vancouver-transit-funding-1.7490218
https://housing-infrastructure.canada.ca/cptf-ftcc/mra-erm/index-eng.html
https://housing-infrastructure.canada.ca/cptf-ftcc/index-eng.html
https://www.railwaypro.com/wp/canada-creates-transit-fund-to-support-public-transport/
https://globalnews.ca/news/10702607/canada-public-transit-funding-shortfall/
How Atlanta Runs America's Last Great Metro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0R9rzpHoVA
First Time Riding MARTA in Atlanta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyDqG3TNbfM
MARTA: The Racist History of Atlanta Transit and How to Overcome It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILr1I4gjgGI
Why Atlanta Needs Regional Rail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ed_VUqILh0
The $11 BILLION Gamble To End Atlanta’s Traffic Nightmare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaulKU6ifdo
Are Suburbs Killing the Planet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfyFbIChzkY
Some Cities That Are Sprawling Out Of Control…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWiVQ1vSUzs
Rain to pick up Monday afternoon as storm system moves south
It's so depressing to see the Greater LA Area get Seattle & Vancouver like rain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/weather/california-rain-flood-storm-los-angeles-forecast.html
the Greater LA Area
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Phoenix vs. Dallas
How Two U.S. cities will KICK OFF their rail transit revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRLMtmWwAsE Dallas is part of a much larger urban area.
https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/city-size-comparison/phoenix-c3944/dallas-c3890
https://www.chase.com/personal/mortgage/cityvscity/phoenix-dallas
https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/city-size-comparison/dallas-c3890/phoenix-c3944
Montreal’s Biggest REM Expansion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G1oeIAfxDU
New REM metro line to Deux-Montagnes in Montreal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oq-9kkZba8
Montreal's Metro Is Great...But Could Be Better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQQWM87alMY
Evolution of the Montreal Metro & REM 1966-2030 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zvOk2t1EpE
Burnaby apologizes for decades of discrimination against people of Chinese descent
https://globalnews.ca/news/11528001/burnaby-apology-discrimination-against-chinese-community
Asia is the most populated part of the world and until recently, China had the biggest population. Thus, people from China or people who are of Chinese descent, live all over the world. There was a strong, KEEP CANADA WHITE agenda, right into the mid 20th century. Of course this mentality wasn't just directed towards Asians, but towards anyone who was nonwhite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_head_tax
It took until the 1970s for Multiculturalism to challenge the, KEEP CANADA AS A WHITE MAN'S PARADISE.
https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/canadian-multiculturalism-policy-1971
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/multiculturalism
While Canada hardly has that much of a Pacific Coast, when compared to the US and Australia, the BC part of Canada should have had at least one major city on the scale of Montreal or Seattle, Brisbane or SF. Unfortunatly, Vancouver has retained several of its overlapping restrictions, which prevent it from being on a scale similar to that of Montreal, Seattle, Calgary, Brisbane & SF...
Despite Burnaby & Grater Vancouver being multicultural for several decades, so much of the restrictive BC mentality remains like an old disruptive computer program that hasn't been deleted. Unfortunatly, after the WW2 era, Greater Vancouver and BC continued with a backwater mentality. Just look at how much bigger things are allowed to be in Australia's 4 largest cities. Look at the scale of Seattle & Calgary & see how much of Greater Vancouver is still held back. Look at how big Edmonton as a capital is, while Victoria remains as a small provincial backwater.
Unlike Melbourne, SF and Toronto, backwards Vancouver made sure that it was one of the first cities to get rid if its streetcar and tram-train (interurban) network before the 1960s. To make matters worse, the Greater Vancouver Region had and still does, have a system of mostly narrow bridges.
There was such a push to have a tracks to tires agenda, no one seemed to realize that all the bridges should be wide enough to accomodate 2 bus lanes, or at least build a bus bridge or tunnel next to an existing bridge.
Just because Multiculturalism in Canada started to officially get going in the 1970s, the city & municipal councils and planning departments were still predominantly managed by people of European descent. For most of the Colonial and postcolonial history of BC, the main municipalities were Vancouver, Burnaby, NW & Victoria. It was that way right into the 1970s.
Since the predominantly White civic structure was firmly in place well into the 1980s, there was plenty of time to implement and maintain a social engineering agenda. An unofficial (White) Urban Livability Plan was cleverly devised by scaling almost everything down. Since BC can't control non-white immigration, "Livability" had to be symbolically quite visible. Livability was an ingenious way to impose various overlapping restrictions throughout the decades. How does the Livability agenda work? Suppose that there was a mostly subconscious mentality to refuse building up proper big city infrastructure for non-white people. Thus, by symbolically constructing inadequate transportation infrastructure, it becomes a way demonstrating that you are not properly building for the future, despite most of the world being non-white. Now, Burnaby & the Greater Vancouver region are so far behind now, its difficult to catch up to other proper metropolitan areas around the world.
Despite Canada being the 2nd largest country in overall size, it has such a small area on the Pacific_Rim and Asia is the most populated part of the world. By keeping most of the bridges narrow and the trains short compared to most cities, that fits right in with the symbolism of antigrowth towards a predominantly non-white world. Canada is nowhere near close to having 1% of the worlds population, but most of the world is non-white. Its been that way since the beginning.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Burnaby+apologizes
Canada's FIFA 2026 World Cup Preparations are lacking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i8DynYuNgY
Once again urban infrastructure hasn't been properly keeping pace.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Montréal's REM Main Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgPICHuJvPg
Elevated Trains Are Good, Actually https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5PieqjOuzA
City of Burnaby makes formal apology for decades of discrimination against people of Chinese descent
Since BC started out as a British Colonial outpost, people of European descent were at the orchestrated top of the human hierarchy. Chinese and Asians & nonwhites in general were a concern to the White majority of early BC.
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/people-and-stories/chinese-canadians
South Asians were also a concern to the colonial power structure.
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/komagata-maru
https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2016/08/the-komagata-maru-incident-of-1914.html
Of course Indigenous and Black People were part of being categorized as a lesser class of human.
It took a very long time for the British_Empire to respect the people of a multicultural world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_British_Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_of_the_British_Empire#Decline_and_decolonization
Multicultural Canada has less than 1% of the world's population. Yet, so many smaller countries are able to have a higher density and larger population than Canada.
Burnaby in Greater Vancouver is part of Canada's largest urban area on the Pacific_Rim. There are still many people who would like to thwart the scale of growth in Greater_Vancouver. They don't want the region to become as big and dynamic as Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Seattle, SFBA, Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane.
A big & dynamic urban region means more Asians and more nonwhite people in general. Unfortunatly, some people are still too uncomfortable with that notion.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Burnaby+apologizes
This is how a SkyTrain car is built
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoiKNvo3sks
Despite eventually having longer cars than the Chicago_L, the SkyTrains aren't as long as a Chicago L train.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_%22L%22#Rolling_stock
Friday, November 14, 2025
A New Seawall Protects Manhattan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FTsVxuwPbY
New York's Road Infrastructure Is Absolutely WILD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9rWh234jnU
Tokyo Megaprojects Under Construction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la1OTcBlD90
Torch Tower: The Insane Engineering of Tokyo's First Supertall Skyscraper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51VYxQ8wpfc
Why Tokyo Is Insanely Well Designed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zysL_lkdtys
The L.A. K Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9dfPOpdNxI
LAX Finally Has A Train Station! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft7eS_EAFzk
The LA Regional Connector https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu0wIc_3IfE
Why the LA Metro (Mostly) isn't a Metro Train or a Subway System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukG5whsjTIs
Metro Los Angeles G and J Lines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0wc0UQ-SOg
Vancouver perpetually trails major metropolises
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-richest-cities-2025
Until the city and the greater urban region can apply proper urban transportation and growth planning initiatives, it will remain as a watered down, or backwater collection of cities.
The Story of the SkyDome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUdo5vvNRFc
Are the Blue Jays Trapped in Rogers Centre? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAgRYZuuZz0
Is Chicago The Best Designed City in America?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHzvw9SQOME
Chicago Megaprojects: 4 Projects that will Change America in 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OxDjJdQy_E
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Airports and Tall Buildings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_City_Airport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Wharf#Tallest_buildings Tall buildings there are no problem, despite the airport being relatively close.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle-Tacoma_International_Airport Prevented Seattle from having a 1000 foot tall office tower in the 1980s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_International_Airport Runways don't conflict with the tallest buildings in Boston.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton_City_Centre_Airport#Closure Once closed, Edmonton could eventually plan for the tallest building in Alberta.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_International_Airport Untill its ever closed, buildings are kept short, because of its location.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid_International_Airport Tall buildings are relativly close to a runway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_International_Airport Unlike, London and LV, Richmond is forced to have very short buildings, because of YVR.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Canada misses target to protect quarter of land and water
As it so happens, most people want to live in the cities, or general urban areas. While others like to live in the small to medium size towns. Some people like to live out in the wilderness or the Outback, but you had better know what you are getting into.
https://www.dreamsabroad.com/oceania/guide-to-the-australian-outback
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bush#Australia
Bus, Bike and Footbridges
https://www.tbtechno.com/en/portfolios/pergola-viaduct-of1-4b-bus-hov-lanes/
https://stvinc.com/project/verrazzano-narrows-bridge-bushov-lane-implementation-design/
https://seattletransitblog.com/2025/01/29/wsdot-hov-overview/
https://bikeportland.org/2017/05/11/is-it-time-for-more-bus-only-lanes-in-portland-228020
https://vancouver.ca/streets-transportation/bus-network-improvements.aspx
https://ipvdelft.com/bicycle-bridges/
https://www.arch2o.com/10-amazing-bridges-passageways-bikes/
https://hansonthebike.com/2017/07/11/dutch-bike-bridges/
https://www.curbed.com/2021/04/brooklyn-bridge-bike-lane-narrow.html
https://www.benesch.com/project/43rd-street-pedestrian-bridge/
https://surfarchitecture.com/a-new-suspended-pedestrian-bridge-over-the-water-in-toronto
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/581364-longest-enclosed-pedestrian-bridge
https://www.conteches.com/bridges-structures/truss-and-girders/continental-pedestrian-bridge/
Cities, the BIG and the small of it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower
1815' divided by 581' is almost 3.13 times the height of a stump in Vancouver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_Centre "Skyscraperpage lists the buildings height to the roof as being only 139.6 m (458 ft). This is stated to be the height from the Hastings Street entrance while the height from the back entrance on Cordova Street is 146 m (479 ft). It also lists the buildings pinnacle height to the tip of the antenna as being 177.1 m (581 ft)." STUMP!
This Vancouver stump is only 32% of the CN Towers height.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Canadian_Place The BMO. Unlike Chicago, Toronto has no 100 story office towers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentall_Centre_(Vancouver)#Three_Bentall_Centre A 32 story BC office stump.
Being from small Vancouver, its amazing that Canada even has one megacity. Toronto is certainly a big city on a lakeshore like Chicago is. Montreal isn't allowed to have buildings as tall as Melbourne, let alone NYC. Montreal has allowed only one office tower to be over 50 floors and a few residential towers in the 60s.
Calgary has more 50+ story office towers than Denver and Perth. No 40 story office tower exists in BC. The office section of the Harbour_Centre doesn't even have a 30th floor and the revolving restaurant is closer to being like 35 floors up. However, with the overall building being 481 feet, it would be equivalent to 40 floors, if the windows went right up to the top. The flagpole has no windows, but the flag would be like the equivalent of being 48 floors up.
Not just Toronto & Montreal, but Edmonton and Seattle have longer underground train stations than backwards, congested Vancouver.
The Iron+Bridge, Oak+Street+Bridge, Knight+Street+Bridge & the Arthur+Laing+Bridge should all have a bus+and+bike bridge built next to them. The extremely inadequate Lion+Bridge should have already had a bus and train tunnel close to it.
Monday, November 10, 2025
Vancouver's rental market suddenly surging in popularity
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/renters-interest-vancouver-report
There needs to be taller and larger rental units. Two and 3 bedroom apartments are always in demand.
Over half of all Metro Vancouver homes projected to be condos by 2051
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-housing-growth-forecast-condos
For several decades, trains, bridges and buildings had to be half the size of what real cities allow. Vancouver and especially the Greater Vancouver Region couldn't build a huge wall, so the next best thing was to heavily impose a symbolic resistance to build big. Thus, by watering the scale of almost everything down by imposing a series of overlapping restrictions, Vancouver & BC remained stunted.
Then, things started to slowly change going into the 21st century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Wall_Centre Opened in 2001.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Tower 2004
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Georgia_(Vancouver) 2012
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver
While restrictive Vancouver started to allow some taller buildings, its still behind what many other cities permit. Especially that of what's in Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacle_One_Yonge Toronto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Square_Tower Seattle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stantec_Tower Edmonton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telus_Sky Calgary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_sur_le_Parc Montreal
Since Burnaby, Coquitlam & Surrey aren't under Vancouvers imposed restrictions, they can build taller. Eventually, Vancouver will have to allow taller residential buildings, but its as if there is a strong mind virus determined to hold the scale of everything back.
Lions+Gate+Bridge Still, a 3 lane crossing with no plans for a bus, train & truck tunnel. Australia has no problem building tunnels near bridges.
YVR-Canada-Line Still, a 2 car train of a joke, when several cities will have 6, 8 or 10 car trains.
Sunday, November 9, 2025
A fully built steel overpass was hoisted into its new position above Highway 1 in Burnaby on Saturday night
A wider version of this bridge strategically placed throughout the region would improve mobility in Greater Vancouver. Ideally, a pedestrian, bike+and+bus+bridge provides 3 great modes of transportation. However, an efficient street, road and highway system are also essential. During crappy, cold weather, people just aren't as inclined to bike or walk around.
New pedestrian bridge above Highway 1 next to Burnaby Lake lifted into place
This isn't a bike+and+bus+bridge, because only a bike and pedestrian crossing was necessary there.
https://www.burnaby.ca/our-city/projects/burnaby-lake-overpass
https://yourvoice.burnaby.ca/pedestrian-cyclist-overpass-over-highway-1
Friday, November 7, 2025
Subway vs. Metro: What’s the Real Difference?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8j6ckgn2bU
Are Elevated or Underground Metro Systems Better? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmXRvQ0cCRQ
Soccer Lease negotiations between Whitecaps and BC Place at an impasse
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-whitecaps-new-stadium-1.7503283
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-whitecaps-stadium-pne-hastings-park
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-whitecaps-pne-stadium-city-mayor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitecaps_Waterfront_Stadium
https://www.whitecapsfc.com/news/waterfront-stadium-could-be-dramatic-beautiful-spectacular-province
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Expect noise, vibration during upcoming Massey Tunnel replacement
https://www.delta-optimist.com/local-news/expect-noise-vibration-during-upcoming-massey-tunnel-replacement-11436394 This B$ should have been done a few decades ago.
A 10 lane bridge with 2 bus lanes, 2 HOV lanes & 2 wide shoulder-emergency lanes, plus at least 3 general lanes each way, could have been a nice wide crossing. Some 12 lanes, including the 2 emergency lanes. Plus, a provision for at least 2 LRT tracks.
Instead, it's a 3 lane each way tunnel with the 4th being a bus lane. No HOV lanes and no emergency lanes & especially, no train tube section.
So, just like the YVR-Canada (embarrassment) Line, this new 8 lane tunnel will eventually require some major upgrades.
Eventually, a YVR-Canada Line bridge or tunnel will have to be built so that someday, trains can go between the airport and the ferry terminal. Such a train crossing should be parallel to the new highway tunnel. A new train tunnel or bridge should have at least 3 tracks, 2 rapid bus lanes and 2 bike lanes and sidewalks. Then the bus lanes in the highway tunnel could become HOV lanes.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Massey+Tunnel+replacement
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Richmond+and+Delta
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