Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Monday, February 23, 2015
skyscrapers
http://www.snipview.com/q/Skyscrapers%20in%20Oceania
http://static.businessinsider.com/image/5298bd366bb3f7e029d2176f/image.jpg
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwGY2N_rC7mNLm6SF0q5P_ElUSp9olhxtlR-TyduAAtmUQYtm3PACFCu6IGTFzrrJDb8V7mpQxW63j5QmFL2d7yBvoqSZ13tqawDK1_R5C2JWPVOXHeLMXaQ1OpGSoLMv9Gb7Zn4IUX8s/s320/Future+2020+Tallest.png
http://static.businessinsider.com/image/5298bd366bb3f7e029d2176f/image.jpg
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwGY2N_rC7mNLm6SF0q5P_ElUSp9olhxtlR-TyduAAtmUQYtm3PACFCu6IGTFzrrJDb8V7mpQxW63j5QmFL2d7yBvoqSZ13tqawDK1_R5C2JWPVOXHeLMXaQ1OpGSoLMv9Gb7Zn4IUX8s/s320/Future+2020+Tallest.png
Brisbane, Australia
http://files.douglas.stebila.ca/files/pictures/2012/australia/photos/20120508-094530-View-of-downtown-Brisbane-from-Mt-Coot-tha.jpg
http://www.ship-technology.com/projects/port-of-brisbane/port-of-brisbane1.html
http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/blog/tags/australia
https://www.google.ca/search?q=skyscrapers+of+australia&es_sm=93&biw=1600&bih=799&noj=1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=hRPrVMXRM426ogTSzoDgDg&ved=0CP0BELAE
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Vancouver, NW and BCER history
If only Vancouver wasn't too quick to get rid of its streetcars & tram,trains in the 1950s.
However, there was just too much of a mentality to make sure that Vancouver be a perpetually stunted or thwarted city, when compared to what Melbourne, SF & Toronto can do.
NW was a provincial capital backwater & then it just continued with its small city mentality. Despite Surrey eventually becoming the largest city in backward BC, NW hardly has any bridges connecting to it.
http://buzzer.translink.ca/2009/07/the-central-park-line-the-very-first-interurban-in-greater-vancouver
http://buzzer.translink.ca/2009/03/a-short-history-of-interurbans-in-the-lower-mainland
http://www.vancouversun.com/Pete+McMartin+return+Interurban+rail+system+with+video/8673870/story.html
http://www.railforthevalley.com
https://www.google.ca/search?q=history+of+the+old+interurban+lines+in+vancouver+and+richmond+bc&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Kq_bVJ_8FpDWoATR5oC4CQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAw&biw=1600&bih=799
http://buzzer.translink.ca/2009/07/the-central-park-line-the-very-first-interurban-in-greater-vancouver
http://buzzer.translink.ca/2009/03/a-short-history-of-interurbans-in-the-lower-mainland
http://www.vancouversun.com/Pete+McMartin+return+Interurban+rail+system+with+video/8673870/story.html
http://www.railforthevalley.com
https://www.google.ca/search?q=history+of+the+old+interurban+lines+in+vancouver+and+richmond+bc&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Kq_bVJ_8FpDWoATR5oC4CQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAw&biw=1600&bih=799
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Bridge#/media/File:A2004-002-3630-steel-bridge-18901.jpg It was as if Portland first built this single track bridge to the provincial backwater NW standard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Bridge#/media/File:Amtrak_talgo_train_crossing_steel_bridge.jpg Then by 1912, a double track bridge more appropriate to Portland's standards opened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster_Bridge#/media/File:New_Westminster_Swing_Bridge.jpg Of course NW was still stuck with its narrow backwarter single track bridge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster_Bridge#/media/File:TRAIN_BRIDGE_FIRE_1979-80_1.tif
Thursday, February 5, 2015
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