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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon#Transportation

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster#Transportation

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=New+Westminster