Tuesday, January 21, 2020

granville-connector-bridge-pathway-design-configuration

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/granville-connector-bridge-pathway-design-configuration

Skytrain-Canada Line maximum frequency and capacity issues

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-line-maximum-frequency-skytrain

A limited construction budget doesn't have to prevent a rapid transit line from eventually becoming a high capacity corridor. That is as long as it's designed with significant future capacity in mind.

Transportation infrastructure such as the Canada+Line, could have easily been designed to be expandable over the decades. However, its as if someone with a strong antigrowth & anti big city infrastructure agenda was able to make sure that this line was poorly designed.

There really should have been a long term plan to not only connect the Vancouver_International_Airport'sYVR_station to the Horseshoe_Bay_ferry_terminal and the Tsawwassen_ferry_terminal. Again, it was as if someone never wanted such a line to ever become a high volume transportation corridor linking West_Vancouver and Delta to the airport.

Such absurd 50 m stations, especially the underground ones, should have been designed with at least an extra 50 m of level clearance at each end. Instead, the joke that is the Canada Line was only designed to have two 20 m coaches with just enough space for an additional half-length coach. Wow, so this 2 car train can eventually become a 2.5 car train, but not a 5.

This joke of a train should have immediately opened with 4-5 car trains. Then, 6-8 car trains when needed. 

Its difficult to understand why so much infrastructure in BC has to always be so underbuilt. 
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-line-peak-hour-service-new-trains

There has been a multi-generational agenda to stunt or thwart the scale of infrastructure in BC. Long trains & wide bridges go against the congestive BC agenda. Allowing big & high capacity infrastructure in BC would be symbolic as well as indicative of properly planning for & efficiently managing growth. Why do that when you can just keep on implementing chokepoints & bottleneck planning overall?

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-line-yvr-airport-station-wayfinding


surrey-city-centre

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/surrey-city-centre-the-holland-development

tallest_buildings_in_Oceania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Oceania#Tallest_buildings



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Oceania#Tallest_buildings_approved_or_under_construction

tallest_buildings_in_Honolulu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Honolulu#Tallest_buildings

Downtown Vancouver office vacancy drops to lowest level in 11 years

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/cbre-vancouver-office-report-2019

Sunday, January 12, 2020

How Do Engineers Build Safe Bridges?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt7bdinnk7I


Richard Hammond reveals how engineers made one of the longest bridges in the world earthquake-proof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQf_vE7tOlw

Rio Antirio Bridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIqfMlrUoxw

subterranean-challenges

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a28771417/darpa-subterranean-challenge/

the Auckland Waterview Tunnel

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/the-western-ring-route/waterview-tunnel ,
https://www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/the-western-ring-route/waterview-tunnel/drone-footage ,

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/alice-the-giant-boring-machine-completes-auckland-excavation-q16285.html ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterview_Tunnel ,

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/news/a17828/new-zealands-giant-drilling-machine-finishes-its-job ,


https://www.nzta.govt.nz/assets/projects/waterview-tunnel/waterview-tunnel-lanes-to-use-on-your-journey.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterview_Connection

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=105&status=15

beautiful-libraries

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/g30446675/beautiful-libraries/

temporary roads and movie sets


https://data--stream.blogspot.com/2014/09/movies-etc.html



https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=urban

cad

Seattle

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=24&status=15

A-look-at-Austin's-new-crop-of-downtown-towers

https://archinect.com/news/article/150174901/a-look-at-austin-s-new-crop-of-downtown-towers

A mixed use tower can be quite an economical way of concentrating various services & features.