https://la.curbed.com/2019/4/16/18410483/nfl-stadium-inglewood-los-angeles-rams-chargers-construction
UTL is about exploring past, present and future urban technologies in science and fiction, etc...
Thursday, January 30, 2020
vancouver-has-the-worst-traffic-congestion-in-canada-again-according-to-this-ranking
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/vancouver-has-the-worst-traffic-congestion-in-canada-again-according-to-this-ranking-1.4790325
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/these-are-the-canadian-cities-where-drivers-spend-the-most-time-stuck-in-traffic-1.4790142
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/these-are-the-canadian-cities-where-drivers-spend-the-most-time-stuck-in-traffic-1.4790142
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
West Vancouver remove racist land title covenants
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/vancouver-news/west-vancouver-remove-racist-land-title-covenants-2055177
Unfortunately, there was a time when British Colonial Canada was seen as a Whiteman's GWN playground.
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/vancouver-news/-racist-land-title-rules-west-vancouver-bc-2038174
Unfortunately, there was a time when British Colonial Canada was seen as a Whiteman's GWN playground.
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/vancouver-news/-racist-land-title-rules-west-vancouver-bc-2038174
GW North B$!
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Sunday, January 26, 2020
Thursday, January 23, 2020
trains, roads and buildings in Toronto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Toronto
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/sunlife-move-highlights-bay-streets-geographic-shift/article17074766/
http://torontoskyscraper.blogspot.com/2019/07/cibc-square-construction.html
https://chuckmantorontonostalgia.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/postcard-toronto-downtown-aerial-not-extent-of-rail-and-sheds-mid-1970s/
https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/16vnol/toronto_skyline_in_1970/
http://torontoskyscraper.blogspot.com/2019/03/history-of-yonge-street-in-north-york.html ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLx0sYbCqOb8TBPRdmBHs5Iftvv9TPboYG&time_continue=473&v=zdyR9sa7DYk&feature=emb_title
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/sunlife-move-highlights-bay-streets-geographic-shift/article17074766/
http://torontoskyscraper.blogspot.com/2019/07/cibc-square-construction.html
https://chuckmantorontonostalgia.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/postcard-toronto-downtown-aerial-not-extent-of-rail-and-sheds-mid-1970s/
https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/16vnol/toronto_skyline_in_1970/
http://torontoskyscraper.blogspot.com/2019/03/history-of-yonge-street-in-north-york.html ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLx0sYbCqOb8TBPRdmBHs5Iftvv9TPboYG&time_continue=473&v=zdyR9sa7DYk&feature=emb_title
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Burrard Street Bridge and Granville Street Bridge and Cambie Street Bridge
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/granville-connector-bridge-pathway-design-configuration
The current Granville+Street+Bridge was built a generation after the Burrard+Street+Bridge. Both bridges should have had a lower deck for streetcars, tram-trains (LRT) and buses.
The Cambie+Street+Bridge should have been built a couple of metres wider on its west side. Then a traffic lane didn't have to be reallocated for bikes. A slightly wider bridge would have allowed for 2 bike paths as well as 2 footpaths.
Somehow, Vancouver and BC keep doing a lot of things the wrong way.
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
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 an airport+line from eventually becoming a regional high capacity corridor. That is as long as it's designed with significant future capacity in mind. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case with the little YVR-Canada-Line.
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's, YVR_station to the Horseshoe_Bay_ferry_terminal and to 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 2 car train should have immediately opened with 3-5 car trains. Then ultimately, 8-10 car trains as 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
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
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-line-yvr-airport-station-wayfinding
Monday, January 20, 2020
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Indigenous grandfather and 12-year-old handcuffed in front of Vancouver bank after trying to open an account
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/indigenous-girl-grandfather-handcuffed-bank-1.5419519?utm_source=vancouver%20is%20awesome&utm_campaign=vancouver%20is%20awesome&utm_medium=referral
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/opinion/kid-handcuffed-bmo-vpd-vancouver-2012976
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/opinion/kid-handcuffed-bmo-vpd-vancouver-2012976
Friday, January 17, 2020
Thursday, January 16, 2020
TCH in Greater Vancouver, BC vs. Montreal
Of course Horseshoe+Bay is one of the bottlenecks on the BC part of the TCH.
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIqfMlrUoxw
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
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
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
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.
Saturday, January 11, 2020
DART Light Rail Downtown Dallas (D2) Transit Study
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DART_Light_Rail#Downtown_Dallas_(D2)_Transit_Study
https://www.dart.org/about/expansion/downtowndallas.asp#whatisD2
https://www.dart.org/about/expansion/downtowndallas.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinki_Sharyo_SLRV
https://www.youtube.com/user/DARTDallas/videos
https://www.dart.org/about/expansion/downtowndallas.asp#whatisD2
https://www.dart.org/about/expansion/downtowndallas.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinki_Sharyo_SLRV
https://www.youtube.com/user/DARTDallas/videos
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Switzerland, Italy and Japan
https://www.britannica.com/place/Switzerland
BC continually ignores what so many mountainous parts of the world can do.
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
canada-pavilion-expo-2020-dubai
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-pavilion-expo-2020-dubai
https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Canada-2038873
https://www.britannica.com/place/British-Columbia BC
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC
https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-cities-and-towns-in-Canada-2038873
https://www.britannica.com/place/British-Columbia BC
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC
Monday, January 6, 2020
Saturday, January 4, 2020
vancouver-house-world-architecture
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-house-cnn-world-architecture ,
https://archinect.com/news/article/149981222/construction-update-big-s-twisted-vancouver-house-tower-rises-above-grade ,
https://archinect.com/news/article/150154947/60-story-passive-house-tower-unveiled-for-vancouver
https://archinect.com/news/article/149981222/construction-update-big-s-twisted-vancouver-house-tower-rises-above-grade ,
https://archinect.com/news/article/150154947/60-story-passive-house-tower-unveiled-for-vancouver