Friday, December 20, 2024
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Capstan Station on Canada Line in Richmond to open on Friday
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/capstan-canada-line-station-in-richmond-to-open-friday-9984359 Why design the old & new stations to eventually accomodate 8-10 car trains? The Catheter Line wasn't even designed to officially accommodate enough space for 5 car trains. Thus, in accordance with the BC antigrowth mentality or slow growth agenda, the stations were only designed to eventually just have 2.5 car trains. However, even in 2025, the Catheter Line will still only be using 2 car trains. All the SkyTrain stations should have been designed to eventually be 150.5 meters long, just like the Montreal Metro stations, with even more long-term provisions. Unfortunatly, the first 2 lines only have 80m stations & the C Line only has a clearance for 50m stations.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-capstan-station-canada-line-opening-date
It's been very difficult to get urban planners in BC to properly plan for future transportation demands. The main excuse is governmental budgetary constraints. Even if that's usually the case, at least build half the length of a proper size urban station, with a provision to eventually double or triple its length, for future demand. However, that would go against the Greater Vancouver congestion planning mentality. Thus, even if you have the skills, once you get to BC, you realize that several things are watered down & you must think small or backwards.
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video/c3050886-metro-vancouver-facing-population-boom With the Metro-Vancouver-population-expected-to-reach-4-million-by-2045, BC is so unprepared & inept, as usual. https://www.kelownacapnews.com/news/metro-vancouver-expected-to-push-past-4-million-by-2045-as-growth-accelerates-7717888
There seems to be an outright refusal in the Metro Vancouver Region to avoid building up to the same level of infrastructure as when Greater Toronto, Greater Montreal, Greater Seattle, Greater Sydney, Greater Melbourn & the SF Bay Area, all exceeded 4 million people.
Going into 2025, the SkyTran will still only have 2-4 car trains, not counting the old Mark 1 rolling stock. By 2025, every SkyTrain should have consisted of 6-8 car trains, not the two-car & four car congested joke that it is.
There is no valid reason as to why the Greater_Vancouver Region can't eventually have an urban train system on par with the Montreal Metro & a regional train system that's as good & frequent as the GO Trains or the Caltrain.
The refusal to build proper bus & truck bridges to help the mostly narrow bridges, still seems to be a half-assed pipedream. Yet, the GV Region pretends that it will eventually have a good Rapid Bus Network without bus-bridges.
While the GV Region is supposed to be a major seaport, there is still a false_front approach to things. How can this false-front & half-ass approach still be the norm in backwater BC? Not only should all the freight-train bridges be at least double tracked, there should also be truck port bridges.
The Oak_Street_Bridge, Knight_Street_Bridge & the Queensborough_Bridge are all so narrow, there is no room for truck & bus lanes. Therefore, a truck & bus bridge should be built next to all of them. Otherwise, everything can just continue to be funneled into only 2 lanes each way.
Of course the Arthur_Laing_Bridge wasn't designed to have 2 bus lanes & 2 truck lanes. Yet, a lot of trucks have to be able to get in & out of YVR. Why have any bus lanes when busses & trucks can all be funneled into only 2 lanes each way? Even though the C-Line doesn't run 24hr a day, the North_Arm_Bridge should have had two 24hr bus lanes & 2 bike lanes & a provision for a middle track. Instead, the narrow North-Arm-Bridge only has 2 tracks & just 1 bike lane.
Fortunately, Greater Vancouver & backward BC hasn't been able to get most place around the world to adopt such a ridiculously reduced infrastructure approach to things.
San Diego County, CA vs. Honolulu County, HI
https://www.city-data.com/compare/San-Diego-CA-vs-Urban-Honolulu-HI
https://www.bestplaces.net/compare-cities/san_diego_ca/urban_honolulu_hi/overview
https://www.budgetyourtrip.com/compare/san-diego-vs-honolulu-5391811-5856195
No 45-50 story office tower has been permitted in San Diego, because of the airport.
https://alohatower.com/index.html No 40 story office tower has ever been allowed in Honolulu.
For some reason, someone wanted to digitally insert some San Francisco size buildings upon the short Honolulu skyline. Thus, this PHOTO only depicts what some tall buildings would be like in Honolulu.
Towers vs. BC stumps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPDf_AhsMFg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_New_York_City#History
In accordance with small scale planning and symbolism, Vancouver isn't allowed to have what would be a tall building in Seattle and Calgary. In LA, its not just the buildings that are taller, the mountains are taller there as well.
City of Vancouver reveals a large employee count, surprising many
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/city-of-vancouver-staff
Apparently, the city doesn't have enough money to spend on bus & bike bridges. It should have only permitted the short SkyTrain stations, as long as they were designed to evenly become as long as the 152.5m Montreal Metro stations. As a port city, there should be proper truck routes & truck bridges, because the existing bridges are too damn narrow to efficiently handle the port-truck & express bus traffic. However, there is plenty of money to pay for extra city staff.
The Detroit People Mover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_People_Mover
https://www.crainsdetroit.com/transportation/aecom-lead-detroit-people-mover-expansion-analysis
https://michiganchronicle.com/detroits-people-mover-reimagining-transit-for-a-city-on-the-move/
https://www.thepeoplemover.com/
https://visitdetroit.com/directory/detroit-people-mover-detroit-transportation-corp/
How Elevated Rail can Make Cities Better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1ZnGNRk8V0
A Landslide halts Amtrak service between Seattle and Vancouver, once again
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/amtrak-suspended-landslide-vancouver-seattle
A double track tunnel or even a trench would be very expensive to build. Thus, an elevated double track line would be better. However, people would likely complain and prefer the current backwater BC situation.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/12/19/vancouver-seattle-amtrak-rail-service-suspended-landslide/
Backwater BC must upgrade its transportation corridors.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10925862/white-rock-bc-landslide-amtrak-service-seattle/
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Metro Vancouver has the worst public transit commute time in Canada and the US
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-metro-vancouver-public-transit-commute-times
Fortunately, most cities don't want to copy what Vancouver has done.
Ottawa moving ahead on automatic tax filing
“Many countries have already pursued full-scale automatic tax filing and the federal government is launching the second phase of its work to move Canada towards broad-based automatic tax filing.” https://globalnews.ca/news/10922025/automatic-tax-filing-fall-economic-update
Although there is nothing saying that Canada should always try to be slow towards getting things done, sometimes other countries just can wait.
Stanley Park Christmas Train remains closed
https://globalnews.ca/news/10923873/stanley-park-christmas-train-closed/
Why not plan ahead & do the appropriate amount of maintenance, repairs & safety testing before the winter?
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/cancellations-stanley-park-christmas-train-suspended
Unfortunatly, this is backward, waterdown Vancouver.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10920397/questions-stanley-park-christmas-train-safety-incident Just give up, because it Vancouver.
Metro Vancouver says population will hit 4 million by 2045
So what Greater Seattle & Greater Montreal will have as their 2025 populations, it will take Greater Vancouver until 2045. Vancouver is still such a slow backwater, hindered city. Fortunately, most real cities properly plan for a faster pace and think on a much grander scale.
Richmond's new developer-funded rapid transit station is coming soon. What happened to Vancouver's?
Vancouver has a smaller population than Winnipeg. However, Greater Vancouver & Abbotsford has more people than Calgary, Edmonton & Winnipeg combined. There is such a reluctance to properly plan for large-scale infrastructure demands in BC.
Several months after the City of Vancouver missed the deadline to pursue federal funding for Prior-Venables road upgrade
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/prior-venables-street-underpass-railway-vancouver-project-funding-deadline Of course, because Vancouver sure has a knack for missing the boat.
At the very least, by now there should have been a wide bike-bridge there on Union Street.
Several years ago, Union-Adanac Street was designated to be part of a major east-west bike route in the city, but as usual, Vancouver hasn't built enough bike-bridges. Two blocks north is the Pedestrian+Bridge+near+Raymur+Ave.+&+Keefer+Street. However, its not a proper bike-bridge, as its more for pedestrians.
https://strathcona-residents.org/issues/calm-prior The local residents have their concerns about the Prior-Venables corridor.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/prior-street-traffic-calming-1.5307007
https://globalnews.ca/news/5967486/false-creek-new-road-city/
Vancouver is such an inept & slow-moving backward city.
Westminster Ave. crossing in Montreal West is a problem that seems to have no owner
https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article564718.html Either an overpass or an underpass needs to be built there.
UBC-Vancouver
The+University+of+British+Columbia still has to allow cars & trucks, as well as busses & bikes.
https://planning.ubc.ca/planning-development/policies-and-plans/u-boulevard-area-planning Unfortunatly, what used to be a 4 lane corridor has been reduced to only 2 lanes. For some reason, instead of widening the sidewalks to add bike lanes, 2 boulevard lanes were removed.
https://planning.ubc.ca/about-us/what-guides-us/history-campus-planning Unlike Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton & Calgary, there just didn't seem to be any long term plan to have a train reaching into the main UBC campus. That is until recent decades.
https://archives.library.ubc.ca/general-history/a-brief-history-of-ubc/
https://www.universityendowmentlands.gov.bc.ca/Library/Area_D_Neighbourhood_Profile_Website.pdf
UBC Station?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Washington_station 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_station_(Edmonton) 1992
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_station_(Calgary) 1987
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longueuil-Universite-de-Sherbrooke_station 1967
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berri-UQAM_station 1966
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George_station U Toronto1963
Hobart, Tasmania
The University+of+Tasmania seems to have been Vancoverized, in terms of its 1 lane each way streets.
Hobart is much smaller than Vancouver, BC. Yet, it has more lanes on a total of 3 crossing over the River_Derwent_(Tasmania). Burrard Inlet in Greater Vancouver only has 2 bridges.
Fortunately, Hobart has the 5 lane Tasman+Bridge, the 4 lane Bowen+Bridge and the 2 lane Midland+Hwy+Bridge. That's a total of 11 lanes.
In contrast, Burrard_Inlet-Port_of_Vancouver only has the 6 lane Iron+Workers+Memorial+Bridge and the inadequate 3 lane Lions+Gate+Bridge. Only 9 lanes for the old port area of the region. While a multigenerational moratorium on any new harbor bridges made sense from an anti-freeway perspective, something essential was neglected. As of the end of 2024, no bus-bridge or bus-tunnel was ever built across the harbor. There is only a single freight train track, so of course there was never a truck-bridge or a truck-tunnel built. Even at the dawn of 2025, a SkyTrain or LRT crossing still only seems like a pipedream.
Greater Hobart isn't just the state capital, its the main city on the island of Tasmania, which has less than 65% of a million people. Greater_Vancouver is getting close to 3 million people, yet the infrastructure is so inadequate.
Anyone visiting Vancouver from the big 4 cities of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane & Perth might be surprised to see shorter trains & smaller buildings & narrower bridges & highways. Those 4 cities, just like Toronto, Montreal, Calgary & Edmonton, are allowed to exist on a larger scale than extremely restrictive Vancouver. Indeed, its as if rainy Vancouver must continually water things down.
Launceston, Tasmania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launceston,_Tasmania#Education
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Tasmania#Northern
Wow, University Way in Launceston+TAS,Australia hasn't been Vancouverized. Its still 2 lanes each way.
While King's+Bridge might seem like a 2 lane joke, it provides a nice local paralel crossing next to the 4 lane West+Tamar+Bridge. Unfortunatly in Greater Vancouver, there isn't a similar concept. Just funnel everything into one bridge to handle local, regional & national traffic.
Metro Vancouver has the longest transit trip times in North America
Short trains & a refusal to build a network of express bus-bridges, really limits public transits capacity & efficiency. That's the BC way.
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Saturday, December 14, 2024
Airport Stations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Airport_station Wow, a real semi-long train vs. the short train to YVR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverliner_V#RTD_Commuter_Rail
Denver RTD vs. the C-Train of Calgary
The $6 Billion Transit Project with No Ridership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkI6Fmet4FE
Of course there needs to be more things built close to the stations to increase ridership.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Denver_RTD_rail_stations
Silverliner V trains are used on the RTD's A, B, G and N lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverliner_V#RTD_Commuter_Rail
| Car length | 85 ft 0 in (25.91 m) |
|---|
HOV Lanes vs. Bus and Truck Lanes
Carpool Lanes: Commuting Miracle or Enormous Waste of Space? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FYeebu0S4c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-occupancy_vehicle_lane
https://truenorthideas.org/are-hov-lanes-really-a-good-idea
A bus lane will more a lot more people than any HOV lane. A truck lane will always move more freight or payload than a HOV lane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-occupancy_vehicle_lane#Canada
https://www.drivesmartbc.ca/lanes/using-hov-lanes
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-hov-lane-incident-debate
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/hov-lanes-dont-make-sense
https://www.witpress.com/Secure/elibrary/papers/UT06/UT06019FU1.pdf
RapidBus (TransLink BC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidBus_(TransLink) BRT
Unless there is a series of us bridges or tunnels for BRT, it will just be another watered down transportation BC joke.
https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects/projects/rapid-transit-projects/bus-rapid-transit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidBus_(TransLink)#Metrotown_to_North_Shore
A proper Bus RT line will always move more people than any carpool or HOV lane.
Bus Lanes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_lane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_lane#Design
A bus lane will always move more people than any HOV lane.
Friday, December 13, 2024
Why some Vancouver buildings reject "unlucky" 13 and other numbers
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/unlucky-numbers-real-estate-rules
Nevermind a 13th floor, there was a time when Vancouver and any city in BC didn't have any buildings over a dozen floors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Building 14
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Tower 17
The Marine_Building has more than 13, but not 26, only 21. floors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Building#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Vancouver 17
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver#Timeline_of_tallest_buildings
City of North Vancouver Top’s List of Canada’s Liveable Cities in 2024
There is North_Vancouver_(city) and then there is North_Vancouver_(district_municipality).
https://dailyhive.com/canada/canada-most-liveable-cities-ranking-2024
As long as you have everything you need on the North Shore, you are fine.
https://www.upperlonsdale.ca/blog/87130/north-vancouver-ranked-1-in-canada
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/article-canada-most-livable-city-north-vancouver/
Unfortunatly, transportation planners haven't seen a need to link Horseshoe Bay and Park Royal with downtown Vancouver. Indeed, a direct rail connection from the North_Shore_of Greater_Vancouver to YVR might as well be part of a Sci-Fi story. However, multigenerational congestive planning in Vancouver is a harsh reality.
A 3 lane Lion Bridge never had any bus tunnels built under it and the bridge is too narrow to accommodate one, let alone 2 proper bus lanes. This is the finest in BC bottleneck planning.
The Iron_Bridge was built too narrow for an urban TCH crossing. Unfortunatly, no one planned or designed it to eventually have a lower bus and train deck.
https://www.cnv.org/streets-transportation/travel-options/transit A bus and truck bridge should have been built next to the Iron Bridge, decades ago. Why do that, when you can cram everything into just 3 lanes each way?
https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects/projects/rapid-transit-projects/bus-rapid-transit
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/north-shore-skytrain-burrard-inlet-rapid-transit-brt-lrt-study
https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/opinion-lrt-remains-the-best-option-for-north-shore-rapid-transit-9643033 Of course a train would be able to move many more people efficiently.
The Institutional like interiors of The Butterfly tower in Vancouver
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/butterfly-tower-interiors-reaction-medical-clinic
There is a sort of WestWorld robot maintenance facility look to it.
https://westworld.fandom.com/wiki/Behavior_Lab_and_Diagnostics
https://www.inverse.com/article/22166-how-the-westworld-laboratory-makes-robots-and-realism-hbo
Cities in BC, Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia#Cities
Despite the BC part of Canada being big enough to contain Switzerland some 23 times, BC has yet to reach the population of just one CH.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_British_Columbia#Metropolitan_areas
So much urban infrastructure in BC hasn't been designed for future higher capacity demands.
https://www.nsnews.com/real-estate/bc-cities-turning-to-ai-to-speed-up-housing-approvals-9949325
With so many narrow bridges, there should have been several bus & bike bridges built to augment them. Of course Vancouver would opt to have shorter underground train stations than what Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton & Seattle have. Short stations means short trains, which means less capacity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Vancouver_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Valley_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Nanaimo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George,_British_Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Fraser%E2%80%93Fort_George
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelowna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Central_Okanagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penticton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Okanagan-Similkameen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamloops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson-Nicola_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Nanaimo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan,_British_Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowichan_Valley_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtenay,_British_Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comox_Valley_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_St._John,_British_Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_River_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert,_British_Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Coast_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Kitimat%E2%80
The removal of some Broadway Plan tower height limits
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-plan-amendments-vancouver-december-2024-approved
Most of BC is a mountainous wilderness that will likely always remain unpopulated. While there are dozens of cities_in_British_Columbia, there are only a few key regions for major population areas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Vancouver_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Valley_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Nanaimo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George,_British_Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Fraser%E2%80%93Fort_George
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelowna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Central_Okanagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penticton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Okanagan-Similkameen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamloops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson-Nicola_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Nanaimo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan,_British_Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowichan_Valley_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtenay,_British_Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comox_Valley_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_St._John,_British_Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_River_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert,_British_Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Coast_Regional_District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Kitimat%E2%80%93Stikine
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
One Delisle condo-tower
https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2024/12/1-delisle-ave-toronto/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clair_station
https://www.ttc.ca/subway-stations/st-clair-station
https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2024/12/135-st-clair-avenue-west-toronto/
https://toronto.urbanize.city/post/49-storey-tower-proposed-avenue-road-and-st-clair
https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2024/03/resubmission-bumps-st-clair-station-proposal-50-storeys.55425
Slow construction progress on the Broadway Subway
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-subway-vancouver-construction-progress-fall-2024
The tunnel should have gone all the way to what would eventually become the main UBC station. Then, just left in a roughed out state until it was time to complete phase 2 of the Broadway Subway. As usual, there is just something strange about Vancouver & BC in general, that makes it difficult to build infrastructure for much higher future capacity demands.
A signal issue shuts down an entire TTC subway line
Eventually, all such urban train networks will become fully automated.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ttc-subway-signal-problem-1.7407212
The loss of various jobs for people over the next few decades could be rough for people.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/12/11/ttc-subway-signal-issue-line-1/
A totally AI run machine world could eventually produce a very efficient, but inhumane world.
https://nowtoronto.com/news/ttc-riders-faced-multiple-delays-during-monday-morning-rush-hour/
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
How public transit held up during Taylor Swift's Vancouver concerts
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-event-traffic-congestion-public-transit
A small & narrow urban road system must be augmented by long rail rapid transit trains.
Thus, the SkyTrain should have been designed to eventually have longer stations, which could accomodate 8-10 car trains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver)#Rolling_stock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro#Current
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPM-10
| 9 articulated cars per train |
| 152.43 m (500 ft 11⁄8 in) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPM-10#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MR-73
| 3 cars per trainset, operating as 6- or 9-car trains |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MR-73#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_subway#Rolling_stock
- 6-car set (Line 1)
- 4-car set (Line 4)
Metro Vancouvers Future Transit Plans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVfYwn7vmI
Is Regional Rail the Future of British Columbia? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PeIOVy6fFc
The Fraser River Tunnel Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWhHJWKa6CQ
History of the inept George Massey Tunnel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3kr2WaevpY
Monday, December 9, 2024
Prominent Toronto office tower will be completely demolished
https://dailyhive.com/toronto/prominent-toronto-office-tower-completely-demolished There is a time when a stumpy Vancouver size building must be replaced with a Toronto size tower.
Saturday, December 7, 2024
The Aloha Tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Tower , https://alohatower.com/index.html
https://alohatower.com/history/index.html
https://www.hvcb.org/listing/aloha-tower/109349/
https://www.hawaiiactivities.com/travelguide/aloha-tower/
https://www.gohawaii.com/islands/oahu/regions/honolulu/aloha-tower
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge–Tunnel
The Louis-Hippolyte_Lafontaine_Bridge-Tunnel should have had been designed to have 2 wide emergency lanes. Then by now, there could have easily been 4 lanes each way. Unlike backward Vancouver, which is on a peninsula, Montreal is on an island, so more bridges & tunnels are necessary. However, Greater Vancouver still doesn't have enough bridges for proper a proper network of express bus & HOV lanes.
https://www.parsons.com/project/louis-hippolyte-lafontaine-tunnel-quebec-canada/
There really should have been a bus & HOV bridge or tunnel there by now. Everything is still crammed into 3 lanes each way.
The Pierre Laporte Bridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Laporte_Bridge
https://structurae.net/en/structures/pierre-laporte-bridge
Unfortunatly, the bridge doesn't have a lower deck. Perhaps some extensive upgrades or modifications could turn the Pont_pierre_laporte into a megacrossing. For now, there are no bus & HOV lanes.
The+Quebec+Bridge only has 3 lanes.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
The Quebec Bridge (1919)
The Quebec_Bridge was quite an amazing structure for its time in Q-City. Unfortunatly, the bridge wasn't designed to eventually have 2 decks. That would have been so great, because there could have been 3 lanes & 1 set of train tracks on each level. It only has a total of three lanes & 1 track.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Bridge#Second_design_and_collapse_of_September_11,_1916
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Bridge#Aftermath_of_the_collapse
After 5 years of reconstruction, Notre Dame will reopen to the public
https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2024/12/02/reopening-notre-dame-cathedral/
https://parisjetaime.com/eng/article/notre-dame-the-current-situation-a741
https://rebatirnotredamedeparis.fr/en
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Notre-Dame+de+Paris
Metro Vancouver's TransLink now has Canada's second-highest public transit ridership per capita
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-highest-public-transit-ridership-per-capita
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-translink-bus-ridership-busiest-north-america
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-skytrain-ridership-north-america-comparison-recovery
Monday, December 2, 2024
I-5 reduced to 2 lanes over Ship Canal Bridge for 9 months in 2025
With only 2 lanes each way, you can pretend that you are in Vancouver, BC for a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_Canal_Bridge https://www.historylink.org/File/3312
https://mynorthwest.com/3931367/when-i-5-ship-canal-bridge-became-13-million-parking-lot/
Bridgeport Station
https://thecanadaline.com/station-guides/bridgeport
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bridgeport+Station/@49.1955328,-123.1260566,3a,75y/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipNeB3PmTgAAkCrCzjp_6su-GWMbTzyPQ2f2g8pG!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNeB3PmTgAAkCrCzjp_6su-GWMbTzyPQ2f2g8pG%3Dw203-h152-k-no!7i3824!8i2868!4m16!1m8!3m7!1s0x548673f143a94fb3:0xbb9196ea9b81f38b!2sVancouver,+BC!3b1!8m2!3d49.2827291!4d-123.1207375!16zL20vMDgwaDI!3m6!1s0x548674e128ff0b2f:0xf03b13fb056e5501!8m2!3d49.1955328!4d-123.1260566!10e5!16zL20vMGN0M3du?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTEyNC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D 2 level bus https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bridgeport+Station/@49.1955328,-123.1260566,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipNSz_hyLAJ31_XTHUWhLd-e-HmscX9c6YMLMNK3!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNSz_hyLAJ31_XTHUWhLd-e-HmscX9c6YMLMNK3%3Dw203-h114-k-no!7i2688!8i1512!4m16!1m8!3m7!1s0x548673f143a94fb3:0xbb9196ea9b81f38b!2sVancouver,+BC!3b1!8m2!3d49.2827291!4d-123.1207375!16zL20vMDgwaDI!3m6!1s0x548674e128ff0b2f:0xf03b13fb056e5501!8m2!3d49.1955328!4d-123.1260566!10e5!16zL20vMGN0M3du?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTEyNC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Is it more expensive to live in Vancouver or Toronto?
In Vancouver almost everything is watered down or scaled back, but still very expensive. Compared to Toronto, Vancouver is a toy city or like a movie set.