https://www.foxnews.com/us/fire-ship-docked-port-los-angeles-prompts-evacuation-crew-officials-say
Friday, November 21, 2025
Cities around the world with the most monstrous traffic jams
https://smapse.com/5-cities-in-the-world-with-the-most-monstrous-traffic-jams
https://www.tomtom.com/newsroom/explainers-and-insights/tomtom-traffic-index-2024-london-is-slowest/
https://www.worldatlas.com/transportation/the-biggest-traffic-jams-in-history.html
https://www.discovercars.com/blog/worlds-busiest-roads
Thursday, November 20, 2025
The Post building complex sells for over $1.1 billion
https://vancouversun.com/news/quadreal-sells-the-post-heritage-building-vancouver This stump building+complex doesn't even have 26 floors. It's not much taller than this 22 story stump in LA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_National_Plaza This was the first office complex to rise over 50 floors in LA.
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2301 52 stories opened in 1972.
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/city-national-tower/1395
LA and then Calgary were able to have a double tower complex of over 50 floors, but Vancouver just has a double stump thats not even 25 floors.
https://www.brookfieldproperties.com/en/our-properties/bankers-hall-west-175 47 stories
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=6993 1989
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=7073 2000
52 floors in total.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bankers_Hall_Towers_%281%29_%288068206826%29.jpg
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
A Richmond encampment under the Oak Street bridge
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/11/19/growing-calls-to-clear-richmond-encampment
Of course any neighborhood will be concerned when a bunch of people are living under a bridge and wandering around.
Living under a bridge is hardly affordable housing. There needs to be proper secure housing with plenty of security and staff to help people who are stuck living outside.
That bridge is so narrow and inadequate.
SW-Vancouver needs a proper transportation upgrade. Granville Street should be extended across the Fraser River on a parallel bridge to the Oak Street Bridge (OSB). Then, the 2 bridges could provide 4 general lanes each way. Plus, another 4-lane parallel bridge to accommodate 2 BRT lanes and 2 HOV lanes.
Or, a totally built a new version of the Oak+St+Bridge that could provide 6 lanes northbound. Then, a Granville Street extension could provide 6 southbound lanes onto a new OSB. Four general lanes each way, plus a rapid bus lane each way & 1 HOV lane each way.
For the most part, the Oak+Street-Granville+Street+Corridor has 12 lanes. A yellow paint strip designates 3 lanes each way. Instead, Oak could have 6 northbound lanes and Granville could have 6 southbound lanes. The 5th & 6th lanes could be for the Oak & Granville BRT lane & HOV lane on complete one way streets.
Unfortunately, the OSB remains as a 4 lane traffic bottleneck or chokepoint.
The 2009 Canada (embarrassment) Line is still only using 2 car trains in 2025. A proper big city YVR-Canada Line should have been started with 5 car trains. Unfortunately, this joke of a train is only designed to ultimately run a 2.5 car train, someday.
This stunted infrastructure approach is so absurd. Transportation planning in the most populated parts of BC is so inadequate, but its all part of backwards BC symbolism. The symbolism is all about showing a thwarted or watered down a city can be. Narrow bridges and short trains are some of the best ways to increase congestion and inefficiency in backwater BC.
Zara's billionaire founder buys Amazon-anchored The Post office complex from QuadReal in downtown Vancouver
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/the-post-amazon-vancouver-quadreal-pontegadea-acquisition
This stump building+complex isn't even 26 floors.
It's so incredibly small when compared to what big cities allow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankers_Hall 52 stories in Calgary.
https://www.stockaerialphotos.com/-/galleries/cities/calgary/-/medias/a1d07eb9-561e-4f75-9235-64c07d7320ee-penn-west-plaza-calgary The Post isn't that much higher than this stump in Calgary. https://www.stockaerialphotos.com/media/8e457764-fd2f-4e0c-9944-09fc86185f5d-penn-west-plaza-i-and-ii
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+building+complex
The LA Metro's Airport Station is a Huge Success!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TsUH1tmmBM , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAX/Metro_Transit_Center
https://www.flylax.com , https://www.flylax.com/lax-traffic-and-ground-transportation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAX_Consolidated_Rent-A-Car_Facility
Although not as grand as a 10 car BART train, at least LA never opted to have a 2 car joke of an airport train like YVR has.
Newly-Opened overpass at Church Avenue on the B and Q Lines in NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9YON6kFIkU
New York City's Subway Infrastructure is absolutely WILD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We8_E8uX_tU
Houston's Unbelievable North Highway Improvement Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69aGW4L6VO0
Why Does Texas Use The Frontage Road Freeway System? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjXlCVD7yig
Why Dallas is Becoming the Economic Capital of Texas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W7aNcieKgc
Dallas’s Biggest Megaprojects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Dv1WwO7OQ
Why Dallas Is Growing so Fast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Qp6dUDEeU
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/n0l2b4/dallas_growth_in_20_years_20012021/
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
City of Vancouver exploring Olympic Line streetcar test revival after the 2026 FIFA World Cup
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-olympic-line-streetcar-demonstration-revival-proposal
The city and greater urban region should have never gotten rid of the streetcars and interurban tram-trains. Now, its extremely difficult to bring them back. Fortunately, backwards Vancouver was unable to get Toronto, Melbourne and SF to get rid of their street railways. Those cities and many others just never had anything like a Vancouver Mind Virus or BCMV to thwart them.
Of course Seattle & Portland would bring back some of their streetcar lines long before slow-moving Vancouver can.
The Tsawwassen, Delta Dilemma
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/tsawwassen-town-centre-redevelopment-delta-housing-supply-rejection
Unfortunatly, there are some serious examples of poor transportation planning in backwards BC. There never seemed to be a multistage plan to gradually have at least 5 car trains running between YVR and the BC Ferry terminal. Indeed, the YVR-Canada Line has stations that are only designed to eventually accomodate a 2.5 car train, not 5 cars. Plus, no train tunnel or bridge into Delta.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberts_Bank_Superport
https://www.portvancouver.com/project/deltaport-truck-staging-facility
Despite being on the same ocean, but half a world away, the Port_of_Brisbane has much better highway and freight railway infrastructure in place.
While the YVR Line or the Canada (Embarrassment) Line only runs trains that are a 2 car joke, Brisbane actually has a proper big city Airport_railway_line with longer trains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_railway_line,_Brisbane#Criticism While long trains are better for capacity, a frequent number of trains per hour is also important.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_Airport_railway_station,_Brisbane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Airport#Rail
Fortunately, Queensland was never stunted by anything like a BC Mind Virus (BCMV).
The Oldest and Most Dangerous Freeway In America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeLsQrP5s7k
Port Of Los Angeles | The World's Most Unusual Port https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2NdGb5XZy8
Monday, November 17, 2025
Broadway Subway Construction as of November 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uot7oIA9-ZE The station platforms will be 80m, which can only accomodate a 5 car train.
Unfortunatly, even if this segment had 500' or 152.4m long stations like the Montreal Metro, the rest of the first 2 lines only have 80m stations. Thus, 80m is only about 52% of the length of a Montreal Metro station, which can accomodate 9 car trains. It's taken until 2025 for the SkyTrain to gradually start running 5 car trains. In theory, if two Vancouver 80m trains run at twice the frequency as one 152m Montreal Metro train, a similar capacity could be attained.
However, in the long run, it would have been much more cost effective to have the first 2 SkyTrain lines stations already roughed out to 152m, or a least have enough level clearance to eventually become twice the length. But that's what a proper big city would do, something that Vancouver is against.
Even as an initial cost saving measure, the YVR-Canada Line should have opened with 100m stations, instead of the inadequate 50m joke. Then it could immediately accomodate 5 car trains. The station platforms should have had enough level clearance to eventually accommodate a 160m long train consisting of 8 cars reaching both ferry terminals. Of course there seems to be no plan to connect YVR to both ferry terminals.
Its very difficult for BC cities to allow proper big city size infrastructure, because that would symbolize a pro growth initiative. Since the world is mostly composed of non-white people, a slow growth agenda became a clever way to symbolically demonstrate a refusal to build big. BC is multicultural, but Canada has less than 1% of the worlds population. Even in the 2020s, BC still retains some of its colonial outpost mentality. Just keep things small and backwards and try to remain a backwater for as long as possible.
Canada Public Transit Fund
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-public-transit-fund-building-communities-strong-fund
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metro-vancouver-transit-funding-1.7490218
https://housing-infrastructure.canada.ca/cptf-ftcc/mra-erm/index-eng.html
https://housing-infrastructure.canada.ca/cptf-ftcc/index-eng.html
https://www.railwaypro.com/wp/canada-creates-transit-fund-to-support-public-transport/
https://globalnews.ca/news/10702607/canada-public-transit-funding-shortfall/
How Atlanta Runs America's Last Great Metro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0R9rzpHoVA
First Time Riding MARTA in Atlanta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyDqG3TNbfM
MARTA: The Racist History of Atlanta Transit and How to Overcome It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILr1I4gjgGI
Why Atlanta Needs Regional Rail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ed_VUqILh0
The $11 BILLION Gamble To End Atlanta’s Traffic Nightmare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaulKU6ifdo
Are Suburbs Killing the Planet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfyFbIChzkY
Some Cities That Are Sprawling Out Of Control…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWiVQ1vSUzs
Rain to pick up Monday afternoon as storm system moves south
It's so depressing to see the Greater LA Area get Seattle & Vancouver like rain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/weather/california-rain-flood-storm-los-angeles-forecast.html
the Greater LA Area
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Phoenix vs. Dallas
How Two U.S. cities will KICK OFF their rail transit revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRLMtmWwAsE Dallas is part of a much larger urban area.
https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/city-size-comparison/phoenix-c3944/dallas-c3890
https://www.chase.com/personal/mortgage/cityvscity/phoenix-dallas
https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/city-size-comparison/dallas-c3890/phoenix-c3944
Burnaby apologizes for decades of discrimination against people of Chinese descent
https://globalnews.ca/news/11528001/burnaby-apology-discrimination-against-chinese-community
Asia is the most populated part of the world and until recently, China had the biggest population. Thus, people from China or people who are of Chinese descent, live all over the world. There was a strong, KEEP CANADA WHITE agenda, right into the mid 20th century. Of course this mentality wasn't just directed towards Asians, but towards anyone who was nonwhite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_head_tax
It took until the 1970s for Multiculturalism to challenge the, KEEP CANADA AS A WHITE MAN'S PARADISE.
https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/canadian-multiculturalism-policy-1971
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/multiculturalism
While Canada hardly has that much of a Pacific Coast, when compared to the US and Australia, the BC part of Canada should have had at least one major city on the scale of Montreal or Seattle, Brisbane or SF. Unfortunatly, Vancouver has retained several of its overlapping restrictions, which prevent it from being on a scale similar to that of Montreal, Seattle, Calgary, Brisbane & SF...
Despite Burnaby & Grater Vancouver being multicultural for several decades, so much of the restrictive BC mentality remains like an old disruptive computer program that hasn't been deleted. Unfortunatly, after the WW2 era, Greater Vancouver and BC continued with a backwater mentality. Just look at how much bigger things are allowed to be in Australia's 4 largest cities. Look at the scale of Seattle & Calgary & see how much of Greater Vancouver is still held back. Look at how big Edmonton as a capital is, while Victoria remains as a small provincial backwater.
Unlike Melbourne, SF and Toronto, backwards Vancouver made sure that it was one of the first cities to get rid if its streetcar and tram-train (interurban) network before the 1960s. To make matters worse, the Greater Vancouver Region had and still does, have a system of mostly narrow bridges.
There was such a push to have a tracks to tires agenda, no one seemed to realize that all the bridges should be wide enough to accomodate 2 bus lanes, or at least build a bus bridge or tunnel next to an existing bridge.
Just because Multiculturalism in Canada started to officially get going in the 1970s, the city & municipal councils and planning departments were still predominantly managed by people of European descent. For most of the Colonial and postcolonial history of BC, the main municipalities were Vancouver, Burnaby, NW & Victoria. It was that way right into the 1970s.
Since the predominantly White civic structure was firmly in place well into the 1980s, there was plenty of time to implement and maintain a social engineering agenda. An unofficial (White) Urban Livability Plan was cleverly devised by scaling almost everything down. Since BC can't control non-white immigration, "Livability" had to be symbolically quite visible. Livability was an ingenious way to impose various overlapping restrictions throughout the decades. How does the Livability agenda work? Suppose that there was a mostly subconscious mentality to refuse building up proper big city infrastructure for non-white people. Thus, by symbolically constructing inadequate transportation infrastructure, it becomes a way demonstrating that you are not properly building for the future, despite most of the world being non-white. Now, Burnaby & the Greater Vancouver region are so far behind now, its difficult to catch up to other proper metropolitan areas around the world.
Despite Canada being the 2nd largest country in overall size, it has such a small area on the Pacific_Rim and Asia is the most populated part of the world. By keeping most of the bridges narrow and the trains short compared to most cities, that fits right in with the symbolism of antigrowth towards a predominantly non-white world. Canada is nowhere near close to having 1% of the worlds population, but most of the world is non-white. Its been that way since the beginning.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Burnaby+apologizes
Canada's FIFA 2026 World Cup Preparations are lacking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i8DynYuNgY
Once again urban infrastructure hasn't been properly keeping pace.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Montréal's REM Main Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgPICHuJvPg
Elevated Trains Are Good, Actually https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5PieqjOuzA
City of Burnaby makes formal apology for decades of discrimination against people of Chinese descent
Since BC started out as a British Colonial outpost, people of European descent were at the orchestrated top of the human hierarchy. Chinese and Asians & nonwhites in general were a concern to the White majority of early BC.
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/people-and-stories/chinese-canadians
South Asians were also a concern to the colonial power structure.
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/komagata-maru
https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2016/08/the-komagata-maru-incident-of-1914.html
Of course Indigenous and Black People were part of being categorized as a lesser class of human.
It took a very long time for the British_Empire to respect the people of a multicultural world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_British_Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_of_the_British_Empire#Decline_and_decolonization
Multicultural Canada has less than 1% of the world's population. Yet, so many smaller countries are able to have a higher density and larger population than Canada.
Burnaby in Greater Vancouver is part of Canada's largest urban area on the Pacific_Rim. There are still many people who would like to thwart the scale of growth in Greater_Vancouver. They don't want the region to become as big and dynamic as Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Seattle, SFBA, Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane.
A big & dynamic urban region means more Asians and more nonwhite people in general. Unfortunatly, some people are still too uncomfortable with that notion.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Burnaby+apologizes
This is how a SkyTrain car is built
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoiKNvo3sks
Despite eventually having longer cars than the Chicago_L, the SkyTrains aren't as long as a Chicago L train.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_%22L%22#Rolling_stock
Friday, November 14, 2025
A New Seawall Protects Manhattan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FTsVxuwPbY
New York's Road Infrastructure Is Absolutely WILD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9rWh234jnU
Tokyo Megaprojects Under Construction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la1OTcBlD90
Torch Tower: The Insane Engineering of Tokyo's First Supertall Skyscraper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51VYxQ8wpfc
Why Tokyo Is Insanely Well Designed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zysL_lkdtys
The L.A. K Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9dfPOpdNxI
LAX Finally Has A Train Station! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft7eS_EAFzk
The LA Regional Connector https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu0wIc_3IfE
Why the LA Metro (Mostly) isn't a Metro Train or a Subway System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukG5whsjTIs
Metro Los Angeles G and J Lines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0wc0UQ-SOg
Vancouver perpetually trails major metropolises
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-richest-cities-2025
Until the city and the greater urban region can apply proper urban transportation and growth planning initiatives, it will remain as a watered down, or backwater collection of cities.
Is Chicago The Best Designed City in America?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHzvw9SQOME
Chicago Megaprojects: 4 Projects that will Change America in 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OxDjJdQy_E
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Airports and Tall Buildings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_City_Airport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Wharf#Tallest_buildings Tall buildings there are no problem, despite the airport being relatively close.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle-Tacoma_International_Airport Prevented Seattle from having a 1000 foot tall office tower in the 1980s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_International_Airport Runways don't conflict with the tallest buildings in Boston.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton_City_Centre_Airport#Closure Once closed, Edmonton could eventually plan for the tallest building in Alberta.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_International_Airport Untill its ever closed, buildings are kept short, because of its location.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid_International_Airport Tall buildings are relativly close to a runway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_International_Airport Unlike, London and LV, Richmond is forced to have very short buildings, because of YVR.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Canada misses target to protect quarter of land and water
As it so happens, most people want to live in the cities, or general urban areas. While others like to live in the small to medium size towns. Some people like to live out in the wilderness or the Outback, but you had better know what you are getting into.
https://www.dreamsabroad.com/oceania/guide-to-the-australian-outback
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bush#Australia
Bus, Bike and Footbridges
https://www.tbtechno.com/en/portfolios/pergola-viaduct-of1-4b-bus-hov-lanes/
https://stvinc.com/project/verrazzano-narrows-bridge-bushov-lane-implementation-design/
https://seattletransitblog.com/2025/01/29/wsdot-hov-overview/
https://bikeportland.org/2017/05/11/is-it-time-for-more-bus-only-lanes-in-portland-228020
https://vancouver.ca/streets-transportation/bus-network-improvements.aspx
https://ipvdelft.com/bicycle-bridges/
https://www.arch2o.com/10-amazing-bridges-passageways-bikes/
https://hansonthebike.com/2017/07/11/dutch-bike-bridges/
https://www.curbed.com/2021/04/brooklyn-bridge-bike-lane-narrow.html
https://www.benesch.com/project/43rd-street-pedestrian-bridge/
https://surfarchitecture.com/a-new-suspended-pedestrian-bridge-over-the-water-in-toronto
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/581364-longest-enclosed-pedestrian-bridge
https://www.conteches.com/bridges-structures/truss-and-girders/continental-pedestrian-bridge/
Cities, the BIG and the small of it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower
1815' divided by 581' is almost 3.13 times the height of a stump in Vancouver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_Centre "Skyscraperpage lists the buildings height to the roof as being only 139.6 m (458 ft). This is stated to be the height from the Hastings Street entrance while the height from the back entrance on Cordova Street is 146 m (479 ft). It also lists the buildings pinnacle height to the tip of the antenna as being 177.1 m (581 ft)." STUMP!
This Vancouver stump is only 32% of the CN Towers height.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Canadian_Place The BMO. Unlike Chicago, Toronto has no 100 story office towers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentall_Centre_(Vancouver)#Three_Bentall_Centre A 32 story BC office stump.
Being from small Vancouver, its amazing that Canada even has one megacity. Toronto is certainly a big city on a lakeshore like Chicago is. Montreal isn't allowed to have buildings as tall as Melbourne, let alone NYC. Montreal has allowed only one office tower to be over 50 floors and a few residential towers in the 60s.
Calgary has more 50+ story office towers than Denver and Perth. No 40 story office tower exists in BC. The office section of the Harbour_Centre doesn't even have a 30th floor and the revolving restaurant is closer to being like 35 floors up. However, with the overall building being 481 feet, it would be equivalent to 40 floors, if the windows went right up to the top. The flagpole has no windows, but the flag would be like the equivalent of being 48 floors up.
Not just Toronto & Montreal, but Edmonton and Seattle have longer underground train stations than backwards, congested Vancouver.
The Iron+Bridge, Oak+Street+Bridge, Knight+Street+Bridge & the Arthur+Laing+Bridge should all have a bus+and+bike bridge built next to them. The extremely inadequate Lion+Bridge should have already had a bus and train tunnel close to it.
Monday, November 10, 2025
Vancouver's rental market suddenly surging in popularity
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/renters-interest-vancouver-report
There needs to be taller and larger rental units. Two and 3 bedroom apartments are always in demand.
Over half of all Metro Vancouver homes projected to be condos by 2051
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-housing-growth-forecast-condos
For several decades, trains, bridges and buildings had to be half the size of what real cities allow. Vancouver and especially the Greater Vancouver Region couldn't build a huge wall, so the next best thing was to heavily impose a symbolic resistance to build big. Thus, by watering the scale of almost everything down by imposing a series of overlapping restrictions, Vancouver & BC remained stunted.
Then, things started to slowly change going into the 21st century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Wall_Centre Opened in 2001.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Tower 2004
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Georgia_(Vancouver) 2012
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver
While restrictive Vancouver started to allow some taller buildings, its still behind what many other cities permit. Especially that of what's in Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacle_One_Yonge Toronto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Square_Tower Seattle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stantec_Tower Edmonton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telus_Sky Calgary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_sur_le_Parc Montreal
Since Burnaby, Coquitlam & Surrey aren't under Vancouvers imposed restrictions, they can build taller. Eventually, Vancouver will have to allow taller residential buildings, but its as if there is a strong mind virus determined to hold the scale of everything back.
Lions+Gate+Bridge Still, a 3 lane crossing with no plans for a bus, train & truck tunnel. Australia has no problem building tunnels near bridges.
YVR-Canada-Line Still, a 2 car train of a joke, when several cities will have 6, 8 or 10 car trains.
Sunday, November 9, 2025
A fully built steel overpass was hoisted into its new position above Highway 1 in Burnaby on Saturday night
A wider version of this bridge strategically placed throughout the region would improve mobility in Greater Vancouver. Ideally, a pedestrian, bike+and+bus+bridge provides 3 great modes of transportation. However, an efficient street, road and highway system are also essential. During crappy, cold weather, people just aren't as inclined to bike or walk around.
New pedestrian bridge above Highway 1 next to Burnaby Lake lifted into place
This isn't a bike+and+bus+bridge, because only a bike and pedestrian crossing was necessary there.
https://www.burnaby.ca/our-city/projects/burnaby-lake-overpass
https://yourvoice.burnaby.ca/pedestrian-cyclist-overpass-over-highway-1
Friday, November 7, 2025
Subway vs. Metro: What’s the Real Difference?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8j6ckgn2bU
Are Elevated or Underground Metro Systems Better? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmXRvQ0cCRQ
Soccer Lease negotiations between Whitecaps and BC Place at an impasse
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-whitecaps-new-stadium-1.7503283
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-whitecaps-stadium-pne-hastings-park
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-whitecaps-pne-stadium-city-mayor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitecaps_Waterfront_Stadium
https://www.whitecapsfc.com/news/waterfront-stadium-could-be-dramatic-beautiful-spectacular-province
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Expect noise, vibration during upcoming Massey Tunnel replacement
https://www.delta-optimist.com/local-news/expect-noise-vibration-during-upcoming-massey-tunnel-replacement-11436394 This B$ should have been done a few decades ago.
A 10 lane bridge with 2 bus lanes, 2 HOV lanes & 2 wide shoulder-emergency lanes, plus at least 3 general lanes each way, could have been a nice wide crossing. Some 12 lanes, including the 2 emergency lanes. Plus, a provision for at least 2 LRT tracks.
Instead, it's a 3 lane each way tunnel with the 4th being a bus lane. No HOV lanes and no emergency lanes & especially, no train tube section.
So, just like the YVR-Canada (embarrassment) Line, this new 8 lane tunnel will eventually require some major upgrades.
Eventually, a YVR-Canada Line bridge or tunnel will have to be built so that someday, trains can go between the airport and the ferry terminal. Such a train crossing should be parallel to the new highway tunnel. A new train tunnel or bridge should have at least 3 tracks, 2 rapid bus lanes and 2 bike lanes and sidewalks. Then the bus lanes in the highway tunnel could become HOV lanes.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Massey+Tunnel+replacement
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Richmond+and+Delta
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Some Cities That Were Ruined By Freeways…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vUPB1sMLvw
Should These 7 Urban Highways Be REMOVED? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvCqq708wvg
Why America Is Tearing Down Some Of Its Highways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXp4rVZFTVs
Monday, November 3, 2025
Why the SkyTrain and DLR are So Unique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrMISsHZ85s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway , https://tfl.gov.uk/maps/track/dlr
The DLR could have been built better right from the start so that more capacity and efficiency were in place since its first day. It was never meant to rival any section of a tube line in capacity per KM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway_rolling_stock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver)
While the first 2 Skytrain lines only have 80 m stations which are slightly more than half the length of a Montreal Metro train station, there should have been enough level station clearance to eventually double the length of each station. The 3rd line to YVR only has a level station clearance of 50 m, vs. the 152.4 m Montreal Metro stations. The YVR-Canada-Line should have had enough level station clearance to eventually become 160 m in length.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver)#Rolling_stock
Harrison Ford torches Trump over climate policy despite owning and flying private jet
That's just like when some people having a few kids & cars, are saying that there are too many people on the planet.
A lot of people will never have enough money to even own one car, let alone a private plane. There are some people that own 1 or a few cars and will be the first to complain that there are too many people with cars and trucks...
I never could understand when some ferociously bearded Range Rover drivers look like they are homeless. Are they projecting the image that because they look like a bearded wildman or caveman, it's good for the environment? Are they symbolizing that even if they lost all of their investments or their job, they would still be driving a range Rover?
Once I saw a guy sitting on the sidewalk with regular clothes with a sign asking for donations. Then I saw what looked like a caveman with scruffy cloths getting into his Jaguar, just a short distance away. Whether some guy makes a few hundred thousand dollars a year, or a few million, why would they want to look like they live on the street or the backwoods?
Then there are some billionaires who would like people in general to stop eating red meat and stop breeding so that they can have a better Champaign & caviar lifestyle. Then there is the AI server farm craze which uses so much energy, the owners wish that most of the "human herd" would cut down on their energy consumption. Yes, humans should give up and totally hand over their power to AgI control systems in order to have an inhumane world.
If someone has done well enough to own their own plane, mansion, boat & luxury car, they should be proud and might even feel fortunate. But then they wish that there weren't so many consumers & breeders taking up the Earths resources, when it should be for the cream of the septic tank.
Whether its the feudal system, kingdoms, Communism or crony capitalism, the top always enriches themselves and doesn't care if most people are closer to the sewer than those who live above it all.
Sunday, November 2, 2025
Getting to and from the Airport Doesn’t Have to be Difficult
Getting to the Airport Doesn’t Have to Suck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WDCfDHQrxQ
The Missing Transit in This Fast-Growing Canadian Province https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LGigNBLuS0
The Transit Every Airport Needs | Airport Rail Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YeVZVluQWI
Metro Vancouver's Future Transit Plans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVVfYwn7vmI
Saturday, November 1, 2025
The Phoenix Transit Network is About to Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giuOFrvO0mg
How Phoenix is Building an Effective Transit Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRTe1egu2M8
Friday, October 31, 2025
Thursday, October 30, 2025
The Dark Sides of Dubai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tvpsnGtV8E
2 Years in Dubai | Brutally Honest Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tbNJcvGjOY
World Cup lodging shortfall predicted in Vancouver
The proposed 27-storey hotel tower at the edge of Stanley Park is drawing pushback from West End residents over its scale https://vancouversun.com/news/proposed-west-end-tower-that-aims-to-fill-vancouvers-hotel-shortage Parking lots and almost delapadeted buildings should be selected first. This building still seems to be in reasonable shape.
https://www.biv.com/news/real-estate/vancouver-needs-10k-more-hotel-rooms-says-report-10508458
https://vancouversun.com/news/vancouver-major-hotel-policy-overhaul-room-shortage
Lots of people in some parts of the West_End end are still accustomed to stumpy buildings, despite the very high land costs.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Vancouver-stanley-park.jpg/960px-Vancouver-stanley-park.jpg Many other cities aren't afraid to build tall close to the water or parks.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Vancouver_west_end.jpg/960px-Vancouver_west_end.jpg People shouldn't be displace just becaus of a new development. An agreement should be reached so that they can still remain in the new structure. However, it's the height issue that usually keeps popping up. A lot of people that still remember Vancouver as a provincial backwater of a city want it to remain that way for as long as possible.
https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/2030-2038-barclay-st , https://stop2030barclay.ca
https://henriquezpartners.com/projects/2030-barclay The height proposal is at lest a dozen floors too short, it should be about 20 stories taller.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/2030-barclay-street-vancouver-stanley-park-hotel-tower
https://storeys.com/marcon-barclay-street-vancouver-hotel The issue here is that a lot of people don't want a stump replaced with an atempt of a taller building. The people that live there should have the option to live in the new building. If the city and the developer could reach an agreement to allow the current residents to move into the lower floors of the tower. Then remain there at a reasonable rental rate for as long as they want. Then eventually after all the former residents have moved on or passed on, the lower floors could be repurposed into hotel rooms. If a developer in such a situation could agree to that, then the city should allow them to build 15-20 floors higher than 27 stories.
That gets back to the height restriction issue in Vancouver. Other cities have allowed tall buildings right up to the edge of a park. It seems that no one from Vancouver was able to ever stop Sydney. Rather, the Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV) never made it there to thwart big, bustling Sydney.
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https://bcbusiness.ca/industries/real-estate/land-values-how-the-hotel-shortage-in-vancouver-is-coinciding-with-a-boom-in-tourism The BC Mind Virus is so firmly entrenched that its still very difficult to properly upgrade things.
Vegas Casino CEO Admits Why the Strip Is Empty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd0AG9doLjY
What It's Actually Like In Las Vegas Right Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JMTd59qkoE
Las Vegas in 2026 is looking REAL BAD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnybe5ekBRY
MGM Is Collapsing — The Fall of Las Vegas’s Biggest Casino Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nZcBSx6n0c
LV is in trouble.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Long-term plan to completely rebuild and expand Vancouver General Hospital
It's about time that backwards BC start building up a proper big city size medical center in watered-down Vancouver. Another proper big city medical complex should be built in Surrey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%27s_Hospital#Facilities
Houston, TX has been building theirs over the past several decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Medical_Center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Medical_Center#Hospitals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Medical_Center#Cityscape_and_infrastructure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Hermann_Memorial_City_Medical_Center#Facilities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Complex_Goi%C3%A2nia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_hospitals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurie_Children%27s_Hospital
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Medical_and_Dental_University#Campuses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herlev_Hospital
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hospital_campuses#Ranked_by_capacity
Backwater BC has been under a multigenerational, KEEP THINGS SMALL OR INADEQUATE agenda for too damn long. The overbearing implemented symbolism is too much! An inept 3 lane Lions+Gate+Bridge and an absurd Canada+Line with only 2 car trains, are classic BC Mind Virus (BCMV) B$! Even the 4 lane Pattullo+Bridge+replacement is another example of the BCMV. Somehow, Vancouver & BC fell behind with having enough hotel rooms. Its as if the city & province just didn't think that adding hotels would actually help the local tourism business. The Greater Vancouver Region should have made it easier for more hotels to be built by cutting out so much red tape.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC+hotels
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Surrey primed to surpass Vancouver population in the very near future
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/surrey-vancouver-population-estimates-rennie Fortunatly, the Vancouver Mind Virus won't be able to stop Surrey from having taller residential buildings. While Vancouver still won't permit any office tower to have 40 floors, Surrey will very likely have the first office tower in BC to have more than 40 stories.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/surrey-metro-vancouver-population-growth-forecast-bc-city-2038
Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast vs. Waikiki, Honolulu
https://www.racq.com.au/articles/holidays/2018/8/hang-loose-in-hawaii
https://www.reddit.com/r/GoldCoast/comments/zw8k7x/why_is_there_so_much_hate_on_surfers_paradise/
https://www.redbull.com/mk-mk/best-places-to-surf-in-the-world
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waikiki , https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=421&searchname=timeline
.jpg/960px-Rainbow_Tower_Waikiki_(16178632002).jpg)
Why the Las Vegas Sphere Is Now a Ghost Landmark as Tourism Collapses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgeBuVNqROg
Las Vegas Just Wasted $20B — Now the City is DYING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSIRIynjOVI
Las Vegas Megaprojects: 4 Projects that will Change America in 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17wPIo6UMlE
Monday, October 27, 2025
Surrey ranks among Canada’s top cities for digital infrastructure and economic growth
Digital growth is great, especially for backwater BC.
Some people don't like the idea of Surrey eventually becoming the biggest city in BC. Yet, as long as Surrey continues to think, plan and build on a larger scale than Vancouver, Surrey will be the most populated city in BC.
There has been a strong anti growth movement or slow growth agenda in BC for several decades. Eventually, Surrey will have a taller residential building than Vancouver's tallest and Surrey will likely have an office tower than Vancouver's tallest. As of late 2025, Vancouver still has no 40 story office tower.
Brisbane Airport Railway Line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_railway_line,_Brisbane
https://www.airtrain.com.au/travel-info/brisbane-airport
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Airtrain_NGR_Indigenous.jpg Being from backwards Vancouver, its sometimes difficult to comprehend the scale of how several cities are able to have longer trains on their airport+line. Then I'm always reminded, that its because they aren't hindered by anything like the Vancouver MV or the BC Mind Virus (BCMV).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Airport#Rail
https://www.airtrain.com.au/catch-airtrain-to/brisbane-city/
https://www.airtrain.com.au/travel-info/frequency-and-hours/
https://www.airtrain.com.au/travel-info/network-map/
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane+Airport+Railway+Line
Honolulu’s Skyline Rail Expands to West Honolulu, and to a New Airport Station
Even if the widest parts of the H-1 could be 10 or 12 lanes, it would still get plugged up. Nevertheless, being from Vancouver, it's quite impressive to see such a wide H-1 by the airport. If you visit Vancouver from Hawaii, you might think that Vancouver is a big city like Sydney, SF or Seattle. Then you discover that the roads & bridges are much narrower than what's in those cities. The real big surprise is that Vancouver not only has shorter trains than Sydney, SF & Seattle, but even Edmonton. Fortunately, the Skyline to the airport isn't a 2 car joke of a train like Vancouver's airport line is.
https://honolulutransit.org/about/route-map , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(Honolulu)#Route
https://www.honolulu.gov/dts/skyline
The Airport Segment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(Honolulu)#Segment_2:_Airport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lelepaua_station If only Vancouver's line to the airport could have opened with 4 car trains, then with Selective_door_operation, eventually 6 car trains. Unfortunatly, backwards Vancouver has been stuck with a 2 car YVR train since 2009, but it has the potential to become a 2.5 car joke of a train, someday.
Downtown Honolulu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(Honolulu)#Segment_3:_City_Center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(Honolulu)#Ala_Moana_extension
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(Honolulu)#Rolling_stock "The line uses 256 ft (78 m) four-car train sets, each with the capacity to carry nearly 800 passengers..." "Each car is 64 ft (20 m) long, weighs 72,000 lb (33,000 kg), and has 36 seats with a listed total capacity of 195 people, and sits on standard-gauge (1,435 mm) rails."
While the Skyline cars are similar in length to the YVR-Canada-Line cars, they are of a heavier construction. Plus, the trains are twice as long as any on the embarrassingly short Canada+Line trains.
While it took a long time to get the Skyline to the airport, at least the stations were all initially built to accommodate 4 car trains. Unfortunatly, the joke that is the SkyTrain-Canada+Line is still only running 2 car trains and wasn't designed to eventually have 5 car trains. Its difficult to understand why the joke-line stations are only designed to accommodate a 2.5 car train, someday.
Honolulu like Brisbane, are very far away from the Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV) and much warmer. Thus, they are able to have longer trains to the airport, because they can build on a proper big city scale.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane+Airport+Railway+Line
Sunday, October 26, 2025
All cables and final steel girders now installed for new Pattullo Bridge
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pattullo-bridge-construction-milestone-cables-deck Unlike the old, inadequate bridge, which only has 4 narrow lanes and just 1 sidewalk, this will have 2 sidewalks and 2 bike lanes. Unfortunatly, there won't be any bus or HOV lanes. Thus, all the traffic will be funneled into just 2 lanes each way. Of course there won't be any emergency lanes or breakdown lanes, so this is another quintessential BC bottleneck by design. At least a provision for a lower deck would have provided some hope. While this bridge can eventually be widened to 6 lanes, there seems to be no serious consideration for there to be bus and HOV lanes. So it will end up like the overloaded 6 lane Iron Bridge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyBridge_(TransLink) No bike lanes and sidewalks and it wasn't built wide enough to eventually accomodate 3-4 tracks and 2 bus lanes. There is just something about backwards BC that makes it so obtuse and inept.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster_Bridge Still, only a single track bridge for freight and passenger trains.
In order for this joke of a river railway crossing to be properly upgraded and efficient is for there to be at least a new double track bridge.
NW should have really had something like its own version of the Steel_Bridge in Portland.
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Look at the lack of bridges between NW and Surrey.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Portland_OR_aerial.jpg/960px-Portland_OR_aerial.jpg Portland is a city that really exists on both sides of the river.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/New_Westminster_Aerial_view_2015.jpg/960px-New_Westminster_Aerial_view_2015.jpg For most of the history of NW, Surrey was just some farmland south of the river with not much going on, but its many times larger than little NW.
There just didn't seem to be that much a big city vision for little provincial backwater NW. Back in the day, NW could have acquired what would become the Tri-Cities and perhaps, even Surrey. There just wasn't any desire to have a big river city in BC on the scale of Portland,_Oregon. So while NW is stuck as a tiny city, Surrey is on its way to becoming the biggest city in BC.
Unfortunately, the Iron Bridge and Granville Bridge were never designed to have a lower deck for trains and buses either. That's just how it is in backwards BC.
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