https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/canada-weather
https://weather.gc.ca/data/wxoimages/wocanmap0_e.jpg , https://weather.gc.ca/canada_e.html
Overall, as parts of the world heats up, Canada remains as a place where you can avoid 45, 40 or even 35 C summers. Unfortunatly, winter always returns and by late February many people are fed up with it.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/montreal/h3a/august-weather/2-56186_1_al Montreal still might have 9 or 10 days that are at least 30 C.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/toronto/m5h/august-weather/55488
So, Toronto still might have some 30 C days in August.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/toronto/m5h/july-weather/55488?year=2025 According to AW, Toronto only had 6 days that were at least 30 C. Some places around the world would be happy to have 6 days under 30 C, but without the humidity.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/toronto/m5h/june-weather/55488?year=2025 Wow, Toronto actually had a couple of days in the mid 30s in June.
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/city/ca/british-columbia/vancouver/monthly?m=8&a=2025
https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/vancouver/v6c/august-weather/53286 Perhaps some upper 20s, but it's tough for Vancouver to reach 30 C , especially 35 or 40 C. However, some parts of Greater Vancouver might reach 30 C.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/vancouver/v6c/july-weather/53286?year=2025 There were only 2 days that were 30 C in July in Vancouver.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/vancouver/v6c/june-weather/53286?year=2025 Vancouver had no 25 C days in June.
https://www.yvr.ca/en/passengers/transportation/public-transportation
Even if the excuse of a limited budget is used at the time, the YVR-Canada-Line should have been designed with at least roughed-in 100 m stations, right from the start, with enough clearance to eventually become 160 m.
https://thecanadaline.com/station-guides/yvr-airport
Its like there was no concept to eventually connect both ferry terminals with the YVR-Canada-Line.
https://www.translink.ca/schedules-and-maps/skytrain?page=1#canada-line
Indeed, the YVR-Canada-Line should have been envisioned to be a long-range high capacity rapid transit corridor. A 40-50 m joke of a train can't do the job of a 150-160 m train.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-line-skytrain
Short trains and mostly narrow bridges are a multigenerational way of life that was planned for SW BC.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/north-shore-burrard-inlet-vancouver-third-crossing-bridge
Who knows where so much of the money went, because it sure didn't go towards proper big city size infrastructure.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-future-station-locations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Pearson_International_Airport#Train
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Sharyo_DMU
| Car length | 85 ft (25.91 m) |
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/UP_at_Bloor.jpg While a 2 car joke of a train is only about 170 ft or 52 m, a 3 car train is about 255 ft or 78 m. Unfortunatly, the embarrassingly short train to YVR was only designed to have 164 ft or 50 m stations. The YVR-Canada-Line was deliberately constructed to not allow for enough clearance to eventually double the length of each station. Thus, any underground station can't be extended from the absurd 50 m to 100 m.
Depending upon the busy and general demand times there are three-car and two-car train sets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Pearson_Terminal_1_station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pearson_Express#Rolling_stock
"Seven trains comprise the fleet of Union Pearson Express (UP Express), grouped into 4 three-car and 3 two-car train sets (for a total of 18 cars)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Sharyo_DMU#Union_Pearson_Express
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_rail_transit_in_Canada#Existing_systems
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/08/07/toronto-weather-gta-heat-humidity
While Toronto & especially Montreal, can have cold winters, they're always set to have hot summers. In contrast, Vancouver sort-of has a summer that's more like spring or fall at times.
https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article1084656.html
Handling of environmental-impact consultation for Trudeau airport expansion is ‘scandalous,’ activist says https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article1058167.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9seau_express_m%C3%A9tropolitain#Stations
https://rem.info/en/airport , https://rem.info/en/map
https://rem.info/en/travelling/stations/yul-aeroport-montreal-trudeau Length of each platform: 80 m
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/montreal-rem-vancouver-skytrain-comparison Montreal built a Metro with 152.5 m stations & a commuter rail system, then eventually the REM.
Vancouver & BC should have designed the SkyTrain to initially have all of its stations at 100 m with the capability to be expanded to at least 155 m. Unfortunatly, the first 2 lines only have 80 m stations & the YVR-Canada-Line only has 50 m stations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_rail_transit_in_Canada#Existing_systems
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/08/06/vancouver-fourth-most-expensive-city-worldwide-report
You always pay more for less. Short, congest trains and mostly narrow and congested bridges, because that's all part of the pay more for LE$$ agenda in backwards BC.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-impossibly-unaffordable-housing-market
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_sur_le_parc
https://www.guidehabitation.ca/fr/9606/victoria-sur-le-parc/
https://forum.agoramtl.com/t/victoria-sur-le-parc-58-etages-2024/174
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=115682
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=109775715&page=22
https://dailyhive.com/montreal/tallest-building-montreal-victoria-sur-le-parc
https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=232780&page=2
https://chevaliermorales.com/projets/900-saint-jacques
https://www.architexgroup.com/projects.asp?id=84
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/900_Saint-Jacques
https://imtl.org/image.php?id=23855 , https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=107840
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=109775715&page=24
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/fifa-vancouver-impacts-aug-2025
The lack of proper urban planning is astounding. The Canada+Line should have connected YVR with both ferry terminals by now. None of the regional bridges have had bus and HOV lane bridges built next to them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaverton,_Oregon , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaverton,_Oregon#Transportation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookline,_Massachusetts , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookline,_Massachusetts#Transportation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burbank,_California , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burbank,_California#Transit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington,_Ontario , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington,_Ontario#Public_Transit
https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects/projects/rapid-transit-projects/burnaby-mountain-gondola
While winter is only a few crappy months out of the year, SW BC still gets cold, damp & depressing.
https://www.burnaby.ca/our-city/projects/burnaby-mountain-gondola
Special mountain climbing busses, or in this case, a big hill known as Burnaby Mountain always needs good hill climbing busses during the winter.
https://vancouversun.com/news/translink-100-buses-winter-tires
A gondola would really improve transportation there.
https://the-peak.ca/2024/10/what-grinds-our-gears-winter-commutes-to-burnaby-mountain
https://www.sfu.ca/gondola.html
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/sfu-top-universities-global-rankings There should be a crappy winter transportation award for SFU.
https://www.sfu.ca/srs/announcements/archive/be-prepared-for-winter-on-burnaby-mountain.html
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/sfu-burnaby-mountain-gondola-translink-delays
https://buzzer.translink.ca/2022/11/shuttle-buses-during-snow-days-explained/
Two weeks in February 2025 almost had 24hr freezing. One week in January 2024 had a week of almost 24hr freezing. Almost, because some of the days actually might have gotten to 1 or 2C, but the nights were always freezing. Nothing melts under such horrible conditions.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/translink-plans-winter-2017-2018-1.4385226 Unfortunatly, the #0 Not in Service is common during the winter.
Of course winter in Australia is mild when compared to Canada. Most of Canada has winters with -5C days and -10C nights. Some parts get the -10C days & the -20C overnight option & anything colder than that, you might as well just give up.
It's amazing that Australia doesn't have 14 million more people than Canada, but it's the other way around. http://www.bom.gov.au/places/
