https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton#Public_transit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Edmonton
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kurt-b/51118510836
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multnomah_County,_Oregon While Portland is so tiny when compared to NYC, it still has the potential to become a big city like Seattle, someday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_County,_Washington Vancouver, WA is basically a suburb of Portland. However, V-WA could eventually become like a smaller version of Jersey_City,_New_Jersey.
Its a case of a smaller river city next to a larger river city, that is part of a metropolitan area.
The New_York_metropolitan_area is the most densely populated and the biggest in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area#Geography
The Portland_metropolitan_area could potentially become as big as the Seattle_metropolitan_area, some day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_metropolitan_area#Metropolitan_statistical_area
Seattle is already a larger city than Boston. However, the Seattle_metropolitan_area still isn't quite as big as the Greater_Boston Area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_metropolitan_area#Geography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Boston#Metropolitan_Area
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England Boston
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest Seattle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest#Population
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City-Windsor_Corridor Montreal and Toronto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary-Edmonton_Corridor No hindrence from backwards BC.
Then there is backwards Vancouver and the Lower_Mainland part of BC. Short trains and mostly narrow bridges are hindering the region, by design. The regional passenger rail and the freight rail lines all need to be properly upgraded.
Don't forget the provincial backwater that is Victoria,_British_Columbia. At least Greater_Victoria has the potential to become a major island metropolitan area, someday. There should be a 4 track passenger and freight line between Victoria and Nanaimo and even up to Comox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver,_Washington "Founded in 1825 and incorporated in 1857, the city was originally established around Fort Vancouver, a fur trading outpost, and is situated directly north of Portland, Oregon..." It is part of the Portland_metropolitan_area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver, BC
| Gastown | (1867–1886) |
| Granville | (1870–1886) |
| City of Vancouver | (1886–present) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Vancouver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Vancouver_Regional_District
The costs of the new 'alternative plan' are expected to save money over the next 15 years but balloon several billion dollars higher after that. https://www.biv.com/news/economy-law-politics/metro-vancouver-slashes-sewage-plant-cost-by-39b-but-risks-long-term-bill-11303969
So much money down the toilet when it could have gone towards longer trains and wider bridges. Instead of having a proper regional express bus network with a series of bus bridges, busses are forced onto the mostly existing narrow bridges.
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/scotia-tower/4396 138 m / 453 ft with 35 floors
https://www.skydb.net/building/134544260/scotia-tower-vancouver Height 138 m (452 ft) Floors 35
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=65 452 feet https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=110142950&page=3
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=1
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=1&status=15
Despite The Scotia Tower in Vancouver opening in 1977, it's still a prominent, but small building on the skyline.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotia_Tower 1977
https://abc7.com/post/la-city-hall-crash-car-slams-steps/17933164/
Sometimes a person just might be having a bad day, but other times a person might want to take over a building.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/downtown-la-city-hall-crash
If its determined after due process, that this person had malicious intent, they will be facing sever punishment.
L.A. City Hall evacuated after vehicle crashes near steps; driver in custody after standoff https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-03/vehicle-crashes-into-steps-of-l-a-city-hall-prompting-closure-of-surrounding-streets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451 Two decades before Ray_Bradbury would start writing what would eventually lead to his F 451 novel, LA was close to imposing a 451 foot height limit. However, the LA City Hall would end up being slightly taller than 451 feet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_City_Hall "Dedication ceremonies were held on April 26, 1928. It has 32 floors and, at 454 feet (138 m) high..."
"A City Council ordinance passed in 1905 did not permit any new construction to be taller than 13 stories or 150 ft (46 m) in order to keep the city's architecture harmonious. City Hall's 454 ft (138 m) height was deemed exempt as a public building and assured that no building would surpass one third its height for over three decades until the ordinance was repealed by voter referendum in 1957." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_City_Hall#History
https://laist.com/news/entertainment/city-hall-tall 454' not 451 feet, but close nonetheless. LA didnt have to wait until 1953, because it was pondering a 450'-455 foot height restriction in the mid to late 1920s. Of course NYC and Chicago already had tall buildings in the 1920s, so perhaps a
"The writing and theme within Fahrenheit 451 was explored by Bradbury in some of his previous short stories. Between 1947 and 1948, Bradbury wrote "Bright Phoenix", a short story about a librarian who confronts a "Chief Censor", who burns books. An encounter Bradbury had in 1949 with the police inspired him to write the short story "The Pedestrian" in 1951. In "The Pedestrian", a man going for a nighttime walk in his neighborhood is harassed and detained by the police. In the society of "The Pedestrian", citizens are expected to watch television as a leisurely activity, a detail that would be included in Fahrenheit 451. Elements of both "Bright Phoenix" and "The Pedestrian" would be combined into The Fireman, a novella published in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1951. Bradbury was urged by Stanley Kauffmann, an editor at Ballantine Books, to make The Fireman into a full novel. Bradbury finished the manuscript for Fahrenheit 451 in 1953, and the novel was published later that year." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451#Writing_and_development
F 451 was published in 1953, on 10-19.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13079982-fahrenheit-451
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451#Historical_and_biographical_context
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451/summary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451#Writing_and_development
Did Metropolis_(1927_film) help to restrict the height of tall buildings in LA for several decades?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)#Influences
Whether the LA City Hall is 454', 453' or 452 feet, it's not 451 feet, but still close enough.
https://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-fw-archives-20190403-htmlstory.html "The 32-story, 454-foot-tall Los Angeles City Hall opened with a three-day public celebration April 26-28, 1928. Construction started in 1926."
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/city-hall/4376 138.4 m / 454 ft
https://buildingsdb.com/CA/los-angeles/los-angeles-city-hall "The Los Angeles City Hall reaches an architectural height of 453ft (138m). It has a total of 32 floors, 28 above ground and 4 basements..."
https://www.travelinusa.us/visit-los-angeles-city-hall "At the time of construction, a regulation was in effect in the city that prohibited buildings taller than 150 feet. Los Angeles City Hall was therefore an exception and, at an impressive 32 stories and a height of 452 feet, it remained the tallest building in Los Angeles until 1964 when Union Bank Plaza opened."
https://waterandpower.org/Museum2/Los_Angeles_City_Hall_1928.html
While there isn't any direct correlation with the F 451 story and Vancouver, BC imposing a height limit, there is something peculiar. Some people might consider that if a building is around 500 feet in height, that's in the category of starting to be a tall building.
Well, Vancouver, always looking for ways to symbolically project a stunted or scaled back city, height restrictions were at the top of the list.
Somewhere in-between the 1950s & 60s, Vancouver started to refine its height restriction mandate. Thus, as several cities in the 1970s started to allow for taller buildings, Vancouver has never allowed any office tower to have 40 floors. Perhaps an imposed 451 foot height limit would be too obvious, so Vancouver generally had an imposed restriction of 450 feet, with some occasional variations.
The first residential building to have at least 40 floors. https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=921 1973 https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=110144876&page=3
The first residential building to have more than 45 floors. https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=3 2001 https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=110144876&page=6
It wouldn't be until the early 21st century before Vancouver would permit 2 buildings to rise above 600 feet. https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=110144876&page=8 , https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=110144876&page=9
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=1 Vancouver has no building that makes it onto the first page. Burnaby just barely makes it.
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=110144876&page=10 However, Vancouver has another chance to actually have some taller buildings. https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=1&status=15 Over the decades, various plans have been stopped, due to all the red tape B$ and extreme restrictions.
Vancouver has had quite a history of limiting, restricting, thwarting & censoring proper big city stuff.
The Westin_Bonaventure_Hotel should have been twice the height. It's only a 367-foot (112 m), 33-story hotel, but it should have been at least as tall as the Westin_Peachtree_Plaza_Hotel in Atlanta or the Renaissance_Center in Detroit, or The_Stamford in Singapore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_Bonaventure_Hotel#Floors_and_elevators
https://socallandmarks.com/index.php/2022/09/16/bonaventure-hotel/
https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/los-angeles-bonaventure-hotel-history-19511087.php
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-bonaventure-hotel-los-angeles-california
https://movie-locations.com/travel/la/travel-downtown-05.php
http://www.experiencingla.com/2013/02/tour-o-downtown-part-i.html
https://portmanarchitects.com/project/the-westin-bonaventure
| Number of rooms | 1,358 |
|---|---|
| Number of suites | 135 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_Bonaventure_Hotel#Floors_and_elevators
It would take LA a long time to have a much taller hotel tower.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Center 73 floors at 727 ft (222 m)
| Number of rooms | 1,246 |
|---|---|
| Number of suites | 52 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Center#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_Peachtree_Plaza_Hotel
| Number of rooms | 1,068 |
|---|---|
| Number of suites | 40 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_Peachtree_Plaza_Hotel#Architectural_details
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swisshtel_The_Stamford 73 floors at 226 metres (741 ft)
| Number of rooms | 1,252 |
|---|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swisshotel_The_Stamford#History
The Vancouver Mind Virus keeps hindering the city. The Backwards BC Mentality makes sure that BC remains as a provincial backwater when compared to Ontario, Quebec and Alberta.
https://lmnarchitects.com/project/4th-columbia-mixed-use-tower
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=27&status=15
Of course various planned buildings can go through a design change or even be cancelled.
https://www.theurbanist.org/2016/01/05/the-metro-neighborhood-a-renewed-vision-for-downtown-seattle/
Even transportation routes and technologies can change or be scrapped.
https://www.theurbanist.org/2017/08/21/map-week-sound-transits-new-system-expansion-map/
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyscrapers/comments/1nttdgy/center_city_philadelphia
Philadelphia used to have stumpy restrictions almost as severe as Vancouver.
While cutting out some of the fat from the budget can be good, Vancouver is still decades behind with its infrastructure. Most other cities have been able to plan and build on a larger scale, simply because they don't have the backwards Vancouver mentality to hinder them.
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Vancouver is such a strange and backwards provincial city.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/no-fun-city-calls-to-extend-hours-at-vancouver-beaches/
For a city that claims that it doesn't have a NO FUN CITY (NFC) vibe, it occasionally keep emerging.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/06/25/vancouver-police-english-bay-beach-sweeps-questions/
Fortunately, the mind virus that is Vancouver hasn't caught on with most cities around the world.
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/people-escorted-off-vancouver-beaches-2024-9130597
It's one thing if some people living close to the beach don't want to hear drinking parties going on until 2 or 3 AM. However, reasonably behaved people should be able to enjoy summer sunsets from a beach vantage point. Summer goes by too quickly in BC, so the best time to enjoy the beach is during the summer.
To think that there used to be a Vancouver Sea Festival. Fortunately, Vancouver was unable to get Seattle to give up on its Seafair. https://www.seafair.org/what-is-seafair
Vancouver was never able to waterdown the Calgary_Stampede. https://www.calgarystampede.com
Vancouver should be making it easier to have summer festivals, not more difficult.
Hopefully, the Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV) will never be accepted in proper cities around the world.
https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/unpermitted-african-descent-festival-aug-2025.aspx
https://vancouversbestplaces.com/events-calendar/festivals-and-events/african-descent-festival
Fortunately, the Caribana Festival is far away from backwards Vancouver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribana#Economics_and_impact May it never be watered down or cancelled by anything like the Vancouver Mind Virus. The VMV is so horrible, don't let it take over your city.
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SF is just as scenic as Sydney. They allow taller buildings, longer trains and wider bridges than backwater Vancouver. Unfortunatly, backwards Vancouver keeps going in the opposite direction, despite more people wanting to move to SW BC.
The longstanding argument is that since Vancouver is in a scenic setting, every excuse should be used to scale back or water down the urban prescience.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/False_Creek%2C_Vancouver_%282025%29.jpg
Fortunately, this watered down approach hasn't made it to Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, SF, LA and Seattle. Thus, all of them are able to have taller buildings, longer trains and wider bridges. The Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV) or the Backwards Vancouver Mentality (BVM) is an intertwined horrible concept.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Vancouver_Skyline_and_Mountains.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Los_Angeles_with_Mount_Baldy.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_San_Antonio 10,064 ft (3,068 m)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lions_(peaks)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Mountain_(North_Shore_Mountains)
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyscrapers/comments/1nsu0xw/will_tribune_east_tower_chicago_be_built
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribune_East_Tower 1,442 ft (439.5 m) 113 floors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribune_Tower 1925
A 463-foot-tall (141 m), 36-floor building. Today, it's just another old Chicago size stump, but in if it was in Vancouver, it would still be an impressively tall tower.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribune_Tower#Architecture
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/06/tribune-tower-100-years-chicago-magnificent-mile Even a centuray later, this would be one of the tallest office towers in backwater BC.
https://www.straight.com/arts/vancouver-art-gallery-picks-canadian-architects-for-new-building
For some reason, things take a long time to get done in backwards Vancouver. From the design and the construction, the project shouldn't take any more than a few years.
It took a very long time for Vancouver to have its first building permitted to rise over 500 feet in height.
152.4 meters = 500 feet and 150 meters = 492.12 feet
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=1
https://www.straight.com/article-371138/vancouver/city-approves-new-policy-taller-buildings-downtown-vancouver While there are some taller resedential towers, Vancouver still has no office tower with at least a 40th floor. Portland,_Oregon has 2. Perth, WA has 2 office towers with at least 50 floors. The_Bow tower in Calgary has 60 floors, when you count all the levels. The Columbia_Center in Seattle has 80 floors in total.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver#Cityscape
450 feet is equal to about 137.16 meters and that was the height restriction imposed on Vancouver for most of its restrictive, red-tape history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver
The powers that be tried their damndest to not allow most Vancouver buildings to be taller than the Smith_Tower, Commerce_Court_North and the Los_Angeles_City_Hall until after the year 2000. Of course in 2025 those buildings are like stumps now, but would still be tall by small Vancouver standards.
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=6965 , https://www.smithtower.com/about/
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=27&searchname=timeline
https://beautifulwashington.com/king-county/attractions/seattle/448-sky-view-observatory.html
https://www.seattletimes.com/life/heres-a-cheap-way-to-view-seattles-skyline-coffee-at-the-starbucks-on-the-40th-floor-of-the-columbia-tower The 40th floor of an 80 story building, when you count the mechanical or plant floors as well. Perhaps some day strict Vancouver might permit an office building to have a 40th floor.
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=1&status=15
stumps and towers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnaby
Unlike Brooklyn merging into NYC, Burnaby has remained independent of strict Vancouver.
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyscrapers/comments/1nsyaux/brooklyn/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Brooklyn#Tallest_buildings
While stubborn Vancouver only allows 2 buildings to be taller than the tallest in Bellevue,_Washington and nothing to rival the tallest in Vaughan, Ontario, Burnaby will.
Unlike Vancouver, Burnaby wants to even rival the tallest in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn used to be an independent city, but it eventually became part of NYC.
https://www.visitpiercecounty.com/plan/transportation/getting-to-seattle/
Of course Greater Vancouver isn't adding a regional network of ferries anytime soon. That's because it would go against the congestive planning agenda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmont_Royal_York
When you live in stumpy Vancouver for several decades, its always amazing to see how much wider the buildings are allowed to be in other cities.
https://torontopics.me/2016/08/29/fairmont-royal-york-hotel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmont_Royal_York#Location "Opened on 11 June 1929, the Châteauesque-styled building is 124 metres (407 ft) tall, and contains 28 floors."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmont_Royal_York#Design 1363 rooms
https://www.thefairmontroyalyork.com , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmont_Hotels_%26_Resorts#Properties
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Vancouver
"Opened in May 1939, the Châteauesque-styled building is considered one of Canada's grand railway hotels. The hotel stands 112.47-metre-tall (369.0 ft), and contains 17 floors."
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/The_Fairmont_Hotel_Vancouver_%2842914562450%29.jpg Had the entier block been reseverd for future hotel space, a 65 story tower could have eventually been built, beside the first phase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Vancouver#Design
https://www.straight.com/living/experience-magic-of-autumn-at-fairmont-hotel-vancouver
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/CN_Tower_observation_level_2023d.jpg Toronto like most real cities, is able to set aside enough space to go wider. Narrowminded Vancouver just keeps going the other way by continually watering the scale of things down.
https://vancouversun.com/news/developer-wesgroup-cancels-project-vancouver-river-district
https://vancouversbestplaces.com/city-of-vancouver/river-district-vancouver/
https://govancity.com/neighbourhoods/river-district/
https://wesgroup.ca/river-district/
Riverside living is very popular around the world. Urban industrial areas are still important land uses as well.
Unfortunatly, the Kent Avenue streetcar, interurban or tram-train was discontinued in the 1950s.
It seemed like such a good idea in the 1950s, remove the streetcars and tram-trains.
https://buzzer.translink.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/interurbanmap_web.jpg
With several narrow streets and mostly narrow bridges, having a comprehensive regional rail system is imperative.
https://buzzer.translink.ca/2009/03/a-short-history-of-interurbans-in-the-lower-mainland
https://montecristomagazine.com/community/vancouvers-forgotten-streetcars#gsc.tab=0
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+East+Kent+Avenue+Greenway
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/09/25/new-pattullo-bridge-to-open-by-christmas-bc-government
Not 8, not 6, just another 4 lane BC funnel chokepoint. Officially, NW isn't against bus and HOV lanes, they just weren't part of the new bridge design. Of course there was no provision for a lower deck, because that would go against the congestion planing mentality. This new bridge not only should have had 2 bus lanes, but 2 wide emergency lanes or shoulders as well. Even if it can eventually have 6 lanes, there still won't be any emergency lanes or HOV lanes.
This BC bottleneck planning mentality is so bad for transportation.
The city and the transit company should be working with the developer so that the new building has enough structural clearance for a future west train platform. With mutual cooperation, the developer should be allowed to add a few more floors to their tower.
In the case of the Main_Street-Science_World_station, the VanCity Centre was built at and over the west side of the station.
https://www.mcmparchitects.com/projects/vancity-centre Aside from the building not even reaching 20 floors, its a fine example of being built over the train structure.
https://sfuurban.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/main-street-skytrain-station-the-history-part-1
https://www.translink.ca/about-us/doing-business-with-translink/real-estate
https://fcr.ca/properties/british-columbia/vancouver/new-westminster/shops-at-new-west
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster_station , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shops_at_New_West , https://www.shopsatnewwest.com
https://www.loopnet.ca/Listing/800-Carnarvon-St-New-Westminster-BC/29986774/
Another nice type of bridge that would be great in Vancouver, but isn't allowed.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=6381435988563389&set=p.6381435988563389&type=3
Vancouver, Burnaby and NW all should have have at least 1 of this type of bridge.
https://www.indonesia-tourism.com/forum/showthread.php?52240-Gentala-Arasy-Bridge-Jambi
Why build a few bridges like this in Vancouver when lanes can be removed from the existing bridges?
https://elements.envato.com/moving-drone-footage-gentala-arasy-pedestrian-brid-WXCLQPZ
Pedestrian bridges are great, but bus, bike & foot bridges are even better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_of_Omaha_Headquarters_Tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Omaha#Tallest_habitable_buildings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoodmenLife_Tower It wasn't until 1977 that a building in Vancouver was allowed to rival it.
"Construction of the building began in 1966 and was completed in the spring of 1969. At its completion, the 478-foot (146 m), 30-story tower was the tallest building in the state of Nebraska, overtaking the Nebraska State Capitol." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoodmenLife_Tower#Description
Unfortunatly, they keep looking at the wrong location for a highway crossing.
https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/bridge-fixed-link-vancouver-island-salish-sea
A further north option would make it a lot easier and cheaper to construct an 8 lane bridge and a 4 track train route.
There should have been plans by now to have a highway and train bridge providing a fast and efficient link between Powell+River and Campbell+River.
A possible route could go between Bliss+Landing, Cortes+Bay, Whaletown, Read+Island, Bold+Point, Heriot+Bay and North+Campbell+River.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Island_fixed_link , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sVUCNzodXU
https://www.change.org/p/ask-the-bc-government-to-study-a-fixed-link-to-vancouver-island
https://bcbusiness.ca/industries/general/fixed-link-idea-gets-a-brief-new-lifeagain/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Pledge_Arena#Seattle_Center_Coliseum
https://climatepledgearena.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Pledge_Arena
https://seattlecenter.com/about/plans-and-projects/arena
https://globalnews.ca/video/11438664/vancouvers-rogers-arena-marking-30-year-anniversary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Arena#General_Motors_Place
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rogers-arena-vancouver-25th-anniversary-1.5732118
When there is a refusal to build bigger and better bridges, there still should be a regional network of bus and train bridges. However, the gridloc planning agenda keeps winning out.
Unfortunatly, after decades of inept transportation planning and then so much money wasted down a $HIT-PIPE, the North Shore keeps getting hit hard from the $HIT-BOX planning mentality.
The Tilikum+Crossing in Portland is a fantastic example of modern infrastructure planning and development. It allows for the MAX-LRT, the streetcar, the bus, bikes and pedestrians to conveniently get across. The nice thing about the TC is that no lanes had to be removed or repurposed on the other Portland bridges. Perhaps that's why something like the TC isn't allowed in BC, because it could actually help to improve transportation efficiency.
The Washington+Avenue+Bridge is another example of what's not allowed in Greater Vancouver or anywhere else in the BC part of Canada. After all this time, Greater Vancouver is still so lacking in a regional network of transit+bridges.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-audit
It's amazing how several other cities are able to have enough money to properly fund such things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I3sbe2QRUM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston_Ship_Channel_Bridge Its as if somehow a backwater BC bridge got built in Texas. While a bridge with only 2 lanes each way & no emergency lanes seems to fit with the small-scale Vancouver mentality, such a narrow bridge in Houston was almost inadequate right from the start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston_Ship_Channel_Bridge#Future While it doesn't seem to have a provision for rail, it's still on a grand scale like the Samuel-De_Champlain_Bridge in Montreal. Especially like the new Tappan_Zee_Bridge near NYC.
Several cities around the world are able to build nice wide bridges, because they aren't hindered by anything like the Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV), or the Backwards BC Mentality (BBCM).
https://www.traveltexas.com/articles/post/everything-is-bigger-in-texas Being from the BC part of Canada, its difficult to grasp that BIG Texas has more people than Australia, yet still has mostly wide open spaces. The THINK BIG mentality in Texas is the total opposite to the BBCM.
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/03/11/nyc-big-apple When you live in Vancouver for several decades, its amazing to see what several other cities can do, simply because they aren't hindered by the VMV.
Of course BC just has to move so much slower than Queensland on infrastructure projects.
Delta has the big seaport and Richmond has the airport, and for such a long time the highway is only 2 lanes each way.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/malcolm-brodie-richmond-mayor-retirement
A 10 lane bridge could have been completed last year, but this guy was against it. The new 8 lane tunnel isn't expected to be completed until at least 2030.
Unlike backwards BC, Queensland was able to twin or duplicate the 6 lane Sir_Leo_Hielscher_Bridge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Leo_Hielscher_Bridges#Design
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Leo_Hielscher_Bridges#Duplication
https://www.mageba-group.com/de/en/1023/Australia/Australia/19745/Gateway-Bridge.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Motorway (Brisbane)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Program_(Greater Vancouver) Of course the BC version was watered down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Brisbane#Transport_links
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/south-vancouver-railway-bike-lane-proposal-mike-klassen
https://vancouver.ca/streets-transportation/kent-avenue-greenway-upgrades.aspx
https://www.trailforks.com/trails/east-kent-ave-bikeway/
https://medium.com/v%C3%A9lo-vancouver/beloved-vancouver-cycling-routes-and-greenways-bddaa003a8ed
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+East+Kent+Avenue+Greenway
Unfortunatly, there doesn't seem to be any BRB plan in place.
A North Boundary Road Bridge could provide an excellent BRT crossing between Burnaby and North+Vancouver. This would help to relieve pressure on the Iron Bridge.
https://movementyvr.ca/bby-heights-brt
The same with a South Boundary Roade Bridge with a BRT route between Vancouver and Richmond.
Then another BRT bridge between Richmond and Delta to the ferry terminal. This could help to relieve some of the pressure on the new tunnel, because it wasn't designed to have 2 HOV lanes & no train section.
https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects/projects/bus-projects/rapidbus-projects
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/east-vancouver-clark-drive-port-entrance-traffic-issues
https://council.vancouver.ca/20050329/tt5App1.pdf It is very unlikely that there will ever be a truck tunnel under this corridor.
https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/2021-117-release.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Street
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/1407-east-41st-avenue-vancouver
