https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zlfd1MReWI
https://ecity.solarisbus.com/en/e-mobility/bus-rapid-transit-in-denmark-aalborg
UTL is about exploring past, present and future urban technologies in science and fiction, etc...
Perhaps Alberta might have to leave Canada, just because its right beside backwards and inept BC. Fortunately, the BC Mind Virus (BCMV) hasn't seemed to have messed up Alberta and Washington State, so far.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-government-george-massey-tunnel-contractor-fired
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/06/15/new-agreement-for-massey-tunnel-replacement/
https://www.reddit.com/r/richmondbc/comments/1u6zwff/bc_searches_for_new_builder_for_george_massey/
https://www.infrastructurebc.com/project/fraser-river-tunnel-project/
Moving ahead on Fraser River Tunnel Project with a revised approach https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2026TT0058-000706
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/06/15/new-agreement-for-massey-tunnel-replacement/
https://projects.eao.gov.bc.ca/p/620aa098fd30c700220f2805/project-details
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcQqiPa-Qa0 Unlike most of the buildings in Vancouver, this one in Burnaby would actually be one of the taller buildings in Calgary and Seattle.
https://skyscraperpage.com/b114729/burnaby/grand-tower-at-sky-park 230 m or 755 feet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Park_(Burnaby)
All possible, because its not under the extreme controls and restrictions that Vancouver imposes.
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=31 BC https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=1
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=31&status=15 BC https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=1&status=15
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=1 Can https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=1&status=15
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/plaza-of-nations-expo-86-flag-poles-fifa-world-cup-vancouver
Four decades later, The+Lion+Bridge+and+The+Iron+Bridge still have no bus and train crossings next to them.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/vancouver-aquatic-centre-closing-its-doors-on-june-28 "The group’s legal action is strongly connected to the city’s decision to downsize the current facility’s 50-metre pool down to the approved 25 metres."
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/06/10/construction-underway-on-second-burnaby-tt-after-permit-hell "Honestly, Vancouver is a very difficult place to build in."
Of course he means the Greater_Vancouver Region.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaBTC6ihflo
Japan is so much smaller than Canada, yet they found the room for a fast train network. Switzerland can fit into BC 23 times and they were able to have an extensive railway system in a small area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_Line_(RTD) Since 2013.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Transportation_District#Light_rail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Center_station_(RTD) The last multitrack station heading towards the mountains. It has 3 tracks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rocks_College_station While this station is doubletracked, this part of the W line is single tracked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_County_Government_Center-Golden_station The end of the line with 3 station tracks on a single track section.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Transportation_District#Primary_services
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Denver_RTD_rail_stations
Vancouver is such an unusual and backwards city with its inefficient and congestive approach towards transportation infrastructure.
Getting rid of the streetcars and interurban trams was utterly foolish! Fortunately, such MADNE$$ wasn't adopted in Melbourne, SF, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia and New Orleans.
Just because a no freeways mandate was chosen for Vancouver, the streets should have been kept wide enough for busses as well as other vehicles.
https://movementyvr.ca/the-case-of-vancouvers-nine-missing-bus-lanes
Despite most of the Vancouver bridges being too narrow, some bridge lanes were removed, because the city wasn't interested in building parallel bike bridges.
Since most of the bridges are so narrow, there isn't enough room for proper express bus lanes. Of course the city isn't interested in building parallel bus bridges next to the narrow bridges.
Since Vancouver is supposed to be a major, properly functioning city in Western Canada, the city should have pressed the designers of the first 2 Skytrain lines to make sure that all of the 80 m stations could gradually be extended to 152.5 m, the same as the 500 foot long Montreal Metro stations and trains.
Unlike the first 2 Skytrain lines, the Canada Line was only designed to ultimately have 50 m stations and trains. A 2 billion dollar line to YVR could have been designed in such a way that would have allowed it to look and function like a proper big-city passenger train.
A commuter train to the North Shore keeps taking a long time to be finalized.
https://northshoreconnects.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BIRT-Benefits-Assessment_Final.pdf
Think small and build backwards, or not at all.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/stubborn
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stubborn
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/stubborn
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/stubborn
There has been an ongoing level of stubbornness in the BC part of Canada for several decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia#Cities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia#Transportation
Mostly narrow bridges and short trains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia#Public_transit
Jack_Poole_Plaza provides plenty of inlet views.
https://www.vancouverconventioncentre.com/facility/spaces/outdoor-plazas
https://do604.com/venues/jack-poole-plaza
The unofficial Stubborn Vancouver Mind Virus was clearly against sunbornvancouver.ca .
https://www.sunbornvancouver.ca/project The pictures clearly show that the small ship hotel would hardly block out all of the views of the inlet. Its not even close in scale to the largest_cruise_ships.
https://www.sunbornvancouver.ca/public-dock Actually, a new public viewing platform would be provided with this project.
The magazine cited Vancouver’s transit, walkability and mild summer weather in ranking it first https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/soccer-world-cup-city-rankings-9.7226811
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbor_Drive_Pedestrian_Bridge Actually, its a pedestrian and a bicycle crossing.
The Ogre of WV is on the loose.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ogre
A LARGE, aggressive dangerous beast of a man can easily be called an OGRE!
The money wasted could have gone towards a bus bridge and a train tunnel, or vice versa.
https://northshoreconnects.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BIRT-Benefits-Assessment_Final.pdf
https://www.nsnews.com/opinion/letter-a-third-north-shore-crossing-wont-happen-3095100
Apparently, 2 of the 3 Skytrain bridges were never designed to also accommodate bikes.
Unfortunately, all 3 Skytrain bridges weren't designed to have any express bus lanes, never mind any for a proper rapid bus network.
In the 1980s, once it was revealed that Skytrain wouldn't be providing a 24 hour service, there wasn't a serious effort to convince the public of the importance of having a 24 hour regional express bus network. Transportation redundancy is difficult to grasp in backwards BC.
All 3 of there's transportation bridges should have had enough future space for at least a 3rd track. Upon opening, each bridge should have had 2 bus lanes that also could be for emergency vehicles. Each bridge should have had 2 bike lanes and 2 sidewalks.
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Marpole+Bridge/@49.1996678,-123.1276435,848m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x548675f84f6c0721:0xbea3ccce242f45a8!8m2!3d49.1995219!4d-123.1268811!16zL20vMGZqMjYx?hl=en&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYwMy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D This was allowed to fall apart and eventually catch fire. It was never doubletracked and the interurban trams were phased out by the 1950s. Yet, most of the highways and general road system in SW BC cities are just 2 lanes each way. It was as if there was no need to have a 3rd lane for trucks and a 4th or 5th lane for buses & HOVs.
https://stevestonheritage.ca/2024/06/21/marpole-cp-rail-bridge
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Oak+Street+Bridge
The transportation infrastructure was set up for congestion, right from the start. Having a short Skytrain & small stations might have made economic sense in its initial phase. However, there was a failure to not design it to eventually become a proper big-city size train with much longer stations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Massey_Tunnel
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/george-massey-tunnel-closure-june-2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Massey_Tunnel#Construction_and_maintenance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Massey_Tunnel#Replacement
https://www.highway99tunnel.ca/tunnel-construction/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J9Nk4cP2eo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahuenga_Pass
https://www.cppoa.org/about/cahuenga-pass-history
https://www.beforethe101.com/post/hollywood-bowl-treasure-curse-of-cahuenga-pass
https://calisphere.org/item/8ab93650c12b0e4a44fc4f93c245a4af/
https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/zw5c16/cahuenga_pass_1920/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_Line_(Los_Angeles_Metro)
https://www.reddit.com/r/LAMetro/comments/1qcc6z2/really_happy_with_the_direction_of_the_b_line_and/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_11_road_(United_Arab_Emirates) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlDku6jVTt0
https://uaescript.com/sheikh-zayed-road-e11-dubai/
https://www.bayut.com/area-guides/sheikh-zayed-road/
https://propsearch.ae/dubai-thoroughfares/sheikh-zayed-road
https://www.expedia.ca/Sheikh-Zayed-Road.dx6147375
https://www.reddit.com/r/DubaiPetrolHeads/comments/1qq9iv9/sheikh_zayed_road_now_a_days_be_like/
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/linda-buchanan-north-vancouver-third-term
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/north-shore-burrard-inlet-vancouver-third-crossing-bridge
https://evelazarus.com/aborted-plans-a-third-crossing-for-the-north-shore/
https://evelazarus.com/third-crossing-here-we-go-again
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020TRAN0041-000351
https://council.vancouver.ca/010313/tt2.htm
https://evelazarus.com/saving-history-twinning-the-lions-gate-bridge
https://www.nsnews.com/opinion/letter-a-third-north-shore-crossing-wont-happen-3095100
https://movementyvr.ca/release-the-real-solution-for-metro-vancouvers-most-congested-crossing/
https://movementyvr.ca/r2-and-brt
https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2016/08/26/first-rule-for-a-third-crossing/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUW9KGbVmcQ
Why El Paso Is the Opposite of Every U.S. City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuwv2Rfirts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g1amH6Epvo
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/bpcvpc/tbt_ocean_parkway_proposal_1960
https://evelazarus.com/project-200-and-the-waterfront-freeway
https://voony.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/the-case-for-rapid-transit-in-1970
https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2008/01/29/revising-the-revision/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver)#Canada_Line , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxTEBfxYH0g
https://buzzer.translink.ca/2010/08/canada-line-and-the-olympics "For the 17-day Games period, the Canada Line carried over 3,881,986 passengers, with the most ever riding on Friday, February 19: 287,000 riders!"
https://www.bcaviationcouncil.org/canada-line-continues-to-break-records-translink/
TransLink's Hyundai Rotem EMU cars have been operating since 2009 and have played a massive role for the City of Richmond, Vancouver and YVR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1ouk0VifwM
https://archive.news.gov.bc.ca/releases/news_releases_2005-2009/2009tran0002-000047.htm "During the Olympic Games, there were approximately 230,000 daily trips on the Canada Line."
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/1eu70hl/skytrains_canada_line_marks_15th_anniversary/
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/5t97h9/this_is_why_the_canada_line_has_been_far_less/
https://globalnews.ca/news/90468/canada-line-races-toward-capacity/
https://www.reddit.com/r/askvan/comments/1fsfptv/why_are_the_current_canada_line_cars_designed_the/
The amendment would authorize the general manager of Parks, Recreation and Culture to approve uses on a case-by-case basis https://www.delta-optimist.com/local-news/delta-to-allow-outdoor-booze-consumption-at-certain-events-12333571
Sometimes a bunch of cantankerous, constipated old people just can't stop young people from having fun.
Sometimes the level of stupidity and foolishness is just too much!
Nothing like driving very fast in a stolen vehicle for some. However, they didn't seem to understand that doing that on an island dramatically limits where they can go, especially when there is only one main island highway.
Its not like they could just hop onto a ferry to Delta and escape into the BC_Interior.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11887557/bc-bars-restaurants-welcome-change-liquor-policy/
Its strange as to why BC has to be so slow in getting things done better.
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/national-sports/racism-is-a-risk-when-vancouver-hosts-world-cup-but-measures-exist-bc-ag-sharma-12361474 So, this is basically the same article repeated.
https://www.britannica.com/place/British-Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Rivalry_with_other_European_empires
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Expansion_and_colonial_conflict_(1707%E2%80%931783)
Despite its overall area, Canada has less than 1% of the worlds population. A global population that is mostly nonwhite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Consolidation_and_global_dominance_(1783%E2%80%931815)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Britain's_imperial_century_(1815%E2%80%931914)
For its first century, Canada was supposed to be primarily for people from Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Changing_status_of_the_white_colonies
That was the British Colonial Agenda, but eventually the British_Empire had to acknowledge that most of the worlds population is nonwhite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Decolonisation_and_decline_(1945%E2%80%931997)
There are strong arguments that Canada should be able to gradually contain a little more of the worlds population. Since a lot of the worlds population is from warmer areas, a lot of people might not like the Canadian Winter season. SW BC just happens to be the most mild part of Canada during the winter. The Lower_Mainland of BC and SE Vancouver_Island have been very reluctant to think big and build on a grand scale.
The Lions+Gate+Bridge and the Johnson+Street+Bridge are both classic 3 lane BC bottleneck-chokepoints. They are both fine examples of not wanting to build for a growing population on a world that is composed mostly of nonwhite people.
Toronto and Southern Ontario just never had the same level of small scale thinking as in SW BC. In fact, it the backwards BC approach to things just never caught on in Toronto, Melbourne and SF. They never got rid of their streetcars and trams like Vancouver and Victoria did.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/lzvgg7/the_british_empire_at_its_territorial_peak_oc/
As Canada started to become more multicultural in the 1960s and 70s, predominantly White city councils in BC kept imposing a small-scale approach to things.
Will some people start to say that by keeping most of the world out of Canada is good for the environment? There are already some people that would like to use nonwhites as being too much of a carbon footprint and that Canada should never have 1% of the worlds population. This would be a very clever and sinister way to perpetuate the KEEP THEM OUT agenda.
The days of Canada being officially under a British Colonial, White authority management power structure are long gone. As of 2026, Canada has yet to have half of 1% of the worlds population.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-26/march-for-australia-anti-immigration-rally/106269414
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Australia
https://racismnoway.com.au/about-racism/timeline/timeline-2020-2029
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Australia#Links_between_organisers_and_far-right_extremism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_violence_in_Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/white-australia-policy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV9id0J1K2M
Both are so far away from the provincial Vancouver restrictions and small-city thinking.
Why Singapore Is the Anti-Dubai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUPAJprHKX8
Why Singapore Is so Well Designed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyfJgJBB3Vk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPlGQDpx4xg
While there could be a reasonable argument that if a subway or elevated line isn't expected to be that busy in its first few years, then just build half-size stations and run half-length trains. However, in the case of backwards Vancouver, what should have been stations that were designed to accommodate at least 5 car trains, were only designed for an eventual 2.5 car train. Thus, it will be challenging enough just to modify the incredibly short Canada Line stations to gradually accommodate 3 full-size 20 m cars, not just some 2.5 car joke of a train for a 50 m station.
Fortunately the Skyline_(Honolulu) stations can accommodate a 4 car train right from the start. Someday, with SDO a 4 car train could become a 6 car train.
If Selective+Door+Operation (SDO) can ever be implemented on the YVR-Canada Line then it can go from being a 2 car joke of a train to a 3 car attempt of a train. Then, once people got used to 3 car trains, an extra car could be added at both ends, thus allowing for a 5 car train.
Ultimately, the YVR-Canada+Line should have been designed as a proper big-city size train with 8-10 cars. There seems to be such a lack of proper long-term transportation infrastructure planning in BC. To just build a small-scale line as a symbolic demonstration of reluctance towards the Pacific Rim is so absurd.
Fortunately, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane never opted for such a short train.
There Is a Hidden City Under Seoul Nobody Talks About. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIewf8sOZ0I
https://www.straight.com/burnaby/burnaby-2050-sets-citys-long-game
While Burnaby is smaller in area and population compared to Vancouver, its a lot bigger than tiny NW.
Unlike Vancouver, Burnaby can build taller than Vancouver, because it isn't bound by Vancouver's imposed height restrictions.
https://www.straight.com/burnaby/what-burnaby-builds-next-depends-on-urban-design-getting-it-right
Unlike Vancouver, Burnaby has more than just a few kilometers of freeway going through it. The highway right of way was acquired when Burnaby was still mostly undeveloped. That's the same case for Richmond, Delta, Surrey, Langley & Abbotsford.
https://www.straight.com/burnaby/in-defense-of-burnaby-middle-child-of-metro-vancouver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_Highway_1#Lower_Mainland_section There should eventually be an elevated, high-capacity interregional commuter train along BC_Highway_1. However, BC takes a very slow approach towards dealing with congestion and mobility.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/water-restrictions-metro-vancouver
Its not like there is a shortage of rain during the fall and winter. Its a lack of not building more reservoirs to store the rainwater and to use more lakes in SW BC.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-yvr-airport-vietnam-south-america-routes-trade-goals
With such a provincial backwater approach to things, its taken this long for backwards BC to get around to this.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-yaletown-roundhouse-station-additional-fare-gates-completed
The Canada line is such a watered down version of what should have been a proper big city airport and ferry rapid transit link. Just because this infrastructure project had to be scaled down during its first phase, the stations still could have been designed to eventually accommodate 5-6 car trains. Unfortunately, the stations were only designed to accommodate a 2.5 car train. While this perfectly fits in with the inept urban transportation mentality and especially fits in with the BC congestive transportation agenda, this is another sad result.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-yaletown-roundhouse-station-fare-gate-expansion
Despite being downtown with several condominiums around, the Yaletown-Roundhouse_station is too small for an inner-city station.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaletown-Roundhouse_station#Station_information
There is barely enough level clarence beyond the short platform for another car. To remedy this inadequate situation, this line needs to have three full-size cars, not just some eventual 2.5 car joke of a train.
https://www.eke-electronics.com/automatic-selective-door-operation-asdo
Then eventually, once people got used to a 3 car train, an extra car could be added at each end, resulting in a 5 car train. Its a workaround that can eventually enable the 3rd line or the C Line to run 3-5 cars trains to meet demand.
Then the Exp. Line and Mil. Line, or what could become A & B lines with standard 5 car trains. However, during the busy times, a 7 car train could be possible with selective-door-operation technology.
It would have been better to have just built all of the Skytrain stations long enough for 5 car trains in the first place, with enough level track clearance for 10 car trains eventually.
Some experts say shifting job needs are making future demand for office space harder to predict https://www.biv.com/news/technology/ai-uncertainty-hangs-over-vancouver-office-market-12348582
Was Vancouver somehow generations ahead of AI in not allowing tall office towers. In many cities a 30 story office tower is like a stump. Even a 40 story office tower would just be average, at best.
Given the strict height limitations of Vancouver, the 30 story TD_Tower wasn't completed until 1972.
That means that during its construction, Vancouver had its first office tower rising over 29 floors in 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD_Tower_(Vancouver)
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/the-stack/35667 38 floors
https://www.canadianarchitect.com/the-stack-zero-carbon-office-tower-officially-opens/ 37 story
https://www.mmoser.com/projects/the-stack-rooftop-vancouver 37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amieA9XHAVQ
https://macleans.ca/culture/building-vancouver-stack-work-life-balance/ 37
https://www.oxfordproperties.com/lease/office/31191 36
https://www.adamson-associates.com/project/the-stack-1133-melville/ 36
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyscrapers/comments/1k7dt3j/the_stack_vancouver_bc/
https://www.urbanyvr.com/oxford-properties-announces-major-tenants-of-the-stack-at-1133-melville/