Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Ivor Strong Bridge, Bow River, Calgary
https://www.deerfootimprovements.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ivor-Strong-Bridge-plan_.pdf
https://www.deerfootimprovements.ca/ivor-strong-bridge-2
https://www.calgary.ca/planning/projects/deerfoot-trail-improvements.html
https://www.deerfootimprovements.ca/spring-2025-construction-update-ivor-strong-bridge/
Monday, June 22, 2026
Why does Metro Vancouver have two starts to summer?
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/metro-vancouver-weather-summer-june-2026-12441747
June, July & August are the fastest 3 months in Vancouver, because they are usually the best weather months. However, there is never any guarantee of 90 days of nice summer weather.
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/metro-vancouver-weather-heat-rain-june-2026-12455681
Unfortunately, May can sometimes still look more like fall than spring. However, what really should be the summer months can still occasionally have cool, cloudy and rainy days. Then by the second week of September, there is a sense that summer is fading quickly. The later half of September is more like spring than summer, with October having some occasionally spring-like days, but colder nights.
November is totally crappy cold & damp weather, with the depressing 3 months of winter still to get through. March is usually more like fall than spring, but at least you are out of February and getting out of another winter.
Somehow, the 3 depressing, cold and damp wither months seem to always drag along, while summertime in Vancouver always runs out too quickly.
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Thursday, June 18, 2026
History of British Columbia's Tallest Towers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rr1WUJNZVE
No office tower in Vancouver has been allowed to have a 40th floor. In fact, there are no 40 story office towers anywhere in BC.
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Delta council calls for third-party to dig into Fraser River Tunnel project
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.
Can the SkyTrain in BC, Canada ever become a very high capacity system?
Why BC, Canada Got it Right With its New SkyTrain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqo_KAEF81k
The argument is that a mostly elevated train can move more people than an 8-10 lane elevated freeway, at much less the cost. However, any major urban grade-separated LRT system should be designed to eventually become a very high capacity conduit.
The first 2 lines only have 80 m stations, which are just a little more than half the length of a 152.5 m Montreal Metro station. Unfortunately, the line to Richmond only has a designed level clearance for 50 m stations, not even quite a 3rd of the length of a Montreal Metro station platform.
While it might seem economical to opt for short trains and stations, the Skytrain stations should have still been designed to eventually become more like a proper big city train station allowing for much higher capacity.
The first 2 lines can run the newest 5 car trains, but the 3rd line can only run 2.5 car trains, some day.
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Monday, June 15, 2026
European contractor to build new George Massey Tunnel fired by B.C. government
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/