New Westminster 2 weeks after water main break

 https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/03/03/new-westminster-mayor-water-main-break-next-steps/

Even a small city like NW can have big problems.

https://www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/cause-of-ruptured-water-main-in-new-west-is-still-unknown-10258948

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/02/21/new-westminster-water-main-break-problems-residents/

former bc-penitentiary-in new-westminster

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-penitentiary-new-westminster-prison-historical-photos

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-penitentiary-buildings-new-westminster

brewery-district-268-nelsons-court-new-westminster

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/brewery-district-268-nelsons-court-new-westminster


http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/811-carnarvon-street-new-westminster

nw

New Westminster City Council balks at high-rise density plan

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/lower-twelfth-street-area-study-update-new-westminster-rejection

Given the limited industrial areas within the Greater Vancouver Region, there should be a balance between residential & industrial. 

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/columbia-square-new-westminster-edgar-development-plan-approved

However, some parts of NW need more taller towers in order to have much grater urban density.

https://www.newwestcity.ca/transportation/transportation-planning

https://www.newwestcity.ca/planning-building-and-development/roadworks

https://www.newwestcity.ca/transportation/trucks

https://www.newwestcity.ca/railways

https://www.newwestcity.ca/qtoqferry

NW buildings and towers

https://www.newwestcity.ca/database/images/Waterfront_aerial_cropped.png-

https://www.newwestcity.ca/waterfront-vision

Backwater NW ever so slowly & reluctantly, is being compelled to realize that it's part of an urban region with over a few million people.

http://bosaproperties.com/riversky/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/RS2_home_mainImg.jpg

https://www.newwestcity.ca/waterfront-vision/articles/3946.php

http://www.canada.com/business/commercial-real-estate/bosa+plans+major+project+westminster/12084645/story.html

https://www.google.ca/search?q=660+quayside+drive+new+westminster

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/69/72/b3/arial-of-fraser-river.jpg

https://www.newwestcity.ca/database/files/library/Waterfront_Vision_info_booklet_2016_web.pdf  

new-westminster-new-housing-demand-young-people

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/new-westminster-new-housing-demand-young-people

Proposed rental housing tower prevents potential future Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain station expansion

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/2516-commercial-drive-1704-east-broadway-vancouver-rental-housing-tower

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/

City of New Westminster beats legislated housing target by nearly two times

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/new-westminster-housing-supply-target-year-1-achieved

Despite its tiny size, NW should continue on being a central hub city.

BC Parkway in New Westminster

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-parkway-new-westminster-upgrade-translink

Front Street in New Westminster will be closed for the entire weekend

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/new-westminster-street-closed-weekend

A Fraser River boat tour takes you under five existing and future Metro Vancouver bridges

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/paddlewheeler-riverboat-tours-mv-native-new-westminster-fraser-river-cruises Unfortunatly, most bridges in BC are built to conform to a narrow-minded standard.

Had there been a proper urban vision between NW & Surrey 50-100 years ago, there would have been a lot more bridges by now. It seems that NW just wanted to be a provincial backwater. Eventually, Surrey kept growing & now its planning to become the largest city in BC. Back in the day, just like little NW, Surrey never saw it self as ever becoming a major river city like Portland, Calgary, Edmonton or Winnipeg. 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:New_Westminster 

By the late 1800s and especially by 1910, Portland really started to see itself as a major river city. Just look at how many more bridges there are than what's in between NW & Surrey. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Portland,_Oregon#Bridges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crossings_of_the_Willamette_River Most of these bridges aren't freeway or expressway crossings. They are just for general street access.

There should have been something like the Tilikum_Crossing between NW and Surrey by now. There also should have been something like a Tilikum_Crossing between Vancouver and Richmond. 

Fortunately, the backwater BC mentality never made it down to Oregon.

https://www.travelportland.com/attractions/portland-bridges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_Portland,_Oregon

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=NW 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=New+Westminster

skytrain-22nd-street-station-transit-oriented-development-new-westminster

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-22nd-street-station-transit-oriented-development-new-westminster

columbia-square-plaza-redevelopment-88-10th-street-new-westminster

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/columbia-square-plaza-redevelopment-88-10th-street-new-westminster

808-royal-avenue-new-westminster-douglas-college-expansion

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/808-royal-avenue-new-westminster-douglas-college-expansion

columbia-square-in new-westminster-development-plan-approved

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/columbia-square-new-westminster-edgar-development-plan-approved

Of course the Skytrain stations weren't designed to eventually accommodate 10-12 car trains. NW like backwards Vancouver, refuses to build proper bus and truck bridges. Apparently, it's better to funnel the trucks and busses into a 2 lane each way bottleneck. 

530-columbia-street-new-westminster-marriott-hotel-tower-redevelopment

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/columbia-theatre-530-columbia-street-new-westminster-marriott-hotel-tower-redevelopment

NW has to stop pretending that it's just another backwater & realize that its part of an urban region with over a few million people.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/new-westminster-front-street-closure-summer-2020

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/new-westminster-front-street-closure-summer-2020

New-westminster-skytrain-station-emergency

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/new-westminster-skytrain-station-emergency

new-westminster-pier-park-fire-september-14

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/new-westminster-pier-park-fire-september-14-2020

Victoria and New Westminster, BC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria,_British_Columbia

Unlike little Victoria, New_Westminster is part of an urban region with over a few million people.

https://www.britannica.com/place/New-Westminster

Victoria like NW, was started off as just a backwater provincial capital. 

Despite the reluctance for most of its history, Greater_Victoria might start to exceed Halifax,_Nova_Scotia. Then eventually, it could catch up to Quebec_City and Winnipeg, which are known for their very cold winters. Of course as more people in Canada realize that SW BC has the mildest winters, there will be more growth. 

Toronto is the largest provincial capital in Canada & is more on the scale of the state capitals of Melbourne & Sydney. One might have to go back to the Edmonton of the 1960s, to see when it was just starting to emerge from being a provincial backwater like Victoria. Despite the very cold winters and the lack of Chinook-winds, Edmonton has become the largest provincial in Canada, after Toronto. 

For Greater Victoria to ever catch up to or rival Edmonton, there would have to be a Victoria-Naimo urban region. There would have to be a proper passenger & freight corridor of 2 fenced off tracks & eventually at least 4 tracks. Plus, a proper highway with truck, bus & HOV lanes & parallel bike paths.

Over the decades, the Vancouver Island_Rail_Corridor was allowed to become dormant, as it just happened to fit in with the backwater BC approach to things. However, the half-assed planning approach that is so common in backward BC, has to be challenged & corrected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Rail_Corridor#Railway_dormancy_and_delayed_re-openings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Rail_Corridor#Rapid_transit_on_E&N_in_Victoria

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/transportation-reports-and-reference/reports-studies/vancouver-island/island-rail

https://www.islandrail.ca/rail/rail-service-plans