https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_Bridge 3 lanes each way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clem_Jones_Tunnel 2 lanes each way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clem_Jones_Tunnel#Public_transport
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Friday, July 10, 2026
Story Bridge and Clem Jones Tunnel
The Brisbane International Cruise Terminal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_International_Cruise_Terminal
https://www.portbris.com.au/cruise
https://www.arkhefield.com.au/projects/brisbane-international-cruise-terminal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_International_Cruise_Terminal#Usage
https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles/port-of-brisbane-cruise-terminal-parking-address-amenity-info
Saturday, June 27, 2026
How The Texas Triangle Is Slowly Turning Into America's Next Mega-City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3q9Via14O8 Texas has more people than Australia and still plenty of wilderness and open land.
The 15 and 30 minute city concept is OK, but sometimes people still have to get across town. Fortunately, for now, one doesn't have to get permission from AI to visit another part of the city.
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Burrard Inlet dredging approved to boost Vancouver port's oil tanker capacity
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/burrard-inlet-second-narrows-dredging-vancouver-oil-tanker
Its so difficult for Canada to even have even one proper major port city on the Pacific Rim when Australia has Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne.
Most of the Greater Vancouver bridges are only 2 lanes each way & single track freight train bridges, when they should have been doubletracked by now.
https://gvha.ca/deep-water-terminal/shore-power-project Small town.
https://www.rupertport.com/cargo-volumes Very small town.
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
History of Anti-immigration rallies in major cities across Australia
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
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Vancouver 450 ft and Fahrenheit 451
Was a 450 foot height restriction just a chance, or was it intentionally made to be very close to 451 Fahrenheit? Honolulu is still stuck around that maximum, while San Diego is at 500 feet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451 (1953) By the 1950s, so many things were already banned, watered down or scaled back in provincial Vancouver. Generations later, there was the No Fun Vancouver mind virus that further tried to cancel out things in such a small city with so much red tape and other ridiculous obstacles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(1966_film) By the mid and late1960s, the city made sure that its first office tower to have more than 29 floors wouldn't be until the 1970s. Its highly doubtful that Vancouver will have an office tower over 40 stories by 2030. However, Burnaby and Surrey could, because they aren't under the extreme restrictions of Vancouver.
It wasn't until 1973 when Vancouver allowed its first building to be taller than the Los_Angeles_City_Hall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_City_Hall
The Scotia_Tower (stump) is a good reference point to visualize the small scale of backwater Vancouver, as its about the same height as the Los_Angeles_City_Hall at 453'.
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/scotia-tower/4396 453'
https://skyscraperpage.com/b65/vancouver/the-scotia-tower 452'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(2018_film) By 2018 it was quite apparent that Vancouver was in the process of allowing for more buildings over 450 feet. However, nothing has been permitted to reach 700 feet, so far. A tower over 1000 feet would help to water down its provincial mindset.
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SF, Sydney & Auckland are just as scenic as Vancouver & warmer throughout the year. They all have taller building than what Vancouver currently permits. Seattle is just as scenic as Vancouver, but its allowed to function like a proper big city, because it doesn't have the imposed restrictions like Vancouver has. While its cold, damp & depressing like Vancouver during the fall & winter, Seattle usually gets noticeably hotter summers than Vancouver, BC. The tallest building in Seattle is the 76 story B of A office tower.
Everything is so small or scaled back in Vancouver. Even the Greater Vancouver mountains aren't allowed to be as tall as the ones in L.A. While the San_Francisco_Bay & Port_Phillip Bay by Melbourne are big next to their cities, English_Bay in_Vancouver is so much smaller. Its even smaller than Elliott_Bay by Seattle.
Vancouver really needs to have bus and HOV bridges built next to its mostly narrow & congested bridges. Only a 5 car Skytrain is the max on the first 2 lines and ultimately, just a 2.5 car joke of a train on the YVR-Canada Line.
Selective+Door+Operation can allow a short train to have an extra car at each end, despite a shorter platform.
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Australia like the USA, has some big & tall cities on the Pacific Rim. However, Vancouver symbolically kept watering down its size, because that's how you demonstrate a reluctance towards proper urban planning & growth.
Oddly enough, the small scale Vancouver mentality & agenda wasn't adopted by most cities around the world. Officially, there is no Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV), but somehow it keeps manifesting, just like the BCMV.
Despite its size, Canada has less than 1% of the worlds population.
Friday, May 29, 2026
The Houston Galleria and Galleria Dallas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Galleria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galleria_Dallas
Texas is a place where thinking BIG has been going strong for almost a century.
By the year 1900, NYC had to start thinking and building on a big-city scale, simply out of necessity.
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/03/11/nyc-big-apple
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Apple
In contrast, backwater BC has a tough time keeping up with Alberta and Washington State. Especially with Ontario and Quebec. BC is 75% mountainous and has a seawater barrier on its west side. Still, its almost as if some people would like to have a wall around BC, or even a forcefield like out of Star Trek.
Keeping things small and backwards in BC whenever possible seems to be part of a multigenerational symbolic agenda.
Its as if there is something like a BC Mind Virus (BCMV).
Texas has more people than Australia and California has more people than Canada. Despite its overall size, Canada has less than 1% of the worlds population.
Singapore is on an island that's smaller than all of NYC or Chicago, even. Yet, it has proper big-city trains, bridges, roads and buildings.
Saturday, May 9, 2026
Metro Vancouver’s 4-minute meeting nets members more than $500
https://globalnews.ca/news/11841417/metro-vancouver-three-minute-meeting-members-pay-500-dollars/
Apparently, its better to waste money on overpaid managers, rather than putting it towards bus and train bridges and improved highways overall.
10 Lane Narrows Bridge in Perth Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6mVXcX-4h4
Friday, May 1, 2026
Link 2 Line Cabview POV Seattle to Redmond Eastbound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlJHHuLdOj0
Unlike backwards Vancouver, Seattle, WA has longer underground stations, just like Edmonton has. Longer stations make it easier to have longer trains.
The Narrows Bridge in Perth, WA, Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6mVXcX-4h4 It has 5 lanes each way and 2 commuter train tracks. The Homer_M._Hadley_Memorial_Bridge is part of an 8 lane I-5 crossing with 2 LRT tracks. The Samuel-De_Champlain_Bridge has 8 lanes, plus 2 REM commuter train tracks. These 3 fantastic bridges were all possible, because they aren't in heavily restrictive Vancouver. Plus, WA and Que. never wanted to adopt the BC-B$ approach to things.
Unfortunately, in backwards BC, the 1st two Skytrain lines only have 80m stations and the YVR-Canada Line has 50m joke stations. Some of the stations on the first 2 lines might have enough level clearance to only have an extra car at either end of a lengthened platform.
However, the shortsighted Canada Line wasn't designed to eventually accommodate 5 car trains, just a 2.5 car joke of a train, someday. It was as if someone thought that there was no need to have enough level clearance so that the very short stations could be double or tripled in length eventually.
At least by 2025, the first SkyTrain line was running some 5 car trains. Unfortunately in 2026, the 2nd Line and the 3rd Line are still only running 2 car joke trains. Every Skytrain line should have had stations designed to eventually accommodate 8-10 cars trains, but that's what a proper big city would do. Backwards Vancouver wants to hold out for as long as possible, by symbolically building small.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Monday, April 20, 2026
A record number of British Columbians are leaving Canada
Despite its overall land area, Canada has less than 1% of the worlds population. A crappy economy in recent years and cold weather for half of the year helps to keep Canada from ever having 1% of the worlds population.
Texas has more people than Australia and California has more people than Canada.
Monday, April 13, 2026
Quebec
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_sovereignty_movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec#Economy Canada should have become a commonwealth of independent states similar to Australia. However, since Canada is right next to the US of America, some thought that it might be too confusing. Alberta as well as Quebec, should become fully recognized states within Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_territories_of_Australia
Alberta
The Alberta Secession Movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LiCuWV2D9g
Alberta within Canada should have become something like a commonwealth independent state similar to Australia. However, since Canada is right next to the USA, some thought that it might be too confusing, back in the day. As each provincial district wants to become more like an independent state within Canada, that should become possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_territories_of_Australia#States
Sunday, April 5, 2026
Monday, March 30, 2026
Is Adelaide Is Becoming Australia’s Most Advanced City?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Wol0Q3zDg
Still seems pretty small and quaint today. Nowhere close to the scale of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth, but a good rival to Winnipeg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide#Economy Its already set to have many more tall buildings than cold Winnipeg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide#Transport Busses, trams, subways and commuter trains, all can help to provide people with more options than just driving.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramways_in_Adelaide#Mid-century_decline_and_closure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramways_in_Adelaide#Renewal_and_expansion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramways_revival_in_Adelaide#Developments_since_the_2018_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railways_in_Adelaide#Lines Wow, perhaps backwards Vancouver might have as many lines, someday.
Monday, March 16, 2026
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