https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/burnaby-brentwood-pedestrian-cyclist-overpass-proposal Not just in backwards Vancouver, but throughout the Greater Vancouver Region, is a lacking of bike and foot bridges. Of course there also needs to be a regional network of bus and HOV bridges. So many of the existing bridges are too damn narrow.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Some Canada Mega-projects Under Construction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwsOVZ-j7hg
Oakridge_Park is on a much smaller scale than Metrotown, Brentwood and Lougheed. It will especially be on a much smaller scale than Parramatta in NSW.
Unfortunatly, the Oakridge-41st_Avenue_station was only designed to have 50m platforms, when it should have been at least 100m. Thus, the utter foolishness has meant that instead of allowing for a future level station clearance to accomodate 5 car trains, the Canada (embassament) Line was only designed to just have 2.5 car trains. While its extremely short stations might have been disguised as a cost saving measurer, there didn't seem to be any key people onboard to make sure that it could eventually become a proper big city train line. Its sad that a line which opened in 2009 is still only running 2 car trains. While the 2.5 car configuration is still a joke of a train, at least half of an extra coach-length is better than nothing. Plus, there should have been extra cars ordered by now so at least during the very busy times the trains could be operating at 1 minute headways. Unfortunatly, this goes against the Vancouver & BC congestion planning mentality.
Despite being built several years after the Sydney_Harbour_Bridge, the joke that is the Pattullo_Bridge was designed to only have 4 narrow lanes & only 1 sidewalk. Of course the replacement_bridge will only open with 2 lanes each way. It was as if someone really wanted to make sure that there won't be 2 bus lanes and no HOV lanes when the bridge opens. While the new bridge is designed to be expanded from a 4 lane joke to eventually having 6 lanes, it still won't be wide enough to accomodate 2 HOV lanes as well as 2 bus lanes. Of course the new bridge won't have any emergency lanes, just like the old bridge. However, it will have 2 bike lanes and 2 sidewalks. https://www.globalhighways.com/news/pattullo-bridge-completion-end-year Its only fitting that in backwards BC this new bridge wouldn't be designed to eventually have a lower deck to accomodate 2 bus lanes and 2 LRT tracks.
If the planners were afraid to symbolically have a wide bridge between NW and Surrey, the old Pattullo_Bridge should have been designed to eventually have a lower deck for trams, trucks and busses. Even when the SkyBridge between NW and Surrey opened in 1990, it wasn't designed to have any bus lanes or emergency vehicle lanes and especially, no bike and footpaths.
Is Vancouver the best city in North America? (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8dmVUrNt38
One of the biggest mistakes in Vancouver & SW BC is to have short trains combined with mostly narrow bridges. Thus, the region doesn't get to have long, high capacity trains and there isn't a proper regional network of bus-bridges. The refusal to twin most of the bridges means that it's almost impossible to have a proper and efficient regional network of rapid-bus and HOV lanes.
While Montreal built the REM to augment their long-train Metro system, Vancouver should have allowed for enough clearance to eventually have 500 foot long trains. 80m-50m Skytrain stations are going to become inadequate, when there should have been a 152.4m provision so that the trains could eventually become as long as the ones on the Montreal Metro.
Is Regional Rail in the Future of British Columbia? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PeIOVy6fFc
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
The City of Lougheed and The Amazing Brentwood vs. Parramatta Square
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_Lougheed
https://thecityoflougheed.com/rental/city-vision
https://www.urbanyvr.com/city-of-lougheed-burnaby/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Brentwood
https://www.urbanyvr.com/the-amazing-brentwood-photo-tour/
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/6-8-parramatta-square/31473
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parramatta
| Height | |
|---|---|
| Roof | 225.45 m (740 ft)[1] |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 57 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_%26_8_Parramatta_Square
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/complex/2699
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/city/parramatta
The City of Lougheed and The Amazing Brentwood have no office towers over 55 stories. A 50 story office tower in BC still remains as Science Fiction concept. Indeed, Vancouver still won't permit any office tower to even have a 40th floor.
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Why Vancouver City Council Approved The Commercial-Broadway Safeway Project
https://storeys.com/vancouver-approves-commercial-broadway-safeway-redevelopment/
The big dispute is not having a reasonable amount of below market level housing. Of course if the towers were at least 20-30 stories taller, provided that there were several affordable units included, then the developer would have more incentive for affordable units.
https://storeys.com/broadway-commercial-safeway-may-2024/
It's stupid to only have luxury high rises or even comfortable yuppie high-end housing, when there is a lot of demand for real affordable housing. Thus, if a high-rise developer could be allowed to build higher as long as a reasonable amount of affordable housing was included in the lower floors, it could work.
However, despite being a major transportation intersection, many people are uncomfortable of Oakridge size building, especially Brentwood size towers.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
TransLink to extend North Shore RapidBus route to Metrotown starting in 2027
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/r2-rapidbus-north-shore-metrotown-burnaby-route-extension
https://aquilinidevelopment.com/community/kwasen-village
The Kwasen Village & BCIT area is becoming a new intersection of housing & shopping, as well as education. So, hopefully starting in 2027, there will be an express bus from Metrotown_to_West-
Perth, WA built a 10 lane bridge with double train tracks in the middle of it.
https://www.skyperth.com/
Seattle, WA did something similar, but their 3 section bridge or crossing has 4 lanes each way & a double track middle section.
https://www.mi-reporter.com/
Montreal also did something similar to Seattle & Perth.
https://rem.info/en/albums/
Being from backwards Vancouver & backwater BC, it's always amazing to see what other places can do, simply because they aren't in BC.
Fortunately, Perth, Seattle & Montreal don't have to contend with anything like the inept Vancouver & BC transportation mentality. It's mindboggeling that in 2025, Vancouver is still only running 4 car trains to Surrey & only 2 car trains to Coquitlam & Richmond. This, combined with several narrow bridges, makes it one of the most congested cities in the world. It's a sad & pathetic situation, because things in BC should be designed for proper future capacity expansion.
Saturday, May 10, 2025
After 10 years, East Broadway Safeway redevelopment proposal finally faces Vancouver City Council decision
The KEEP IT SMALL, BECAUSE ITS VANCOUVER mentality has held this back for a decade. Despite being a major regional SkyTrain intersection, various people are determined to have stunted buildings that might be impressive by Kelowna or Victoria standards. Ideally, the most vocal people would like the scale to not even rival that of what's in Kamloops & Prince George. These very expressive people are too afraid to allow Brentwood or even Oakridge size towers.
Friday, February 14, 2025
Burnaby's old Brentwood Mall will soon be closing for good
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/burnaby-brentwood-town-centre-closing-spring-2025
Outdoor sections of any mall in Canada can be OK for the warmer half of the year. However, most people want to be inside a proper warm & dry mall, especially during the crappy & colder half of the year.
Monday, January 20, 2025
A square on a Station Square tower in Burnaby, BC
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/red-square-metro-vancouver-building-burnaby
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/complex/1224
https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9743001
https://www.biv.com/news/real-estate/burnabys-kingsway-corridor-grows-up-8234808
Despite being smaller in population & area, Burnaby is starting to think on a grander scale than Vancouver, in some ways. Unlike Vancouver, Burnaby never went to the absurd extent of creating so much red tape & B$. Indeed, Vancouver has imposed several restrictions throughout the decades, that it has become trapped within its own Gordian_Knot, where as Burnaby is able to cut right through it.
https://www.urbanyvr.com/bosa-brentwood-west/
https://www.urbanyvr.com/amazing-brentwood-and-lougheed-update/
Thursday, October 24, 2024
The goal to build one of Metro Vancouver's new tallest buildings
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/citizen-tower-anthem-properties-burnaby-metrotown-ipo
Unlike Calgary and Seattle, Vancouver won't permit any residential building to be this tall within its strictly controlled city limits. Fortunately, Burnaby, Coquitlam and Surrey will allow taller buildings.
https://www.biv.com/news/real-estate/vancouver-developer-seeks-to-raise-82m-for-metrotown-project-via-ipo-9508936 This is Business Outside of Vancouver.
https://storeys.com/anthem-properties-burnaby-66-storey-citizen-metro-king-metrotown This is like an average semi-tall building in Toronto and the GTA.
https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/real-estate/two-more-towers-up-to-80-storeys-tall-more-rental-housing-could-be-coming-to-burnabys-brentwood-8461795 There has been an unwretten ruel in Greater Vancouver for several decades. As long as something is impressive by PG, Kamloops, Kelowna & especially Victoria standards, that's good enough for backwater BC.
https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/burnaby-councillor-opposes-plan-for-80-storey-tower-in-burnaby-5509305 No buildings taller than 40 stories & no roads wider than 4 lanes is very symbolic of the, KEEP IT SMALL mentality of BC. Even the newer SkyTran cars still only form 4 car trains. The Canada Line only has 2 car trains.
https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9875630 When the scale of things in BC have been kept back for several decades, its difficult for some people to fathom an attempt to have a taller or larger scale of developments and infrastructure.
Even the mountains just north of LA are allowed to be taller than those of (Greater_Vancouver).
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Monday, June 3, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Burnaby vs. Vancouver's stumps
This illustration shows Vancouver stumps next to some Burnaby towers. https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/bc-tel-boot-redevelopment-burnaby-1500-homes-900-rentals-towers-up-to-64-storeys-7957610
BC Government housing near Nanaimo Station in E. Vancouver
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/3805-3919-nanaimo-street-vancouver-coromandel-bc-government-housing
Proper big planning should have been implemented at least a few decades ago. Now people have finally been bought out so that denser housing can be put in.
https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/grandview-woodland-community-plan.aspx
The Broadway Station area remains a constipated mess. Stubborn people refuse to accept or be bought out, because NIMBY is the perpetual way to be in BC. Nevermind a magnificent 80 story tower, even 40 floors is too much for this constipated part of Vancouver.
The intersection of 2 Skytrain lines, but no Brentwood size towers.
The trench or cut at Commercial_and_Broadway could easily be covered over, so that big towers can go up. However, the constipated NIMBYs refuse to receive an urban enema & be pushed out. They don't want growth, because that means more non-white people in their neighborhood. But as long as they don't set up a bunch of KEEP THEM OUT signs, their agenda remains strong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial%E2%80%93Broadway_station
https://www.translink.ca/schedules-and-maps/station/commercial-broadway/map
Vancouver & the metropolitan region remains very stunted when compared to Toronto & Montreal. At least Burnaby, Coquitlam & Surrey are starting to allow a larger scale.
Friday, October 13, 2023
Thursday, September 28, 2023
TransLink ridership recovery reaches 90% of pre-pandemic volumes
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-ridership-recovery-vancouver-public-transit-september-2023
While the recovery is great, the Skytrain network should have been designed to have 152m stations like Montreal & Toronto, but that would mean big city thinking. So the 50m to 80m stations provide a constant reminder of the refusal to think big.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-transit-ridership-recovery-record
Just like the region should have a proper big city train, there should have also been a proper express bus & HOV system by now. However, with such a refusal to have wider bridges or parallel crossings, it's almost impossible to have a proper rapid bus network.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/ironworkers-memorial-bridge-replacement There should be a couple of HOV lanes, as well as 2 bus lanes. Thus, any replacement for the Ironworkers+Memorial+Bridge should have 10 lanes.
However, congestive planning always wins out & who know where all the money has gone over the past several decades?
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-vancouver-demand-extensions
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/commercial-broadway-station-broadway-grandview-woodland-plan-skytrain Brentwood Station, no problem. However, allowing such a crossroads station at a similar scale is too upsetting for the backwater Vancouver mentality.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/city-of-vancouver-car-vehicle-traffic-reductions-broadway Another fine example of the conjestive mentality. Since the train isn't allowed to run 24/7, it's a good idea to still have a wide street for express buses & 24hr traffic, which is common for most major cities.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-metro-vancouver-expansion
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-public-transit-system-comparison
Sunday, May 14, 2023
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