Major upgrades for Queensborough Bridge in NW

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/queensborough-bridge-upgrades-new-westminster-richmond 

Another classic BC bottleneck-chokepoint. This bridge is so narrow, because there aren't any emergency lanes, let alone any bus & HOV lanes. The narrow and inadequate Queensborough+Bridge just wasn't designed for a properly growing seaport region. A twin or duplicate bridge should have been built immediately east of the first bridge, decades ago. A parallel 4 lane bridge would allow for 3 lanes on each bridge, plus a 4th lane for buses. However, that would go against the regional congestive planning agenda.

Pattullo Bridge fully closes for a week as work on new crossing continues

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pattullo-bridge-closure

Westham Island Bridge remains closed to vehicles

 https://www.delta-optimist.com/local-news/barge-secured-to-help-transfer-goods-as-westham-island-bridge-remains-closed-to-vehicles-11778788 

The Westham+Island+Bridge has become another 21st century joke. A new and higher bridge should have 1 wide traffic lane each way, plus 2 separated bike and foot paths. This would not only allow for safer bike crossings, but easier emergency and general vehicle access. 

Barnston+Island doesn't even have a bridge. The Barnston+Island+Ferry should be replace with a bridge. Such a bridge should also have 1 wide traffic lane each way, plus 2 separated bike and foot paths. 

With a proper bridge crossing Barnston_Island as well as Westham_Island would be so much easier for people to bike around in the spring & summer. Plus, a proper bridge would be more efficient for business.

https://metrovancouver.org/services/regional-parks/park/barnston-island-regional-park  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Westham+Island

Overnight closure on Highway 1 planned in North Vancouver for pedestrian and cycling bridge

 https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/overnight-closure-on-highway-1-planned-in-north-vancouver-next-month-11773135 

While every new bike bridge is another victory in regional mobility, Burrard_Inlet is so lacking with a bus and train tunnel and bridge. Unfortunatly, there are still enough people who prefer to have perpetual traffic congestion and chaos. 

Perth, WA, Australia

 https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/travel-information/driving-in-wa/driving-in-perth 

https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/technical-commercial/smartfreeways While WA take a spart aproach, backwards BC still takes a dumb approach to things.

https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/projects-initiatives/all-projects/metropolitan/smartfreeways/ 4 lanes each way with 2 track in the middle. You won't find that in Vancouver or anywhere in backwards BC. 

https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/projects-initiatives/all-projects/metropolitan/canning-bridge-bus-interchange 

https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/technical-commercial/smartfreeways/how-to-use-a-smfy/making-way-for-emergency-vehicles

https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/projects-initiatives/all-projects/metropolitan In contrast, the Metro Vancouver Region is a joke!  

"Perth is Australia’s fourth biggest city, with a population of 2.3 million. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhS-fiJ14GU Perhaps surprisingly, Perth has an expansive suburban railway network. 8 lines, 85 stations and 270 km of track – it’s a large system for a relatively small city." 

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

Bridge and Tunnel Projects in Australia

https://www.webuildvalue.com/en/reportage/sydney-harbour-bridge.html 

https://www.smec.com/mm/project/west-gate-tunnel-project/

 https://lpclawyers.com/bridging-the-gap-part-1-bridge-projects-in-australia 

https://www.ballina.nsw.gov.au/Council/Major-Projects/Bridges-Duplication-including-Evacuation-Routes 

https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/projects-initiatives/all-projects/regional/mandurah-estuary-bridge-duplication/

https://www.georgiou.com.au/project/mandurah-estuary-bridge-duplication/

https://www.bridgewaterbridge.tas.gov.au/about/history , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQJIdGUlFqg , https://www.bridgewaterbridge.tas.gov.au/

Westham Island Bridge remains closed as damage assessment continues

 https://www.delta-optimist.com/local-news/westham-island-bridge-remains-closed-as-damage-assessment-continues-11769626 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/bridge-in-delta-bc-still-closed-to-vehicles-after-marine-incident/ 

https://vancouversun.com/news/traffic-alert-westham-island-bridge-in-delta-closed-after-hit-by-barge 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Westham+Island

New pedestrian and cyclist bridge above railway proposed for Brentwood in Burnaby

 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. 

Fraser River bridge in Metro Vancouver closed after vessel collision

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/westham-island-bridge-delta-vessel-collision 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Westham+Island

SkyTrain's Canada Line service disruption

(service disruption ends after 14 hours) https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-canada-line-service-disruptions-january-14-2026 

For a rapid transit line that opened in 2009, on the surface, it sure wasn't designed to be an efficient high capacity line for the future. It's still just a 2 car joke of a train. Fortunately, most real cities around the world planned for not only 6 car trains, but even 8-10 car trains. 

Unfortunatly, Vancouver has been hit very hard with a multigenerational agenda of continually imposed small scale infrastructure. Vancouver has water on 3 sides, as its on a peninsula. Since the powers that be couldn't build a Boundary+Road moat or trench, the next best thing was to symbolically show the reluctance to build proper big city size infrastructure. This stunted approach to things is about symbolically holding the scale of the city back for as long as possible. 

Despite backwards Vancouver not being able to apply a castle-moat-and-drawbridge control system, the next best thing was to symbolically keep things smaller than what normal or proper big cities allow. 

Here are some of the best examples of holding the size of things back. The 3 lane joke that is the Lions+Gate+Bridge has never had a rapid transit rail tunnel and no express bus tunnel next to it. Especially, no 6 lane highway tunnel. It's a classic BC bottleneck-chokepoint, by design.

From a 3 lane joke of a bridge to a two car Canada+Line joke of a train. It met the symbolic requirement to be shorter than the LRT in Edmonton, the C Train in Calgary and the trains in Seattle and Portland. 

The+Post+building+complex could have been Vancouver's first 50 story office tower, it's not even 25 floors. It would be impressive if it were in Victoria, Kelowna, Kamloops or Prince George. That's the unfortunate thing about Vancouver, so much is done to only be impressive to small cities or towns.  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+small+Westin+Bayshore+Hotel+in+Vancouver

Things have been kept so small in Vancouver throughout its history, that any big city stuff might seem overwhelming. There has been an unofficial KEEP THEM OUT mentality, but since the city cant have checkpoints, building things small symbolically demonstrates the perpetual reluctance to not allow a big city in backwater BC. 

Since Vancouver can't control Burnaby and can't stop Surrey from eventually becoming the biggest city in BC, they are able to build things on a larger scale than Vancouver.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=YVR-Canada+Line

From 6 to 4 lanes

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10163196613962377&set=a.10152101514842377 

Several cities are able to build bike and foot bridges in their downtowns. Unfortunately, backwards Vancouver has taken a congestion approach to transportation planning for several decades. The Burrard-Bridge could have remained 6 lanes wide if a proper bike+bridge had been built next to it. 

https://www.cyclingthread.com/bicycle-bridges-18-stunning-routes-18-unique-crossings-2025 

https://momentummag.com/here-are-10-incredible-bicycle-bridges-around-the-world/

https://www.arch2o.com/10-amazing-bridges-passageways-bikes  

https://medium.com/@raydelahanty/what-is-north-americas-busiest-bike-bridge-3ac84cf8b8c3

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Burrard+Street+Bridge 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tilikum+Crossing+in+Portland Unfortunately, it looks like the biggest city in BC won't be getting anything like the Tilikum Bridge in the foreseeable future. 

Four Lane Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ING5Pfrdk 

The old bridge has 4 narrow lanes and no traffic divider. However, the new bridge won't have any bus or HOV lanes and no emergency lanes. 

Chokepoint-bottleneck planning remains firmly entrenched in backwards BC.

The new bridge next to Pattullo Bridge

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUGCUqTphCU 

This new bridge should have had 2 wide emergency lanes and 2 bus lanes and 2 HOV lanes. While there is a potential for the bridge to eventually have 3 lanes each way, for the foreseeable future everything will just be crammed into 2 lanes each way. 

It was a mistake to not have designed this bridge to eventually have a lower deck for buses and LRT.

Bridges in Fort McMurray, Alberta

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McMurray , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FCkJ8ZZ9VI

https://canada.constructconnect.com/joc/news/others/2012/03/bridge-work-boosts-access-to-booming-fort-mcmurray-joc049005w

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/bridge-to-oilsands-the-biggest-in-alberta 

https://www.canambridges.com/projects/athabasca-river-bridge 

https://khaledalmaaz.blogspot.com/search?q=Athabasca+River+Bridge

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/relief-for-ft-mac-traffic-jams-in-sight-as-127m-new-bridge-opens 

https://www.outokumpu.com/en/expertise/2016/built-for-heavy-loads 

https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/geo2017Paper767.pdf

https://www.transportation.alberta.ca/Content/docType4942/Production/Fact_Sheet_Grant_MacEwan_Bridge.pdf 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Highway_63#Construction 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Municipality_of_Wood_Buffalo 

https://www.rmwb.ca/news/posts/join-an-rmwb-board-or-committee-and-help-shape-your-community/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McMurray-Wood_Buffalo 

https://www.transportation.alberta.ca/Content/docType4942/Production/HIGHWAY_63_STATUS_MAP2.pdf

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fort+McMurray,+AB/@56.7315613,-111.3971202,138m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x53b03aeeff1a4459:0x5c8133330dca74b7!8m2!3d56.7266231!4d-111.3790095!16zL20vMDF3bXFu?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDEwNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Crews cleared multi-vehicle crash blocking Lions Gate Bridge southbound

 https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/12/31/vehicle-incident-blocking-lions-gate-bridge Another year has gone with no plans to have an express bus and a commuter train tunnel there. Especially no 6 lane tunnel for general traffic. 

No fireworks in downtown Vancouver for New Year's Eve or the rest of 2026

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-fireworks-2026-new-years-eve-nye 

While Vancouver hasn't been able to get most other cities across Canada and around the world to stop, ban or cancel their NY Eve fireworks, strange Vancouver will retain this part of its NO FUN CITY mentality and agenda. 

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/fireworks-banned-halloween-vancouver-fire-department-9726922 Why just ban them in October and January, when you can ban them throughout the year? 

https://www.ehnewspaper.ca/articles/third-year-of-vancouvers-fireworks-ban

For some strange reason, backwards Vancouver hasn't been able to get other cities around the world to adopt the same bizarre idiosyncrasies.  

Officially, there isn't supposed to be a Vancouver+Mind+Virus, but the backwards city is so stunted and strange. Other cities in a scenic setting such as Sydney, Auckland, San_Francisco and Seattle are able to have wider bridges in or close to their city centers. 

Despite warm and scenic Honolulu having some very short bridges, they are still wider than what extremely restrictive Vancouver allows. These two short bridges in Honolulu provide 4 lanes each way. Thus, they form an 8 lane crossing and they aren't even part of a freeway.  

There is also a very short 6 lane bridge in Honolulu. In addition to its 6 lanes, there is a turning lane and a one lane wide median, which makes it equivalent to being 8 lanes wide. Plus, there are 2 wide sidewalks, which are wider than the original sidewalks on the Granville Bridge in Vancouver. In other words, no bridge in Vancouver is allowed to be as wide as it. Despite regional population growth, the Granville Bridge was reduced from 8 lanes to 6 lanes. 

Considering how Vancouver has such a narrow road system, one would think that a regional network of bus and bike bridges would be essential. Of course the backwards city and greater urban region is too cheap to fund such infrastructure and rather opted for a congestive transportation approach.

In contrast, The+Helix+Bridge in Singapore is fine example of what backwards Vancouver refuses to build. No lanes had to be removed from the 6 lane Bayfront+Bridge or the 10 lane Benjamin+Sheares+Bridge. Stubborn Vancouver could really benefit from something like the Helix Bridge. 

While Vancouver went backwards after Expo 86, Brisbane really took of after Expo 88. The Kangaroo_Point_Green_Bridge, Goodwill_Bridge, Kurilpa_Bridge, Jack_Pesch_Bridge and the Go_Between_Bridge are all great examples of what strange Vancouver refuses to build. What's really amazing from a backwater Vancouver perspective is that those bike and foot bridges in Brisbane never required any lanes to be removed from the cities road bridges. 

In comparison, Vancouver removed 2 lanes from the Burrard Bridge, 1 lane from the Cambie Bridge and 2 lanes from the Granville Bridge. If urban planning in Vancouver was wise and the city never got rid of its trams or streetcars, perhaps something like the Tilikum_Crossing could have been built across False_Creek.

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

Would people pay a bridge toll if it helps solve traffic woes on the North Shore?

 https://www.nsnews.com/opinion/letter-i-would-gladly-pay-a-bridge-toll-if-it-helps-solve-our-traffic-woes-11665442 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Shore_(Greater_Vancouver) 

As of 2026, no bus, car, truck and commuter train tunnel was ever built near the extremely inadequate 3 lane Lions+Gate+Bridge. For if there had then, the LGB could have become a nice bike and foot crossing.

Of course no bus, truck and commuter train bridge was built next to the Iron+Bridge. The inadequate Iron Bridge is so narrow that there isn't any room for emergency lanes and especially no proper express or rapid bus lanes.

By now, there should be a SeaBus crossing of at least every 5 minutes in both directions. 

Its extremely difficult to bring the Greater Vancouver Region up to a proper urban transportation standard. Partly because this is part of backwards BC and partly because there is just such a lack of a normal big city vision. 

For some reason, congestive transportation planning just isn't that popular outside of backwards Vancouver, BC.

Driving over the Pattullo Bridge replacement

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwwOqxqzNrQ 

It's great symbolism with opening the bridge with just 1 lane. In 1800s backwater BC, it was amazing just to have a wagon road anywhere. Well the new bridge, when it's fully open,will have 2 wagon roads each way, just like the old bridge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0EeyJmmpuM 

Partial opening of the Pattullo Bridge replacement

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDFkc9Oa-j0 

Unfortunatly, the old bridge is such bad shape that it can't be refurbished. Otherwise, each bridge could have provided 3 or 4 lanes each way. People will be in for a shock once the old bridge is dismantled. Then the new bridge will become just another classic 4 lane BC bottleneck-chokepoint. 

No bus lanes or HOV lanes and especially no wide emergency lanes. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Pattullo+Bridge

One lane of new Pattullo Bridge now open to vehicle traffic

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/riverview-bridge-opening-official-christmas-pattullo-replacement 

They should have had a horse and waggon going over the bridge to symbolize the desire by some urban planners to have roads and bridges that aren't much wider than a wagon road.