Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Some massive transportation projects in Metro Vancouver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emSr9NLwfT4
Unfortunately, the Broadway+Subway will only open with the potential of 5 car trains, not 10.
Unfortunately, the YVR-Canada+Line wasn't even designed to have 5 car trains, only a potential of 2.5 car trains, someday.
Of course the Massey+Tunnel+replacement wasn't designed to have an LRT and BRT section. Thus, in addition to the basic 3 lanes each way, there will be an express bus lane that might also be for other HOVs.
A separate BRT section would be beneficial since BC doesn't want to run 24hr trains. Thus, when the LRT is shutdown for maintenance, a 24hr BRT line could still be running. Unfortunately, part of the BC Mind Virus is backwards thinking and inept infrastructure planning. Of course there is still no official plan to have LRT from YVR to the Tsawwassen Ferry terminal anytime soon.
Sunday, August 2, 2026
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Friday, May 29, 2026
Train testing now underway for the Broadway Subway Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-T6puGKQKc
The Broadway Subway is one of the largest infrastructure projects in Vancouver's history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6XTDLz-POk
First train now rolling on Broadway Subway for active testing ahead of late 2027 opening
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-subway-millennium-line-skytrain-extension-train-testing
Nothing like testing with trains from the 1980s in the 2020s.
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Friday, May 22, 2026
Canada Line station platforms being extended for interchange hub with Broadway Subway
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-line-broadway-city-hall-station-platform-extension-millennium-line-interchange Fortunatly, the planning for the TTC Subway, Montreal Metro & Edmonton LRT, all have much longer stations than what backwards Vancouver settled for.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-canada-line-rebuilding
Once all of the YVR-Canada Line stations have 50-metre-long platforms, it will become quite apparent that the long-range planning for 5 car trains wasn't seriously considered. The 50 m stations will only be long enough for a 2.5 car joke of a train.
However, there is a potential to work around this particular manifestation of the Vancouver Mind Virus. Selective_door_operation can allow for longer trains, despite the ridiculous short Vancouver stations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_door_operation#International_variations
There is such a problem with Vancouver and BC in general of not properly planning for future transportation infrastructure expansion.
https://www.railforthevalley.com/latest-news/zweisystem/the-skytrain-lobby-get-over-it/
Sunday, May 17, 2026
The Broadway Subway-Mount Pleasant to Broadway City Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z64SisMwIuY
Another illogical lane reduction project. Broadway was for the most part, always 6 lanes, 7, if you count the turning lane at major intersections. The train isn't a 24 hour service, so its important to always have 1 bus lane each way, especially if the train is shut down for an occasional emergency. Then there still should be 2 general lanes each way, because this isn't supposed to be a small town street or avenue.
This, combined with so many 4 lane bridges, ensures that BC bottleneck-chokepoint planning remains firmly entrenched.
A 5 car Vancouver train is expected to do the job of a 9 car Montreal Metro train. That's because a short Vancouver train can run a little more frequently than a 9 car Montreal Metro train, during even the most busy times of the day. Of course many proper cities have long big-city trains, because they aren't under anything like small thinking Vancouver, or a backwater BC mentality.
The standard short trains, narrow bridges & narrow streets and short buildings, are all part of holding the scale of Vancouver back. Apparently, if you can't build a wall around Vancouver, the next best thing is to continually plan and build symbolically for a provincial backwater of a city.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Selective+Door+Operation
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
West Broadway at Cambie Street
Friday, April 24, 2026
One-in-three Metro Vancouver residents unaware Broadway Subway ends at Arbutus Station, requiring buses to UBC for the remaining trip
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/ubc-skytrain-extension-project-support-survey
https://vancouver.ca/streets-transportation/millennium-line-ubc-extension.aspx
https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/ubcx-no-brainer-council-motion-is-a-brain-test/
Monday, April 6, 2026
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Vancouver 1960s vs Today: The Shocking Difference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnMLMp_gf1w
Unlike Toronto, SF and Melbourne, Vancouver was one of the first cities to get rid of streetcars and tram-trains or interurbans. Backwards Vancouver will likely be one of the last cities to ever bring them back.
No office tower in Vancouver was allowed to have a 30th floor before the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD_Tower_(Vancouver) The first 30 story office tower in backwater BC opened in 1972. As of 2026, no office tower in Vancouver, or anywhere in BC has been permitted to have a 40th floor.
As of 2026, no Skytrain stations are even close to the length of the Montreal Metro, TTC subway and underground Edmonton LRT stations.
Unfortunately, almost every city around the world is expensive. Its just that you get less of things in Vancouver. Short trains, short buildings, narrow bridges and mostly narrow streets.
Thus, its no surprise that there isn't a regional network of bus-bridges. Congestive transportation planning is what Vancouver does best.
Vancouver seems to be reluctant in constructing a network of bike-bridges. The city would rather remove a total of 5 lanes from 3 bridges for bike lanes.
Broadway will eventually be reduced from 6 lanes to 4 lanes so that even some small towns will have wider major streets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_municipalities_in_Canada_by_population
Thursday, January 29, 2026
No plan to make 8th Avenue detour bus-only during Broadway road closure for subway construction
Given that this temporary diversion is only 1 lane each way, it should be just for buses.
Monday, January 26, 2026
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
No help for Broadway corridor businesses suffering from subway construction
If the Covid control shutdown wasn't bad enough, this is like a push over the edge.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/broadway-subway-won-t-be-cut-and-cover-mayor-pledges-1.2850400 For all the trouble and B$ of constructiong the YVR-Canada Line, the stations should have been long enough to accommodate at least 5 car trains. Unfortunatly, the BC Mind Virus made sure that the stations were only designed to eventually accommodate 2.5 car trains.
https://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Transportation/2009/05/27/CambieWins/
Monday, November 17, 2025
Broadway Subway Construction as of November 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uot7oIA9-ZE The station platforms will be 80m, which can only accomodate a 5 car train.
Unfortunatly, even if this segment had 500' or 152.4m long stations like the Montreal Metro, the rest of the first 2 lines only have 80m stations. Thus, 80m is only about 52% of the length of a Montreal Metro station, which can accomodate 9 car trains. It's taken until 2025 for the SkyTrain to gradually start running 5 car trains. In theory, if two Vancouver 80m trains run at twice the frequency as one 152m Montreal Metro train, a similar capacity could be attained.
However, in the long run, it would have been much more cost effective to have the first 2 SkyTrain lines stations already roughed out to 152m, or a least have enough level clearance to eventually become twice the length. But that's what a proper big city would do, something that Vancouver is against.
Even as an initial cost saving measure, the YVR-Canada Line should have opened with 100m stations, instead of the inadequate 50m joke. Then it could immediately accomodate 5 car trains. The station platforms should have had enough level clearance to eventually accommodate a 160m long train consisting of 8 cars reaching both ferry terminals. Of course there seems to be no plan to connect YVR to both ferry terminals.
Its very difficult for BC cities to allow proper big city size infrastructure, because that would symbolize a pro growth initiative. Since the world is mostly composed of non-white people, a slow growth agenda became a clever way to symbolically demonstrate a refusal to build big. BC is multicultural, but Canada has less than 1% of the worlds population. Even in the 2020s, BC still retains some of its colonial outpost mentality. Just keep things small and backwards and try to remain a backwater for as long as possible.