Vancouver PNE vs...

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-pne-fair-weekend-playland-aug-2026 

At the same time that the madness of Vancouver was making the PNE smaller, the CNE was allowed to grow in size. If anything like a Vancouver Mind Virus had an influence in Toronto, the city would have become a backwards mess. 

https://www.tourguys.ca/post/cne-vs-canadas-wonderland-best-toronto-theme-parks-for-kids-teens-families-2025-guide 

In 1981 Canada's Wonderland had just opened. But the CNE is also on. Which one do you decide to go to - the shiny new theme park or a Torontonian classic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItiWGErRyZM

Toronto would go onto becoming as big as Chicago. However, the GTA still isn't quite as big as the overall Chicagoland Area. Vancouver is still stuck in its provincial backwater trap mentality.

A glowing glass CTA shell is about to appear over one of Chicago's busiest streets.

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

Detroit's Strange Highway System

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHIka2bRH6E  

 Detroit’s Tiny, Terrible Metro System loop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZOCVrUxXH4 

This should have been a double track train loop. Then in a way, it could have been the Detroit version of the Chicago loop. However, unlike the actual Loop in Chicago, the Detroit loop wouldn't be connecting to a larger set of train lines. Perhaps Detroit should have just opted for a loop bus route instead. 

Chicago's Hidden (CTA) Train Line

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGESGf_Hztc&lc=Ugw4x33R8saQC3h6HJB4AaABAg

Chicago From Above

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9qvItw6twM  

Chicago’s Tallest Residential Tower https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RIPMLUIfmA

Chicago’s New Lakefront Skyscraper | 400 Lake Shore

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ1Cfe80sPM

Greater Seattle’s Most Frustrating Freeway (I-405) Is Getting a $3 Billion Fix

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpFi4wBgCvw A freeway with BRT & HOV lanes can certainly move a lot more people. 

In Chicago, a CTA train in the middle of the freeway always offers another option. 

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

Why Chicago is Spending $4B on One Road

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnPENmzivE0 

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

Why do some people think that Toronto is The Next New York?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eJcCpoXx50 

Its really more like becoming another Chicago. They are the 2 biggest cities on the Great Lakes.

CN Tower celebrates 50 years of being a skyline icon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujWLEBhbdt8 

If it were possible today, the KEEP VANCOUVER SMALL AND BACKWARDS people would still not permit any building to be a 3rd of the height of the CN_Tower. (CNT) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower#Height_comparisons

The Harbour_Centre opened just over a year after the CNT, and is just under a 3rd of its height. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_Centre#Height

https://www.cntower.ca/

Unfortunately, The Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV) was able to ensure that the Canada_Line Stations aren't even quite a 3rd of the length of the 152.5 m Montreal Metro stations. 

Even the North-Shore mountains aren't allowed to be as tall as the mountains north of L.A. 

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/LA_San_Gabriel_Mountains.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Gabriel_Mountains#Gallery 

Whether you are from Toronto or Chicago, LA or SF, Melbourne or Sydney, you might be shocked as to seeing how scaled down or watered down Vancouver is. Yet, the City of Paris, despite having a slightly smaller land area than Vancouver, can fit so much more inside. Boston and SF are only slightly larger in area than the City of Vancouver, yet they can also fit in so much more. 

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.

TransLink to run temporary Downtown Vancouver circular bus route during FIFA World Cup

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-no-1-downtown-vancouver-south-circulator-bus-route-fifa-world-cup 

Makes sense since the city never planned for a downtown train loop like Chicago, Toronto and other proper cities did generations ago. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Circle Stdney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Loop#Metro_Tunnel Melbourne  

There should be a permanent downtown bus loop or circle. It could run along Robson to Burrard, then along Davie to Denman and then back to Robson. Every 3-5 minutes during the day and every 5-10 minutes at night. Unfortunately, that would go against the backwards planning mentality of provincial Vancouver.

Toronto - Canada’s World-Class City

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHVS8_Bi7mc 

Toronto is approaching a Chicago level of scale. However, Toronto has yet to have its first 100 story office tower. The BMO tower has 72 floors. Provincial Vancouver still won't permit any 40 story office towers. While the GTA is easily at 7 million, the Chicagoland Area is at least up to 10 million. 

The GTA and Greater Montreal, combined with Chicagoland still doesn't quite match the Greater NYC Area, AKA: The Tristate Metropolitan Area of over 23 million people.

Chicago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsA9EkqDD0g

400 Lake Shore in Chicago

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

Toronto vs Chicago and NYC

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMQwIyx1O_0 

Working from home can be great, but big cities still need some office towers.

Unlike Chicago and NYC, Toronto has no 100 story office towers. However, it does have residential towers over 100 floors like Melbourne. 

Provincial Vancouver hasn't permitted any office tower to have 40 floor, let alone 50 stories.

The Chicago ‘L’ train is an icon

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hdGK2Y_bqc  

The $444 Million Reconstruction of Chicago’s State & Lake Station https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNVwnpRgDIs  

The Massive Transit Fix Chicago Desperately Needs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrCsytmZK4U

Are They are trying to build a NEW Twin Towers in Chicago?

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

Sideways Chicago vs. Tilted Toronto: Great Lakes Urbanism

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1swCsa1_U5s

The BRUTAL TRUTH about Living in Washington State

Washington's Dark Side Exposed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrhL0ih2XcI 

A cold, crappy dark and damp fall and winter is common. It's almost as bad as Vancouver, Canada. However, it's important to point out that Seattle and Vancouver never froze over like Minneapolis and Winnipeg, Chicago and Toronto, NYC and Montreal, Boston and Halifax.