Friday, September 25, 2026
Monday, September 21, 2026
Why Seattle Built THREE Downtowns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auf_m-cV6mQ
Some might sat that there are several parts to the overall downtown area.
Chicago has one big downtown area with a few key sections. NYC has Midtown and Lower Manhattan as its two main areas. Boston has the area around the Custom+House+Tower and City Hall, plus the Prudential+Center part of town.
Friday, August 21, 2026
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.
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.
Thursday, August 13, 2026
The Plan to Extend Downtown Toronto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmwnSPQRf1M
Get big and tall like Chicago.
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Saturday, July 25, 2026
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.
Friday, July 24, 2026
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Chicago From Above
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9qvItw6twM
Chicago’s Tallest Residential Tower https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RIPMLUIfmA
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Friday, July 10, 2026
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.
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
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.
Friday, June 26, 2026
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
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.
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.
Monday, May 25, 2026
TransLink to run temporary Downtown Vancouver circular bus route during 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.
Sunday, May 24, 2026
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.
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Sunday, April 19, 2026
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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.