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Friday, July 24, 2026
Tight security bars public at Metro Vancouver board meeting with CAO absent
With public access restricted and CAO Jerry Dobrovolny absent, Metro Vancouver's board voted to reduce its size from 41 to 34 directors and distribute a $235-million wastewater plant settlement https://www.biv.com/news/economy-law-politics/tight-security-bars-public-at-metro-vancouver-board-meeting-with-cao-absent-12589967
A lot of people are PI$$ED-off as to how inept the financial management has gone.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11969430/metro-vancouver-cao-jerry-dobrovolny-could-be-on-way-out/
A North Shore $HIT-BOX with more than a 3 billion dollar overrun is a fine example.
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Friday, July 10, 2026
Major changes to Highway 1 traffic in Metro Vancouver to last for months
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/highway-1-metro-vancouver-traffic-pattern-changes
Ultimately, this should be a 10 lane corridor between Horseshoe Bay and Hope. Plus, 2 BRT lanes, 2 LRT tracks, 2 HOV lanes and even the provision for a double track commuter rail line.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Monday, June 29, 2026
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Will it rain until Canada day in Metro Vancouver?
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/metro-vancouver-weather-rain-canada-day-2026-12478135
Nothing like cold, damp and depressing fall like weather when its supposed to be summer in Vancouver, BC. June 26 was awful!
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.
Monday, June 22, 2026
Why does Metro Vancouver have two starts to summer?
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/metro-vancouver-weather-summer-june-2026-12441747
June, July & August are the fastest 3 months in Vancouver, because they are usually the best weather months. However, there is never any guarantee of 90 days of nice summer weather.
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/metro-vancouver-weather-heat-rain-june-2026-12455681
Unfortunately, May can sometimes still look more like fall than spring. However, what really should be the summer months can still occasionally have cool, cloudy and rainy days. Then by the second week of September, there is a sense that summer is fading quickly. The later half of September is more like spring than summer, with October having some occasionally spring-like days, but colder nights.
November is totally crappy cold & damp weather, with the depressing 3 months of winter still to get through. March is usually more like fall than spring, but at least you are out of February and getting out of another winter.
Somehow, the 3 depressing, cold and damp wither months seem to always drag along, while summertime in Vancouver always runs out too quickly.
Sunday, June 21, 2026
How the Seattle to Vancouver area could become a megaregion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POcg0oFvVf8
The larger Portland, Seattle and the Vancouver, BC (V-BC) region has a lot of growth potential. However, Seattle size buildings haven't been allowed in Portland and in Vancouver, BC. Nothing like a 12 lane Ship Canal Bridge has been allowed in Portland and Vancouver. While Oregon and backwater BC haven't been able to thwart the largest city in Washington State, Seattle might eventually become more of a magnet in pulling more people into the area between Portland and V-BC.
Right now, Vancouver, WA (V-WA) still has a wider bridge than V-BC. Most of the V-BC bridges are so damn narrow that its not possible to have an efficient regional express bus network. As long as there is a refusal to build proper BRT bridges as part of a regional system, it remains a sad joke.
The Skytrain (LRT) was built with shorter stations than what the underground stations in Seattle and Edmonton are at. Whenever possible, the Skytrain stations are shorter than the C Train stations in Calgary, DART stations in Dallas and even the Max in Portland.
The biggest mistake of the Skytrain was to not build all of the stations with a future level clearance to eventually have Montreal Metro size stations of 500 feet or 152.5 m. Instead, the first 2 lines only have 80 m stations and the line to YVR (The Canada embarrassment Line) is only 50 m. Backwater BC logic is that a 5 car Skytrain could run twice as frequent as a 9 car Montreal Metro train. Someday, a 2.5 car YVR-Canada Line train could also run much more frequently than a 9 car Montreal Metro train.
There is just one key problem with that type of BC logic. While initially constructing short stations and having short trains can save money, its not proper BIG city size infrastructure. In the long run, it costs more to try to lengthen stations for longer BIG city type trains.
Saturday, June 13, 2026
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