Metrotown in Burnaby, BC

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmgEN4NcMH0

TransLink's R2 RapidBus ridership jumps 160% following North Shore to Metrotown route extension

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-r2-marine-willingdon-rapidbus-ridership-increase-extension

Burnaby

 https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=31&status=15 

https://skyscraperpage.com/b139592/burnaby/concord-metrotown-eight 47 stories at 187.2 m

Tower 8, a 47-storey, 375,000 SF office tower at 614 ft. height, https://vancouvermarket.ca/2022/07/22/phase-2-of-concord-metrotown-to-include-5-towers-2100-units/ 

https://www.urbanyvr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Concord-Metrotown-phases.jpg , https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=230813&page=37 

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/burnaby-developments.2444861/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic 

For the longest time, Vancouver has prevented BC from having a 40 story office tower, let alone a 50 or a 60 story office tower. Since Burnaby isn't directly affected by the VMV, Burnaby is on track to have the first office tower in BC that's over 45 floors. Indeed, a 47 story office tower at 614 feet would slightly rival the tallest in Bellevue,_Washington. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Bellevue,_Washington#Tallest_completed_buildings

New RapidBus ride between Park Royal and Metrotown starts early September

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/r2-marine-willingdon-rapidbus-route-launch-september-2026-metrotown-translink 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R2_Marine_Dr Finally, a better connection between Park_Royal_Exchange, Lonsdale_Quay, Phibbs_Exchange, Kootenay_Loop and Metrotown_station. 

https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects/projects/bus-projects/r2-marine-willingdon-rapidbus 

https://www.cnv.org/streets-transportation/transportation-projects/past-projects/marine-main-r2-rapidbus-upgrades

https://movementyvr.ca/r2-and-brt/ 

https://vancouver.ca/streets-transportation/metrotown-to-north-shore-rapid-transit.aspx 

Unfortunately, 2 bus lanes weren't added to a widened Iron Bridge, or a parallel bus-bridge. A North Boundary Road bus-bridge over the Inlet and a South Boundary Road bus-bridge to Richmond, would dramatically improve bus connections between the North Shore and Richmond. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidBus_(TransLink)

https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects/projects/bus-projects/rapidbus-projects 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Park+Royal

Concord Pacific tower in Metrotown now weeks away from becoming Metro Vancouver's tallest building

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/concord-metrotown-sky-house-metro-vancouver-tallest-building-construction-progress 

https://skyscraperpage.com/b114729/burnaby/grand-tower-at-sky-park 

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=31 

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=31&status=15 

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=1 

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=1&status=15

A free transit zone?

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-mayoral-candidate-stephanie-allen-free-transit 

A downtown Vancouver free transit zone would be a good start. Then, also a Metrotown zone in Burnaby and in downtown Surrey.

Metrotown to North Shore Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)

 https://vancouver.ca/streets-transportation/metrotown-to-north-shore-rapid-transit.aspx 

Unfortunately, the Second Narrows Crossing wasn't designed to have a lower deck for BRT, or express busses and LRT. The bridge was never widened to 10 lanes, so there isn't enough space to have 2 proper BRT or express bus lanes and no HOV lanes. There was no proper planning to even have 2 emergency lanes or 2 wide shoulders.  

https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects/projects/bus-projects/rapidbus-projects 

https://vancouver.ca/streets-transportation/transportation-2040.aspx 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidBus_(TransLink)  

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

Concord Metrotown Is Nearly Topped Out in Burnaby, BC, Canada

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcQqiPa-Qa0 Unlike most of the buildings in Vancouver, this one in Burnaby would actually be one of the taller buildings in Calgary and Seattle.

https://skyscraperpage.com/b114729/burnaby/grand-tower-at-sky-park 230 m or 755 feet. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Park_(Burnaby) 

All possible, because its not under the extreme controls and restrictions that Vancouver imposes. 

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=31 BC https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=1

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=31&status=15 BC https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=1&status=15 

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=1 Can https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=1&status=15

Metrotown's new pedestrian scramble crossing between mall and SkyTrain station reaches completion

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metrotown-pedestrian-scramble-crossing-skytrain-mall-central-boulevard-complete

Metrotown, Burnaby

 https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/1tegbb6/clearest_full_rainbow_ive_ever_seen/ 

https://skyscraperpage.com/b114729/burnaby/grand-tower-at-sky-park 

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=31&status=15

Concord | Metrotown in Burnaby

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbFE98Esk9k 

Burnaby isn't under the strict restrictions of Vancouver, so its able to have taller buildings and even a freeway.

Metrotown in Burnaby, BC

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmz9hH3rI6U 

Burnaby or Surrey will likely be the first places in BC where office towers will be over 45 stories. That's because stubborn Vancouver won't even permit any office tower to have a 40th floor.

New five-way pedestrian scramble for busy crossing between Metrotown mall and SkyTrain station to be installed this summer

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/central-boulevard-skytrain-metrotown-station-burnaby-mall-pedestrian-crossing

R2 RapidBus extension to Metrotown ahead of schedule, ready in September

 https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/04/08/r2-rapidbus-extension-to-metrotown-ahead-of-schedule-ready-in-september/ 

https://www.translink.ca/news/2026/april/translink%20fast-tracks%20major%20rapidbus%20expansion%20from%20north%20shore%20to%20metrotown 

https://tcomm.bustrainferry.com/mobile/routes/R2  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=R2+RapidBus

TransLink's R2 RapidBus to be extended from North Shore to Metrotown this September

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/r2-marine-willingdon-rapidbus-metrotown-bus-route-translink  

http://www.transitdb.ca/route/R2

A Boundary+Road Bridge over the inlet could have had a couple of Rapid Bus lanes and relieved some of the traffic on the inadequate Iron+Bridge. Had The+Iron+Bridge been originally designed to have 2 wide shoulders and 2 wide emergency lanes, then it could have been gradually adapted to accommodate 4 general lanes each way and 1 Rapid Bus lane each way. Instead, busses, trucks, cars and motorcycles are all squeezed into 3 lanes each way.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=R2+RapidBus

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Boundary+Road+Corridor

Metrotown is celebrating 4 decades

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metrotown-milestone-40-years

Some Canada Mega-projects Under Construction

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwsOVZ-j7hg 

Oakridge_Park is on a much smaller scale than Metrotown, Brentwood and Lougheed. It will especially be on a much smaller scale than Parramatta in NSW. 

Unfortunatly, the Oakridge-41st_Avenue_station was only designed to have 50m platforms, when it should have been at least 100m. Thus, the utter foolishness has meant that instead of allowing for a future level station clearance to accomodate 5 car trains, the Canada (embassament) Line was only designed to just have 2.5 car trains. While its extremely short stations might have been disguised as a cost saving measurer, there didn't seem to be any key people onboard to make sure that it could eventually become a proper big city train line. Its sad that a line which opened in 2009 is still only running 2 car trains. While the 2.5 car configuration is still a joke of a train, at least half of an extra coach-length is better than nothing. Plus, there should have been extra cars ordered by now so at least during the very busy times the trains could be operating at 1 minute headways. Unfortunatly, this goes against the Vancouver & BC congestion planning mentality.

Despite being built several years after the Sydney_Harbour_Bridge, the joke that is the Pattullo_Bridge was designed to only have 4 narrow lanes & only 1 sidewalk. Of course the replacement_bridge will only open with 2 lanes each way. It was as if someone really wanted to make sure that there won't be 2 bus lanes and no HOV lanes when the bridge opens. While the new bridge is designed to be expanded from a 4 lane joke to eventually having 6 lanes, it still won't be wide enough to accomodate 2 HOV lanes as well as 2 bus lanes. Of course the new bridge won't have any emergency lanes, just like the old bridge. However, it will have 2 bike lanes and 2 sidewalks. https://www.globalhighways.com/news/pattullo-bridge-completion-end-year Its only fitting that in backwards BC this new bridge wouldn't be designed to eventually have a lower deck to accomodate 2 bus lanes and 2 LRT tracks. 

If the planners were afraid to symbolically have a wide bridge between NW and Surrey, the old Pattullo_Bridge should have been designed to eventually have a lower deck for trams, trucks and busses. Even when the SkyBridge between NW and Surrey opened in 1990, it wasn't designed to have any bus lanes or emergency vehicle lanes and especially, no bike and footpaths. 

Is Vancouver the best city in North America? (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8dmVUrNt38

 One of the biggest mistakes in Vancouver & SW BC is to have short trains combined with mostly narrow bridges. Thus, the region doesn't get to have long, high capacity trains and there isn't a proper regional network of bus-bridges. The refusal to twin most of the bridges means that it's almost impossible to have a proper and efficient regional network of rapid-bus and HOV lanes.  

While Montreal built the REM to augment their long-train Metro system, Vancouver should have allowed for enough clearance to eventually have 500 foot long trains. 80m-50m Skytrain stations are going to become inadequate, when there should have been a 152.4m provision so that the trains could eventually become as long as the ones on the Montreal Metro. 

Is Regional Rail in the Future of British Columbia? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PeIOVy6fFc

Group rejects TransLink’s proposed Bus Rapid Transit route with picnic protest in Burnaby, B.C.

 https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/group-rejects-translinks-proposed-bus-rapid-transit-route-with-picnic-protest-in-burnaby-bc/ 

Backwards thinking & planning is so ingrained in BC. The R5 is already a frequent bus route along Hastings. https://www.translink.ca/schedules-and-maps/route/r5/direction/0/map 

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/08/26/transit-advocates-push-for-brt-through-burnaby-heights/ 

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metrotown-north-shore-brt-route-options-burnaby-translink-public-consultation

https://www.translink.ca/news/2025/august/translink%20seeks%20feedback%20on%20metrotown-north%20shore%20bus%20rapid%20transit

https://ehq-production-canada.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com

A BRT route along Boundary Road would be much better in the long run. Especially, if someday there can be a serious BRT route running the entire length of Boundary Road between North Vancouver & Richmond. 

https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects/projects/bus-projects/rapidbus-projects 

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

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Boundary+Road

Tunnel boring or a Cut-and-cover tunnel to UBC to save money?

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/ubc-skytrain-cut-and-cover-tunnel-construction 

Of course backwards Vancouver would have to take a backseat to Toronto & Montreal. However, even Edmonton, Calgary & Seattle were able to have a university station long before Vancouver-UBC.

https://www.ice.org.uk/what-is-civil-engineering/infrastructure-projects/tunnel-boring-machines  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=There+will+likely+be+a+UBC+Station+before+the+next+millennium

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=UBC-Broadway+Corridor 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Metrotown-North+Shore+Rapid+Transit+route

The Metrotown-North Shore bus rapid transit route

https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/translink-asks-for-input-on-metrotown-north-shore-bus-rapid-transit-route-11124079 

A Metrotown-North+Shore+Rapid+Transit+route should ultimately have a train as well as a bus line. That's because the SkyTrain won't be running 24 hours a day & BC lacks transportation redundancy.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metrotown-north-shore-brt-route-options-burnaby-translink-public-consultation

 https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/translink-asks-for-input-on-metrotown-north-shore-bus-rapid-transit-route-11124079 

There still should be a foot, bus & bike bridge between Port+Moody and Deep+Cove. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Metrotown-North+Shore+Rapid+Transit+route