https://www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/waitemata-harbour-connections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland_Harbour_Bridge
https://infrastructurepipeline.org/project/additional-waitemata-harbour-crossing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Harbour_Crossing,_Auckland
https://www.reddit.com/r/auckland/comments/1smxwo7/i_really_like_this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKfTpPA3s5s 9 car trains planned for future capacity. This is possible, because NZ is so far away from the backwards BC mentality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Rail_Link#Capacity_forecast_forces_platform_enlargements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland_railway_electrification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland#Transport
https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/04/15/for-the-avoidance-of-diesel-and-doubt/
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-best-city-world-timeout
Fortunately, Australia doesn't have half a year of cold, crappy weather. Even the North Island of NZ can avoid the crappy Canadian weather. Unfortunately, if one wants to avoid the harsh Canadian winter, the best locations are in Greater Vancouver and Greater Victoria, or SW BC in general.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-car-free-days-funding-city-council
The no+fun+city aspect of the Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV) isn't suppose to be real, but it occasionally keeps manifesting. Fortunately, these street festivals still have a chance in Vancouver. Just like some truncated summer fireworks still might be possible.
What's really fortunate is that the VMV hasn't spread to Montreal & Toronto, Calgary & Edmonton, or Winnipeg, QC & Halifax. Especially to any of the major cities in Australia & NZ.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11615259/ontario-office-mandate-snow-day
As Australia & NZ get some intense summer weather, Canada is constantly reminded that winter isn't always a fun time. While its sunny and well above freezing in Vancouver & Victoria, Toronto & Montreal are stuck right in the middle of total winter conditions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Harbour_Crossing,_Auckland
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/5312416/Debate-continues-over-second-harbour-crossing
"With the second bridge in place, traffic lanes would be split and shared, with northbound lanes on the new six-lane bridge and south bound traffic on the eight-lane Auckland Harbour Bridge.
There could be dedicated public transport lanes in both directions, and on the eastern side of the Auckland Harbour Bridge, two of the outside lanes can be freed exclusively for walking and cycling.
This plan would reduce the loading on the existing bridge." https://reseturban.co.nz/news/fresh-thinking-needed-on-second-auckland-harbour-crossing
Wow, this would be a duplication on the scale of what Brisbane did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Leo_Hielscher_Bridges#Duplication
https://briscycle.com/moreton-bay/gateway-bridge-cycleway/
https://www.brisbane-australia.com/sir-leo-hielscher-bridges.html
https://www.railway.supply/en/aucklands-city-rail-link-sets-sustainability-benchmark/
https://www.cityraillink.co.nz/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Rail_Link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Rail_Link#Capacity_forecast_forces_platform_enlargements
https://at.govt.nz/projects-initiatives/city-centre-projects-and-initiatives/city-rail-link
https://victoriabuzz.com/2025/06/3-vancouver-island-beaches-declared-unfit-for-swimming-this-month
This crappy situation has been going on for several years in BC. Why would backwards BC let some beaches go to shit?
Hopefully, BC will never send a delegation to Australia, NZ, Hawaii, California, Texas & Florida to show them how its done. Fortunately, all those places understand how important it is for the tourism industry to not lower their standards.
Even the beach resorts in Mexico understand that it's not a good idea to let it go to shit. Perhaps there is just a growing give up mentality in backwater BC.
https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2020/08/09/no-swimming-at-sunset-beach/
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/swimming-advisories-issued-for-three-vancouver-beaches/
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/courier-archive/news/west-end-beaches-unfit-for-swimming-2958828
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC+beaches
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Metro+Vancouver+beaches
https://dailyhive.com/canada/federal-election-results-canadians-move-us
https://www.postalley.org/2025/04/29/thanks-trump-in-epic-comeback-liberals-reelected-in-canada/
If you move to the US, UK, France, Australia or NZ, you get to have the color blue on the national flag.
https://dailyhive.com/canada/canada-recession-2025-wells-fargo
Auckland, NZ, along with Perth, WA and Seattle, WA have no problems with taller buildings and wider bridges than what Vancouver allows. Established cities like London & Paris, NYC & Chicago, big L.A. and even smaller Singapore, all seem to plan, spend & build more infrastructure than backwards Vancouver does.
Cities like Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-SF-Boston-and-Toronto are all on a much larger scale, simply because they don't have anything like the overlapping restrictions that backwards Vancouver & BC has imposed for itself.
https://x.com/CityHallWchVAN/status/1517347123225718785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Escreen-name%3Acityhallwchvan%7Ctwcon%5Es1 What seems big in little Vancouver is small or just average in many other cities.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-Toronto
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane+Airport+Railway+Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ef8p-kQDRs
It would be quite an irony if Canada went from being a colony of the UK to becoming a US state. It would be much better if Canada could officially become its own republic.
NZ would rather remain independent of Australia and not have to become an Australia state. Australia might eventually want to become its own republic, thus becoming fully independent of the UK. The same could eventually happen for NZ. Canada should never be too quick to give up and merely transfer from being under the authority of the UK to becoming absorbed by the US.
Canada, Australia & NZ should each all consider becoming their own republics. Alliances with the UK and the US can easily remain intact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland#Transport
Though it might be hard to believe, World_Expo_88 in Brisbane was much more of a catalyst than Expo_86 was for Vancouver. That's because unlike Brisbane, Vancouver imposed & doubled down on various infrastructure restrictions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Expo_88#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_86#Legacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia#Transportation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland#Cities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia#Cities
After the Expo 88, Brisbane would go onto allowing significantly taller buildings, wider roads and especially longer trains than what backwards Vancouver is still stuck with. Of course Queensland would have larger port infrastructure than backwater BC as well.
Perhaps Australia is able to get things done on a bigger & better scale than Canada, because of the warmer year-round weather. Unfortunately, backwards Vancouver & backwater BC seem to be hindered by something like a Mind Virus.
https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/australia/canada
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/heres-why-australians-make-more-money-canadians Fortunatly, Canada hasn't been able to convince Australia, NZ, UK, USA & France to remove blue from their national flag. Japan is surrounded by water & Switzerland has lakes & rivers, but even a speck of blue isn't allowed on the national flag.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2009/jun/pdf/bu-0609-4.pdf
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11f0027m/11f0027m2003018-eng.pdf
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Queensland
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane+Airport+Railway+Line
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/320-granville-bosa-faria-flooding-dispute
It's a nice looking building, but once again, it's only a half-size figurine, or a stump.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bosa-waterfront-centre-320-granville-street-vancouver-office-tower
Unlike scenic Auckland, NZ & especially Sydney, Australia or SF, California, Vancouver continues to cut off the top 15-30 floors of any office tower development.
https://bosadevelopment.com/project/320-granville , https://320granville.com/
https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/320-Granville-St-Vancouver-BC/27653032/
https://storeys.com/vancouver-bosa-waterfront-office-complete/
Even no residential tower within little Vancouver has been allowed to be as high as the tallest condo tower in Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton & Toronto. Especially, Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-Toronto-SF
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vintage-luxury-car-butterfly-building
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/millionaire-turns-heads-hoisting-car-into-39m-melbourne-penthouse/news-story/2a70430b94355b8f263e21bb11387e1d Of course Melbourne is a real city like Toronto & San Fransisco. Those tram or streetcar cities have something very cool about them. They along with, Sydney & Brisbane or Singapore were never thwarted, stunted or especially, Vancouverized.
https://www.motor1.com/news/667598/mclaren-senna-lifted-57-stories-39m-apartment-cant-be-driven
https://www.forbes.com.au/life/cars/melbourne-millionaire-cranes-mclaren-into-57th-floor-penthouse/
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Sapphire+by+the+Gardens+in+Melbourne
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/earthquake-new-york-city-aging-buildings/
So many older NYC buildings just weren't constructed to modern earthquake standards.
Fortunately, this was nowhere as intense as what can happen in Taiwan, Japan, NZ or California.
Unfortunately, urban earthquakes can strike at any time without warning.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-world-s-10-most-earthquake-prone-countries.html