Costco's first Metro Vancouver Business Centre

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/costco-business-centre-new-westminster-opening-date

Vancouver's River District

 https://vancouversun.com/news/developer-wesgroup-cancels-project-vancouver-river-district 

https://vancouversbestplaces.com/city-of-vancouver/river-district-vancouver/

https://govancity.com/neighbourhoods/river-district/

https://wesgroup.ca/river-district/

Riverside living is very popular around the world. Urban industrial areas are still important land uses as well.

Unfortunatly, the Kent Avenue streetcar, interurban or tram-train was discontinued in the 1950s.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/7c3wni/interactive_historical_map_of_the_bc_electric/#:~:text=Expo%20follows%20the%20exact%20route,r/vancouver 

It seemed like such a good idea in the 1950s, remove the streetcars and tram-trains. 

https://buzzer.translink.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/interurbanmap_web.jpg 

With several narrow streets and mostly narrow bridges, having a comprehensive regional rail system is imperative.

https://buzzer.translink.ca/2009/03/a-short-history-of-interurbans-in-the-lower-mainland 

https://vancouversun.com/news/this-week-in-history-1891-an-interurban-tram-connects-vancouver-to-new-westminster 

https://montecristomagazine.com/community/vancouvers-forgotten-streetcars#gsc.tab=0  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+East+Kent+Avenue+Greenway

Proposed rental housing tower prevents potential future Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain station expansion

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/2516-commercial-drive-1704-east-broadway-vancouver-rental-housing-tower

The city and the transit company should be working with the developer so that the new building has enough structural clearance for a future west train platform. With mutual cooperation, the developer should be allowed to add a few more floors to their tower. 

In the case of the Main_Street-Science_World_station, the VanCity Centre was built at and over the west side of the station. 

https://www.mcmparchitects.com/projects/vancity-centre Aside from the building not even reaching 20 floors, its a fine example of being built over the train structure.

https://sfuurban.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/main-street-skytrain-station-the-history-part-1 

https://www.translink.ca/about-us/doing-business-with-translink/real-estate  

https://fcr.ca/properties/british-columbia/vancouver/new-westminster/shops-at-new-west

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster_station , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shops_at_New_West , https://www.shopsatnewwest.com 

https://www.loopnet.ca/Listing/800-Carnarvon-St-New-Westminster-BC/29986774/

City of New Westminster beats legislated housing target by nearly two times

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/new-westminster-housing-supply-target-year-1-achieved

Despite its tiny size, NW should continue on being a central hub city.

Port Moody and New Westminster

Port_Moody is very small in area at 25.85 km² (9.98 sq mi). New_Westminster is such a tini area at 15.62 km² (6.03 sq mi). PM only has around 40 thousand people & NW has around 90 thousand residents. 

There has never been a proper transportation corridor between Port+Moody and Deep+Cove. Certainly no ferry between PM, DC & Downtown_Vancouver. NW is also a transportation joke of a city, because there should have been at least 2 other bridges. One to Richmond and another bridge to Surrey.

Of course there is no direct Airport_rail_link between NW & Richmond. Even an express Airport_bus_link would be an improvement. However, a 24 hour Airport-ferry_connection between Mission, Maple_Ridge, Pitt_Meadows, Port_Coquitlam, Fraser-Mills, NW and Richmond.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_passenger_transport#Train-ferry_connection

There is so much of a need for proper Intermodal_passenger_transport in BC. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_passenger_transport#Bus_to_public_transport_nodes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Moody#Transportation  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster#Transportation  

Front Street in New Westminster will be closed for the entire weekend

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/new-westminster-street-closed-weekend

BC Parkway in New Westminster

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-parkway-new-westminster-upgrade-translink

The rise and fall of the BC inter-urban railway

"The BC Electric Inter-Urban Railway ran trams from New Westminster to Chilliwack from 1912 to 1950" https://www.surreynowleader.com/community/north-delta-history-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-inter-urban-railway-2947692

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_Electric_Railway#Interurban_rail_lines

https://maps.nicholsonroad.com/bcer/

https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=3498

https://www.chilliwack.com/main/page.cfm?id=3111

https://fvhrs.org/history/

https://buildchilliwack.com/a-rail-idea-that-wont-quit-revisiting-fraser-valley-rail-proposals/

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/fraser-valley-metro-vancouver-regional-rail-west-coast-express

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6578199

overnight-closures-front-street-new-westminster-pattullo-bridge

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/overnight-closures-front-street-new-westminster-pattullo-bridge

New Westminster City Council balks at high-rise density plan

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/lower-twelfth-street-area-study-update-new-westminster-rejection

Given the limited industrial areas within the Greater Vancouver Region, there should be a balance between residential & industrial. 

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/columbia-square-new-westminster-edgar-development-plan-approved

However, some parts of NW need more taller towers in order to have much grater urban density.

https://www.newwestcity.ca/transportation/transportation-planning

https://www.newwestcity.ca/planning-building-and-development/roadworks

https://www.newwestcity.ca/transportation/trucks

https://www.newwestcity.ca/railways

https://www.newwestcity.ca/qtoqferry

New Westminster 2 weeks after water main break

 https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/03/03/new-westminster-mayor-water-main-break-next-steps/

Even a small city like NW can have big problems.

https://www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/cause-of-ruptured-water-main-in-new-west-is-still-unknown-10258948

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/02/21/new-westminster-water-main-break-problems-residents/

Queensborough in New Westminster, BC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensborough,_New_Westminster

 https://www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/new-west-to-spend-10000-to-hold-council-meeting-in-queensborough-10305559

Little NW should have annexed at least half of Lulu_Island by the 1870s, when there wasn't much of anything there yet.

Metro Vancouver regional district governance review changes

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-regional-district-governance-review-changes

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metro-vancouver-treatment-plan-audit-1.7239051 Why have a train tunnel fromWest Vancouver to Waterfront_Station in Vancouver when instead, you can put a few extra billion dollars into a North Shore shit-pipe?

"The reasons behind the escalation are the subject of duelling lawsuits between the contractor Metro Vancouver fired and the regional district, but the now $3.9 billion is five times beyond the original $700 million budget Metro set a decade ago and more than double a revised $1 billion budget from 2021.

The issue’s complexity lies in the fact that Metro Vancouver’s sewage treatment services are broken up into four sewerage areas, unlike the drinking water system that is operated as a single entity.

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The sewerage areas are: North Shore; Vancouver, which includes UBC and parts of Burnaby and Richmond; Lulu, which is most of Richmond and Fraser, which is most other Metro municipalities.

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All municipalities pay for the capital costs of new facilities, but those within each district pay a bigger share for facilities in their own district." https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/metro-vancouver-will-pay-for-north-shore-sewage-plant

https://www.nsnews.com/in-the-community/north-vancouver-district-asks-province-for-public-inquiry-on-sewage-plant-debacle-9777554 So much extra money will have to be paid out for a shit-box & a shit-pipe cost overrun. A few extra billion dollars could have easily paid for an improved Canada+Line and extension from downtown Vancouver to Park+Royal and the Horseshoe+Bay ferry terminal.

https://vancouversun.com/news/new-westminster-mayor-sides-with-metro-vancouver-in-surrey-spat Surrey wants to eventually become the biggest city in BC. That means not having similar restrictions that Vancouver, NW & Victoria have. Surrey wants to have taller buildings than restrictive Vancouver. First, it will have to rival Burnaby & Bellevue, WA and ultimately, Vaughan, Ontario. Instead of having 1 big downtown area, there will be a few town centres as well. 

While Surrey might want to have more autonomy, its still part of the Metro_Vancouver_Regional_District.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=SHIT-BOX

Three dead, one injured in crash on Pattullo Bridge

 https://vancouversun.com/news/three-dead-in-crash-pattullo-bridge

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/02/15/new-westminster-surrey-pattullo-bridge-fatal-crash/

https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/533640/Three-killed-one-seriously-injured-in-crash-on-Metro-Vancouver-bridge

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pattullo-bridge-crash-closed-1.7460474

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/3-dead-1-hospitalized-with-life-threatening-injuries-after-major-crash-on-metro-vancouver-bridge/

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pattullo-bridge-fatal-crash-february-2025

https://www.pattullobridgereplacement.ca Fortunately, the replacement bridge will have a central safety divider.

https://www.pattullobridgereplacement.ca/about/projectoverview Unfortunatly, the new bridge will open with only 4 lanes & no provision for a lower deck. However, there will be 2 bike & 2 footpaths. Despite being what is supposed to be a major port region, there are no truck lanes. Since Skytrain isn't a 24hr system & the Skybridge wasn't designed to have 2 bus lanes open at least during track maintenance, the new bridge should have had 2 bus lanes. Instead, cars, trucks & busses will all be funneled into only 2 lanes each way. So just like with the first bridge, BC bottleneck planning wins out.

https://www.highway99tunnel.ca While its several decades behind schedule, an 8 lane crossing is at least on the horizon.

https://www.highway99tunnel.ca/project-overview-frt Unfortunatly, in accordance with backwards BC infrastructure planning, there is no provision for a train tunnel or a bridge to Delta & especially the Tsawwassen_ferry_terminal. That seems to fit right in with not having a train from Waterfront_station to Park_Royal_Shopping_Centre and the Horseshoe_Bay_ferry_terminal. 

Until the stations on the first 2 Skytrain lines are lengthened, they will be stuck with 5 car trains. Proper long-range planning should have allowed for 8-10 car trains. The joke that is the Canada Line, should have had stations that could initially handle 4-5 car trains, with a provision to eventually accommodate 8-10 car trains. The existing ridiculously short stations can only handle 2.5 car trains. WTH? 

This unofficial congestive BC planning initiative is a multigenerational ME$$! Aparenty, narrow bridges & no regional bus bridges & short trains, can adequately move people around in a region of over 3 million people. Fortunately, when greater Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Sydney, Melbourn, Seattle & especially the SFBA all surpassed having 3 million people, they weren't bound by anything like the backwater BC mentality.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Pattullo+Bridge

Pattullo Bridge closed after three killed in crash

"The Pattullo Bridge between New Westminster and Surrey, B.C., remains closed Saturday morning after three people were killed and one person was left with life-threatening injuries in a crash Friday evening..." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pattullo-bridge-crash-closed-1.7460474

Why not have a few more bridges for Surrey, NW, Richmond & Delta? Apparently for several decades, a inept 4 lane P Bridge & an inadequate 4 lane D Island Tunnel, which can easily get blocked & temporarily shutdown, was the best way to go. Unfortunatly, the concept of redundancy in BC has never really caught on. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pattullo-bridge-5-things-you-didn-t-know-1.3564197

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/pattullo-bridge-history-built-in-1937-the-span-was-expected-to-last-50-years

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Pattullo+Bridge

History of New Westminster, BC

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster#History

Considering how much smaller New_Westminster is than Vancouver, Burnaby & Surrey, NW permitted its first 40 & 50 story building before it even had 100,000 residents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensborough,_New_Westminster#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster#Geography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_British_Columbia_(1866-1871)

Unfortunatly, by the 1860s NW didn't start to acquire much more of the Burrard_Peninsula. It should have also annexed more or all of Lulu_Island. However, as a provincial backwater, there just wasn't a long-range vision to be that big on the BC map.

Then by the mid & late 1860s, Victoria,_British_Columbia went through the process of becoming the new capital of BC. Unfortunatly by the 1960s & 1970s, NW was firmly entrenched into the small city mentality trap.

Since the 1980s, NW should have been promoted and developed as the link-city between Burnaby, Richmond, Surrey & especially the Tri-Cities.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tri-Cities

New Westminster business leaders talk about the city's economic future

 https://www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/new-west-business-leaders-to-talk-citys-economic-future-at-this-forum-9999877

columbia-square-in new-westminster-development-plan-approved

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/columbia-square-new-westminster-edgar-development-plan-approved

Of course the Skytrain stations weren't designed to eventually accommodate 10-12 car trains. NW like backwards Vancouver, refuses to build proper bus and truck bridges. Apparently, it's better to funnel the trucks and busses into a 2 lane each way bottleneck. 

bike-lane-debate-flares-in-new-westminster, bc

 https://globalnews.ca/news/10850395/bike-lane-debate-flares-in-new-westminster/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewWest/comments/ydlrlj/am_i_the_only_one_that_thinks_the_new_bike_lanes/

skytrain-22nd-street-station-transit-oriented-development-new-westminster

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-22nd-street-station-transit-oriented-development-new-westminster