Thursday, June 4, 2026
Friday, May 29, 2026
Oakridge Park Mall and Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_0SyNwWEwA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDSuu9hzVpM
https://thecanadaline.com/station-history/oakridge-41st
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Oakridge+Park+Mall
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Selective+Door+Operation
Thursday, May 28, 2026
The Park at Oakridge Park Mall
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/oakridge-park-mall-rooftop-public-park-opens-photos
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/05/28/new-oakridge-mall-development-opens
https://thecanadaline.com/station-history/oakridge-41st
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Oakridge+Park+Mall
A look inside the new Oakridge Park
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/oakridge-park-mall-vancouver-completion-opening-photos
There should have been at least 5 car trains stopping at all the stations by now. Unfortunately, because of backwards Vancouver and backwater BC planning standards, the Canada Line stations are only level and long enough to accommodate a 2.5 car joke of a train.
https://thecanadaline.com/station-history/oakridge-41st
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Oakridge+Park+Mall
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Sunday, May 17, 2026
Oakridge Park and Mall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Kwx7SctJ4
Somehow the people around Broadway Station weren't able to stop this. Well, the Oakridge Station area is becoming its own town centre in that part of provincial Vancouver. Yet, the Broadway & Commercial area is already a big transportation intersection.
Despite the C-Line still only running 2 car joke trains, there is a potential to have 3 car trains. That's still pretty sad when the 50 m stations should have been built to eventually accommodate 5-6 car trains. Unfortunately, the planners never seriously considered to have a future level station clearance of 100-120 m. In contrast, the Montreal Metro has 152.5 m stations and can accommodate 9 car trains. The Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV) has always prevented the city from thinking on a big scale.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Oakridge+Park+Mall
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Selective+Door+Operation
Saturday, May 9, 2026
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Early nightly closures at Oakridge-41st Avenue SkyTrain station for construction extended by two months
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/oakridge-41st-avenue-skytrain-station-early-closure-2026
While some improvements are possible with the very short Canada+Line stations, there was a lack of vision to allow for enough level clearance to be able to double the length of the stations.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-oakridge-41st-avenue-station-upgrade-design-renderings
Indeed, the stations should have been at least 100m long, but only can be 50m. So instead of eventually having 5 car trains, only 2.5 car trains will be the maximum. WTH?
Saturday, November 22, 2025
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
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Oakridge Park mall in Vancouver
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-oakridge-park-mall-opening While shopping online can be a great convenience, going to a mall can still be a nice tactile experience. Had the horrible Covid shutdown gone on for another year, people would have been more conditioned to order things online and perhaps even have to ask AI for permission to go out anywhere.
Despite feeble attempts to the moon and Mars, most of humanity is confined to the Earth. That doesn't mean that the planet should ever become an AI run prison. However, things like a World Carbon Credit Score, a Personal Compliance Score and having to seek permission from AI to go anywhere, would be the epitome of a Sci-Fi dystopian story being imposed upon the MA$$E$.
Thus, the shopping mall and public transit should always remain as safe, open places. Eventually, mall security and transit police might be augmented with robots and AI drones.
Fortunately, the new and improved Oakridge wont be like anything out of a dystopian Sci-Fi story.
Its so creepy how the Canada Embarrassment Line was designed to only have 2 car trains, with no easy expansion ability to have 4-8 car trains. Indeed, to design a 2 billion dollar line without the capability to at least have 5 car trains is a very sad joke. The stations are only designed to eventually accommodate a 2.5 car train as if to symbolize the reluctance to ever connect YVR to both ferry terminals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakridge-41st_Avenue_station
https://www.translink.ca/news/2025/may/oakridge%20canada%20line%20station%20to%20close%20early
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Oakridge+Park+Mall
Oakridge–41st Avenue station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakridge-41st_Avenue_station
It's so sad that the Canada (Embarrassment) Line stations are only an absurd 50 m, when the Montreal_Metro stations are 152.5 m or 500 feet long. A 2 car Vancouver-Richmond train just can't match the capacity of a 9 car Montreal Metro train.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Line#Stations "The five busiest stations have platforms 50 metres (160 ft) long, while the rest of the stations have 40-metre (130 ft) platforms that can be easily extended to 50 metres."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Line#Canada_Line_Hyundai_Rotem_specifications "Train length: 41 m (134 ft 6 in)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro#Station_design "Platforms, 152.4 metres (500 ft) long and at least 3.8 metres (12 ft) wide..."
The Canada_Line is a total backwards BC embassesment. The argument for such short stations and trains was to save money. However, all the stations could have still been designed to be level long enough to eventually be extended to 160 m. That would be able to accomodate an 8 car train of 525 feet.
Unfortunatly, in accordance with backwards Vancouver transportation planning, the Canada (Embarrassment) Line stations are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_station_(Edmonton)
The multigenerational backwards BC thinking always gets in the way. An initial 2 billion dollar train line should have ultimately been designed to have 10 car trains. This line should have eventually linked YVR to both ferry terminals, but that would actually be efficient long-range transportation planning.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Why Vancouver City Council Approved The Commercial-Broadway Safeway Project
https://storeys.com/vancouver-approves-commercial-broadway-safeway-redevelopment/
The big dispute is not having a reasonable amount of below market level housing. Of course if the towers were at least 20-30 stories taller, provided that there were several affordable units included, then the developer would have more incentive for affordable units.
https://storeys.com/broadway-commercial-safeway-may-2024/
It's stupid to only have luxury high rises or even comfortable yuppie high-end housing, when there is a lot of demand for real affordable housing. Thus, if a high-rise developer could be allowed to build higher as long as a reasonable amount of affordable housing was included in the lower floors, it could work.
However, despite being a major transportation intersection, many people are uncomfortable of Oakridge size building, especially Brentwood size towers.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Saturday, May 10, 2025
After 10 years, East Broadway Safeway redevelopment proposal finally faces Vancouver City Council decision
The KEEP IT SMALL, BECAUSE ITS VANCOUVER mentality has held this back for a decade. Despite being a major regional SkyTrain intersection, various people are determined to have stunted buildings that might be impressive by Kelowna or Victoria standards. Ideally, the most vocal people would like the scale to not even rival that of what's in Kamloops & Prince George. These very expressive people are too afraid to allow Brentwood or even Oakridge size towers.