Ironworkers Memorial marks 68th anniversary of Second Narrows Bridge collapse

 https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/memorial-marks-68th-anniversary-of-second-narrows-bridge-collapse-12442469 

The Iron Bridge should have had a bus, truck and LRT bridge built next to it decades ago.

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

Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing Collapse of 1958

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironworkers_Memorial_Second_Narrows_Crossing#Collapse 

After the collapse, there was a chance that the Iron_Bridge (IwB) could have been totally redesigned, but this is BC. Its very difficult in BC to design transportation infrastructure with significant future capacity. The Iron Bridge should have been built along the lines of the 12 lane Ship_Canal_Bridge (SCB) in Seattle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_Canal_Bridge 

Unlike Seattle and Washington State, so much in BC is built to a provincial backwater standard. Thus, nothing on the scale of the SCB has ever been allowed in BC. https://pauldorpat.com/2014/05/17/seattle-now-then-the-ship-canal-bridge Sunce an LRT line wasn't possible for the SCB, it runs sort of parallel in a tunnel to the UW. Of course LRT to UBC is still an incomplete BC pipe dream.

The IwB should have had at least 8 lanes on an upper deck and 4 lanes on a lower deck for extra bus and truck lanes. There should have also been a provision for 2 LRT tracks on a lower deck, but that would be properly planning for the future. 

Unfortunately, the Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV) ruined the Burrard-Bridge. The Burrard_Street Bridge (BSB) opened with 6 lanes and a lower level provision for a double track streetcar crossing.

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/5-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-the-burrard-bridge-7129420 

Foolishly, because the city didn't want to build a parallel bike bridge, 2 lanes were removed from the BSB. This has made it very unlikely that the BSB will be able to have 2 bus lanes. No lower level streetcar crossing was ever built. Yet, a streetcar line on both side of False Creek could have been a nice thing to have up and running. Ironically, Vancouver was one of the first cities to get rid of its streetcars and will likely be one of the last to bring them back. The VMV is such a horrible thing, yet it officially doesn't exist. 

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

Seattle's 'Crosslake Connection' draws steady crowds on second day

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jabSGw2M4tA 

Seattle's New Light Rail On a FLOATING BRIDGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmh5uVguIlM  

Seattle's Sound Transit just expanded their Link Light Rail system by running the 2 Line across a floating bridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmh5uVguIlM&t=2s

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/seattle-light-rail-finally-opens-across-lake-washington/ 

https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/light-rail/sound-transit-readies-for-crosslake-connection-launch 

Seattle has a good extensive regional train system and its getting bigger and better.

Some years after Montreal and so many years after Perth, but still better than backwards Vancouver. 

https://montrealgazette.com/news/the-rem-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-era-in-montreal-transit/ 

https://www.railway-technology.com/projects/reseau-express-metropolitain-rem-light-rail-system-canada 

Perth Narrows_Bridge 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrows_Bridge_(Perth)#Railway_bridge:_2005

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:6_car_train_on_narrows.JPG 

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-train-and-traffic-on-the-mitchell-freeway-crossing-over-narrows-127193937.html 

Unfortunately, all of these nice train and wide highway bridges aren't allowed in narrowminded Vancouver. A congestive transportation approach was implemented decades ago. 

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

Last week's malfunction of the Second Narrows (rail) Bridge shows how dependent the Prairie economy is on this transportation chokepoint

 https://financialpost.com/opinion/opinion-users-need-more-say-about-vancouvers-rail-bridges 

The Greater Vancouver Region should have had all of its freight rail bridges at least double tracked by now.

https://www.cn.ca/en/stories/20250429-cn-and-port-of-vancouver-collaborating/

There is a subtle KEEP BC SMALL AND BACKWARDS mentality, but sometimes it's right in your face.

https://financialpost.com/opinion/opinion-vancouvers-port-must-up-its-grain-game 

Its as if there is a VMV and the BC Mind Virus. Although no one can actually pinpoint it, the effects of it are quite apparent. 

https://financialpost.com/opinion/nutrien-bypass-port-vancouver-underscores-need-change  

Despite the size of Canada, it has less than 1% of the world's population.

https://www.portvancouver.com/project/second-narrows-dredging-works 

Unfortunately, by not even keeping up with moderate infrastructure growth demands, Canada keeps falling behind in a world with over 8 billion people. 

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2024/10/20252027-immigration-levels-plan.html 

There should be a way to expand the economy and population, while making things more affordable.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/mandate/corporate-initiatives/levels/supplementary-immigration-levels-2026-2028.html 

https://thoughtleadership.cibc.com/article/population-growth-projections-are-we-repeating-past-mistakes/

https://www.rbc.com/en/economics/canadian-analysis/featured-analysis/insights/canada-maintains-tight-immigration-policy-despite-permanent-resident-exemptions/ 

Vancouver keeps holding back the scale of bridges, trains and buildings. This is part of a symbolic mentality and agenda to not think like a proper big city.  

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

Burrard Inlet's lift rail bridge stuck, unable to open for large ships to pass through Second Narrows for days

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/second-narrows-rail-bridge-malfunction 

The tunnel should have been built wide enough to eventually accommodate 2 tracks. Either there should have been a provision to build a 2nd fright bridge and tunnel, or simply have designed a double track bridge and tunnel that could easily and regularly be maintained. 

This all symbolically fits in with with the narrow-minded mentality to not build proper big city infrastructure. 

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

Vancouver port applies to dredge Burrard Inlet this year to fuel oil exports

 https://www.biv.com/news/transportation/vancouver-port-applies-to-dredge-burrard-inlet-this-year-to-fuel-oil-exports-11915974  

The Second Narrows Crossing Area

https://www.vmcdn.ca/f/files/glaciermedia/images/climate-enviro-solutions/oceans/proposed-burrard-inlet-dredging.jpg;w=960 A commuter rail, rapid bus and HOV bridge was never built next to the Iron Bridge, which doesn't even have any emergency lanes. The freight train bridge and tunnel east of it, wasn't designed to eventually accommodate 2 tracks. Taking a narrower bridge and tunnel approach symbolically fits right in with the narrow-minded mentality that is BC. 

https://www.bchydro.com/energy-in-bc/projects/second-narrows-crossing-project.html 

Port, rail and highway congestion, that's the planning approach in backwards BC.

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

Port of Vancouver

 https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/national-business/tariff-tumult-is-shaking-consumer-confidence-says-port-of-vancouver-ceo-10348885

The Port of Vancouver is several decades behind with its infrastructure. Perhaps the new series of tariffs & subsequent slowdown will help to ensure that Vancouver's port infrastructure will remain stunted for may more years. 

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/thornton-tunnel-burnaby-fake-house-canadian-national-cn-railway

At a time when it would have been so much cheaper in the 1960s, the Second+Narrows+Rail+Bridge and the Thornton_Tunnel should have been built wide enough to eventually accommodate 2 sets of tracks.

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/access-upgrades-complete-from-burnaby-rail-corridor-to-north-shore-port-terminals-cn-5422775

The New_Westminster Rail_Bridge should have been twinned a few generations ago. Really, a new 2-4 track bridge should have been built at least a few decades ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster_Bridge#Proposed_changes 

https://events.decorporate.ca/TAC2024/abstract/submission-summary.php?y=cGFwZXJJZD0xMDI5OTI= 

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

The original Second Narrows Bridge and its replacement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Narrows_Rail_Bridge#Original_bridge_(1925) This is a smaller bridge than what was originally planned. Of course, that's the backwards BC way.

 https://www.nsnews.com/in-the-community/time-traveller-the-first-second-narrows-bridge-1925-3118875

https://vancouversun.com/news/this-week-in-history-1930-the-first-second-narrows-bridge-was-a-disaster-magnet-for-ships

https://www.northshoreheritage.org/blog/2023/11/23/bridge-over-burrards-water

https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/second-narrows-bridge-vancouver-b-c-opened-november-7th-1925-2

https://search.nbca.unbc.ca/index.php/second-narrows-bridge-in-vancouver-bc-6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Narrows_Rail_Bridge (1969)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Tunnel#History Unfortunatly, the new tunnel & bridge weren't designed to be wide enough to eventually accommodate a parallel track. Thus, N. Vancouver & Vancouver are still in the single track crossing trap, just like NW & Surrey are. 

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

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=old+and+new+narrow+bridges 

North Shore-Metrotown SkyTrain would see 120,000 riders daily

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/north-shore-skytrain-burrard-inlet-rapid-transit-brt-lrt-study

Since the planned North_Shore train won't be running 24 hours a day, there should be at least 1 bus & 1 HOV lane for each direction. There should also be 2 truck lanes & at least 2 wide emergency lanes. Unfortunately, the Ironworkers-Memorial-Bridge-replacement-concept only depicts 3 general lanes each way, plus only 2 extra lanes that could become a bus & HOV lane. The shoulders don't look like they will be as wide as a regular lane, but still might barely function as an emergency lane for fire-trucks, etc. There also doesn't look like any provision for a bike & foot path for both sides of the bridge. 

Thus, once again, it's a narrow-minded Vancouver & especially a backward BC bridge, being designed to be narrower than what it should be.

https://canada.constructconnect.com/joc/news/infrastructure/2023/07/province-planning-study-on-future-of-ironworkers-bridge

https://vancouvertraces.weebly.com/the-first-and-second-narrows-crossings.html

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

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

A North Shore Skytrain on a new Ironworkers Memorial Bridge?

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-united-north-shore-skytrain-ironworkers-memorial-bridge 

The original Second+Narrows+Bridge could be upgraded and become part of an improved crossing.

Either a rapid-bus crossing first, or a train crossing with 2 buss lanes for whenever the train is shut down. The NW Skybridge wasn't designed to have 2 bus & 2 bike lanes & 2 footpaths. Thus, the SkyBridge to Surrey remains as a fine inept example of backward BC planning. 

The North-Arm-Bridge to Richmond was also not designed to have 2 bus lanes, 2 bike lanes & 2 footpaths. Just one combined bike & footpath. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Arm_Bridge

Unfortunately, Greater Vancouver doesn't want to provide 24hr trains. Yet, there seems to be a reluctance to have a series of regional bus-bridges, because most of the existing bridges are too narrow to have 2 extra bus lanes.

https://canada.constructconnect.com/joc/news/infrastructure/2023/07/province-planning-study-on-future-of-ironworkers-bridge

https://vancouvertraces.weebly.com/the-first-and-second-narrows-crossings.html

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

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=North+Shore+of+Greater+Vancouver

Langley man – last surviving ironworker of Second Narrows Bridge collapse – attends 66th anniversary memorial

 https://www.langleyadvancetimes.com/community/langley-man-last-surviving-ironworker-of-second-narrows-bridge-collapse-attends-66th-anniversary-memorial-7396246

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ironworkers-memorial-bridge-collapse-1958-1.5615447

https://www.ironworkers.ca/58-years-second-narrows-bridge-collapse-lost-lives-not-forgotten/ 

The Iron Bridge has heled up very well through the decades, but it just wasn't designed with future bus, truck lanes and LRT capacity in mind.

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

Collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge during its Construction in 1958

 https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/9780784481035.014

Unfortunately, when the Iron Bridge was rebuilt, there was no concept for a couple of bus lanes.

https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/engineeringinsociety/chapter/infrastructure-disaster-ironworkers-memorial-bridge-vancouver-1958

There should have been at least 2 emergency lanes, but it was decide to just jam everything into only 3 lanes each way.

https://www.nsnews.com/in-the-community/time-traveller-19-die-in-1958-second-narrows-bridge-collapse-and-ensuing-rescue-5462583

https://vancouversun.com/news/this-day-in-history-june-17-1958

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/second-narrows-bridge-collapse

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2018TRAN0045-001202

https://www.ironworkers.ca/58-years-second-narrows-bridge-collapse-lost-lives-not-forgotten/

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

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

The 6 and then 4 lane Burrard St. Bridge (BSB)

 https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/5-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-the-burrard-bridge-7129420 The BSB used to have 6 lanes, but was reduced to 4, because the city didn't want to build a parallel bike bridge.

https://vancouverhistory.ca/places/burrard-bridge

Hopefully, the VMV will never cause the removal of 2 lanes from the congested 6 lane Second+Narrows+Bridge. 

https://vancouverhistory.ca/events/collapse-of-the-second-narrows-bridge 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Burrard+Bridge A parallel bike bridge could allow the BSB to have 6 lanes again, with 2 of them for buses.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Second+Narrows+Bridge A parallel express bus or BRT bridge with 2 truck lanes and 2 LRT tracks would greatly improve crossing capacity.

The Second Narrows Bridge between Vancouver and NV

http://vintageairphotos.com/tag/second-narrows-bridge

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

Second Narrows Bridge

https://tranbc.ca/2014/04/23/making-room-for-wider-sidewalks-on-the-second-narrows-bridge
Its unfortunate that the Iron Bridge wasn't designed to support a future upper or lower deck. This could have provided an additional 2 north & 2 southbound lanes for buses and trucks. Plus, an LRT line with a north & southbound set of tracks.
http://www.railforthevalley.com/latest-news/yippee-vancouver-is-number-one

http://vintageairphotos.com/tag/second-narrows-bridge 

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

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (VNB)

The 12 lane, double decks Verrazano-Narrows_Bridge (VNB)

{The lower deck opened on June 28, 1969.}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verrazano-Narrows_Bridge#History
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The 14 lane George_Washington_Bridge
{As originally built, the bridge offered six lanes of traffic, but in 1946, two additional lanes were provided on what is now the upper level. A second, lower deck, which had been anticipated in Ammann's original plans, was added, opening to the public on August 29, 1962. The additional deck increased the capacity of the bridge by 75 percent, making the George Washington Bridge the world's only 14-lane suspension bridge, providing eight lanes on the upper level and six on the lower deck.}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Bridge#History 

Unfortunately the Second+Narrows+Bridge in backwards Vancouver wasn't designed with the potential to have a 2nd deck. Such a 2nd deck could have allowed for 2 bus lanes, 2 truck lanes and 2 LRT tracks.