Urban Tech Links: UTL

The  Evergreen_Point_Floating_Bridge  in Seattle has 6 lanes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Point_Floating_Bridge#Public_transport...

  https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/light-rail-opens-long-awaited-east-link-extension/U54OG64XFJHETGVNXX4K7IPPRA/ https://www.soundtransit.or...

  https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2024/04/little-house-toronto It's quite rare to find something that is smaller in Toronto t...

  https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/partial-subway-closure-on-line-2-could-last-a-few-days-after-fire-ttc-says-1.6862790 There can always be better...

https://spacing.ca/vancouver/2024/04/15/noise-the-invisible-pollutant/ Cities are meant to be big & bustling places. Most of BC is a wil...

  https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/04/eglinton-crosstown-west-extension-breakthrough-completion/ Some things might take a while in Toronto t...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-expo-line-surrey-station-closure No 10 car trains, not even 9 like what the Montreal Metro has. I...

https://hollywoodnorthbuzz.com/2024/04/superman-lois-wrap-party-in-vancouver-up-up-away.html https://hollywoodnorthbuzz.com/2024/04/superman...

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Gate_by_Bosa https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/skyscraper/kpf-adds-pacific-gate-residential-skysc...

  https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/skyscraper/unstudio-completes-enormous-raffles-city-hangzhou-complex-featuring-twisted-glass-towers/ ...

https://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/sunshine-60-tokyo-skyscraper  The Sunshine 60 Tower has an interesting history. https://medium.com/@moving...

  https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/skyscraper/via-west57-bjarke-ingels-group-big At only 450 feet, it's just another stump of a buil...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-centre-ii-office-tower-tenants https : //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotia_Tower  Of course it had to...

  https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/sapphire-by-the-gardens/27866 https://upload.wikimedia.org/Sapphire_by_the_Gardens_under_constru...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vintage-luxury-car-butterfly-building https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/millionaire...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/mla-south-vancouver-new-57th-avenue-bus-route-canada-line-stations The multibillion dollar  Canada+Line  i...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/free-bus-service-translink-bc-transit-earth-day The cities refusal to build bus bridges next to all the na...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-plan-vancouver-rental-housing-tower-proposals Montreal & Seattle have both grown into 4 milli...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/1525-1555-robson-street-vancouver-rental-housing-towers-gwl-realty-advisors There is still such a small-mi...

  https://nypost.com/2024/04/19/real-estate/nyc-is-getting-a-giant-new-skyline-shaping-office-building/

The George Washington Bridge is the world's busiest  motor vehicle  bridge, [5]  carrying a  traffic volume  of over 104   million vehic...

The  double-deck bridge  carries 13 lanes of  Interstate 278 : seven on the upper level and six on the lower level.  https://en.wikipedia.or...

The  Ship_Canal_Bridge  is an impressive structure. Its like the upper 8 lane deck is the Seattle part of bridge and the 4 lane lower  deck ...

The 6 lane  Aurora_Bridge  is a block east of the 4 lane  Fremont_Bridge_(Seattle) . The wider bridge is more for regional traffic, where as...

 A 3 lane bridge, viaduct or tunnel can be great if its for one direction. However, if it's for 2 way traffic, it can easily get very co...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Bridge_(Seattle)  WA  https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/projects-and-programs/programs/bridges...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/burnaby-hospital-redevelopment-bc-cancer-centre Hospital expansion has been so slow in BC for several deca...

  https://nypost.com/2024/04/17/real-estate/oklahoma-city-residents-question-the-planned-legends-tower/

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_El_Farag_Axis_Bridge https://www.guinnessworldrec...

  https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10-thriving-cities-built-in-deserts-across-the-world.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-government-translink-bus-funding

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-public-library-building-world-ranking

  https://dailyhive.com/canada/canadian-family-move-malaysia Unless all goods & services in Canada are made available for all income lev...

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_continuously_inhabited_cities https://history.howstuffworks.com/world-history/oldest-city-in-...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4YFFtTEUQc Why "Nobody" Lives In The VAST MAJORITY Of British Columbia  https://www.youtube.com...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-housing-starts-construction-statistics-2023 After Vancouver & the metropolitan region ...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metropolis-at-metrotown-mall-redevelopment-master-plan-concept No chance now of BC ever having a mall as b...

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-development-permits-changes-2024  For too dam long its like there is a diffrent set of physics in ...

  https://www.newsweek.com/oklahoma-takes-one-step-closer-building-tallest-tower-us-1890013 https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/04/12/...

  https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/metro-vancouver-renters-are-spending-more-than-60-per-cent-of-salary-on-rent-says-rental-report G...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Bellevue_station https://www.soundtransit.org/system-expansion/south-bellevue-station https://www.bellev...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-earthquake-early-warning-sensors

  https://hollywoodnorthbuzz.com/2024/04/superman-lois-at-its-luthorcorp-in-downtown-vancouver.html Another Vancouver building that might be...

  https://abc7ny.com/new-jersey-earthquake-residents-across-tri-state-report-feeling-shaking-as-48-quake-rocks-region/14622009/ If there is ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/earthquake-new-york-city-aging-buildings/ So many older NYC buildings just weren't constructed to m...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-canada-line-capstan-station-spring-2024-service An entire section of the line has to close early,...

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/motorcyclist-speeds-down-vancouver-bridge-video https://hollywoodnorthbuzz.com/category/tron-ares

Talk about a city that continually refuses to live up to its potential.  Vancouver  is an incredibly small city in total area. [  123.63 km ...

  https://hollywoodnorthbuzz.com/2024/04/tron-ares-first-of-5-overnight-shoots-in-downtown-vancouver-this-week.html

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canadians-react-per-bank-loblaw https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/price-difference-feta-cheese-loblaws-walmart...

  https://vancouversun.com/news/toughest-time-ever-to-afford-a-house-vancouver-in-full-blown-crisis-rbc-report If developers were allowed to...

  https://globalnews.ca/news/10398435/people-left-bc-provinces-alberta-stats-canada/ Fortunatly, Alberta was never absorbed by BC. 

  https://globalnews.ca/news/10395581/carbon-price-hike-protests-canada Just more to pay out. https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/cros...

Every city starts out with stumps and several cities eventually have some tall towers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Drapeau_station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Line_(Montreal_Metro)#Opening_for_Expo_67 The  MPM-1...