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Sunday, December 21, 2025

How Toronto built two very different light railways

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPFyCa8xsjk
Friday, December 19, 2025

Inside New York's $55 Billion Plan To Build America's Most Controversial Bridge

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SU9NzQkMsk
Thursday, December 18, 2025

San Juan, Puerto Rico’s Tren Urbano

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ifY_NMUnlk
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Why Los Angeles Has So Few Skyscrapers

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0bKsHUUnX8
Monday, December 15, 2025

Metro Vancouver leadership chaos

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  https://globalnews.ca/video/11579521/metro-vancouver-leadership-chaos   This has been such an inept and mismaged organization for several ...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Is Addis Ababa Turning into The Dubai Of Africa?

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRC243t3jkc   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis_Ababa#Economy    Ethiopia’s Capital Is Transforming Into...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Sound Transit has extended the 1 Line of Link Light Rail with a 7+ mile extension to Federal Way

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

History of the Pattullo Bridge in BC

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw934knFUgc  Such a very narrow 4 lane bridge that just wasn't properly designed for future capacity. ...

History of the Port Mann Bridge in BC

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4aYxObfjJ8   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Mann_Bridge#Original_bridge  The original PMB had only 2 ...

Are Trams the Best Transportation Mode for Cities?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNTg9EX7MLw  While trams and streetcars (LRT) can't rival the capacity of a metro train or commuter rail...

Vancouver Island Corridor Foundation

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Corridor_Foundation   https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/mayors-to-work-with-first-nations-on-c...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Portland’s Biggest Megaprojects

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ-0TrIau0o

The SkyTrain extension to Langley

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  https://langleyadvancetimes.com/2025/12/11/all-aboard-video-creators-keep-an-eye-on-langleys-skytrain/
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Tower Montparnasse

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  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eQqqAX28gX8

Australian pipeline history

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  https://apga.org.au/pipeline-facts-and-figures   https://www.aemc.gov.au/energy-system/gas/gas-pipeline-register   https://apga.org.au/pip...

Half-of-Canadians-support-a-new-pipeline-between-Alberta-and-BC

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  https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/half-of-canadians-support-a-new-pipeline-between-alberta-and-bc-poll/   All that backwater BC has to...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

No help for Broadway corridor businesses suffering from subway construction

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  https://globalnews.ca/video/11571149/no-help-for-broadway-corridor-businesses-suffering-from-subway-construction/   If the Covid control s...
Monday, December 8, 2025

The Montreal Metro and REM Trains

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The REM vs. Reality: Does Montreal's new train meet expectations?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq1xpxOt7FM

Line 6 Finch West is officially open

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFaRBCg9AWA   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmhEqpJKVao

HK

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JerMNWYjRM
Sunday, December 7, 2025

Los Angeles and its traffic problems

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7CxiqNnm80    While LA has a subway, it's not that extensive. Of course several other cities have mor...

African Cities

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA-zbbgHcL8
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Halifax, NS

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_FnM-e-8xs   This city could have been as big as Boston or Montreal by now. 

Federal Way Link Opening

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkEV0zAerGo

The Best American Skylines?

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

The Elizabeth Line: London’s Biggest Engineering Project

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd4aYyxcoO4    Secrets of the Elizabeth Line  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJrXeLPLcLI   https://jfdata...

Canada's plan for the Arctic

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7JX6fD6GXA    Manley on Canada joining EU defence program  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m67_sGvESEA
Friday, December 5, 2025

Investigation launched into misuse of funds allegations at North Shore Emergency Management

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  https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/investigation-launched-into-misuse-of-funds-allegations-at-north-shore-emergency-management-11583050

There will be no revival of the Olympic streetcar line in Vancouver for 2026

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https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-olympic-line-demonstration-streetcar-revival-cancelled   Once again, what's easy for several c...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

The Bus and Bike Bridge Concept

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The Bus and Bike Bridge Concept isn't officially banned in Vancouver or BC in general. It just hasn't been as important as it is in ...

TransLink anticipates budget surplus

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-2026-budget-ridership-growth-forecast

Federal Way Link Extension

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https://seattletransitblog.com/2025/12/04/federal-way-link-extension-a-sneak-peek/   https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/light-rail-exp...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Is Victoria, BC North America's Cycling Capital?

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKMDMekErQ0

Former Hudson's Bay building in downtown Vancouver listed for sale

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hudsons-bay-downtown-vancouver-building-sale-redevelopment

The Lost Railyard Below Chicago's Bean

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_A83Bqzfic    What Lies Beneath Chicago?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBVF-CMSORo

Westham Island Bridge, B.C....

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westham_Island_Bridge  So, it would take until the mid 2020s for this wagon road era bridge to be seriously co...

History of the SkyTrain in Greater Vancouver

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP4RUBp1Ucw    https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=SkyTrain
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Height doubled for new tower near Renfrew SkyTrain station for more rental homes

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/2406-2484-renfrew-street-vancouver-rental-housing-tower-revised-openform

Broadway Plan Solar Access Policies

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  https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/main-st-is-high-quality-public-space-deserves-solar-protection-dec4-public-hearing-215-229e...

22-storey hotel tower proposed near future Mount Pleasant SkyTrain station

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/75-east-8th-avenue-vancouver-hotel-nicola

TransLink proposes permanently relocating 99 B-Line bus stops a few blocks

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/99-b-line-bus-stop-relocation-university-endowment-lands-ubc-lelem-village   https://visit.ubc.ca/eat-drin...

Various airport people movers in the United States

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VVsYWLgGfo

San Francisco MUNI (rail) and the Trams of Melbourne

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Why San Francisco Runs America's Slowest...Metro?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzi1oNaRIUE  Unless a streetcar, tram or any LRV has ...

The gentrification of the Downtown Eastside

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  https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/events-before-dec9th-dtes-mass-rezone-public-hearing   I really like tall buildings, but......

Downtown Granville Street

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/granville-strip-entertainment-district-sros-supportive-housing-closure-pleas   It was such a foolish idea ...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Is Suburban municipal government performance satisfaction outpacing Vancouver?

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-municipal-government-performance-satisfaction

Metro Vancouver housing supply

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-cities-regional-district-choking-housing-supply-demand   Developers want to make a profit,...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

FIFA World Cup road closures to turn downtown Vancouver into a pedestrian fan zone

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-fifa-world-cup-road-closures-fan-zone-map

The world's largest voluntary skyscraper demolition is about to begin in Detroit

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAebaW4ZDLw   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK0U6HeTKPk

What the first year of building Surrey-Langley SkyTrain looks like

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/surrey-langley-skytrain-construction-one-year-milestone-progress
Saturday, November 29, 2025

What does the future hold for Vancouver's former Molson Coors brewery?

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-molson-coors-brewery-quantum-park-redevelopment-potential

2538 Birch Street

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/dunna-eh-house-of-healing-2538-birch-street-vancouver-jameson-first-nations-health-authority    https://st...
Friday, November 28, 2025

San Francisco Megaprojects

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiOC13McqdY    The Rise and Fall of The San Francisco Centre Mall  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5rosHI...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Boston’s Forgotten Streetcar Tunnels

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The Secret Subway Beneath the City  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUMWXOUfJf4    Exploring the MBTA Green Line in Boston  https://www.yout...

The Trout Lake view cone

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  https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/2611victoria-dr-tower-rezoning-on-existing-rental-building-site/   No matter how big Vancou...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

The Death toll in Hong Kong fire rises to 44 with 279 still missing

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  https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2emg1kj1klt   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0e0KiUvxh0 https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/artic...

Les États-Unis vont Construire la Plus Haute Tour du Monde

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

Calgary's Green Line LRT

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfQTjvFFMUY    The Biggest Pain Point of Calgary's CTrain (and how to fix it for less than the cost of...

The Vancouver Harbour Air Control Tower

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  https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/1p7kqyv/did_you_know_the_vancouver_harbour_air_control   https://panethos.wordpress.com/2025/0...

The new PNE amphitheatre surges to almost $184M

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  https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/price-tag-for-new-pne-amphitheatre-surges-to-almost-184m   https://vancouversun.com/news/local-ne...

Pattullo to partially close for three nights as 4 lane replacement bridge opening draws near

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pattullo-bridge-closures-replacement-opening   No matter how much NW wants to be one of the smallest citie...

Vancouver's Celebration of Light fireworks festival cancelled indefinitely

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  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-honda-celebration-of-light-cancelled-9.6993068   Some people say that there can...

Nutrien selects U.S. port to build new potash export terminal

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  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/nutrien-selects-u-s-port-to-build-new-potash-export-terminal-9.6992424   https://investingnews...

Longview, Washington

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longview,_Washington   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Longview
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Toronto’s $13 billion Eglinton Crosstown Line

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVQ8CbZK7Mo   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_5_Eglinton So, what should have been a proper high capaci...

The Ontario Line

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-fUP_6RVDo   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Line   https://www.metrolinx.com/en/projects-and-progr...

Montreal’s New (REM) Rail Line Is the Future

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  https://macleans.ca/society/montreals-new-rail-line-is-the-future/   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris_Express  ,  https://www.you...

Airport Rail Links

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The Transit Every Airport Needs  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YeVZVluQWI&t=247s   https://www.upexpress.com/en/about-up/things-are-l...

Toronto’s Skyline Is About to Change Forever (again)

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4V8jo8-NFg&t=113s    Drone View Of Toronto’s One Bloor West - Canada’s Tallest Building When Complete...

Sideways Chicago vs. Tilted Toronto: Great Lakes Urbanism Showdown

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1swCsa1_U5s

First Day in Sydney Australia was a Culture Shock

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt3gjetsDtQ   How Sydney is Designed To Crush Poor People  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni1bk-yEstg   A...
Monday, November 24, 2025

A major construction project in Metro Vancouver is closing lanes on a busy stretch of Highway 99

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/highway-99-lane-closures-78th-street-interchange

Canada's next tallest building just crossed the 100-floor mark

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  https://dailyhive.com/toronto/canada-next-tallest-building-100-floors   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_108  Opened between 2018 t...

An Overview of Urban Planning in Los Angeles

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CipNVHhOER8 Why is the Purple Line in L.A. so Short?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4F0hB2nEcE   Why fixi...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Why Washington DC Doesn’t Have a Single Skyscraper

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq9iJyNLY7Q   The High Price of Keeping DC’s Skyline very Low  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHjMQ8T5ZRI...

Montréal's $18 Billion Tram Project

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsreQJoF3Ow
Saturday, November 22, 2025

Grand Paris Express

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmC8UJs9VYo   Paris Metro Expansion 1900-2030 (Métro, RER, Tram, Grand Paris Express)  https://www.youtube...

The Line Megacity Is Officially Dead— Here’s Why It Will NEVER Happen

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqRTBzUfJmo   So, was it just a B$ publicity stunt?

Some Canada Mega-projects Under Construction

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwsOVZ-j7hg   Oakridge_Park  is on a much smaller scale than  Metrotown ,  Brentwood  and  Lougheed . It w...

World’s Tallest Towers Comparison

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09pmnf8npA8   There was a time when no structure in BC was allowed to be as tall as Blackpool Tower. Then ...

The small Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/westin-bayshore-vancouver-best-luxury-hotel    https://vancouversbestplaces.com/vancouver-hotels/vancouver...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Fire on ship docked at Port of Los Angeles prompts evacuation of crew

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  https://www.foxnews.com/us/fire-ship-docked-port-los-angeles-prompts-evacuation-crew-officials-say

Why The Worst Designed Cities Are Always In Texas

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCFxiQZfdGg   Texas has more people than Australia.

Cities around the world with the most monstrous traffic jams

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  https://smapse.com/5-cities-in-the-world-with-the-most-monstrous-traffic-jams   https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/destinations/tr...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

The Post building complex sells for over $1.1 billion

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  https://vancouversun.com/news/quadreal-sells-the-post-heritage-building-vancouver  This stump  building+complex  doesn't even have 26 ...

New Costco coming to Surrey has local residents concerned

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  future condominium tower project in Surrey City Centre has now shifted its residential uses to 100 per cent secured purpose-built market ...

44-storey hotel and rental housing tower planned near King George SkyTrain station

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/9699-9711-137-street-surrey-hotel-rental-housing

A future condominium tower project in Surrey City Centre has now shifted its residential uses to 100 per cent secured purpose-built market rental housing

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/102-park-surrey-rental-housing-tower-marcon
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

A Richmond encampment under the Oak Street bridge

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  https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/11/19/growing-calls-to-clear-richmond-encampment   Of course any neighborhood will be concerned when a ...

Is Greater Vancouver’s Transit in Trouble?

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViGAY4xzdkU    How is TransLink's RapidBus Program Performing? | Brief History and Analysis  https://w...

Zara's billionaire founder buys Amazon-anchored The Post office complex from QuadReal in downtown Vancouver

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/the-post-amazon-vancouver-quadreal-pontegadea-acquisition   This stump  building+complex  isn't even 2...

The LA Metro's Airport Station is a Huge Success!

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TsUH1tmmBM  ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAX/Metro_Transit_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_A...

Newly-Opened overpass at Church Avenue on the B and Q Lines in NYC

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9YON6kFIkU   New York City's Subway Infrastructure is absolutely WILD  https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

TOP 15 Bridge Cities in North America

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

Calgary ranked the top place for GTA families moving out of Ontario

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  https://dailyhive.com/toronto/gta-families-move-to-calgary   If you move from Toronto to Calgary, you will still be in a real city. Howeve...

Calgary ranked the top place for GTA families moving out of Ontario

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  https://dailyhive.com/toronto/gta-families-move-to-calgary

Houston's Unbelievable North Highway Improvement Project

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69aGW4L6VO0   Why Does Texas Use The Frontage Road Freeway System?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjXlCV...

Why Dallas is Becoming the Economic Capital of Texas

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W7aNcieKgc   Dallas’s Biggest Megaprojects  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Dv1WwO7OQ Why Dallas Is Growi...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

City of Vancouver exploring Olympic Line streetcar test revival after the 2026 FIFA World Cup

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-olympic-line-streetcar-demonstration-revival-proposal   The city and greater urban region should...

The Tsawwassen, Delta Dilemma

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/tsawwassen-town-centre-redevelopment-delta-housing-supply-rejection   Unfortunatly, there are some serious...

The Oldest and Most Dangerous Freeway In America

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeLsQrP5s7k   Port Of Los Angeles | The World's Most Unusual Port  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2N...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Broadway Subway Construction as of November 2025

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uot7oIA9-ZE  The station platforms will be 80m, which can only accomodate a 5 car train. Unfortunatly, eve...

Evolution of the Vancouver SkyTrain 1985-2035

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3kzHlQQSeg

Metro Vancouver sales tax and vehicle levy suggested for new TransLink revenue sources

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-sales-tax-vehicle-levy-new-revenue-sources-movement-competition

Canada Public Transit Fund

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  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-public-transit-fund-building-communities-strong-fund   https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-colum...

How Atlanta Runs America's Last Great Metro

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0R9rzpHoVA   First Time Riding MARTA in Atlanta  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyDqG3TNbfM   MARTA: The...

Rain to pick up Monday afternoon as storm system moves south

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  https://abc7.com/live-updates/southern-california-weather-storm-drench-los-angeles-orange-san-bernardino-riverside-ventura-counties/181484...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Phoenix vs. Dallas

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How Two U.S. cities will KICK OFF their rail transit revolution  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRLMtmWwAsE  Dallas is part of a much large...

Montreal’s Biggest REM Expansion

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G1oeIAfxDU    New REM metro line to Deux-Montagnes in Montreal  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oq-9kkZb...

Burnaby apologizes for decades of discrimination against people of Chinese descent

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  https://globalnews.ca/news/11528001/burnaby-apology-discrimination-against-chinese-community   Asia is the most populated part of the worl...

Canada's FIFA 2026 World Cup Preparations are lacking

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i8DynYuNgY   Once again urban infrastructure hasn't been properly keeping pace.
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Montréal's REM Main Line

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgPICHuJvPg    Elevated Trains Are Good, Actually  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5PieqjOuzA
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