haunted-hotel-vancouver

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/10/vancouvers-haunted-hotel-vancouver-glamorous-lady-red


http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/615849/World-Trade-Centre-911-Terror-Attack-Virtual-Reality-Oculus-Rift

BC government says Vancouver viaducts demolition not a done deal

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/10/vancouver-viaducts-demolition-provincial-government-deal

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/10/vancouver-viaducts-demolition-worst-transportation-policy

animation-shows-completion-of-antoni-gaudis-sagrada-familia

http://www.dezeen.com/2013/10/02/animation-shows-completion-of-antoni-gaudis-sagrada-familia/

http://www.dezeen.com/2015/10/23/gaudi-sagrada-familia-church-basilica-final-construction-barcelona-spain

Barcelona’s Sagrada Família Enters Final Stage of Construction

23 Oct 2015, Barcelona, Spain The Sagrada Família basilica has entered its final stage of construction, over 100 years since its foundation stone was laid and 90 years after its designer, Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi, died. Read more.

http://www.ctbuh.org/News/GlobalTallNews/tabid/4810/language/en-US/Default.aspx

philadelphia's (mostly) abandoned (potential) metro network

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=126677

Cincinnati's Abandoned Subway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Subway#The_idea

http://cdn.urbancincy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Cincinnati-Subway-System.jpg-
http://www.urbancincy.com/2014/02/infographic-the-abandonment-of-cincinnatis-1914-subway-and-rapid-transit-loop

http://www.forgottenoh.com/subway.html

http://www.gleems.com/861711/unbelievable-pictures-of-cincinnatis-abandoned-ghost-subway-system/4

https://www.google.ca/search?q=Cincinnati%E2%80%99s+Abandoned+Subway+System

http://jalopnik.com/the-ten-most-ambitious-subway-systems-ever-devised-1484113202

Some-Tube-Hardened-commuters-share-secret-Underground-shortcuts

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3244589/Tired-life-Tube-Hardened-commuters-share-secret-Underground-shortcuts-Londoners-know.html

a viaduct-free-future-awaits-vancouver

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/09/viaduct-free-future-awaits-vancouver/

real-estate-in-prices in-vancouver

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/09/real-estate-asking-price-vancouver-quiz/

the-fair-at-the-pne-records-lowest-attendance-in-a-decade

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/09/the-fair-at-the-pne-records-lowest-attendance-in-a-decade/

Architects-develop-radical-solution-replace-entire-17-mile-long-Circle-Line-high-speed-three-lane-travelator-quicker

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3225178/Architects-develop-radical-solution-replace-entire-17-mile-long-Circle-Line-high-speed-three-lane-travelator-quicker.html

urban selfie madness: too-many-dying-to-get-the-picture

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/techandscience/selfie-madness-too-many-dying-to-get-the-picture/ar-AAdTwCX?li=AA59G3

BC Towers

http://www.ctbuh.org/News/GlobalTallNews/tabid/4810/Article/3016/language/en-US/view.aspx

http://www.ctbuh.org/News/GlobalTallNews/tabid/4810/Page/5/language/en-US/Default.aspx

The Regional George Massey Tunnel Replacement Project

Of course someday, the Massey+Tunnel+replacement should have a regional rail crossing with extra bus or HOV lanes. 

While it's important to have a train to Coquitlam, it's also important to have a train to the Delta ferry terminal.

https://sfb.nathanpachal.com/2015/08/what-evergreen-line-will-do-to-bus.html 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-Cities_(British_Columbia) 

https://sfb.nathanpachal.com/2015/08/amtrak-service-improvement-coming-to.html The New_Westminster_Rail_Bridge is a single track joke that shoud be replace with at least a 3, if not a 4 track bridge. https://cib-bic.ca/en/projects/trade-and-transport/new-westminster-rail-bridge/

Its pitiful that there is no rail bridge between Richmond and Delta to provide an efficient link between YVR and the ferry terminal. 

https://sfb.nathanpachal.com/search/label/Transportation Its very strange that there doesn't seem to a plan to link YVR with the 2 regional ferry terminals.

https://sfb.nathanpachal.com/search/label/Interurban%20Maps Its sad that instead of improving regional rail tranportaion during the 1950s, 60s and 70s, backwards BC went the other way. Then the 1980s Skytrain had stations that were barely more than half the length of a 152.4 m Montreal Metro station. The YVR Line opened in 2009 and wasn't even built with 80m stations, only enough level clearance for 50m stations.  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Richmond+and+Delta 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Delta+Transportation

The Oakridge Centre intersection

http://globalnews.ca/news/1150693/1150693

https://www.google.ca/search?q=Oakridge+Centre+redevelopment&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CDsQsARqFQoTCL7xvpr-08cCFYoviAodfKMEJw&biw=1280&bih=699

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Oakridge

Tokyo

http://skyscrapercenter.com/city/tokyo

https://darylvsworld.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/skytrain-technology-declared-for-60km-outer-belt-metro-in-tokyo/

http://skyscrapercenter.com/cities

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tokyo

V-T-M

https://i0.wp.com/buzzer.translink.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/toronto.jpg ,
https://darylvsworld.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/referendum-myths-translink-exec-pay

http://www.sfu.ca/geog/geog351fall07/Group03/history.html

http://theecoreport.com/metro-vancouver-to-have-canadas-longest-transit-system

https://metrobabel.wordpress.com/2015/06/24/new-mark-iii-skytrains-coming-soon

http://bbscalemodels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IMG_6898-1.jpg ,
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/06/sleek-looking-longer-skytrain-trains-arriving-this-year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_rolling_stock#Bombardier_ART_Mark_III_train_fleet_.28future.29

http://skytrainforsurrey.org/2012/02/12/translink-to-order-several-longer-skytrain-cars-in-2016-2017


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_rapid_transit#Future_expansion

some of-the-most-amazing-abandoned-airports-in-the-world

http://www.pixte.com/861911/14-of-the-most-amazing-abandoned-airports-in-the-world/?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=YahooUSDesk

Canada's-25-richest-neighbourhoods

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/homeandproperty/canadas-25-richest-neighbourhoods/ss-BBm9MmI

Launch of-London-s-overnight-Tube-services-postponed-indefinitely

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3212642/Launch-London-s-night-Tube-services-postponed-indefinitely-following-weeks-crippling-strike-action-unions-opposed-rota-changes-50k-year-drivers.html

aerial view of cities...

http://www.stockaerialphotos.com/-/galleries

http://www.stockaerialphotos.com/latest

http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/

B line

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2013/03/mayor-robertson-ubc-broadway-subway-would-canada-line-ridership/

Why is the Canada (embarrassment) Line built the way it is?

Despite its high cost, the C+Line or YVR-Line was designed to have shorter stations than the underground stations in Edmonton & Seattle. Even shorter than the ground level stations in Calgary & Portland. Considering that a Montreal Metro station is 152.5m or 500 feet in length, the absurd C Line stations are only 50m. 

A one third size train still could have been designed for proper future capacity expansion. Unfortunatly, this joke of a train was only designed to have 2 coaches & eventually 2.5 car trains, not 5 & certainly not 10. Because that's what a proper big city would do.

The light rail train bridge to Richmond wasn't designed to have any bus lanes, just 1 bike lane. No proper bus & HOV lane bridge has been built next to the narrow Knight+Street+Bridge , Oak+Street+Bridge , or Arthur+Laing+Bridge. By now, all 3 road bridges should have had 4 lane bus & HOV bridges next to them. Indeed, each bridge should have had 2 bus & 2 HOV lanes beside them by now. But why do that when everything can be crammed into just 2 lanes each way. Combine that with no breakdown lanes or wide shoulders & you have classic BC bottleneck planning. Since the C Line isn't running 24 hours, there should have been a 24 hour express bus to the airport on 2 dedicated lanes on the C Line bridge. That would have made it possible to always have an airport express bus, especially when the C Line is only running 2 car trains.

It's all such a sad joke that should be laughed at all over the world. It's also symbolic of the refusal to properly think & build big in backwards BC. Its like a whole lot of money was never efficiently or properly put into the regional infrastructure over the course of several generations. Any serious big city airport+line should be designed for significant future capacity. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=SkyTrain-Canada+Line 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Calgary+C+Train 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Edmonton+LRT

BC trams...

http://buzzer.translink.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/interurbanmap_web.jpg ,
http://buzzer.translink.ca/2009/03/a-short-history-of-interurbans-in-the-lower-mainland



http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/06/100-year-old-vancouver-map-online/

london-to-new-york...

http://paleofuture.com/blog/2009/3/29/london-to-new-york-in-2-days-1919.html

disneys-project-x-in-1966

http://paleofuture.com/blog/2011/8/15/disneys-project-x-in-1966.html

housing-market-risk-high-in-toronto-winnipeg-and-regina-cmhc-says

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/housing-market-risk-high-in-toronto-winnipeg-and-regina-cmhc-says-1.3189981

"After a trying search, Jacob Butula has finally found a place to rent in Vancouver. But the apartment on the top floor of a house is far from ideal. Only a sheet separates his room from the living room that he will soon share with three roommates.

One roommate has promised to build him a makeshift wooden wall to replace the sheet. But it still means everyone living there will have easy access to his room.

"I hope I can trust these people with my stuff when I'm gone because they can just pull the wood [wall] aside and enter my room if they feel like it," says the 30-year-old Butula

"It's a sacrifice I'm making for affordable rent," he adds, as he moves to Vancouver to finish a master's degree in counselling psychology and complete his practicum.

For now, he believes a temporary wall may be as good as it gets with his $750 a month rent limit." http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rental-woes-prices-jump-vacancy-shrinks-for-vancouver-toronto-1.3186886

disaster-response-vehicle-1960-9-11

http://paleofuture.com/blog/2010/3/1/disaster-response-vehicle-1960.html

Burnaby

http://brentwoodstation.blogspot.ca/2015/07/view-from-brentwood-mall-food-court.html

https://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/concord-place-brentwood ,

http://concordplacebrentwood.com ,
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Burnaby,+BC

http://brentwoodstation.blogspot.ca/2015/03/more-coverage-on-dragonwood-development.html ,

https://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/solo-district-condos

http://brentwoodstation.blogspot.ca/2015/07/dragonwood-development-goes-to-public.html


https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Burnaby,+BC MT

the calgary-skyline

http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2014/01/historic-calgary-skyline.html

http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2015/06/retro-photos-calgary.html

D-WS

http://www.dwavesys.com/

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Burnaby+quantum+computer+maker+Wave+pulls+million+funding/10770082/story.html

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/D-Wave+Systems+Inc./@49.2567205,-122.9989019,2090m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x941c0825e271ec23!6m1!1e1

BPS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballard_Power_Systems

http://www.ballard.com/

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Ballard+Power+Systems+Inc/@49.198026,-123.007711,2092m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xf1f90417c20dbe9a!6m1!1e1