Friday, February 19, 2021

The Cushing+Bridge is a little like a typical narrow 4 lane bridge in backwards Vancouver. However, unlike Vancouver, Calgary built a 2 lane bus-bridge next to the 4 lane Cushing+Bridge. This is how properly dedicated bus lanes can be built next to an existing narrow BC type bridge.

Calgary is the biggest city in Western Canada. Vancouver is a small city in area and has less than a million people. However, Greater Vancouver and the BC Lower_Mainland, almost has more people than Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg combined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary#Infrastructure

http://albertaroads.homestead.com/Calgary/plans/BowTrail/BowTrailDToverview.jpg

http://albertaroads.homestead.com/Calgary/plans/BowTrail/memspur.jpg

http://albertaroads.homestead.com/Calgary/plans/index.html

A 4 track freight train set of bridges in Calgary is no problem, but in Vancouver and the metropolitan region, most of the freight train bridges still only have a single track. By now the Greater Vancouver region should have double track freight bridges and double track commuter train bridges.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Cushing+Bridge+in+Calgary

Edmonton, Alberta

Edmonton as a capital city is so much larger than backwater provincial Victoria, BC. In some ways, Edmonton has even exceeded what's allowed in very restrictive Vancouver.

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

http://albertaroads.homestead.com/edmonton/METS/overview.jpg

http://albertaroads.homestead.com/edmonton/METS/ultimatestagekey.jpg

http://albertaroads.homestead.com/edmonton/plans/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton#Roads_and_highways

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capilano_Bridge_(Edmonton)

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

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

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

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

Vancouver-broadway-subway

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-subway-demolition-work-february-2021

https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2021/01/14/main-street-and-west-broadway-south-west-corner/

Seattle link-light-rail

https://www.theurbanist.org/category/transportation/transit/link-light-rail

https://www.soundtransit.org/system-expansion

https://www.theurbanist.org/2021/01/28/seattle-subway-backed-hb-1304-gets-first-hearing-wednesday/

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Seattle's Bridges

Fortunately, Seattle was never Vancouverized with narrow bridges, short trains and stumpy buildings.

https://bridgehunter.com/wa/king/85278000000000/

https://www.theurbanist.org/2020/04/16/west-seattle-bridge

https://seattlebusinessmag.com/economy/west-seattle-far-dead

https://www.theurbanist.org/2020/10/21/replace-dont-repair-the-west-seattle-bridge-and-add-rail

https://www.theurbanist.org/2020/11/23/new-west-seattle-and-ballard-link-open-house/

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

https://pauldorpat.com/2014/05/17/seattle-now-then-the-ship-canal-bridge/

https://i0.wp.com/pauldorpat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/v-lk-s-now-on-express-lane-web.jpg

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

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Ship+Canal+Bridge

Monday, February 1, 2021

downtown-bellevue-tunnel

https://www.soundtransit.org/blog/platform/fresh-pics-construction-complete-downtown-bellevue-tunnel

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

Friday, January 29, 2021

UBC school of biomedical engineering building and nursing applied sciences

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/ubc-school-of-biomedical-engineering-building-nursing-applied-sciences

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/ubc-gameplan-sports-facilities

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

Norristown Pa High Speed Line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norristown_High_Speed_Line#Service

trams & trains

Sunday, January 24, 2021

Finland And Denmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pm0Mn0-jYU

Hong Kong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OlnG-GMSpI

rich and poor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUHDAfD0Z-Q

A global city where East and West meet. A city with one of the most recognizable skylines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlSUQFTRfAw

Singapore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4fwfYVYxR4

With visionary thinkers and innovators as the guides, City of the Future: Singapore dives deep into the latest innovations and technology being created and implemented to blaze a path into the future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi6r3hZe5Tg