https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/special-vancouver-deserves-a-better-playland-and-pne
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pne-wooden-coaster-renovation
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/iconic-challenger-relief-map-returns-to-the-pne
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
PNE and Hastings Park over the-next-decade-and-the next-century
Monday, August 23, 2021
Saturday, August 21, 2021
Friday, August 20, 2021
Metrotown station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrotown_station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDqkaEvapEg
the Greater Vancouver SkyTrain system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXF44HciCe8
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Lafontaine Tunnel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Hippolyte_Lafontaine_Bridge%E2%80%93Tunnel
https://globalnews.ca/tag/lafontaine-tunnel
https://globalnews.ca/news/3561402/lafontaine-tunnel-to-undergo-1b-in-renovations-starting-in-2019
http://www.montrealroads.com/crossings/lafontaine/
https://www.renewcanada.net/quebec-awards-1-1-billion-contract-for-lafontaine-tunnel-project/
The new 8 lane george-massey-tunnel...
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/george-massey-tunnel-immersed-business-case
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/george-massey-tunnel-replacement-conservative-party-federal-funding
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-station-renovations-omc-4-train-yard-federal-funding
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/eight-lane-tunnel-to-replace-existing-george-massey-tunnel-by-2030-b-c-transportation-ministry-1.5551732 Decades behind, as usual.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Massey+Tunnel+replacement
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Monday, August 16, 2021
Urban Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W664J13u1J0
Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser explores the skyscraper boom of the bustling 19th century and asks what made these radically new buildings possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOdnHYvIZ74
Thursday, August 5, 2021
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Monday, July 26, 2021
Saturday, July 24, 2021
Austin has-more-skyscrapers-planned
https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2021/01/28/austin-more-skyscrapers-planned.html
https://aquilacommercial.com/learning-center/austin-cbd-2024/
https://austin.towers.net/cielo-plans-two-towers-on-a-full-downtown-block-at-fourth-and-brazos
https://austin.towers.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/4th_brazos_east_south.jpg
Monday, July 19, 2021
Sunday, July 18, 2021
Burrard SkyTrain Station to close for 2 years to complete 'major upgrade'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrard_station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver)#Expo_Line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_rolling_stock#Future_expansion_and_replacement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_rolling_stock#Summary
Friday, July 16, 2021
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Monday, July 12, 2021
Saturday, July 10, 2021
the Eglinton Crosstown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_5_Eglinton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_subway#Rolling_stock
https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2021/07/33-bloor-street-east-toronto/
https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/11/heres-what-trains-eglinton-crosstown-lrt-will-look-like/
https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/02/eglinton-crosstown-lrt-opening-date-delayed-2022/
https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/light-rail/eglinton-crosstown-under-way-underground/
https://www.urbaneer.com/blog/the_eglinton_crosstown_lrt
http://www.thecrosstown.ca/TheNextPhaseBegins
https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2013/08/how-dig-11km-through-centre-city
https://www.infrastructureontario.ca/Eglinton-Crosstown-LRT TTC
Friday, July 9, 2021
Thursday, July 8, 2021
Saturday, July 3, 2021
Metro-Vancouver-Sewage-Plant-Upgrade
https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/08/20/Metro-Vancouver-Sewage-Plant-Upgrade
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/iona-wastewater-treatment-plant-upgrade
http://www.metrovancouver.org/services/liquid-waste/treatment/liquidwaste-map/Pages/default.aspx
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=North+Shore+Wastewater+Treatment+Plant
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Monday, June 28, 2021
Southern (SF) Crossing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Crossing_(California)
In November 2019, it was reported that the Southern Crossing is still not dead. https://www.cahighways.org/ROUTE380.html
https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/bay-area-transit-projects/
Sunday, June 27, 2021
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Friday, June 25, 2021
Vancouver House, Telus Sky, Aro
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Saturday, June 19, 2021
Cities & Urban Tech Data
Urban Tech Data https://jf-databits.blogspot.com/search?q=Urban+Tech+Data ::
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=city
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities#List
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_area
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/8-cities-rewilding-their-urban-spaces
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Monday, June 14, 2021
Black Mirror's Darkest Episodes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai4d_f8HK4s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror timeline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz6yLg9MGu4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror#Series_1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2-piATRsLc croc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxY7OTZoFEI ark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opxq8ESnfW8 san j
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l912iOfgs9w be r b phone sim
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
lengthened train platforms
"Platforms at IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line stations between 103rd Street and 238th Street, including those at 191st Street, were lengthened to 514 feet (157 m) in 1948, allowing full ten-car express trains to stop at these stations. Unlike the other stations being extended on the line, the 191st Street station could already accommodate ten-car trains, but because the platforms were 480 feet (150 m) long, not all doors of the first and last cars could open at the station. On April 6, 1948, the platform extension project at 191st Street was completed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/191st_Street_station#Mid-20th_century
"Platforms at IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line stations between 103rd Street and 238th Street, including those at 181st Street, were lengthened to 514 feet (157 m) in 1948, allowing full ten-car express trains to stop at these stations." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/181st_Street_station_(IRT_Broadway%E2%80%93Seventh_Avenue_Line)#Service_changes_and_station_renovations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R110B_(New_York_City_Subway_car) 67'
lrt & subway
Monday, June 7, 2021
THE EUROTUNNEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixUl6a6RFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvtFxhe3kk car ferry on the train
Saturday, June 5, 2021
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Chicago O'Hare International Airport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Hare_International_Airport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'7Hare_International_Airport#Terminals
https://studiogang.com/project/ohare-global-terminal
https://www.airport-technology.com/features/chicago-ohare-new-terminal/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Hare_station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_in_Chicago#Airports
Monday, May 31, 2021
Helsinki is Tearing Up Its Freeways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdvYcWxycgY
Finland and Estonia are planning to construct a 15 billion dollar tunnel across the Gulf of Finland, connecting the capital cities of Helsinki and Tallinn. A Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel would transform the economies of the region, creating a twin city metropolitan area and improving connectivity between Finland and the rest of Europe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvpNG1FBXss
Friday, May 28, 2021
The very short-platforms of the Skytrain-Canada-line-are-nearing-capacity
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/short-platforms-trains-skytrain-canada-line-built-nearing-capacity
50 m instead of 152 m like in Montreal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeport_station_(SkyTrain)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Line
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=SkyTrain-Canada+Line
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Monday, May 24, 2021
Portland's Unbuilt Freeways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeV31IcUkPM
In the 1970s, Portland made the radical decision to rip up its oldest freeway and replace it with a city park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2_yNrP0hCY
The compelling case for removing urban freeways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6WtYTThkdU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_revolt
Helsinki is Tearing Up Its Freeways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdvYcWxycgY
A lot of times existing streets & roads can be made to be more efficient with enabling people to get around. However, there has to be a good coordinated transit & road system.
Urban Honolulu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchbowl_Crater#/media/File:Oahu_from_the_air_2004.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchbowl_Crater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu#/media/File:Honolulu01_(cropped).JPG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Honolulu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Honolulu#/media/File:Honolulu01.JPG
Friday, May 21, 2021
Deep Cove and Belcarra, BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Cove,_North_Vancouver
While the locals would be freaked out if a highway bridge was ever built between Deep Cove and Belcarra, a bus+and+bike+bridge should be considered. Such a typical bridge should have 2 bus lanes and 2 emergency vehicle lanes, plus 2 bike lanes and 2 sidewalks. Then, even a provision for a lower deck to accommodate an LRT line. Unfortunatly, the Greater Vancouver Region doesn't have such a proper bus and bike bridge network.
The inadequate Iron+Bridge should have had a bus+and+bike+bridge built next to it several decades ago. The joke that is the Lions+Gate+Bridge should have become a bus+and+bike+bridge several decades ago, if an 8 lane tunnel had been built. Such a tunnel could have 3 lanes each way with the 4th being an HOV lane. Then, the very narrow bridge could just be a nice bus, bike & pedestrian crossing.
While the Pitt_River_Bridge is designed to potentially accommodate 8 lanes and 2 LRT tracks, even it should have a parallel bus and bike bridge. Then, an 8 lane Pitt_River_Bridge could have 3 general lanes each way with the 4th being an HOV lane. Then the SkyTrain could easily be extended to Pitt_Meadows and eventually, Maple_Ridge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belcarra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buntzen_Lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Arm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Arm#Buntzen_Generating_Station , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXHGD5Xvus , https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/buntzen-lake-powerhouses , https://montecristomagazine.com/community/the-buntzen-lake-powerhouses# , https://evelazarus.com/the-buntzen-power-stations-on-indian-arm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrard_Inlet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anmore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrard_Generating_Station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Moody
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Vancouver_(district_municipality)
Switzerland can fit into British_Columbia almost 2 dozen times. Yet, BC doesn't even have the population of one CH.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-housing-affordability
Backwater BC is so far behind with several things. Proper urban and transportation planning is one of them.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=bus+and+bike+bridges
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Sunday, May 16, 2021
Saturday, May 15, 2021
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
mountains
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Vancouver#Politics_and_government
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Extinction-Rellion-Vancouver-plans-an-afternoon-takeover-of-Lions-Gate-Bridge
Some people really gravitate towards a shutdown mentality. Indeed, if a country could be perpetually disrupted or shutdown, that would dramatically reduce the influx of people.
Most of the world is non-white & Canada doesn't even have 1% of the world's population. For some, just to think that Canada might contain half of 1% of the world's' population is too much. There is a reluctance to improve & expand on infrastructure, because that would mean building for more non-white people.
While the British Colonial mentality has been gradually fading away, there is still a strong KEEP THEM OUT mentality. That's especially been the case in BC with its reluctance to build up a proper level of infrastructure, is very apparent.
Sunday, May 2, 2021
Saturday, May 1, 2021
Fort McMurray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Fort_McMurray_wildfire 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Highway_63#2016_wildfire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Highway_63#Construction
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Fort_McMurray_Athabasca_River_Bridges_2.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McMurray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta#Municipalities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%E2%80%93express_lanes#Canada
Friday, April 30, 2021
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Monday, April 19, 2021
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Monday, April 12, 2021
Sunday, April 11, 2021
Friday, April 9, 2021
The 8 lane greenfield Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will be the longest expressway in India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDSsFm_eWJQ
The Delhi–Mumbai Expressway is 1,250 km long, connecting the national capital Delhi with the metropolitan city Mumbai. This expressway will reduce the distance between Delhi and Mumbai by about 220 Kilometres, and the vehicles will be able to run on this expressway at a speed of 120 km per hour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRVshpDhztw
Vadodara Mumbai Expressway is the part of Delhi–Mumbai Expressway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdxRBpF-3JE
Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Mumbai Metro is a rapid transit system serving the Mumbai Metropolitan Region in Maharashtra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BerWo7v6qNU
Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is an under-construction 1,250 km long, 8-laned controlled-access expressway. It will be the longest expressway in India upon completion. It connects India’s two major megapolises with each other, having a combined population of more than 40 million people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9UyIafyAKI
TOP 10 Under Construction MEGA BRIDGES IN INDIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMBxYVlWqA0
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Friday, April 2, 2021
Pattullo Bridge replacement delay
"The four-lane replacement bridge will have wider lanes than the current structure and will include dedicated lanes for pedestrians and cyclists. It will be built to potentially allow for the bridge to be expanded to six lanes." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pattullo-bridge-replacement-delay-2024-1.5974370
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pattullo-bridge-chinese-canadian-new-name-1.5755385
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Pattullo+Bridge+replacement
New Orleans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans#Cityscape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_New_Orleans#Tallest_buildings
https://www.cnu.org/highways-boulevards/campaign-cities/new-orleans
https://www.wwno.org/post/second-battle-new-orleans?nopop=1
https://www.wwno.org/post/monster-claiborne-avenue-and-after-interstate
https://www.cnu.org/what-we-do/build-great-places/claiborne-expressway
Thursday, April 1, 2021
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Monday, March 29, 2021
Saturday, March 27, 2021
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
TD towers
https://robertmoffatt115.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/marketing-mies-at-the-td-centre ,
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/city/toronto
https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-TSPA_0110747F&R=DC-TSPA_0110747F
Sunday, March 14, 2021
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Saturday, March 13, 2021
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The proposed North Houston Highway Improvement Project improvements are intended to create additional roadway capacity to manage congestion, enhance safety, and improve mobility and operational efficiency on I-45 from US 59/I-69 to Beltway 8 North, including improvements along US 59/I-69 between I-45 and Spur 527 in Houston.
Dallas Underground tunnels...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp-4gdLjd6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVe8YNbHTZs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9J91V_ETE
Due to rapid growth during the 1950s, traffic congestion became a critical issue facing Dallas. In response, city planners and the Dallas Citizens Traffic Commission worked to keep traffic moving safely and efficiently; their efforts are documented in this film. The Dallas Citizens Traffic Commission was formed in 1936 and, by the 1950s, included citizens from every Dallas civic organization. Their mission was to improve traffic safety and efficiency for Dallas citizens. Film produced by the Dallas Citizens Traffic Commission, property of the Dallas Municipal Archives." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leAKXcaLDd4 1955
Why Woodall Rodgers Freeway took 31 years to build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9au29IbqLEk
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Evolution of Traffic (1890s ~ 2020s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RSy1QkAPSc
Compilation of street photography and music from 1838 to 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3K7NwKE7PI
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Kelowna
A growing Kelowna should be able to think big and grow to continue to be the main city between Calgary & Vancouver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Kelowna
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Monday, March 8, 2021
Sunday, March 7, 2021
VC 2
https://www.vancouvercentre.com , https://www.vancouvercentre.com/location
https://www.vancouvercentre.com/building/#views
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pi-financial-corporation-vancouver-centre-ii-office-tower
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/753-seymour-street-vancouver-office-tower-construction-2017
Calgary's green line construction
https://globalnews.ca/news/7680741/green-line-construction-2021-keating
https://www.calgary.ca/transportation/green-line/green-line-map.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/green-line-board-city-of-calgary-1.5873234
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Line_(Calgary)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-green-line-tunnel-option-d-best-option-1.3540932
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Calgary+Green+Line
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
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