https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Expansion_Project#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTD_Bus_%26_Rail#Light_rail
UTL is about exploring past, present and future urban technologies in science and fiction, etc...
https://www.dezeen.com/2018/11/07/shop-architects-hudsons-detroit-skyscraper-tallest-building-michigan https://www.hudsonssitedetroit.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Site_Development_(Detroit)
https://www.bedrockdetroit.com/property/hudsons-site/
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=113129
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgTKTs33NLY
https://www.theb1m.com/video/fixing-the-tunnel-thats-failing-new-york-city
We take you on a journey deep under the island of Manhattan to explore what lies below the biggest city in America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX1xmaKPb9o
An overview of the Phase 2 extension of the Bay Area Rapid Transit to Silicon Valley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfoCEYLigKo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alameda_Corridor
https://www.railwayage.com/intermodal/is-the-alameda-corridor-in-trouble/
https://www.balfourbeattyus.com/our-work/project-portfolio/alameda-corridor-maintenance
https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter5/rail-transportation-pipelines/alameda-corridor/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_ship#Size_categories
https://www.asianausa.com/how-much-bigger-can-container-ships-get/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ships
https://www.universalcargo.com/how-much-cargo-can-the-largest-shipping-container-ship-really-hold/
https://www.sjonescontainers.co.uk/containerpedia/how-many-shipping-containers-fit-on-a-cargo-ship/
https://www.costamare.com/industry_containerisation
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/ships-carrying-50000-containers-are-horizon-report-says
the most impressive NFL stadiums https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIZfkEOfRFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5IgN7iFKOg every NFL stadium for the 2021 season
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle#Professional_sports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9EbxBkWzN4 k dome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Coliseum , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us-Op6_ld5A , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqPtumPTaaM , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Coliseum#Eventual_replacements
https://theex.com/2021-cne-message
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_National_Exhibition https://theex.com/
https://theex.com/main/getting-here/public-transit/
https://theex.com/main/guest-info/cne-map
https://www.blogto.com/city/2021/07/why-cne-isnt-happening-allowed-step-2-rules/
https://www.blogto.com/search/?offset=0&ordering=relevancy&q=cne
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
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/
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
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o4SBhbercM
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
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
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
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
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/
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
"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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixUl6a6RFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvtFxhe3kk car ferry on the train
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Hare_International_Airport
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
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
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
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
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
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Downtown_Seattle_seen_from_Bainbridge_Island.jpg , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_metropolitan_area
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Vancouver#Politics_and_government
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.
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