https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pattullo-bridge-new-replacement-construction-update-2024
This small city mentality is ridiculous.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-line-skytrain
50 m short SkyTrain-Canada+Line stations are so symbolic of the reluctance to have Montreal Metro & Toronto Subway length stations that are 152.5 m or 500 feet long.
To allow Montreal & Toronto size stations in Greater Vancouver would be indicative of accepting & planning for big city type growth. Indeed, all the SkyTrain stations were deliberately built to be shorter than any underground stations in Edmonton, Seattle & Portland. Even the new underground stations in Calgary will be longer, that's because Calgary, like so many other proper cities, aren't under the control of a backwards Vancouver and backwater BC type agenda.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-2017-kevin-desmond-canada-line-built-skytrain
However, Vancouver & BC are all about congestive planning. Thus, building small & narrow provides great symbolism against building big. Of course who knows where all the decades of money went, because it didn't all go into the half-size infrastructure? It's quite a strange approach, have short trains & narrow bridges, but pay full price & hope that no one notices. This is terrible for people who would like to have proper size big city infrastructure.
Greater Vancouver should have had all of its Skytrain stations built to be at least 500 feet or 152.45 m. There should have been bus & HOV bridges built next to all of the narrow bridges, several decades ago. However, that would conflict with the madness of Vancouverization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Line#Canada_Line_Hyundai_Rotem_specifications
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Line#Stations Wow, design & build a multibillion dollar train line that can only be expanded from an absurd 2 car train upto a 2.5 car train. No need to have a provision for a 6, 8 or 10 car trains. That's what a big city would do, but Vancouver & Richmond are all about taking a congestive planning approach. That's the backwater BC way.
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/translink-adds-more-trains-to-its-canada-line-fleet
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=SkyTrain-Canada+Line
9 car trains 459 ft or 140m.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(rail_system)#/media/File:Train_Ride_to_Newark_(1997)_(6390625079).jpg 8 x 51 ft = 408 or 124m.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(rail_system)#Rolling_stock
https://liamoconnell.com/2022/07/08/why-the-path-train-never-grew/
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/05/16/opinion-the-port-authoritys-wrong-moves-at-newark-airport/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel-De_Champlain_Bridge
https://www.samueldechamplainbridge.ca/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQTy48KmHbY buildings
the new Samuel-de Champlain Bridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiX8OT1iwZI
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Samuel-De+Champlain+Bridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfYgsWxqiUg
Montreal's Underground City (officially known as RÉSO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcysNkp0Li0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney#Urban_structure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quay_Quarter_Tower
https://www.arup.com/projects/quay-quarter-tower
https://www.bvn.com.au/project/quay-quarter
https://www.buildaustralia.com.au/projects/keys-handed-over-for-new-quay-quarter-tower-in-sydney/
https://www.multiplex.global/ca/projects/quay-quarter-tower/
https://www.bvn.com.au/article/qqt-its-a-wrap
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/quay-quarter-tower/17753
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Sydney#Tallest_buildings
Toronto Transit Commission’s Andy Byford gives us a tour of Toronto’s underground subway tunnels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8qwkjW1uIM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvsBg1-h4Xs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRpRxT9s--I The history and the future expansion plans for the TTC Toronto Subway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF1RH5BzDjw little-known facts about our Toronto subway system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2AJJ7KYs-c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Line_(Calgary)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbrook_station_(Calgary)
"Up until the completion of the Red Line's Fish Creek–Lacombe station, all platforms for the CTrain were originally designed to service three-car trains, although there had been enough space allotted to allow four-car trains. Beginning in 2007 construction on station platforms began to expand the entire network to allow four-car trains, with the project being completed in 2017..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Line_(Calgary)#Capacity_upgrade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Line_(Calgary)#Stations_and_route
https://vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/tall-towers-vancouver-burnaby-surrey-coquitlam
Tall only by backwater BC standards, when compared to several other urban regions around the world.
https://www.sfmta.com/projects/muni-metro-modernization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muni_Metro
75 feet
(23 metres) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_S200
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muni_Metro#Rolling_stock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_S200#Couplers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_Street_subway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muni_Metro#/media/File:Muni_Metro_(2020-08).svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muni_Metro#Recent_expansions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Subway_(San_Francisco)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Subway_(San_Francisco)#Proposed_extension
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_station_(Muni_Metro)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Square/Market_Street_station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_Street_station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_Buena/Moscone_station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_and_Brannan_station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_4th_and_King_Street_station
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Passenger+Train+Lengths
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_710#Operation 68' or 67.5' x 4 or 5 car trains.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_S7_and_S8_Stock
Selective door operation (SDO) is used at some stations where the platform is shorter than the train, such as at Baker Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_S7_and_S8_Stock#Features
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_378#Design_and_features
The first 2 SkyTrain lines only have 80m stations, which can accomodate 5 of the newest cars. However, with SDO a 5 car train can become 7.
The Canada embasement Line was only designed to have 50m stations, not 152m stations like the Montreal Metro. Unfortunatly, the underbuilt Canada Line stations weren't designed to accommodate 5 car trains, only a 2.5 car joke of a train. Getting past the half-car B$, three 20m cars would form a 60m train. SDO can not only make a 3 car train possible, but a 5 car train length of 100m, despite its absurd 50m platform. It just would have been better to have built proper big city stations in the first place.
Of course Vancouver would opt to have shorter underground train stations than Montréal, Toronto, Edmonton, Seattle, SF & LA, because shorter trains help to increase urban transportation congestion. Unfortunatly, increasing congestion is a key component of the Vancouver city planning mentality & BC in general.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Selective+Door+Operation
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/vancouver-weather-99-b-line-ubc-bus-translink-6327272
https://www.broadwaysubway.ca/arbutus-station-image-gallery/
https://www.broadwaysubway.ca/about/stations/
A train to UBC is expected to be completed well before the next millennium.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=UBC-Broadway+Corridor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru_House
https://www.facebook.com/120943481324886/photos/a.512123662206864/1719454298140455/?type=3&theater
https://slattery.com.au/portfolio/80-collins-street-north-tower/
https://mw-arch.com.au/?page_id=453 , https://mw-arch.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/section5.jpg
https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3406
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=18&status=15
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Melbourne#Overall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Melbourne#Tallest_buildings_by_function
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Melbourne#Future_skyscrapers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quay_Quarter_Tower
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=290
https://www.quayquartersydney.com.au/quay-quarter-tower
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/australia-quay-quarter-tower-skyscraper/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMP_Building,_Sydney
https://www.capacity-building.com.au/case-study/80-collins-street
https://storeyofmelbourne.org/2022/03/28/80-collins-ex-nauru-house/
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/complex/3257
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=18&status=15
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Melbourne#Tallest_buildings_by_function
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Melbourne#Future_skyscrapers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne#Urban_structure
https://www.som.com/projects/waldorf-astoria/
https://www.designboom.com/architecture/waldorf-astoria-new-york-som-plans-renaissance-06-17-2021/
https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2014-09-25/the-secrets-of-the-waldorf-astoria-hotel
https://www.geographicguide.com/united-states/nyc/antique/hotels/waldorf-astoria/waldorf-astoria.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Metro#Map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Metro#Rolling_stock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Metro#M5
Cars per unit: 6
Length: 116.2 m (381 ft 23⁄4 in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufgQdU5DUI8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Line , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJbi11dv64A , https://www.metrolinx.com/en/projects-and-programs/ontario-line
The Toronto S-Bahn? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XOXAY3rPzk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvwmiSU7zLY srt line in Toronto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk1vlKVdE9M
SF BART looks to fill its budget shortfall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWBCUaFr95U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RSy1QkAPSc
53 BEFORE AND AFTER photographs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X87W0JT5gc
Muni Metro served an average of 157,700 passengers per weekday in the fourth quarter of 2019, making it the second-busiest light rail system in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muni_Metro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_light_rail_systems_by_ridership#List
https://www.railjournal.com/financial/federal-funding-boost-for-bart-silicon-valley-extension/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_BART_extension
https://www.bart.gov/about/projects https://www.bart.gov/about/projects/corecapacity
https://www.bart.gov/system-map https://www.bart.gov/about/projects/cars
"With an average of 136,200 weekday passengers as of the second quarter of 2022 and 26,026,800 annual passengers in 2021, BART is the fifth-busiest heavy rail rapid transit system in the United States." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit_rolling_stock#A_and_B_series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_rapid_transit_systems_by_ridership
SF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Honolulu
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=421&searchname=timeline
https://bjornandannette.wordpress.com/hawaii/hon-highrise-1
https://www.de-simone.com/projects/project/ko_olani-tower 47 stories.
The tallest building on the island, 801 South Street A is 450 ft.
https://skyrisecities.com/database/projects/801-south-street
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=100895
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal
Hopefully, Montreal will never become Vancouverized & turned into a backwater mess. Vancouver is a watered down city that never wants to reach its full potential. So while Montreal is small when compared to Melbourne & Toronto, at least its not stuck in a Vancouver like trap.
https://www.renewcanada.net/study-launched-new-quebec-city-levis-link/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-city-third-link-tramway-1.6029933 The 6 lane tunnel option.
"Legault’s original proposal for a six-lane, $10-billion tunnel was downsized to a four-lane tunnel with two of those lanes reserved for public transit during rush hours. He said he would leave it to the studies’ recommendations on how to divide the tunnel." https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/final-say-on-quebec-levis-tunnel-will-be-political-decision-legault-insists
https://globalnews.ca/video/7304951/corrosion-leads-to-lane-closure-on-calgarys-5-ave-flyover
https://www.renewcanada.net/5000088812-2/ deerfoot trail
https://www.renewcanada.net/5000090366-2/
https://www.renewcanada.net/manitoba-releases-south-perimeter-highway-design-study/
"Last fall, the government announced plans to replace the eastbound bridge, widen the westbound bridge and build a new, stand-alone pedestrian bridge over the Bow River in southeast Calgary.
The project will boost the number of lanes to four in each direction — currently the eastbound crossing has two lanes, while the westbound has three." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/pcl-construction-stoney-trail-bridge-calgary-bow-river-contract-1.5866403 Jan 08, 2021
https://globalnews.ca/video/7304951/corrosion-leads-to-lane-closure-on-calgarys-5-ave-flyover
https://westringroad.ca/north-project/trans-canada-highway-improvements , https://westringroad.ca/photos-videos/
https://www.alberta.ca/south-bow-river-bridge.aspx
https://www.aecon.com/our-projects/current/bow-river-bridge-twinning-project
https://engage.calgary.ca/greenline/bowbridge
https://www.renewcanada.net/5000088473-2/ edmonton
https://www.renewcanada.net/edmonton-preparing-valley-line-west-lrt-rfq/
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=cities
https://the-loaf-etc.blogspot.com/search?q=cities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_metropolitan_areas_and_agglomerations_in_Canada#List
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-cities-amalgamation-support
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_cities_by_population#List
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgTKTs33NLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x_1pqfTDe0
The Interborough Express would fill a huge gap in the city’s transit needs.
For as long as the Bay Area Rapid Transit system’s trains have screeched across the region, a feeling has lingered among its loyal and would-be riders that the transit service could be so much more.
It was initially envisioned as a system that would reach across the Golden Gate Bridge and into Wine Country while also stretching into the western neighborhoods of San Francisco. BART, however, has never quite lived up to the designs of its original muses — despite being, perhaps, the most influential manufactured system in the region.
The pandemic didn’t help matters. BART ridership numbers dropped off a cliff after March 2020, and a prominent bond rating company recently warned that BART and other U.S. transit systems heavily reliant on fares are “expected to face sizable budget gaps” in years to come.
For as long as the Bay Area Rapid Transit system’s trains have screeched across the region, a feeling has lingered among its loyal and would-be riders that the transit service could be so much more.
It was initially envisioned as a system that would reach across the Golden Gate Bridge and into Wine Country while also stretching into the western neighborhoods of San Francisco. BART, however, has never quite lived up to the designs of its original muses — despite being, perhaps, the most influential manufactured system in the region.
The pandemic didn’t help matters. BART ridership numbers dropped off a cliff after March 2020, and a prominent bond rating company recently warned that BART and other U.S. transit systems heavily reliant on fares are “expected to face sizable budget gaps” in years to come.
I’s not just the stuff of dreams. Numerous studies and reports published throughout its first 50 years tease at this potential idealistic future for BART and its riders. But even as BART continues to plan for future expansion, achieving some version of that vision has never felt more tenuous than it does on the 50th birthday of the region’s most popular rail system.
Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic spiraled BART toward an uncertain future on many fronts.
Today, roughly 38% of BART’s pre-pandemic ridership has returned since April 2020, when it cratered to just 6%. The historic drop in ridership brought more urgent questions to the forefront about how BART will financially recover from a pandemic that has severely undercut fares, BART’s main pre-COVID revenue source, and how the system will reinvent itself.
Then there’s the lesson of history that many plans for expansion and development of the BART system materialized in times of unprecedented growth in ridership.
It means forecasts about the future remain muddy, more than two years out from the pandemic, and a firm picture of what the region’s new transportation patterns will be in a post-pandemic world have yet to fully come into sharp relief.
“Our role in the region is evolving,” Val Menotti, BART’s chief planning and development officer, said. “On remote work, we know that will be part of our future. But at what level, to me, it’s not clear, and it may not be clear for a couple of years.”
Still, even in these trying times, the region’s planners and transportation leaders view BART as an important linchpin that better connects the Bay Area’s disconnected rail and bus transit networks together to build a future “world-class rail system.”
Once-in-a-generation expansion projects, such as BART’s extension to Silicon Valley, are under way. The four-station expansion will take riders deep underground to Downtown San Jose and Santa Clara, at an estimated cost of $9.8 billion, when it tentatively opens at the end of this decade.
The pandemic also hasn’t stopped BART from planning for its second Transbay Tube. The transformational project, if realized, could create a new BART line and boost its capacity to transport people across the bay while better connecting the fragmented rail networks in the Northern California “megaregion.” It’s an issue that reached a critical point in 2016 when ridership peaked at all-time highs...
e-in-a-generation expansion projects, such as BART’s extension to Silicon Valley, are under way. The four-station expansion will take riders deep underground to Downtown San Jose and Santa Clara, at an estimated cost of $9.8 billion, when it tentatively opens at the end of this decade.
The pandemic also hasn’t stopped BART from planning for its second Transbay Tube. The transformational project, if realized, could create a new BART line and boost its capacity to transport people across the bay while better connecting the fragmented rail networks in the Northern California “megaregion.” It’s an issue that reached a critical point in 2016 when ridership peaked at all-time highs. Few, if any, meaningful details have been decided in that project, which has a placeholder completion date of 2040.
But pandemic or no pandemic, the extraordinary costs of building rail expansions in the Bay Area and the region’s dismal track record in delivering on these sorts of massive projects on time and under budget is key to why many of these plans remain pie in the sky.
It will have taken almost half a century for BART’s Silicon Valley extension to reach conception to completion. The second Transbay Tube will have taken longer and will require BART and the Bay Area’s patchwork of local governments to raise the tens of billions in funding it needs to become reality. //www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/bart-future-17428345.php
https://sf.streetsblog.org/2022/09/28/eyes-on-the-future-of-caltrain/
https://www.sfweekly.com/topstories/will-we-ever-get-a-second-bart-tunnel-under-the-bay/
http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/report/megaregionimpactsofnewtransbayrailcrossing/
https://sfist.com/2019/05/09/second-bart-tunnel-heck-lets-add-a-third-says-east-bay-planner
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