Sunday, September 24, 2023
Saturday, September 23, 2023
First Amazon workers move into The Post office complex in downtown Vancouver
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/amazon-office-space-south-tower-the-post-vancouver-occupancy
Trying to imagine two 60 story office towers, or at least two at 55, would have been very impressive by Vancouver standards. Of course the restrictive view cone, Vancouverization agenda, made sure that those buildings wouldn't even have a 25th floor.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+building+complex
Friday, September 22, 2023
U2 - ZOO Station, LV
Unfortunately, there is no holodeck MATRIX yet, so people will just have to settle for a VR, AR, Metaverse sensory data ZOO inside of a SPHERE.
https://www.thespherevegas.com/shows/u2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEcx9F_FW2U Lemon
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Vancouver-USA-ghosts
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40856493-vancouver-usa-ghosts
Another Jeff Davis on the urban paranormal.
https://www.ghostsandcritters.com/aboutjeffdavis.html
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2995371/bio/
https://www.ghostsandcritters.com/main.html
https://blogs.columbian.com/ghost-stories/category/vancouver-stories/
https://cchmuseum.org/programs-events/haunted-walking-tours/
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Smart cities will track our every move
All this ID and tracking tech directed toward human herd management can lead to the ultimate state of Technocracy.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213138822002685
Global totalitarianism for the masses by design.
https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/wp-content/uploads/smart-city-digital-id-products.pdf
That's the System.
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=The+15+Minute+City
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Metro Vancouver mayors warn housing at risk without expanded transit
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-transit-housing-risk
Despite being the 2nd largest country on the planet, there has been a strong, KEEP THEM OUT mentality since colonial times. Halifax hasn't been allowed to become as big as Boston or Montreal. Vancouver hasn't been allowed to be as big as Greater Seattle or Montreal. Victoria is a hicktown when compared to Edmonton, Winnipeg & QC. Yet, Victoria has the mildest winters than any Canadian city. For the longest time, Victoria is suppose to be a provincial backwater & Vancouver is supposed to be the epitome of a stunted city.
When the world population reached 8 billion, Canada didn't even have 80 million, only 40 million people. Most of the world's' population is non-white, so during colonial times the, KEEP THEM OUT mentality was the way it was, because no one could challenge it. Canada only has 1% of the human population, yet its the 2nd largest in overall area.
One can understand why Antarctica has a very limited population, but for Canada to only have 1% of the world's population seems indicative of a successful plan to keep most of the world out. While a slow growth initiative has been a clever way to reduce the influx of non-white people, many other smaller sized nations have already been able to build more infrastructure and accomodate more people for several decades.
An aerial view of the Broadway Subways' construction progress in Vancouver
Toronto and Montreal really know how to build a proper high capacity subway system in Canada. However, Vancouver has been so slow growth for so many decades it's absurd. Toronto & Montreal have 152m or 500 foot long stations. However, Greater Vancouver wasn't allowed to have a proper big city metro system. Thus the first 2 Skytrain lines only have 80m stations. The ridiculously underbuilt C Line was only designed to have 50m stations, when it should have been 3 times as long.
Just like most of the bridges in the region are so narrow, it's very difficult to have a proper regional express bus system. Special bus bridges or tunnels should have all been built next to the inept narrow crossings. But that would all be indicative of properly planning for growth in a part of Canada that doesn't get -20 to -30C winters.
The Multiverse Perspective on the Cyberpunk MATRIX
Themultiverseperspective.wordpress.com has been dormant for several years.
No new links about urban legends or cyberspace technology for quite a while at TMP.
No_Maps_for_These_Territories and half of U2 could have been part of a supertech series exploring the urban MATRIX around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Maps_for_These_Territories#Content , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIDVvhy9Z0I , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib6siNUJbx0
Neuromancer: The Origin of Cyberpunk | A Horrifying Dystopia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGW_7HTXuQo
Cyberpunk Documentary PART 1 | Neuromancer, Blade Runner, RoboCop, Akira, Shadowrun... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sttm8Q9rOdQ
William Gibson: The New Cyber/Reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVEUWfDHqsU
Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, and the Relevancy of Cyberpunk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK6IjJkjkiI
CyberPunk Cities: Fiction or Reality? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p93lMyCCYig
The Peripheral - Season 1 | RECAP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6DAZ3Nax7E
The_Peripheral_(TV_series) could have gone on for a few years, but...
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/the-peripheral-canceled-amazon-season-2
U2 shocks Vegas fans with pop-up concert on Fremont Street ahead of MSG Sphere residency
Before there was the MATRIX in 1999, there was Achtung_Baby and the Zoo_TV_Tour in the early 1990s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2:UV_Achtung_Baby_Live_at_Sphere Its as close as you can get to the holodeck, the 13th Floor and the MATRIX in 2023.
Monday, September 18, 2023
City of Vancouver parts ways with its chief planner
Theresa O'Donnell came to Vancouver as a deputy director of planning in 2019 after 15 years working for the City of Dallas https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/city-of-vancouver-parts-ways-with-chief-planner
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/theresa-odonnell-city-of-vancouver-chief-planner-departure
Small Vancouver can fit into Dallas 8 times.
| Area | |
|---|---|
| • City | 123.63 km2 (47.73 sq mi) |
| • Land | 115.18 km2 (44.47 sq mi) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver#Geography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas
| Area | |
|---|---|
| • City | 385.9 sq mi (999.2 km2) |
| • Land | 339.604 sq mi (879.56 km2) |
| • Water | 43.87 sq mi (113.60 km2) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas#Geography
Vancouver was one of the first cities to remove its streetcars in the 1950s & will likely be one of the last to bring them back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Downtown_Historic_Railway#Proposed_future_service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Streetcar Of course Dallas would revive a small portion of its streetcar system long before Vancouver ever could. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Streetcar#Future_expansion_plans
https://www.mata.org/ride/route-map
Even Los_Angeles & the Brooklyn-Queens_Connector will likely be up & running sooner than Vancouver's attempted revival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcars_in_North_America#Heritage_streetcar_systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcars_in_North_America#Light_rail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail_in_North_America#History_of_streetcars_and_light_rail
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Highway-427-expansion-will-reduce-commute-times-by-up-to-25-minutes
https://storeys.com/highway-427-expansion-will-reduce-commute-times-by-up-to-25-minutes/
Any expanded or new section of urban highway should always have a provision for bus & HOV lanes. The Vancouver approach for decades was to just funnel everything into such narrow bridges that there is no proper space for bus or HOV lanes.
Cool Pedestrian and Bike Bridges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_Street_Pedestrian_Bridge Portland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_Bridge Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provencher_Bridge#The_pedestrian_bridge Winnipeg
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=bike+and+pedestrian+bridges
The Tilikum Crossing in Portland, Oregon
The Tilikum_Crossing is quite a fine transportation bridge for Portland. Unlike in Vancouver, BC, the Tilikum_Crossing meant that no lanes were reduced from the surrounding bridges.
| Carries | TriMet MAX light rail and buses; Portland Streetcar Loop Service; bicycles and pedestrians |
|---|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilikum_Crossing#Design
Unlike Portland & so many cities, V-BC & the metropolitan region refuses to build something like the Tilikum_Crossing_for_bicycles. The six lane Burrard_Bridge was reduced to 4 lanes in order to accomodate 2 bicycle_lanes. The Burrard_Bridge was designed to accommodate a lower level for streetcars, but never followed through with it. Vancouver-BC became one of the first cities to get rid of streetcars or trams & will likely be one of the last to bring them back. Fortunately, the Vancouver mentality was unable to stop the revival of the Seattle & Portland_Streetcar. Melbourne, Toronto, SF, Boston & New Orleans never totally got rid of their streetcars like backward V-BC.
Seattle
Seattle might seem small when compared to NYC & Chicago, but it's quite big when compared to little Vancouver, BC.
https://visitseattle.org/things-to-do/sightseeing/top-25-attractions/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle#Transportation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Seattle
https://skyviewobservatory.com , https://skyviewobservatory.com/about
https://skyviewobservatory.com/location , https://skyviewobservatory.com/news
https://skyviewobservatory.com/downloadable-virtual-backgrounds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Net_(building)
https://www.djc.com/news/re/12105569.html This building was Vancouverized so that it can just be another stump building in Seattle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Tower
| Antenna spire | 484 ft (148 m) |
|---|---|
| Roof | 462 ft (141 m) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Tower#History
It would take almost 6 decades before the BC part of Canada would allow what Seattle had in 1914.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Centre_(Vancouver)
It's always amazing to see how Seattle & Calgary are allowed to be big cities, simply because they aren't limited by Vancouver & BC type restrictions & imposed limitations.
Calgary, Alberta
Just like Washington State, the Alberta part of Canada isn't stunted like BC is.
"The Calgary Metropolitan Region is home to Canada's second-largest number of corporate head offices among the country's 800 largest corporations.[14] In 2015, Calgary had the largest number of millionaires per capita of any major Canadian city.[15] In 2022, Calgary was ranked alongside Zürich as the third most livable city in the world, ranking first in Canada and in North America." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary#Transportation
Unlike Vancouver, Calgary & Seattle are able to improve transportation infrastructure without taking lanes away from the narrow bridges.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle#Transportation
Calgary has more 50 story office towers than Denver or Minneapolis.
Calgary and Edmonton Compared https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h9HgvwQxJc
Friday, September 15, 2023
Urban Technology intersection
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=The+15+Minute+City
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjut20/current
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnyRZotnPSU
UTi is at...
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Urban+Technology
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Urban+Technology
The Spookiest Urban Legends from the USA
https://www.rd.com/list/scary-urban-legends/
Urban_legends can be in the most modern cities and buildings to the oldest cities from-around-the-world.
https://www.insider.com/urban-legends-us-2018-1
https://www.topuniversities.com/blog/5-creepy-university-urban-legends
Top 20 Scariest Urban Legends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJPtl9hjdY
The 15-Minute City
Ideally, if most stores and general services are within 15 to 30 minutes, that would be quite convenient.
However, with AI run cameras & authorization prompts from cell phones, traveling to another part of a city might become more difficult. If an AI human control algorithm says that you have already used up too much of your carbon credits and should remain home, that's not a system fit for free people.
More urban issues at...
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Exploring+the+15-Minute+City+Concept
Governments-alone-cannot-fix-canadas-housing-affordability-challenges
The public and private sector has to work out a better system.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-housing-city-funding-ottawa-1.6967212
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-newcomer-find-home
Luxury or high end homes aren't the problem, it's the lack of affordable housing for most people. There are obviously more people that need reasonable rental rates and lower cost housing.
https://financialpost.com/real-estate/canada-housing-affordability-government-cmhc
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=affordable+housing
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Langley, BC Township wants the Interurban revived for rail public transit
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/langley-township-interurban-rail-public-transit
Some cities & regions that kept such systems running through the decades might be better off. While other rebuilt from scratch.
https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/vancouver-transpo-grid-or-tube/
Essentially, a comprehensive network of trains, trams, busses & bike paths can all work well together when properly planned.
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Cities+with+the+best+tram+systems+in+the+world
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
The Stack Tower, or is it just another stumpy office building in Vancouver, BC?
It's all about Stumps+and+Towers.
There is no office tower in Vancouver or BC that has ever been allowed to have a 40th floor. Seattle has the 76 story B of A tower & Toronto has the 72 story BMO tower. That's because those cities aren't under anything like the restrictions and limitations that Vancouver has. If you can't build a wall around BC, the next best thing is to limit or reduce the scale of things. Then continually fall behind with the overall infrastructure.
Vancouver not only has limited the scale of office towers, but residential towers as well. It would seem that there is more of a demand now for residential towers than office towers.
Seattle, Calgary & Edmonton all have allowed a residential tower to be taller than anything in Vancouver.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Vancouver+House
London, UK for the longest time, refused to permit taller buildings. Then eventually as the land became so expensive, they eventually started to allow some towers that even rivaled that of Paris & Frankfurt. Some of the towers would not even be stumps when compared to those in NYC & Chicago.
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/no-rooms-at-the-inns-knock-on-effects-of-vancouvers-hotel-shortage If the city would allow taller buildings, then the hotel companies could build more rooms on the lower half, while providing condos on the upper half. Or, visa versa.
https://storeys.com/vancouver-hotel-shortage-council-motion Fortunatly, many other cities are able to keep up with getting more hotel rooms built. https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/09/08/vancouver-hotels-shortage-city-councillor/
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-hotel-supply-shortage-demand
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/city-of-vancouver-hotel-room-shortage-new-policies
Of course by the late 1800s, Montreal & Toronto had a sense of becoming major cities. Then by the early & mid 1900s, it became even more apparent. In the early 21st century, Vancouver is still stuck in a multi-decade rut of wanting to stunt, thwart or hold back the city in any way possible.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+No+Fun+City
Most of the regional bridges or crossings have been deliberately kept so narrow that it's almost impossible to have a proper regional express bus network to compliment the short sighted Skytrain stations.
All the narrow bridges should have had additional Bus+and+HOV+Lane bridges by now.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=HOV
The stump city has so much potential, but only if Vancouver reaches for the sky.
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Sunshine 60 tower in Tokyo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_60
It's about the same height as the B of A tower in SF, but with a few more floors than 555 California.
https://sunshinecity.jp/en/observatory
https://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/sunshine-60-tokyo-skyscraper
https://medium.com/@movingjapan5/haunted-places-you-definitely-shouldnt-visit-in-tokyo-d7c01e7eb1bd
Saturday, September 9, 2023
555 California Street
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_California_Street By the end of the 1960s, SF had a tower that was even big by NYC & Chicago standards.
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/555-california-street/1027
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-building-trump-stake-on-watchlist-17801816.php
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/555-california-falling-glass-san-francisco-17839533.php
https://sfyimby.com/2021/11/number-6-555-california-street-financial-district-san-francisco.html
650 California Street
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/650-california-street/12775
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/650_California_Street
https://www.650cal.com When this opened, it would have been a major size building in Australia & Canada in the 1960s. Today, it's just another stump building, especially in many American cities.
Friday, September 8, 2023
601 California Street
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/tower-is-out-of-sync-but-still-timeless-4360470.php
https://www.matrixhginc.com/projects/601-california
This is would just be another stump building in Melbourne, Victoria. Whereas in Victoria, BC nothing has been permitted to be as tall. Yet, the land costs continue to climb.
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Saturday, August 26, 2023
Friday, August 25, 2023
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Thursday, August 17, 2023
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Monday, August 14, 2023
Sunday, August 13, 2023
Friday, August 11, 2023
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
6.4bil-extension-project-for-montreal-s-blue-metro-line-gets-underway
https://www.mtlblog.com/montreal/everything-we-know-about-the-montreal-metros-blue-line-extension
https://www.stm.info/en/about/major_projects/major-metro-projects/blue-line-extension
https://mtlcityweblog.com/the-blue-line-extension-a-timeline/
Saturday, August 5, 2023
Friday, August 4, 2023
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
The Montreal-light-rail-line REM and Samuel-De Champlain Bridge
https://www.planetizen.com/news/2023/08/124945-new-rem-light-rail-launches-montreal
As long as the trains can eventually become double the length, then Montreal can avoid a Vancouver type delema.
https://rem.info/en/reseau-express-metropolitain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel-De_Champlain_Bridge
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=REM+Train
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Samuel-De+Champlain+Bridge
Monday, July 31, 2023
Montreal REM vs. Vancouver SkyTrain comparison
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/montreal-rem-vancouver-skytrain-comparison
If the SkyTrain could ever have longer stations & longer trains, then it might be on the same level as even the Montreal Metro, let alone REM.
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
West Georgia Street in Vancouver
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/west-georgia-street-rush-hour-vancouver-bc--72550243987409307
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-north-vancouver-west-vancouver-north-shore
The Lions+Gate+Bridge is a classic 3 lane bottleneck, or the quintessential urban chokepoint. The LGB could become an excellent foot, bus & bike bridge, if only a tunnel could be built close to it.
Five-blocks east of the park, Georgia Street is continually seven lanes wide.
https://vancouver.ca/streets-transportation/west-georgia-complete-street.aspx
While that segment of W. Georgia_Street is 7 lanes wide, an 8 lane tunnel could cross the 1st Narrows. A 7 lane tunnel might be a little cheaper with a middle centre lane section & barrier, two 4 lane compartments would be much better. During the morning, all 4 lanes could be heading into Vancouver with 1 as a HOV lane. Then, during the afternoon, all 4 northbound lanes would be open with the 4th being a HOV lane.
The 4 lane northbound tunnel could emerge just north of the LGB. Then the surface route could connect to Marine Drive and then turn onto Capilano Road. The Cap interchange is already there. Simply moving the yellow line over one lane would allow 3 lanes of northbound traffic on Capilano Road.
A reconfigured TCH & Taylor Way interchange could allow for 3 southbound lanes right down to the mall, simply by moving the yellow line over 1 lane. Then, a 3 lane Taylor Way southbound tunnel could start just south of the Marine Drive intersection. A southbound HOV lane would have to be routed into it.
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history-the-great-georgia-harris-viaduct-opens-in-1915 Aparently, no one bothered to make sure that the 4 lane structure could properly support streetcars. Thus, the inept city couldn't use it as a major east-west streetcar route.
https://spacing.ca/vancouver/2011/06/16/the-viaducts-past-present-and-future-part-1 Even in the 1970s there was no concept to have an express bus corridor betwen Vancouver, Burnaby & Coquitlam.
https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2015/01/13/john-mackie-the-georgia-viaduct-and-the-freeway-fight-1972
Then when the first 2 SkyTrain lines were built, the stations were barely half the length of the 152.5 meter Montreal Metro stations. Evidently, this was to save money, but the stations should have still been built to proper big city standards. Then to further reinforce the symbolism of congestive planning agenda, the 3rd line only has enough clearance for 50 meter stations.
Sydney started to have taller buildings than Vancouver by the early 1960s. https://ca.pinterest.com/pin/west-georgia-street-1960--497647827546801125 It took until the end of the 1960s for Melbourne to start having taller buildings than Vancouver. Then as Melbourne soared into the 1970s, Vancouver started to create a series of overlapping restrictions to thwart the city.
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/british-columbia-vancouver-skyline-1970s-with-possible-building-site-of-west-coast-transmission-building--716424253196467928 Despite being a Pacific city, Vancouver & Canada don't seem to be interested in having a proper metropolis on the scale of Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane. The tallest buildings in Vancouver must be shorter than even the tallest in Perth, Seattle & Calgary. Most of the roads & bridges are to be half the width & the trains are also to be a half-length joke. Thus, Greater Vancouver has been in a perpetual state of congestion.
Sunday, July 16, 2023
Saturday, July 15, 2023
Thursday, July 13, 2023
CenterPoint Energy Tower, Houston
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CenterPoint_Energy_Plaza
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=1089
https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/Building/2164/CenterPoint%20Energy%20Tower.php
https://www.keatingarchitecture.com/center-point-energy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Houston
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
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Monday, June 19, 2023
Congestive urban planning in backwards BC
Most bridges in Greater Vancouver are so narrow, because there was no provision to have bus and HOV lanes. The+Lion+Bridge+and+The+Iron+Bridge are 2 classic examples of not constructing additional infrastructure to accommodate bus lanes, HOV lanes and especially, rail rapid transit. That's because such improvements would actually go against the congestive urban planning agenda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacey_V._Murrow_Memorial_Bridge , https://www.historylink.org/file/21298 A narrow 4 lane BC type bridge was upgraded to an 8 lane crossing, plus 2 LRT tracks for WA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrows_Bridge_(Perth) From a basic bridge to a nice 10 lane crossing with 2 train tracks for WA. https://structurae.net/en/structures/narrows-bridge Its great that the horrible backwards Vancouver mentality never made it to Perth. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-13/perth-narrows-bridge-60-years-since-construction/11697812 Unfortunately, Vancouver & BC have done their damndest to prevent a similar nice, wide crossing, which also includes 6_car_trains. While backwards Vancouver & BC didn't want to build wider infrastructure simply to accomodate more drivers, the funds didn't seem to go towards a regional rapid bus or at least an express bus & HOV network with its own set of bridges. The SkyTrain should have been designed with a provision to eventually have stations at least as long as those on the Montreal Metro, which can accomodate 9 car trains on a 500 ft platform or 152.5 m. https://heritage.engineersaustralia.org.au/wiki/Place:Constructing_Narrows_Bridges
The old Champlain_Bridge_in Montreal just had 3 lanes each way & no provision for a train. Where as the new Samuel-De_Champlain_Bridge provides 4 lanes each way & has 2 REM train tracks. https://www.samueldechamplainbridge.ca Fortunately, Montreal, like Seattle & Perth was able to have a nice wide bridge with 2 train tracks in the middle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel-De_Champlain_Bridge#Construction_method
Montreal, Seattle & Perth are allowed to exist on a larger scale than backwards Vancouver, because they don't have the same imposed restrictions. Urban Quebec and urban WA are able to do so much more, because they aren't hindered by anything like the backwards BC mentality.
Risk assessment model of bottlenecks for urban expressways using survival analysis approach https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235214651730474X
Perth, WA and Seattle, WA
Perth and Seattle are fine examples of what hasn't been allowed in Vancouver, BC. Perth has good year round weather & better infrastructure than Vancouver. While Seattle can almost have as much cold & crappy damp Vancouver weather, it's not a thwarted city. Perth & especially Seattle permit taller buildings, wider bridges & have longer trains.
https://www.westernaustralia.com/en/places-to-visit/perth-and-surrounds/travel-to-and-around-perth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth#Infrastructure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windan_Bridge , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goongoongup_Bridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railways_in_Perth#Routes_and_services
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_line,_Perth#Stations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_line,_Perth#Rolling_stock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandurah_line
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/High_Wycombe_train_gn1.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_railway_station#/media/File:Perth_station_platform2.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle#Transportation
https://www.soundtransit.org/blog/platform/making-i-90-floating-bridge-stronger-longer-lasting-trains This crossing provides 4 Lanes each way with 2 tracks for LRT.
Essentially, Perth+and+Seattle both have been able to develop on a grander urban scale than restrictive Vancouver. There is just something about the small-scale thinking of backwater BC that hasn't caught on with, or been adopted by WA.
Albany, Western Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany,_Western_Australia
https://gsdc.wa.gov.au/our-region/city-of-albany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Albany
https://www.westernaustralia.com/en/places/albany/56b266bb2cbcbe7073ae06bd
https://www.wa.gov.au/system/files/2021-11/LST-Albany.pdf
https://profile.id.com.au/albany/population-estimate
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Vancouver+Peninsula+WA+6330,+Australia
https://www.google.com/maps/place/West+Cape+Howe+National+Park
https://www.icontainers.com/us/2020/01/20/top-10-ports-australia
https://www.marineinsight.com/know-more/8-major-ports-in-australia
https://www.porttechnology.org/news/top-5-ports-in-australia-2021
https://container-news.com/top-10-the-busiest-container-ports-in-oceania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_ports_by_cargo_tonnage
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Thursday, May 25, 2023
Chicago eL
https://interactive.wttw.com/chicago-by-l/sidetracks/history-l , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NPCFnF4csA
https://www.947wls.com/2022/02/28/this-is-where-the-cta-el-train-is-its-loudest/
https://interactive.wttw.com/chicago-by-l/sidetracks/how-cta-map-got-its-colors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6xJFpPY_7s&t=2019s CTA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLti1BiNCPE OH
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The new Highway 99 Tunnel with an eight-lane immersed tube tunnel.
https://www.highway99tunnel.ca/
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022TRAN0012-000176
https://globalnews.ca/tag/massey-tunnel/
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/steveston-interchange-george-massey-tunnel-vs.-bridge-richmond
https://globalnews.ca/news/9112754/massey-crossing-replacement-delay/