Vancouver's tourism board sounding alarm bells over lack of hotel capacity

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/destination-vancouver-hotel-challenges-1.6770086

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hotels It's always amazing to see what other cities can do, simply because they aren't in BC.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/no-rooms-at-the-inns-knock-on-effects-of-vancouvers-hotel-shortage

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-hotel-supply-shortage-demand

https://storeys.com/vancouver-hotel-shortage-council-motion/

Not having enough BC+hotels is like a slap in the face to the local tourism or hospitality industry. There should have been more civic cooperation to allow for larger and taller hotels. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC+hotel+shortage

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=hotel+rooms

Developer announces plan to build 5,000 rental homes after federal decision to drop GST on construction costs

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/dream-unlimited-rental-housing-plan-federal-gst-canada

It's like Canada never really planned to ever have that much of the world's population, despite being the world's 2nd largest county in overall area. A population of 80 million is only 1% of 8 billion. It's taken quite a while for Canada just to contain 0.5% of the world's population. 

https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/population_and_demography/40-million June 2023

There has always been a lagging pace of infrastructure development in BC & Atlantic Canada.

https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/3861-40-million-strong-canada-reaches-new-population-milestone

One would expect such a slow pace in the arctic regions.

Vancouver uber-ride-hailing-service-area-expansion-fraser-valley

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/uber-ride-hailing-service-area-expansion-fraser-valley

Victoria, BC and other Canadian Capitals

 https://storeys.com/victoria-missing-middle-housing-review/

Such a sleepy little city with perhaps the most mild winters in Canada. Yet, big Edmonton has much colder winters with many times the population of Victoria. 

Victoria,_British_Columbia has yet to exceed 100,000 people, colder Regina,_Saskatchewan & St._John's,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador have more people. However, Greater_Victoria might eventually rival that of Halifax,_Nova_Scotia. Perhaps someday even Quebec_City & Winnipeg, but Victoria would rather remain a provincial backwater for as long as possible. Being on an island is almost as good as having a wall, but its a salt water moat instead. 

Big Toronto has been the only Canadian city to become as large as Chicago.

Perhaps someday Ottawa might get as big as Montreal, but that's quite a long ways off into the future.

Unlike Victoria, NW is part of an urban region of more than a few million people. Thus, its compelled to gradually have more infrastructure.

'Deeply hurtful': Polish ambassador condemns Nazi veteran’s invitation to Canada’s Parliament

 https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/deeply-hurtful-polish-ambassador-condemns-nazi-veteran-s-invitation-to-canada-s-parliament-

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kremlin-reaction-canadian-parliament-1.6977248

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/kremlin-says-canadian-recognition-of-veteran-from-nazi-unit-is-outrageous-1.6576499

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/canada-needs-to-denounce-ukrainian-nazi-unit-not-honour-it-says-uottawa-professor-who-uncovered-veterans-ss-links

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadas-soft-pedalling-ukraine-ss-galicia

"Immediately questionably why nobody recognized this"

A Ukrainian-Canadian professor says even without any specialist knowledge, someone should have had questions about the Ukrainian Waffen-SS veteran invited to Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to Parliament.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2023/09/25/immediately-questionably-why-nobody-recognized-this

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/25/canada-house-speaker-apologises-for-recognition-of-veteran-linked-to

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230628/dq230628c-eng.htm

A Routine bank visit devolved into 'dehumanization,' says Black customer

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/rbc-bank-street-ottawa-allegations-discrimination-black-customer-1.6976967

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/absolutely-it-was-racially-motivated-says-rbc-bank-client-after-police-called-to-investigate-transaction-1.6577256

https://bnn.network/world/canada/racial-discrimination-claims-surface-against-royal-bank-of-canada/

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/canada/articles/why-is-canada-nicknamed-the-great-white-north

A 'Whites-only' sign for a mom and tot playgroup in Coquitlam draws outrage

 https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/whites-only-sign-for-a-mom-and-tot-playgroup-in-coquitlam-draws-outrage

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/whites-only-mother-tots-group-condemned-british-columbia-1.6977449

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/white-only-moms-and-tots-group-sign

Unfortunately, some people would still like to revert back to the White Colonial System where non-whites are looked down upon.

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/canada/articles/why-is-canada-nicknamed-the-great-white-north

New York is Falling Apart… Literally

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

Surviving The Dangerous Streets Of Birmingham

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baBeXz10XEA

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

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

Housing crisis finally pushes Canada's economy into recession

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-economy-recession-housing-crisis-forecast

Man arrested after free-climbing London's 'Cheesegrater' skyscraper

 https://news.sky.com/story/man-arrested-after-free-climbing-londons-cheesegrater-skyscraper-12967360

https://news.sky.com/strangenews

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

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=U2

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=U2

Sunshine-60: Tokyo's haunted skyscraper

 https://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/sunshine-60-tokyo-skyscraper

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

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/

The World's Largest Cruise Ship

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNdNV1er-9c

Why Australia’s Housing Crisis Is a Warning for the World

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqKIlLS7ln4

Smart cities will track our every move

 https://www.zdnet.com/article/smart-cities-will-track-our-every-move-we-will-need-to-keep-them-in-check/

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

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

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-subway-millennium-line-extension-constructon-progress-aerial-photos-video

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

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

U2 shocks Vegas fans with pop-up concert on Fremont Street ahead of MSG Sphere residency

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/09/18/u2-atomic-city-performance-fremont-street-vegas/70896046007/

https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/entertainment-columns/kats/u2-premieres-new-single-in-surprise-downtown-las-vegas-show-2905889/

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/u2-atomic-city-video-shoot-single-las-vegas-larry-mullen-1235725938/

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.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2023/09/13/darren-aronofsky-gives-first-look-inside-vegas-sphere/70847497007/

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=U2

Minimum income to buy a home in Vancouver rises to $246,100

 https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/minimum-income-buy-home-vancouver-rises-interest-rates-report

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 [2]
• 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 [2]
• 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#List_of_primarily_tourist_heritage_systems_in_North_America

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

Minimum income required to buy a home in Vancouver spikes to shocking amount

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-income-home-buying-mortgage-test

bridges-in-singapore

 https://www.holidify.com/pages/bridges-in-singapore-2385.html

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

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

https://trimet.org/tilikum

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.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tilikum+Crossing

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

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://seattlemag.com 

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

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

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

The 15-Minute City

 https://www.nlc.org/article/2023/06/13/exploring-the-15-minute-city-concept-and-its-potential-for-communities-of-all-sizes/

Ideally, if most stores and general services are within 15 to 30 minutes, that would be quite convenient.

https://www.15minutecity.com

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

https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/blog/2022/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

Delta, BC wants TransLink's new Scott Road Bus Rapid Transit line prioritized

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/delta-translink-r6-rapidbus-bus-rapid-transit-brt-scott-road

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

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Bus+Rapid+Transit

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

The Stack Tower, or is it just another stumpy office building in Vancouver, BC?

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/the-stack-office-tower-1133-melville-street-vancouver-tallest-greenest

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://www.bcbusiness.ca/Land-Values-How-the-hotel-shortage-in-Vancouver-is-coinciding-with-a-boom-in-tourism

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.

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

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.stripes.com/living/pacific_travel/quick_trips/2021-11-11/sushine-city-ikebukuro-tokyo-gashapon-sugamo-prison-3545506.

https://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/sunshine-60-tokyo-skyscraper

https://medium.com/@movingjapan5/haunted-places-you-definitely-shouldnt-visit-in-tokyo-d7c01e7eb1bd

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

Torquay

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpXSAz2EE9w

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

A major-population-correction-coming-for-humanity-scientist-predicts

 https://www.sciencealert.com/major-population-correction-coming-for-humanity-scientist-predicts

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

San-Francisco's-famed-california-street-is-selling-at-a-deep-discount

 https://sfstandard.com/2023/04/28/san-franciscos-famed-california-street-is-selling-at-a-deep-discount/

Santiago Metro

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjpULwbi5Tg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16g2XuAKDKs rmt

The Hague

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hague#Urban_transport

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

Amsterdam

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

federal-government-immigration-housing-crisis-affordability

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-federal-government-immigration-housing-crisis-affordability

car-and public-transit-commuters-transportation-modes

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/car-public-transit-commuters-transportation-mode-canada-statistics

metro-vancouver-skytrain-ridership-recovery

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-skytrain-ridership-north-america-comparison-recovery

vancouver translink-fall-2023-bus-service-changes

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-fall-2023-bus-service-changes

vancouver/skytrain-mark-v-train-testing-translink

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-mark-v-train-testing-translink

tallest buildings in Africa

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

Seattle's George Washington Memorial Bridge (Aurora Bridge)

https://www.historylink.org/File/5418

395 3rd Street, SoMa, San Francisco

 https://sfyimby.com/2023/08/city-approves-tower-at-395-3rd-street-soma-san-francisco.html

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

vancouver/highway-1-fraser-valley-widening-business-groups-advocacy

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/highway-1-fraser-valley-widening-business-groups-advocacy

transportation

 https://www.urbanyvr.com/transportation

11-fascinating-facts-about-the-royal-liver-building-from-its-local-designer-to-breaking-records

 https://www.theliverpudlian.com/post/11-fascinating-facts-about-the-royal-liver-building-from-its-local-designer-to-breaking-records

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

The Biggest Megaprojects in the World

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co5HqHit7L4

Hong Kong's $11BN Underwater Railway

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03AtIZjziJw

Biggest Megaprojects Under Construction

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CakIrrhc8gM

World's Most Useless Megaprojects

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXcbcKk2MGQ

The Jeddah Tower

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6E-VjbOVEs

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8

8

3

6.4bil-extension-project-for-montreal-s-blue-metro-line-gets-underway

 https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/6-4m-extension-project-for-montreal-s-blue-metro-line-gets-underway-1.6512407

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/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Line_(Montreal_Metro)

skytrains-greater vancouver-extensions

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-vancouver-demand-extensions

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3

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paramount-place-scotiabank-theatre-900-burrard-entertainment-centre-vancouver

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/paramount-place-scotiabank-theatre-900-burrard-entertainment-centre-vancouver

3

1

the-katy-freeway

 https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/it-s-not-just-you-the-katy-freeway-is-15945843.php

https://cityobservatory.org/reducing-congestion-katy-didnt/

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850-foot (260 m) Rainier Square Tower in Seattle

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4/C

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Seattle#Tallest_completed_buildings

250.8 m (823 ft) Stantec Tower in Edmonton

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Edmonton#Timeline_of_tallest_buildings

222.3 m (729 ft) Telus Sky in Calgary

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Calgary#Buildings

councillor-opposes-plan-for-80-storey-tower-in-burnaby

 https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/burnaby-councillor-opposes-plan-for-80-storey-tower-in-burnaby-5509305

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/14-levels-of-underground-parking-80-storey-burnaby-tower-lougheed-7125340

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/new-burnaby-condo-proposal-pitching-the-tallest-highrise-in-bc-5358787

https://globalnews.ca/news/9766455/burnaby-condo-tower-debate-14-levels-parking/

https://www.urbanyvr.com/82-storey-building-the-tallest-in-western-canada-proposed-for-burnaby/

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/tallest-tower-in-b-c-may-be-built-in-burnaby-as-part-of-skyscraper-project-1.5927875

https://biz.crast.net/bcs-tallest-tower-on-the-lougheed-skytrain-considered-by-burnaby-city-council-urban/

The Montreal (REM) light rail line on the 8 lane Samuel-De Champlain Bridge

 https://www.planetizen.com/news/2023/08/124945-new-rem-light-rail-launches-montreal

As long as the REM trains can eventually become double their length, then Montreal can avoid the Vancouver LRT delema. While short and frequent trains can be an initial cost saving measure, there should always be a provision to eventually have longer stations and trains. The joke that is the Canada Line wasn't designed to ever have stations long enough to accomodate 5 car trains. The ridiculous 2 car trains can only be lengthened up to a 2.5 car train, due to the absurd 50m stations. 

https://rem.info/en/map

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/national-news/new-montreal-light-rail-train-line-saw-two-service-interruptions-on-day-of-launch-7353740

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-light-rail-transit-system-shuts-down-on-1st-official-day-of-service-1.6500552

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

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

whalley-station tower

 https://tiensher.com/portfolio/whalley-station/

king-george-station hub in-surrey

 https://www.urbanyvr.com/king-george-hub-surrey-opening/

https://www.urbanyvr.com/tag/surrey/

Burnaby

 https://www.urbanyvr.com/tag/Burnaby/

skytrain-capstan-station-opening-for-service-in-early-fall-2023

 https://www.urbanyvr.com/skytrain-capstan-station-opening-for-service-in-early-fall-2023/

https://www.urbanyvr.com/tag/richmond/

Montreal Metro, REM train vs. Vancouver SkyTrain comparison

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/montreal-rem-vancouver-skytrain-comparison 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9seau_express_m%C3%A9tropolitain#Main_line

If the SkyTrain could ever have significantly longer stations & longer trains, then it might become on a similar capacity level as the Montreal Metro. Indeed, the SkyTrain should not only be significantly longer that the REM train, but eventually as long as a Montreal Metro train.

The first 2 SkyTrain lines should have had stations that could eventually accommodate 10 car trains. The slightly upgraded stations will only be able to accommodate the newest 5 car trains, not 10 or even 8 cars. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alstom_Metropolis_Saint-Laurent#Comparison_with_Montreal_Metro_trains

The YVR-Canada_Line should have been started with 5 car trains, but the stations were only designed to accommodate a 2.5 car joke of a train. The absurdly short stations are only 50 m and don't have enough level clearance to become 100 m, especially not 150 m. Its a fine example of how Vancouver just can't seem to properly plan for growing infrastructure demands. The Montreal Metro has stations that are 152.5 m (500'), which can accommodate 9 car trains. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9seau_express_m%C3%A9tropolitain#Stations

A 4 car REM train with selective door technology could allow an extra car at each end to become a 6 car train. If there is enough level station clearance for significant extension, then the REM could easily run 6 or maybe even 8 car trains. Selective door technology is really good for trains limited to short platforms. It easily allows a 2 car extension of a shorter train. However, its still better that any half-length station has enough space for proper expansion. 

Fortunately, the Edmonton_LRT underground stations were far enough away from the influence of the backwards BC planning mentality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Line#Stations

Churchill	Underground	Metro Line  Valley Line[a]	Downtown	April 22, 1978	53°32′39″N 113°29′21″W
Central	Underground	Metro Line	Downtown	April 22, 1978	53°32′28″N 113°29′31″W
Bay/Enterprise Square	Underground	Metro Line	Downtown	June 21, 1983	53°32′27″N 113°29′54″W
Corona	Underground	Metro Line	Downtown	June 21, 1983	53°32′27″N 113°30′21″W
Government Centre	Underground	Metro Line	Downtown	September 1989	53°32′10″N 113°30′37″W
University	Underground	Metro Line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Line#Stations 

Despite the Seattle Link_light_rail being much closer to backwards Vancouver than Edmonton is, Seattle had no problem with having longer underground stations than what's in shortsighted BC. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Line_(Sound_Transit)#Stations 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Line_(Sound_Transit)#Stations 

Fortunately, the Skyline_(Honolulu) like the REM can easily run 4 car trains, while the YVR-Canada Line is still just running 2 car joke trains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(Honolulu)#Route 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(Honolulu)#Rolling_stock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(Honolulu)#Timeline_of_progress

The backwards BC mindset, or the BC Mind Virus hasn't been able to influence Alberta & Washington State, Hawaii & Australia... 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=REM+Train

simon-fraser-university-plaza-renewal-and-student-union-building-in burnaby

 https://www.canadianarchitect.com/masterworks-renewed-simon-fraser-university-plaza-renewal-and-student-union-building-burnaby-bc/

132-street-widening-surrey

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/132-street-widening-surrey

concord-metrotown-phase-2

 https://www.urbanyvr.com/concord-metrotown-phase-2/

richmond-city-centre-steveston-highway-bike-lanes

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/richmond-city-centre-steveston-highway-bike-lanes

crane-collapses-into-neighboring-building-after-catching-fire-in-nyc

 https://nypost.com/2023/07/26/crane-collapses-into-neighboring-building-after-catching-fire-in-nyc/

vancouver-broadway-corridor-test-case-new-downtown

 https://storeys.com/vancouver-broadway-corridor-test-case-new-downtown/

city-of-burnaby-royal-oak-urban-village-community-plan-redevelopment-projects

 https://storeys.com/city-of-burnaby-royal-oak-urban-village-community-plan-redevelopment-projects/

developer to-rebuild-heritage-building-thurlow-vancouver

 https://storeys.com/developer-rebuild-heritage-building-thurlow-vancouver/

bridges and tunnels

 https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/may-1-1973--4714774596223914 vancouver

stumps

 https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/761882461979840318/

mountains

 https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/423197696215074280

https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/955326139682456105/

Granville Street

 https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/6262886968078574 bridge