https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/5505-5585-oak-street-vancouver-shawn-oaks-redevelopment-concept
Friday, July 5, 2024
Over 5 million sq ft of office space in Metro Vancouver is currently vacant
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-office-vacancy-rate-q2-2024
Most new office buildings should be designed in a way that they can be repurposed if the need should arise. Besides Honolulu & San Diego, Vancouver has some of the smallest office buildings for a major city. While Honolulu doesn't like their office buildings to have more than 30 floors, Vancouver has never permitted an office tower to have a 40th floor. Phoenix has allowed only one 40 story office tower.
The big problem is that Vancouver is so far behind with apartment rental and hotel towers.
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Vancouver used to have a Sea festival
https://shrineodreams.wordpress.com/tag/vancouver-riots/
https://vancouversun.com/news/this-day-in-history-july-11-1970
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/marine-history-festival-founders/article983586/
Fortunately, Seattle is still able to have their festival after all these years. They just never seemed to have the same problems that Vancouver had.
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside at risk of losing 2 bathrooms due to lack of funding
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/07/02/downtown-eastside-at-risk-losing-2-bathrooms/
Some say that the city has been going to shit for several years now.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10598334/dtes-public-toilet-funding
Is this part of the+shitty+BC+agenda? Of course urban living standards should be improved for everyone.
Monday, July 1, 2024
Hastings Mill, V-BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_Mill
If Vancouver could have been started at least a few decades earlier, it might have been allowed to be a big city like Seattle or even SF.
https://blog.castac.org/2015/05/hastings-mill
https://forbiddenvancouver.ca/the-hastings-mill
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Best beaches in the world
https://worlds50beaches.com/top-50-worlds-best-beaches Of course Vancouver diddn't make the list.
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/worlds-best-beaches
https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/beach-vacations/most-beautiful-beaches-in-the-world
https://travel.usnews.com/rankings/best-beaches-in-the-world/
Friday, June 28, 2024
Thursday, June 27, 2024
German brewery makes beer with sewage water
https://www.dw.com/en/german-brewery-makes-beer-with-sewage-water/video-69430566
BC's loss & Germany's gain, but Vancouver still has Shit+Creek Creek.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-beach-e-coli-closure
https://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/kitsilano-beach.aspx At some point it might be renamed, SHITS BEACH.
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/cj3ci5/oh_shit_kits_beach
https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/combined-sewer-overflows.aspx
High E. coli levels prompt water advisory for Vancouver’s Sunset Beach
https://globalnews.ca/news/10588970/water-advisory-vancouver-sunset-beach-e-coli
Should it be renamed, Sunshit Beach?
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/water-quality-advisory-issued-at-sunset-beach-1.6941149
https://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/sunset-beach.aspx
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ambleside-beach-e-coli-1.7245012
https://www.vch.ca/en/service/public-beach-water-quality#short-description--13871
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=the+shitty+BC+agenda
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Repairs on Calgary's broken feeder main are now complete, but water service not yet restored
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/city-calgary-water-main-break-repairs-work-complete-1.7245765
Fortunately, for Calgary this isn't a shit pipe issue, like it is for crappy Vancouver.
https://www.calgary.ca/water/customer-service/water-service-lines-calgary.html
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
E. coli surged in False Creek after Vancouver sewage spill
https://globalnews.ca/news/10584825/false-creek-sewage-spill-water-concerns/
It really should be renamed, SHIT CREEK!
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/06/25/vancouver-false-creek-e-coli-sewer-break/
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-12-17/california-sewage-potable-reuse
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160105-why-we-will-all-one-day-drink-recycled-wastewater
https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/how-the-utility-works.aspx
Just turn it all into Shit+Creek.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=the+shitty+BC+agenda
An affluent island getaway where Obamas enjoy $12M mansion faces a housing crisis so bad it is 'threatening public safety'
Whenever there is a big movie production around the world, there is no problem bringing in the trailers & tents... Temporary housing units are brought into remote construction sites & other work camps.
Perhaps when such a wealthy area was built, the planners & builders thought that robots would replace the workers someday. Well, this is still suppose to be a human world with some robots. Not a robotic world in which AI will determine how much of humanity will be reduced.
Monday, June 24, 2024
E. coli levels jumped in False Creek and at English Bay beaches after sewer leaks
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/ecoli-jumped-english-bay-beaches-sewer-leak
For some reason, most cities with beaches aren't interested in emulating Vancouver's shitty approach to things.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/beaches-unsafe-swimming-e-coli
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC+beaches
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=the+shitty+BC+agenda
Burnaby Rail Corridor Improvements Project
https://portvancouver.civilspace.io/en/projects/burnaby-rail-corridor-improvements-project
https://www.portvancouver.com/projects/road-and-rail/burnaby-rail-corridor-upgrades/
https://www.burnaby.ca/our-city/projects/holdom-overpass
https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/holdom-overpass-plans-move-forward-in-burnaby-5585167
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/holdom-road-overpass-burnaby
Canada's population forecast to reach 63 million, as people over 85 set to triple
Yet, the BC part of Canada still wants to have short trains, narrow bridges & stumpy buildings, when compared to what Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane & Perth allow. Vancouver & BC have been under a multigenerational restrictive agenda. AKA, a slow growth initiative, which has no effect on Calgary & Seattle. Thus, anyone can see the much larger urban scale of those & many other cities are allowed to be.
https://climateinstitute.ca/impacts-building-infrastructure-yesterday-s-climate Any modern country needs a good network of roads, but an equally good network of passenger & freight trains.
Of course Canada has been very slow to create a high-speed intercity train system.
https://climateinstitute.ca/news/albertas-renewable-energy-restrictions-will-throttle-a-booming-industry-and-drive-away-investment The transition from oil & gas should have been done over a few generations, instead of trying to push it though in under a few decades.
https://climateinstitute.ca/clean-growth/
23 Switzerland's can fit into BC, yet BC still doesn't have the population of one Ch.
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Questions (and smells) arise after two sewer leaks in three days in False Creek
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/two-vancouver-sewer-leaks-three-days-false-creek
While EXCRET CREEK could work, SHIT CREEK is still the best name for it.
https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/how-the-utility-works.aspx
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-12-17/california-sewage-potable-reuse
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160105-why-we-will-all-one-day-drink-recycled-wastewater
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Shit+Creek
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=the+shitty+BC+agenda
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Germany's autobahn bridges falling apart
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-autobahn-bridges-falling-apart/a-69439952
"German Transport Minister Volker Wissing is hammering out a plan that would speed up the expansion of the Autobahn network, and that would include over 140 Autobahn projects across the country, 66 of those in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state.
The plan, however, has been extremely contentious among political parties and various German states. The Green Party wants solar panels installed along new Autobahn lines, and the draft also foresees better bike paths along routes.
Meanwhile, in the past few weeks, climate activists from the Last Generation group have been staging protests in the German capital Berlin, even gluing themselves to roads to block traffic.
The group is calling for the establishment of a citizen's assembly to tackle climate change. They say it should discuss "how the use of fossil fuels can be ended in a socially just manner by 2030."
The group's other demands include a speed limit on motorways and an even lower-cost flat-rate tickets for public transport." https://www.dw.com/en/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-german-autobahn/a-41487136
Friday, June 21, 2024
Vancouver International Airport and YVR Station
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-international-airport-yvr-summer-2024
It really gets to be quite frustrating when Vancouver & BC keeps opting for the smaller or half-assed version of things. The YVR-Canada-Line is a good case in point. Its sad & pathetic that Vancouver must have shorter trains & smaller underground stations than Seattle & Edmonton & several other cities. Yet, longer trains helps to efficiently more more people around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YVR-Airport_station
Even the elevated sections need to have long, level segments to allow for longer stations.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-international-airport-yvr-land-use-changes-runways
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=SkyTrain-Canada+Line
Vancouver vs. Calgary
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouverite-raving-calgary
So far, Vancouver hasn't been able to get Calgary to adopt a similar shitty approach to things.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10577953/sewage-leak-vancouver-olympic-village/
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Sewage flows into False Creek after main breaks in Vancouver
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/06/20/vancouver-broken-sewer-main/
Fortunately, it wasn't the SHIT-PIPE that took over the city.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10577953/sewage-leak-vancouver-olympic-village/
https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/renewing-and-upgrading-your-sewer-connection.aspx
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=$HIT-PIPE
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Shit+Creek
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=the+shitty+BC+agenda
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Langley man – last surviving ironworker of Second Narrows Bridge collapse – attends 66th anniversary memorial
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ironworkers-memorial-bridge-collapse-1958-1.5615447
https://www.ironworkers.ca/58-years-second-narrows-bridge-collapse-lost-lives-not-forgotten/
BRT
BRT can be very effective, if it has its own lanes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit
https://www.lightrailnow.org/facts/fa_brt.htm
https://www.metrolinx.com/en/projects-and-programs/queen-st-hwy-7-brt/what-were-building
https://coderedto.com/subway-vs-lrt
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/comparing-bus-rapid-transit-light-rail-which-superior-kumbhar-m-eng
https://steergroup.com/insights/news/lrt-versus-brt-which-better-option
https://andrewknack.ca/blog/lrt-brt-edmonton
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/brt-vs-lrt.32259
The BC SkyTrain
Even though there were apparent budget limits through the years, the first 2 SkyTrain lines still should have been designed with a provision to have at least 152.5 m long stations. The SkyTrain-Canada+Line should have been designed to ultimately have 160 m long stations.
Instead, the first 2 BC+SkyTrain lines only have 80 m stations & the joke that the Canada Line is, only has a 50 m limit.
https://www.railforthevalley.com/category/skytrain-and-the-canada-line
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=North+Shore-Metrotown+SkyTrain+Line
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=SkyTrain
LRT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail
https://www.calgary.ca/green-line/trains/low-floor-trains.html
https://andrewknack.ca/blog/lrt-brt-edmonton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail#Types
https://www.railforthevalley.com/category/latest-news/surrey-lrt Surrey and Langley always have the potential for streetcars & especially tram-trains.
https://www.torontoenvironment.org/what_is_the_difference_between_streetcar_lrt_and_subway
https://coderedto.com/subway-vs-lrt
https://steergroup.com/insights/news/lrt-versus-brt-which-better-option
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/comparing-bus-rapid-transit-light-rail-which-superior-kumbhar-m-eng
https://gobrt.org/brt-vs-light-rail/advantages-of-light-rail-over-buses-and-rapid-transit/
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Calgary+Green+Line
BRT might be able to rival a couple of connected streetcars. However, a tram-train will still beat BRT in length, frequency & capacity.
The sale of ICBC head office
This area should have been planned to be a proper transit, commercial & mixed housing development, decades ago. A SkyTrain and bus-bridge should have crossed the inlet decades ago, but that would have improved regional transportation.
Surfing At $HIT-PIPE
https://mpora.com/surfing/fancy-surfing-SHIT-PIPE-yep-real-place
https://www.surf-forecast.com/breaks/Shit-Pipe
https://www.boardriding.com/spots/shit-pipe
https://www.surfline.com/surf-report/shitpipe/5842041f4e65fad6a7708900?view=table
In the Vancouver and BC context, its as if there is some kind of a Mind Virus that turns things into a $HIT-BOX boondoggle. Its like cities in backwards BC are affected by some kind of a PIPE-DREAM mentality.
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant
https://metrovancouver.org/services/liquid-waste/north-shore-wastewater-treatment-plant-project
This is total North+Shore, $HIT-PIPE mismanagement and excrement!
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/north-shore-sewage-plant-bombshell-budget-metro-vancouver
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/metro-vancouver-who-pays-north-shore-sewage-plant
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wastewater-vancouver-b-c-utility-1.7153369
https://globalnews.ca/news/10378493/north-shore-wastewater-4-billion/
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=North+Shore+Wastewater+Treatment+Plant
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=SHIT-BOX
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=the+shitty+BC+agenda
BC Ferries efficiently connecting Vancouver and Nanaimo, Victoria and Delta
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-transit-summer
All 4 cities should have been much better connected by now.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-ferries-outdoor-pet-areas-tsawwassen-swartz-bay-route
Of course there wasn't any serious long term planning for the YVR C+Line to connect the Tsawwassen_ferry_terminal with the Horseshoe_Bay_ferry_terminal.
Indeed, unlike the Montreal Metro & the Toronto Subway being designed to have 152.5 m or 500 foot long stations, the Canada+Line was only designed to have 50 m stations. The ridiculously short sighted YVR Canada-Line should have been designed to have 160 m long stations & provide a high capacity connection between West_Vancouver and Delta. Eight 20 m coaches sure would have made for a nice long train, instead of the 50 m joke that is the Canada Line.
There should have been an LRT connection between provincial Victoria & backwater Nanaimo by now. Something like the Coast_Tram or especially the CTrain.
Another LRT line connecting Victoria with the Swartz_Bay_ferry_terminal should have been in place for several years already.
Of course a train connecting the Tsawwassen_ferry_terminal to the YVR-Canada-Line would make too much sense, thus it's been ignored for so long.
Mor regular connections between the Horseshoe_Bay_ferry_terminal and the Departure_Bay_ferry_terminal would greatly improve things.
There is just something about backwards BC that causes it to be so slow & half-assed about getting things done.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=SkyTrain-Canada+Line
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=North+Shore-Metrotown+SkyTrain+Line
Coaches and Railcars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP_89
| Formation |
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|---|---|
| Capacity |
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| Train length |
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|---|---|
| Car length | 15 m (49 ft 3 in) |
| Width | 2.45 m (8 ft 0 in) |
| Height | 3.47 m (11 ft 5 in) |
| Doors | 3 pairs per side, per car |
Tunnel Stations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel#Cut-and-cover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Michel_station_(Paris_M%C3%A9tro)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cit%C3%A9_station#Platforms
The C+Line between Vancouver & Richmond has to be one of the best examples of inept rapid transit planning in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Seattle_Transit_Tunnel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Link_tunnel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Link_tunnel#Stations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_construction#Enlargement
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-canada-line-rebuilding
The very small scale Canada Line was only built with 50 m tunnel stations when they should have been at least 3 times as long. It was deliberately designed to be so small that it can't even accommodate 4-5 car trains. It can only be expanded from a 2 car joke of a train upto a 2.5 car train.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5778392/canada-line-10-year-anniversary
"We paid a Rolls-Royce price for a Volkswagen system," said Stephen Rees, a transportation critic and a B.C. Green Party candidate in the spring provincial election.
"The problem with this system is it can't be expanded easily. The stations are short, there's long sections of single track, and both of those limit the amount of additional capacity you could add in the future," Rees told CBC News Monday." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canada-line-opening-draws-long-lineups-1.799296
Calgary housing market "seriously unaffordable" compared to other cities
https://dailyhive.com/calgary/calgary-housing-market-real-estate-report
Edmonton named the most affordable big city in Canada https://dailyhive.com/edmonton/edmonton-most-affordable-city-canada
Monday, June 17, 2024
Will the Broadway Plan double the area's affordable housing?
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-plan-vancouver-housing-affordability
Luxury housing isn't the problem, nor are 1 bedroom apartments & condos. There must also be a tremendous amount of reasonably affordable 2 & 3 bedroom units.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-plan-what-could-go-wrong-vancouver
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-plan-2024-amendments-housing-impact
Metro Vancouver exec-salary pushback
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-exec-salary-pushback
Such a high level salary & the inept & shortsighted Metro-Vancouver planning methodology continues. Regardless of the outrageous pay, it's difficult to bring people into BC to actually implement proper planning & development standards. There is so much red tape & double dutch B$ that has been overlapped throughout the decades & generations.
Not enough BIG ferries, short trains, narrow bridges are all part of the backwards BC mentality. Even to get local people to improve things, they will find a series of Gordian_Knots (GN) and a perpetual Jonbar_Hinge (JH).
ICBC's existing Lonsdale headquarters office building to be demolished for new affordable housing development
This building should have been designed to have 5-10 office floors, with a provision for a 40-50 story residential tower above it. Now it will likely just be replaced with another BC stump building.
Collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge during its Construction in 1958
https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/9780784481035.014
Unfortunately, when the bridge was rebuilt, there was no concept for a couple of bus lanes.
There should have been at least 2 emergency lanes, but it was decide to just jame everything into only 3 lanes each way.
https://vancouversun.com/news/this-day-in-history-june-17-1958
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/second-narrows-bridge-collapse
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2018TRAN0045-001202
https://www.ironworkers.ca/58-years-second-narrows-bridge-collapse-lost-lives-not-forgotten/
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Ironworkers+Memorial+Bridge
Sunday, June 16, 2024
Friday, June 14, 2024
Urban Density
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_density
https://www.straight.com/city-culture/why-urban-density-is-actually-good-for-us
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2023/04/17/when-density-good-and-when-it-harmful-cities
https://theconversation.com/urban-density-matters-but-what-does-it-mean-58977
"In the 1970s, British Columbia cities adopted policies and processes to resist densification. As Mayor of Vancouver, Sam Sullivan started the EcoDensity Initiative to counter these." https://globalcivic.org/urban-density-urban-bc-vancouver/
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Vancouver councillors call for 100,000 trees to be planted to ward off extreme heat
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/06/12/vancouver-tree-planting-extreme-heat-prevention/
Such a sad & pathetic joke, hardly any warmth in SW BC this spring. Nevermind June not having any 30C days, the month isn't even expected to have more than 2 days of being at least 25C.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/vancouver/v6c/june-weather/53286?year=2024
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Crappy Vancouver Weather for June
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/weather/british-columbia/vancouver No days are expeted to get above 20C for the next 2 weeks.
Cold at night & cool during the day.
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/14-day-weather-trend/british-columbia/vancouver?from7day=1
While a lot of places around the world are in summer mode, Vancouver is stuck with spring like days & fall nights.
From a late May perspective, some people thought that summer would start with the arrival of June. Now it looks like June is mostly just going to be a cooler month for SW BC.
https://www.cheknews.ca/forecasters-warn-b-c-to-prepare-for-hot-summer-forecast-outlook-1207108/
A Rapid Transit Line to the North Shore
https://www.railforthevalley.com/latest-news/zweisystem/a-letter-to-north-shore-mayors
Fortunately, most real cities around the world aren't affected by anything like the Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV). Thus, they are able to have at least one major regional train or commuter line directly extend from their downtown (CBD) and cross a river or inlet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrows_Bridge_(Perth)#Railway_bridge:_2005 WA
https://www.wsp.com/en-us/projects/i-90-track-bridge Seattle, WA.
Unfortunatly, a YVR-Canada-Line to Park Royal and the ferry terminal would make too much sense in backwards BC.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=North+Shore-Metrotown+SkyTrain+Line
Monday, June 10, 2024
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Thursday, June 6, 2024
How the Coming Population Collapse Will Change Society Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZORu7EkpyM
Population control and reduction was the goal for some of those in world management. However, a new trend might very well be taking shape.
The median strip of a highway with a train line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_strip#Railway_use
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Mitchell_Freeway_112_N_Gwelup_Karrinyup_Rd.jpg
An 8 lane section of freeway, but with 2 sets of tracks in the middle. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Mitchell_Freeway_147_N_Walter_morning_peak.jpg Once again, Perth, WA gets it right and BC gets it wrong.
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation-projects/fraser-valley-highway1 Instead of building an 8-10 lane freeway with at least 2 tracks in the middle, BC takes the half-assed approach, again.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/05/23/langley-hwy-1-summer-expansion Just like not desiging the Canada Line stations or any of the other SkyTrain stations, to not be able to accomodate 8-10 car trains, BC keeps dropping the ball.
People just don't understand that there has been a multigenerational agenda to hold BC back. Keep everything small & backwards. If BC had been allowed to really grow back in the 1960s & 70s, that would have meant more non-white people moving into a thriving region. Then even more restrictions were established in the 1980s & 90s, as the city councils & provincial government was predominantly of European ancestry. The British colonial mentality went right through the 20th century. Thus, it took a long time for BC to really accept international diversity. You have to build up the infrastructure for everyone, instead of refusing to do so.
Despite there being more diversity in various parts of BC over the past few decades, so many of the restrictions have remained. Vancouver has been trapped in a gordian knot of restrictions that hold it back. Victoria is nowhere as big as Quebec City, Winnipeg or especially Edmonton.
The one card left, is that someday Canada might have to say that it has to keep people out, because it's good for the environment. Meanwhile, several other countries with less land area are able to properly build up the infrastructure of their cities.
Surrey like Burnaby, isn't under the excessive Vancouver restrictions, so they will have taller buildings & some wider highways. Unfortunately, not longer trains, but that must eventually be changed. Short trains & narrow bridges has been a strong symbolic way of BC refusing to build up proper size infrastructure. Then Vancouver, NW & Victoria keep trying to hold back their growth.
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
North Shore-Metrotown SkyTrain Line
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/north-shore-metrotown-skytrain-brt-lrt-planning
Since this won't be a 24hr line, as the SkyTrain isn't a 24hr system, a couple of dedicated bus lanes are just as important. Thus, both modes would be very beneficial.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-ceo-kevin-quinn-interview
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Transperth_B-series_train_on_the_Mandurah_Line_in_Como%2C_Western_Australia%2C_March_2022_05.jpg Unlike Vancouver, Perth is allowed to have long trains, wide bridges & roads & taller buildings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandurah_line
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=North+Shore-Metrotown+SkyTrain+Line
Seattle vs. Vancouver, BC Weather
You get cold, damp crappy fall & winter weather in both cities, simple as that.
"Vancouver’s annual average rainfall is 57.3 inches (1455 mm), while it’s 39.3 inches (998 mm) in Seattle.
It means 168 days of rain in Vancouver in an average year, and 150 days of rain in Seattle."
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Richmond, BC hospital-redevelopment-price-doubles
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/06/04/richmond-hospital-redevelopment-price-doubles/
All regional hospitals should be designed where its easy to add on floor & expand horizontally.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10545864/richmond-hospital-cost-increase/
Once again, BC is behind.
Another revision for the Safeway redevelopment size at Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain Station
Big metropolitan areas around the world have a lot of diversity. For most of Vancouver's history, it was just another British colonial outpost & backwarter. Hence, the short trains, narrow bridges and small buildings. Vancouver & the greater region are just starting to become a major urban area. BC has less people than Switzerland & Canada has less than 1% of the world's population.
The KEEP THEM OUT mentality & agenda has been firmly entrenched for generations.
Perth & Brisbane gave up on being provincial backwaters decades ago. Melbourne & Sydney were never stunted by anything like Vancouverization or the backwater BC mentality. Even Adelaide is emerging as a fine state capital, instead of just being like another provincial backwater.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-housing-supply-act-update-spring-2024
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-fraser-valley-home-sale-statistics-may-2024
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-housing-starts-construction-worker-productivity
The Sun Belt region of the USA
Its difficult to grasp the Sun_Belt from a SW BC perspective.
https://www.thoughtco.com/sun-belt-in-united-states-1435569
Unlike mild BC, the Sun_Belt wasn't ever under the overlapping restrictions & limitations that holds BC back.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Sun-Belt As long as there is proper planning for growth, popular regions can become very densely populated.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/moving-south-sun-belt-housing-economy/675010/
The irony is that while cold & damp BC will likely never run out of water, so many people keep moving to the much dryer Sun Belt.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2022/05/26/florida-other-sunbelt-states-grow-as-cities-like-new-york-and-chicago-decline If one has the money or the desier to avoid the winters in Chicago & NYC, they will.
Alberta vs. Florida
Despite Alberta not being able to warm winters like Florida, Alberta continues to thrive.
Most of Canada's economic & population growth is in the colder parts of the country. That of course is because Canada has cold winters.
Stubborn provincial BC wants to keep Vancouver & especially backwater Victoria as thwarted & stunted as possible, for as long as possible.
https://www.budgetyourtrip.com/compare/florida-vs-alberta-4155751-5883102
Edmonton Oilers gearing up for Stanley Cup final against Florida Panthers
One would have to go far back into modern history to see a time when Edmonton was just another Canadian provincial backwater.
https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/edmonton-oilers/latest-news/oilers-break-multiple-nhl-records-with-win
It's been since at least the early 1960s that Edmonton knew it wasn't going be be just another northern backwater town like Prince-George. Indeed, PG has yet to reach 100K, while the Edmonton_Metropolitan_Region has 1.5 million people.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10542696/edmonton-oilers-fans-playoffs-2024/
Of course Edmonton has very cold winters, in contrast to mild Victoria. Yet, Edmonton is a growing mighty northern capital, while temperate Victoria remains as stunted BC provincial backwater.
Monday, June 3, 2024
Sunday, June 2, 2024
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Hot summer temps starting next week in B.C.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/05/31/bc-preparing-for-heat-wave-next-week Seems almost like a sad joke, because it's been cold & damp in Vancouver for most of the spring. An attempt of a hot summer always goes by so quickly. Then it's back to half the year of more cold & damp depressing weather.
Friday, May 31, 2024
District-of-North-Vancouver-considers-skytrain-rapid-bus-expansions-to-ease-congestion
A proper bus & train bridge should be built, along with a bridge with HOV & truck lanes. All that in addition to the 6 congested lanes. So much of BC is about funneling everything into just 2 or 3 lanes each way.
BC unveils-240-language-racism-reporting-helpline
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-unveils-240-language-racism-reporting-helpline-1.6906991 Too little too late?
So many restrictions were imposed in Vancouver (V-BC) during the 1960s & 70s, then also during the 1980s & 90s. This was a time in which there was still mostly White people imposing so many of the overlapping restrictions. Indeed, for most of Vancouver's history, there was a, keep it White & small mentality. That's because if enough key people could stunt & thwart the growth of Vancouver, the same would happen for BC in general.
It is important to note that a slow growth initiative isn't necessarily of a racist nature. However, since most of the people on the planet are non-white, anything to slow down the growth of Vancouver, also slows down the growth of BC. Just look at Alberta & Washington State to see how much larger Seattle, Calgary & Edmonton have become.
Of course over the past few decades, BC started to become more diversified. However, many of the restrictions from the days of the mostly White councils & governments, remain. There has been a multigenerational reluctance to build proper size infrastructure in BC, because that means building for non white people. It's an unfortunate & terrible echo from the old colonial days.
Now that BC has had several years of growing diversity, there is still another agenda that could slow down the growth of Greater Vancouver & BC at large. Environmental restrictions could be used to hold BC & Canada back. It could be a clever way to continue the, KEEP THEM OUT agenda going. BC doesn't even have the population of 1 Switzerland. Canada is nowhere near containing even just 1% of the world's population.
If Canada were to officially say that it's good to keep out most of the world, because it's good for the environment, there would be several challenges. How can so many countries with a smaller land area contain more people? Even if Canada had a dozen cities between the size of Montreal & Toronto, there would still be vast undeveloped areas.
Even if BC planned & properly built up half a dozen big cities, there would still be so much wilderness left.
Why "Nobody" Lives In The VAST MAJORITY Of British Columbia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdeZV_caT78
Certainly the housing shortage & the lack of building up a good level of infrastructure, has called for a reduction of immigration. While that might work for a while, at some point Canada might have to explain why its not even able to contain 1% of the world's population? Of course most of humanity happens to be non white, but that's not suppose to be an issue these days.
Hot Singapore & dry Dubai have been able to build up big & tall, because they aren't bound by Canadian & especially, BC type restrictions. Those cities and many more, would collapse if they were somehow Vancouverized. Short trains, narrow bridges & stumpy buildings, would tremendously impede those modern, dynamic cities.
Of course Mumbai & Lagos are HUGE 3rd world cities with major transportation issues. Yet, they have the Third_Mainland_Bridge & the Mumbai_Trans_Harbour_Link.
Indeed, most real cities couldn't properly function with so much crammed into the 3 lane joke that is the Lions_Gate_Dridge. Bus & train tunnels should have been built there decades ago. Hower, the inept Lions-Gate-Bridge has become an enduring symbol of the reluctance of Vancouver & BC to properly plan & build for the future. Even a new or improved Iron_Bridge wont be enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Mumbai#Rail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai#Cityscape Most cities around the world refuse to become Vancouverized. Especially a modern place like Singapore, a big city in a small area.
Switzerland is about a 23rd of the size of BC. Yet, BC doesn't even have the population of one Switzerland.
An immigration plan to attract the more wealthy people can really help to build wealth for a nation. Provided that the infrastructure is properly upgraded. Too many refugees can be a strain on a nation, thats why its imperative to mostly attract the more well off people. Unfortunately, a non-white wealthy person in Canada might cause some jealousy. So at one end of the spectrum are the wealthy immigrants & the refugees at the other. There is a middle area of migrants with general skills that can also expand the economy, but again, some people might become jealous of them.
At the end of the day, Canada still has hardly any of the worlds population & someone seems to like that.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=old+and+new+narrow+bridges
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Is it Time to Stop Building Highways?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN5EJDmPQ04 Some people would like to go back to the horse & carriage days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za56H2BGamQ (induced demand) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wlld3Z9wRc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S76lKWeU_xc LA
It's not about going back to the horse & waggon, but using highways & roads more efficiently. Thus, there is still a need to have good roads, bridges & tunnels.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Toronto's MA$$IVE Transit Transformation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufgQdU5DUI8
How Toronto Got Addicted to Cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkO-DttA9ew
Surrey mayor disappointed by delays to Pattullo Bridge replacement
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/05/28/locke-unhappy-with-delays-to-pattullo/
Of course a bridge with at least 2 bus & HOV lanes, plus 3 general lanes each way should have been built decades ago. Apparently, its better to cram everything into just 2 lanes each way & not have a couple of emergency lanes. That way its even more likely to jam up the new bridge. Even if it open with 3 lanes each way, there should have also still been a couple of emergency lanes as well as 2 bus lanes. However, that would go against the BC bottleneck planning agenda.
NW like Vancouver can't stop Surrey from growing into the largest city in backward BC.
https://www.surrey.ca/news-events/news/statement-mayor-pattullo-bridge
https://www.pattullobridgereplacement.ca/construction/current-works
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Pattullo+Bridge A 4 lane bottleneck of conjestion.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Pattullo+Bridge+replacement Still, a 4 lane chokepoint.
Vancouver wants to decarbonize its large buildings. Some owners may not be able to afford it
New law requires large-building owners to report emissions, with plans to reduce greenhouse gas limits by 2040
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-bylaw-decarbonize-buildings-1.7206506
New replacement Pattullo Bridge with four lanes is too small for growing Surrey
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pattullo-bridge-replacement-crossing-capacity-small
Indeed, why build a bridge with 2 bus lanes & 2 HOV lanes & even 2 emergency lanes? Just cram everything into only 2 lanes each way. This is the epitome of BC bottleneck planning. It's also another symbolic example to water down the scale of the infrastructure. Building big & wide is indicative of planning for growth, but BC has been under a multigenerational slow growth agenda.
Bus & HOV lanes should be standard on any new bridge in Greater Vancouver. A 4 lane bridge is just another sad BC joke. Make sure that the bridge isn't designed to accommodate a future deck for LRT, because Surrey & NW won't ever need another rapid transit crossing. Properly planning for growth means thinking big, but this is small minded backwater BC.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Pattullo+Bridge+replacement
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