https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/downtown-vancouver-central-waterfront-gastown-railyard-farrells-arup
Every time that Vancouver has a chance to have what would be a tall building in Seattle or Calgary, its canceled.
Friday, July 26, 2024
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Copenhagen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfeSjqUfQwE
Denmark - The State of Happiness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTJnu6lAhvM
50% of bus service and 30% of SkyTrain and SeaBus services could be eliminated due to funding shortfall
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-metro-vancouver-public-transit-service-cuts-2026
Such a backward city & region. Everything has to be watered down in backwater BC.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-funding-service-bc-conservatives-john-rustad
A North Shore Skytrain on a new Ironworkers Memorial Bridge?
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-united-north-shore-skytrain-ironworkers-memorial-bridge
Either a rapid-bus crossing first, or a train crossing with 2 buss lanes for whenever the train is shut down. The NW Skybridge wasn't designed to have 2 bus & 2 bike lanes & 2 footpaths. Thus, the SkyBridge to Surrey remains as a fine inept example of backward BC planning.
The North-Arm-Bridge to Richmond was also not designed to have 2 bus lanes, 2 bike lanes & 2 footpaths. Just one combined bike & footpath. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Arm_Bridge
Unfortunately, Greater Vancouver doesn't want to provide 24hr trains. Yet, there seems to be a reluctance to have a series of regional bus-bridges, because most of the existing bridges are too narrow to have 2 extra bus lanes.
https://vancouvertraces.weebly.com/the-first-and-second-narrows-crossings.html
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Ironworkers+Memorial+Bridge
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=North+Shore+of+Greater+Vancouver
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
A Fraser River boat tour takes you under five existing and future Metro Vancouver bridges
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/paddlewheeler-riverboat-tours-mv-native-new-westminster-fraser-river-cruises Unfortunatly, most bridges in BC are built to conform to a narrow-minded standard.
Had there been a proper urban vision between NW & Surrey 50-100 years ago, there would have been a lot more bridges by now. It seems that NW just wanted to be a provincial backwater. Eventually, Surrey kept growing & now its planning to become the largest city in BC. Back in the day, just like little NW, Surrey never saw it self as ever becoming a major river city like Portland, Calgary, Edmonton or Winnipeg.
By the late 1800s and especially by 1910, Portland really started to see itself as a major river city. Just look at how many more bridges there are than what's in between NW & Surrey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Portland,_Oregon#Bridges
There should have been something like the Tilikum_Crossing between NW and Surrey by now. There also should have been something like a Tilikum_Crossing between Vancouver and Richmond.
Fortunately, the backwater BC mentality never made it down to Oregon.
https://www.travelportland.com/attractions/portland-bridges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_Portland,_Oregon
Automated speed enforcement needed on Stanley Park Causeway and Lions Gate Bridge to improve safety
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/stanley-park-causeway-vancouver-automated-speed-enforcement
A new highway tunnel, as well as a new water tunnel under the park would make such a big difference.
https://westendneighbours.wordpress.com/2023/11/01/stanley-park-water-supply-tunnel
History of (the inept) Lions Gate Bridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHqi7Kijedw
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
George Massey tunnel-new-replacement-contractor-selected
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/george-massey-tunnel-new-replacement-contractor-selected-bc
This new 8 lane tunnel should be the first phase of a regional transportation crossing. There should be a followup YVR-ferry terminal link between Richmond and Delta, someday.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Massey+Tunnel+replacement
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Delta+Transportation
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Richmond+and+Delta
Monday, July 22, 2024
Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA plans for a new I-5 bridge over the Columbia River
https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2024/03/07/interstate-5-bridge-columbia-river-new-construction
The Columbia_River_Crossing between Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA
https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2024/03/07/interstate-5-bridge-columbia-river-new-construction
https://thirdbridgenow.org/benefits-impacts
This won't be some inept V-BC narrow bridge.
Netherlands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands
A very flat & low land that's about the same size as Switzerland, but with twice the population.
https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/netherlands/switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland has 8.9 million people & can fit into BC about 23 times. BC has yet to reach the population of one Switzerland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland#Largest_cities
Unless BC claims to have a different set of physics than that of CH, mountains can't be used as an excuse for limited urban growth & density.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Switzerland
Italy & Japan also have plenty of mountains, but that hasn't prevented them from proper planning & infrastructure development.
https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/switzerland/netherlands A very flat country with about double the population of CH.
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Metro Vancouver expected to grow by 50,000 people a year
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/metro-vancouver-expected-grow-50,000-people-year
Of course all the real big cities around the world are able to properly plan & build up an appropriate level of infrastructure, were as Greater Vancouver keeps taking a scaled back approach. Especially within the small city limits of Vancouver.
Little backwater NW should have been properly planned as a gateway between Surrey, Burnaby & Coquitlam, decades ago. However, there has been a multi-generational resistance mentality & its quite apparent in the stunted infrastructure.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9489375/pattullo-replacement-six-lanes-debate Open the new P Bridge with only 4 lanes & no emergency lanes, because 2 extra bus & HOV lanes would be what a proper big city would do. Make sure that there is no provision for a LRT deck, because NW & Surrey only needs one rail transit line. A provision for a 2nd deck would ensure future truck capacity, but that would mean to properly plan for growth. This multi-generational congestive planning approach in BC is so absurd.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pattullo-bridge-replacement-crossing-capacity-small
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skybridge_(TransLink) When the SkyBridge between NW & Surrey opened in 1990, there was no provision to have 2 bus & HOV lanes. Of course there were no bike lanes & footpaths on the bridge. Apparently, it was better to just squeeze all bike & foot traffic onto the very narrow Pattullo_Bridge, which only has 1 sidewalk no wider than a bathtub.
https://evelazarus.com/aborted-plans-a-third-crossing-for-the-north-shore While V-BC celebrated the cancelation of a series of freeway plans through the small city between the 1950s & into the early 70s, there was never a proper follow-up to a North Shore rapid-transit crossing.
https://www.nsnews.com/opinion/letters-lets-get-going-on-a-third-crossing-for-north-shore-6436538 It is pathetic & embarasing that a bike, bus & train bridge wasn't built across the North+Shore inlet at least by the mid 1980s.
https://www.nsnews.com/opinion/almost-two-thirds-of-north-shore-readers-say-a-new-bridge-is-needed-6423723 It is absurd that there wont be a train, bus & bike bridge crossing the inlet by 2025 or even 2030. https://council.vancouver.ca/010313/tt2.htm
The only hope seems to be an eventual replacement or some kind of upgrade to the Iron Bridge. Transportation_in_Vancouver has always been on a smaller scale than what it should be.
https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2016/08/26/first-rule-for-a-third-crossing
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history-1967-wacky-bennett-and-tom-terrific-team-up-to-push-for-a-third-crossing Of course a new bus and train bridge should have still been built. Having a freeway system within the city limits of Vancouver would have been too damaging. People got so freaked out about it and didn't properly realize that there still should have been 2 bus lanes and 2 HOV lanes crossing the inlet. The plan should have also included 2 truck lanes and at least 2 train tracks in a bridge or tunnel, no freeway required, just a link to the surface streets of Vancouver & North Vancouver.
BC doesn't even have the population of one Switzerland. Yet, many local people already say that BC is too populated. WTH? Most of the worlds population is non-white. Keeping the infrastructure short, small & narrow is a strange way to symbolically refuse to build for more people on a mostly non-white world.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=North+Shore+of+Greater+Vancouver
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Should-Vancouver-get-dedicated-bus-lanes-on-these-routes?
So many narrow streets & especially narrow bridges makes for quite a challenge. Almost every bridge in Greater Vancouver should have had bus & bike bridges built next to them decades ago. Unfortunately, the congestive planning approach keeps winning out.
Friday, July 19, 2024
Victoria and New Westminster, BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria,_British_Columbia
Unlike little Victoria, New_Westminster is part of an urban region with over a few million people.
https://www.britannica.com/place/New-Westminster
Victoria like NW, was started off as just a backwater provincial capital.
Despite the reluctance for most of its history, Greater_Victoria might start to exceed Halifax,_Nova_Scotia. Then eventually, it could catch up to Quebec_City and Winnipeg, which are known for their very cold winters. Of course as more people in Canada realize that SW BC has the mildest winters, there will be more growth.
Toronto is the largest provincial capital in Canada & is more on the scale of the state capitals of Melbourne & Sydney. One might have to go back to the Edmonton of the 1960s, to see when it was just starting to emerge from being a provincial backwater like Victoria. Despite the very cold winters and the lack of Chinook-winds, Edmonton has become the largest provincial in Canada, after Toronto.
For Greater Victoria to ever catch up to or rival Edmonton, there would have to be a Victoria-Naimo urban region. There would have to be a proper passenger & freight corridor of 2 fenced off tracks & eventually at least 4 tracks. Plus, a proper highway with truck, bus & HOV lanes & parallel bike paths.
Over the decades, the Vancouver Island_Rail_Corridor was allowed to become dormant, as it just happened to fit in with the backwater BC approach to things. However, the half-assed planning approach that is so common in backward BC, has to be challenged & corrected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Rail_Corridor#Railway_dormancy_and_delayed_re-openings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Rail_Corridor#Rapid_transit_on_E&N_in_Victoria
Thursday, July 18, 2024
530-columbia-street-new-westminster-marriott-hotel-tower-redevelopment
NW has to stop pretending that it's just another backwater & realize that its part of an urban region with over a few million people.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
BC Okanagan Valley Region
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okanagan
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/okanagan-valley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelowna#Transportation
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/okanagan-valley-electric-regional-passenger-rail-over-pr-lrt-kelowna There should be a properly separated highspeed train between Kelowna & Kamloops. Plus, a proper highway with truck, bus & HOV lanes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_District_of_Central_Okanagan
Kelowna was in the backwater BC trap for generations, now it's starting to be the centerpiece of a potentially substantial urban area.
Monday, July 15, 2024
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Vancouver is overhauling its longstanding view corridor and shadow policies
The+Vancouver+view+corridor+agenda has been so firmly entrenched for so long that the city remains perpetually stunted. Just look at how scaled back the overall infrastructure is.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10616897/vancouver-city-council-removes-view-cones For most of the history of BC since coloial times, Vancouver was the only place for a major city to exist.
https://storeys.com/vancouver-view-cones-no-match-density Thus, buy holding back & thwarting the scale of Vancouver, BC was also stunted.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/review-vancouver-view-cones-density-1.6985425
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=the+Vancouver+view+corridor+agenda
Has Vancouver’s Lost Lagoon become a ’44-acre mud puddle?’
https://globalnews.ca/news/10620618/vancouver-lost-lagoon-mud-puddle/
Such a pathetic joke. Why not just turn it into an open toilet?
Friday, July 12, 2024
Lower bowl of Vancouver stadium sells out months ahead of Grey Cup
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/07/12/bc-place-lower-bowl-grey-cup-tickets-sold-out
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/grey-cup-tickets-selling-bc-place-lower-sells-out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_Place
| Owner | Province of British Columbia |
|---|---|
| Operator | BC Pavilion Corporation (PavCo) |
| Executive suites | 50[1] |
| Capacity | |
| Record attendance | 65,061 (September 2, 2023, Ed Sheeran, +–=÷× Tour)[3] |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_Place#History
Of course the biggest stadium in BC would still have to have less capacity than Edmonton's, Perth's & Seattle's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Stadium
| Owner | City of Edmonton |
|---|---|
| Capacity |
|
| Record attendance | 66,835 (U2 360° Tour) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Stadium#History
The stadium's total capacity is 61,266, including standing room, making it the third-largest stadium in Australia (after the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Stadium Australia).[7] The stadium can be extended up to 65,000 seats for rectangular sports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_Stadium
| Owner | Government of Western Australia VenuesWest |
|---|---|
| Operator | VenuesLive[4][5] |
| Capacity | 61,266[1] 65,000 (Rectangular)[2] 70,000 (Concert)[3] |
| Record attendance | 73,092, Ed Sheeran concert 12 March 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_Stadium#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumen_Field
| Owner | Washington State Public Stadium Authority |
|---|---|
| Operator | First & Goal Inc. |
| Executive suites | 111 |
| Capacity | 68,740 (NFL) Expandable to 72,000 (for special events) 37,722 (MLS / XFL) Expandable to 68,740 (for special events) 10,000 (NWSL) |
| Record attendance | Concert: 77,286 (Ed Sheeran, August 26, 2023) Soccer: 69,274 (Seattle Sounders FC vs. Toronto FC, November 10, 2019) |
Thursday, July 11, 2024
A neighbourhood in Calgary was just named one of the most liveable in Canada
https://dailyhive.com/calgary/calgary-neighbourhood-most-livable-canada-downtown-west-end
It's amazing that after all these years, no one was able to Vancouverize 6 & 5th Ave SE. They remain as nice 5 lane wide streets. Sure, Calgary used to have waggon roads, but no one from Vancouver has been able to get Calgary to go back to 2 or 3 lane waggon roads.
If you are from Calgary & visit Vancouver, nothing can prepare you as to how backward & restrictive Vancouver is.
Fortunately, Alberta was never merged into backward BC.
New Costco store location with a gas station set for Metro Vancouver
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/costco-south-surrey-new-location-164-street-metro-vancouver
Vancouver can't stop Surrey from eventually becoming the largest city in BC. Eventually, Surrey will have some taller buildings than what Vancouver permits.
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Vancouver's view cone restrictions
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-view-cone-shadowing-opinion-public-amenities
While there are some taller residential towers, Vancouver has never permitted an office tower to have a 40th floor. Victoria has never permitted any office building to have a 20th floor. In recent years, office tower demand isn't what it used to be. However, short, stumpy buildings & narrow bridges help to keep Vancouver & Victoria as perpetually stunted cities. Melbourne & Sydney are about as far away from the BC backwater mentality as one can get. However, even today, there are people that would have liked Sydney to not be much bigger than Hobart & Melbourne just a little larger than Adelaide. Even Auckland was never interested in adopting the very restrictive Vancouver & BC backwater approach to things.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=the+Vancouver+view+corridor+agenda
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
BC urban planning
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bob-williams-bc-urban-planning-legacy
Backwater BC & especially Vancouver & Victoria, have been under a multigenerational thwarting agenda. Short trains & short buildings along with narrow bridges, all help to perpetually stunt BC.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/06/28/bc-building-code-proposed-changes-for-ses
Monday, July 8, 2024
BC government consultant recommends single-staircase residential buildings of up to 6 storeys
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-single-staircase-residential-buildings-consultant-report-findings
Once again, backward BC is slow to realizing this.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/06/28/bc-building-code-proposed-changes-for-ses/
Sunday, July 7, 2024
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_door_operation#International_variations
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 |
|
|---|---|
| Capacity |
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| Train length |
|
|---|---|
| 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 |
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