https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu5lPuaZ9Jo
In some ways Australia is able to think & plan as if its a bigger country than Canada.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Waterfront Station and Pacific Central Station (Vancouver, BC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfront_station_(Vancouver)
"Waterfront station was built by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and opened on August 1, 1914.[2] It was the Pacific terminus for the CPR's transcontinental passenger trains to Montreal, Quebec, and Toronto, Ontario." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfront_station_(Vancouver)#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Central_Station
"Pacific Central Station was built in 1917 by the Canadian Northern Railway as the terminus of its line to Edmonton.[4] It was dedicated on November 2, 1919, a day after the first Canadian National trains began using the station.[5][6] It was originally named False Creek Station..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Central_Station#History
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Waterfront+Station+and+Pacific+Central+Station
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
LRT, Semi-metro and Heavy Rail Rapid Transit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail#Types ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail#Comparison_to_other_rail_transit_modes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premetro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-metro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_transit
Of course when Vancouver & the greater urban region became obsessed with keeping the roads & bridges narrow, it was as if there wasn't a proper concept of having express bus lanes & dedicated rapid bus lanes.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-funding-issues-impacts-traffic-congestion
The 1959 George_Massey_Tunnel should have opened with 3 lanes each way. Plus, 2 wide emergency lanes. Then over the course of its first 2 decades, it could have become a 6 lane crossing with 2 bus & HOV lanes.
By the 1980s, the inept 4 lane George_Massey_Tunnel should have had a parallel higher & wider bus & HOV tunnel consisting of at least another 4 lanes & at least 2 emergency lanes. Thus making it more capable as an eventual replacement to the old tunnel. Then by around 2000, there should have been a bike, truck & train bridge or tunnel as well.
A George_Massey_Tunnel#Replacement by 2030? The first phase of this really should have been started by the 1980s. Of course the new tunnel with 8 lanes & 2 bike lanes, won't have 2 truck lanes & there won't be 2 HOV lanes. Plus, in accordance with a perpetual congestive planning mentality, there is no provision for an extension of the Canada Line to Delta.
The new tunnel should not only have had 3 general lanes each way & 1 bus lane each way, there should be 1 truck lane each way as well. Plus, 2 wide emergency lanes which could eventually be repurpose for a north & southbound rapid bus transit corridor. That's because, even if there is ever a YVR-Canada-Line to the ferry terminal, it won't be open 24 hours.
Someday the YVR-Canada-Line should not only have 2.5 car trains, but an actual 5 car train consisting of five, 20m coaches. Selective_door_operation technology would make this possible. Of course it would have simply been much better to have designed all the stations to already be at least 100m, instead of the inept 50m. Unfortunately, backward BC thinking keeps getting in the way.
https://www.richmond-news.com/local-news/province-considering-filling-george-massey-tunnel-with-sand-8777369 Despite the old tunnels height restrictions, a slightly smaller version of the Road_Train could have been ideal for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train#Trailer_arrangements
Keeping the old tunnel as a freight corridor between Delta & Richmond would be of tremendous benefit. Delta has the Roberts_Bank_Superport & the Tsawwassen_ferry_terminal.
Richmond has the Vancouver_International_Airport & the inept Canada_Line.
Despite budget limits at the time, the Canada_Line should have been designed to eventually have 5 car trains & ultimately, 10 car trains. It should have been envisioned as a high capacity rail link between downtown Vancouver, YVR, Richmond & Delta. With an ultimate connection between the Tsawwassen_ferry_terminal and the Horseshoe_Bay_ferry_terminal.
For some reason Vancouver & BC never seemed to really take off in the 1980s like Calgary, Seattle & Perth. Indeed, while Vancouver seemed to continue on its sleepwalking path after Expo_86, Brisbane really started to boom after its World_Expo_88.
Unlike SW BC, the Brisbane Airport & seaport are much closer to each other.
https://upload.wikimedia.org If you are from Brisbane & visiting Vancouver, you will be shocked to see such a short airport train. Being from Vancouver, its difficult to grasp how Brisbane was able to build such nice long trains. This is something to be very proud of, as it can move a lot of people in both directions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Airport_railway_station,_Brisbane This opened in 2001 & Vancouver's inept version had to be ready by 2010 with just 2 car trains. Yet, Brisbane designed their train to be high capacity capable as soon as it open for service. From a backwards BC perspective, it's amazing how Queensland is able to think & function on such a grand scale & to properly allocate the necessary funds. Who knows where so much of the funds went in BC? That's because not enough of it seems to have gone into the infrastructure.
https:://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_International_Airport#Rapid_transit_(SkyTrain)
Unfortunately, this is an embarrassment line because, that's not a 4 car train, its only two, 2 car trains on a single track. How can Vancouver ever rank as a proper city & metropolitan area, when the trains are so short & most of the bridges are so narrow?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YVR-Airport_station Why have a double track station allowing for at least 155m - 200m long trains? Do it the backwards BC way with only a single track & a 50m station. This isn't just an example of extreme cost-cutting. Its not properly designing crucial transportation infrastructure for eventual high capacity. Fortunately, most proper big urban areas are able to think & build big right from the start. Case in point is Queensland.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/Gateway_Bridge This 6 lane & then a 12 lane crossing was possible, because Queensland isn't under anything like the backwater BC restrictions.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sir+Leo+Hielscher+Bridges,+Queensland,+Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Leo_Hielscher_Bridges This has the potential to still have 4 lanes each way. Plus, 1 bus lane & 1 HOV lane each way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Brisbane , https://www.portbris.com.au ,
https://www.portbris.com.au/portbris-2060
Unlike backwater BC, Queensland is able to properly think, plan, invest & build for the future. Queensland just isn't hindered by anything like the BC Mind Virus (BCMV).
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=YVR-Canada+Line This is almost the worlds shortest train, because it only has 2 cars.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=old+and+new+narrow+bridges
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane+Airport+Railway+Line
Loblaw parent company suffers $253M loss due to bread price-fixing settlement
Some companies just can't understand why they have no sympathy from the public.
Senakw's first rental housing towers begin to take shape
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/senakw-squamish-first-nation-vancouver-towers-construction-july-2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver
The tallest buildings in this Vancouver development should have been taller than the tallest building in NW, Burnaby, Coquitlam or Surrey.
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/pier-west-1/30319
178 m / 584 ft https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/complex/3304
Senakw should have had at least 2 or 3 towers much taller than the Living_Shangri-La, the tallest in Vancouver at 200m. Something like the Crown_Sydney scale, is banned in Vancouver, but it's no problem for big thinking cities like Sydney & SF.
| Tip | 271.3 metres (890 ft) |
|---|---|
| Observatory | 250 metres (820 feet) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Sydney#Approval
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver#Tallest_proposed_and_under_construction Most of BC is a backwater wildernes that is unapealling for people, but great for wildlife & vegetation.
The plan was to continually thwart Vancouver, Victoria & Kelowna for as long as possible. That in turn slows down the few key areas of urban grown in BC. NSW & California, just never had the same, KEEP THEM OUT MENTALITY. Thus, they were able to think & properly plan for growth. There seems to be an unwritten rule, that as long as Vancouver can do things which are impressive to Kelowna-Victoria-Prince+George-and-Kamloops, that's good enough.
Sydney, NSW & SF, California just were never under the extreme restrictions that Vancouver has. Plus, Syd & SF haven't been under a multigenerational agenda to keep holding those scenic cities back.
Sydney and SF aren't afraid to build taller next to a bridge, like Vancouver is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Sydney#Tallest_buildings_(150m+)
"The taller tower, One Rincon Hill South Tower, was completed in 2008 and stands 60 stories and 641 feet (195 m) tall.[A][B] The shorter tower, marketed as Tower Two at One Rincon Hill, was completed in 2014 and reaches a height of 541 feet (165 m) with 50 stories." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Rincon_Hill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_San_Francisco#Tallest_buildings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_central_business_district#Transport This is what you are able to do when you aren't bound by the limiting mentality & backward agenda that Vancouver has. For some reason, Vancouver hasn't been able to get established big cities to emulate its congestive & inept planning standards. That's because most major cities want to plan & implement good transportation infrastructure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#Public_transportation
Fortunately, Sydney & SF never wanted to take the backwards Vancouver approach to things.
Canada is far off from even containing 1% of the world's human population & BC has yet to have the population of 1 Switzerland. Proper infrastructure planning like in Japan & S. Korea, the UK, CH & Germany, has already been able to accommodate many more people. However, most of the world is non-white & some parts of Canada still want to hold onto the old White British Colonial mentality for as long as possible.
The Fantastic Four and the Baxter Building
https://comicbook.com/movies/news/fantastic-four-first-steps-set-photos-baxter-building-launch-pad-rko-theater-london/
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Citigroup_center.jpg "...it is 915 feet (279 m) tall and has 1.3 million square feet (120,000 m2) of office space across 59 floors." However, if the windows went right up to the top, it would have around 75 levels above ground.
It's unfortunate that the F4 tower or the Baxter-Building, didn't use the likeness of the Citigroup_Center tower.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Monday, July 29, 2024
Greece's Olympic legacy: Billions spent, Decaying facilities in ruin
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/greece-grapples-with-olympic-legacy-decaying-facilities-and-renewed-promises/ar-BB1qLh5X
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1144355/athens-2004-the-squandered-legacy
https://www.politico.eu/article/how-the-olympics-rotted-greece/
Saturday, July 27, 2024
North Shore-Metrotown SkyTrain would see 120,000 riders daily
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/north-shore-skytrain-burrard-inlet-rapid-transit-brt-lrt-study
Since the planned North_Shore train won't be running 24 hours a day, there should be at least 1 bus & 1 HOV lane for each direction. There should also be 2 truck lanes & at least 2 wide emergency lanes. Unfortunately, the Ironworkers-Memorial-Bridge-replacement-concept only depicts 3 general lanes each way, plus only 2 extra lanes that could become a bus & HOV lane. The shoulders don't look like they will be as wide as a regular lane, but still might barely function as an emergency lane for fire-trucks, etc. There also doesn't look like any provision for a bike & foot path for both sides of the bridge.
Thus, once again, it's a narrow-minded Vancouver & especially a backward BC bridge, being designed to be narrower than what it should be.
https://vancouvertraces.weebly.com/the-first-and-second-narrows-crossings.html
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Ironworkers+Memorial+Bridge
Commercial Drive social housing tower
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/800-commercial-drive-vancouver-social-housing-tower-approved
What would be a very tall building for Quesnel or Williams Lake, still gets some small minded Vancouver people upset.
The Vancouver (stump) House
Vancouver_House is a small building compared to what's allowed in real cities.
155.6 m / 511 ft
Floors52 https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/vancouver-house/13987 Its almost 230 feet shoter than a simialar building in Calgary.
Since Telus_Sky is in Calgary, it's not under any of the Vancouver type restrictions.
https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2020/03/06/lights-out-at-vancouver-house/
So many things are mixed up or upside-down in backward Vancouver.
.jpg/1024px-Calgary_Skyline_May_2018_(wide_crop).jpg)
.jpg/157px-View_From_Calgary_Tower%2C_1991._01_(cropped).jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suncor_Energy_Centre
125 m / 410 ft
Friday, July 26, 2024
Under the Broadway Plan, 6 tower rezonings on West 11th Avenue in Fairview (Burrard to Alder)
All would demolish existing rental buildings. How many renters will be displaced? https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2024/07/26/six-tower-sites-w11th-ave-pine-to-alder-all-sites-include-rental-buildings/
A New vision for the Gastown waterfront railyard in downtown Vancouver
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.
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
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