Manulife Centre in Toronto

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manulife_Centre , https://manulifecentre.com

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Manulife+Centre

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Manulife_Centre.jpg 51 floors in 1974, but this should have been the first 65 story residential tower in Toronto.

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/toronto/44-charles-street-west/2979 166 m / 545 ft

Fortunately, 44 Charles wasn't just 44 stories. Indeed, it was the first 51 story mixed-use residential & office complex in Canada, but it should have been taller. Chicago has had the 100 story John Hancock Center since 1969. If Toronto couldn't have its own 100 story building in the mid 1970s, similar in scale to the John_Hancock_Center, there should have been two buildings with more than 50 floos. 

https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/canada/properties/for-lease/office/on/toronto/55-bloor-street-west/s119707755-l This should have been the first 55 story office tower outside of downtown Toronto.

https://www.loopnet.ca/Listing/55-Bloor-St-W-Toronto-ON/17793768

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Manulife_Centre_2022.jpg Its like there was an obligatory Vancouver stump that had to be part of the development. It's a stump, because it's windows don't even rise over 20 floors. This stump building should have been 55 stories at 55 Bloor.

https://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/manulife-centre-podium-and-streetscape-renewal.19539

This is a nice, wide Toronto building, but it got Vancouverized or miniaturized, right from the start.

https://www.cbre.ca/properties/retail/details/CA-Plus-268572/manulife-centre-55-bloor-street-w-toronto-ontario-m4w-1a5 It would have been quite impressive if it opened as a 55 story tower.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/industry-news/property-report/article-torontos-manulife-centre-adds-a-more-friendly-facade/

https://sgconstructors.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/55-Bloor-Manulife-Redevelopment-Profile.pdf

https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2018/09/glazing-enclosing-manulife-centre-addition-bay-and-bloor.33926

https://www.bgis.com/assets/documents/BMO-Case-Study-RetroCommissioning-BMTT-55-Bloor.2023.09.11_r6FINAL.pdf

Australia was able to go above 99 floors before Canada. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_108 Actually has 100 floors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STH_BNK_by_Beulah 102 floors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Canada#Under_construction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacle_One_Yonge 105?

New-Laws-and rules-coming-to-Ontario-in March

 https://www.blogto.com/city/2025/02/new-laws-rules-coming-to-ontario-march/

Donald Trump keeps talking about Canada as the 51st state. Why isn't King Charles saying something?

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/king-charles-canada-politics-foreign-travel-invictus-games-1.7462594

Most people in Denmark and the Netherlands have a doctor. Here's what Canada can learn

 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/most-people-in-denmark-and-the-netherlands-have-a-doctor-here-s-what-canada-can-learn-1.7463900

Metro Vancouver Regional District considers $22M in budget cuts

 https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/02/21/metro-vancouver-regional-district-22m-budget-cuts/

https://vancouversun.com/news/seeking-savings-metro-vancouver-board-considers-funding-cuts-seven-programs

https://globalnews.ca/news/11016648/vancouver-mayor-ken-sim-board-metro-vancouver-waste-of-time/

https://www.biv.com/news/real-estate/metro-vancouver-reviews-waiving-development-charges-for-inclusionary-housing-10158466

Not enough money for an express bus and train tunnel between downtown & the North Shore. 

https://vancouversun.com/news/metro-vancouver-on-track-with-north-shore-wastewater-treatment-plant-final-price-still-uncertain

However, there are plenty of funds for an overbudjet shit-box!

https://www.nsnews.com/in-the-community/north-vancouver-district-asks-province-for-public-inquiry-on-sewage-plant-debacle-9777554

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/what-you-need-to-know-north-shore-wastewater-treatment-plant-1.7235368

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=SHIT-BOX

TransLink seeking public input on about 60 proposed bus routes changes

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-burrard-area-transport-plan-proposed-bus-routes-survey

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=bus+lanes

Inside Europe's $1BN Abandoned Mega-Build

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

City of Vancouver's chief urban planner signals major reforms for more flexible building development

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-flexible-building-development-policies

Big backlash over smaller pool plan for new Vancouver Aquatic Centre sparks petition

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-aquatic-centre-proposal-controversy

Just because backwards Vancouver gets a lot of rain, that doesn't mean that almost everything should be symbolically watered down.

Why have a Canada+Line with 152m long stations, like on the Montreal+Metro, when a 50m joke of a station provides excellent watered down symbolism? Why have bridges wide enough for bus & HOV lanes, when everything can be funneled into just 2 lanes each way? 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Vancouver+Aquatic+Centre

Seattle’s Largest Hotels by Number of Guestrooms

https://eventexperience.com/2023/10/31/seattles-largest-hotels-by-number-of-guestrooms/

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

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

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/as-seattle-area-keeps-building-hotels-there-soon-may-be-too-much-room-at-the-inn/

https://www.djc.com/news/re/12078946.html

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

Hawaii Has the Highest-Earning Hotels of All 50 States

 https://www.globest.com/2022/10/17/hawaii-has-the-highest-earning-hotels-of-all-50-states/?slreturn=20250220184514

https://beatofhawaii.com/its-the-rip-off-honolulu-hotels-that-are-killing-us/

Luxurious accommodations always have their high-end market, but having enough basic and mid-quality hotels, are just as important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hotels_in_Honolulu

https://www.de-simone.com/projects/project/ko_olani-tower Resedential tower with the most floors in Hawaii.

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

30-storey tower with a Marriott hotel and rental homes proposed for the Yaletown part of Vancouver

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/888-896-cambie-street-vancouver-marriott-yaletown-hotel-npg

This should be a mixed-use hotel and tower of at least 65 stories.

https://www.travelpulse.ca/news/hotels-and-resorts/hotel-construction-to-add-457-rooms-to-greater-vancouver-inventory

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-hotel-shortage-2026-world-cup-1.7117696

From 1985 to 2010, there should have been a continual hotel expansion. Then, from 2010 & well into the 2040s, the number of hotel+rooms should still keep growing. 

The number of BC+Hotels must dramatically be increased in order to meet growing tourism demands. However, there is a multigenerational mentality or agenda to symbolically keep things small and inadequate in backwards BC. 

Despite its size, Canada has less than 1% of the world's population. BC is 23 times the size of Switzerland, yet it still doesn't even have the population of 1 CH. 

There are 2 prominent mindsets that would like to keep Canada having less than 1% of the population. The first mindset would still like Canada to be primarily just for people of European descent. The other mindset just has an overall, KEEP THEM OUT mentality, because its good for the environment. 

It seems odd that in this day & age, there is a mindset that would like Canada to still be a Whitman's Paradise. Then the extreme environmentalists just want the rest of the world to deal with most of the population & keep Canada under 1%. 

Since most of the world is nonwhite, there almost seems to a crossover of the KEEP THEM OUT agenda. Since most of the world's population is nonwhite, a SLOW GROWTH AGENDA would primarily be directed towards nonwhites.

Multiculturalism_in_Canada should mean that everyone can retain their heritage & cultural identity as well as be part of the nation at large.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism_in_Canada#Criticisms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism_in_Canada#Historical_context

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

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

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/culture/canadian-identity-society/multiculturalism.html

https://www.multiculturalcanada.ca , https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/jsp-sjp/rp02_8-dr02_8/p2.html

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/about-multiculturalism-anti-racism/about-act.html

I have never been to Europe, but my ancestors are from there. 

https://ancnl.ca/guide/culture-and-social-life/multiculturalism-in-canada/

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

The White vs. the rest of the world mentality is becoming more out of place in the 21st century.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-diverse-countries

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-us-will-become-minority-white-in-2045-census-projects

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

The Reality Of Saudi Arabia's $2 Trillion Megacity In The Desert

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi24Xl2PJIc This is impressive, but will it ever get to be properly completed?

Building in a hot & dry desert region vs. building in cold, damp Canada. 

Canada has so much area & potential for growth, but it has less than 1% of the world's population. Most of the world's population is non-white. While Canada has become more multicultural over the past few generations, still, some people tend to get upset when they see "too many" non-white people. The days of Canada being some kind of a White colonial utopia are long gone with the 1800s & even most of the 1900s. 

Unfortunatly, during economic slow times, immigration is seen as a problem by some. However, even during boom times, a place like BC with series of environmental restrictions, is another clever way to slow down growth in BC. 

Vancouver Aquatic Centre rebuild should have a smaller lap pool and larger hot tub, according to park board staff

Swim B.C. president says the group is 'devastated' as the revised plan calls for a lazy river and 25-metre lap pool, rather than the 50-metre pool Vancouver voters backed in 2022

 https://vancouversun.com/news/vancouver-aquatic-centre-rebuild-plan-revised

Why build big for a growing future, when you can adhere to the antigrowth mentality and symbolism?

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/02/19/vancouver-aquatic-centre-proposal-sparks-petition/

Just like the short SkyTrain stations, the argument of budget limitations is used as an excuse. A train station can be designed to be gradually doubled or tripled in length. The new Aquatic Centre could be designed in which it could eventually be double or even tripled in size, as well.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/proposed-shorter-pool-in-vancouver-aquatic-centre-replacement-upsets-swimming-community/

This building small for the future, because its just for small Vancouver, is an absurd strategy.  

The Burrard_Bridge was originally designed to have 6 lanes & 2 streetcar tracks on a lower level. Well, the tram-trains never became part of the BB. The city was too cheap to build a parallel bike bridge, so 2 lanes were removed from the roadway on the BB instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrard_Bridge#History

Had the Burrard_Bridge not been Vancouverized, there could have been 2 bus & HOV lanes & a lower level for tram-trains, along with a parallel bike bridge.

The watering down of Vancouver fits right in with the backwater BC mentality.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Vancouver+Aquatic+Centre

High speed rail in Australia

https://www.hsra.gov.au/high-speed-rail

If Australia gets around to this faster than Canada does, it might be because Australia is a warmer country. Most of Canada has to contend with cold & crappy weather for almost half of the year. 

https://theconversation.com/high-speed-rail-plans-may-finally-end-australias-40-year-wait-to-get-on-board-238232

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/13/australias-high-speed-rail-dream-is-doomed-if-stations-are-built-in-wrong-place-ex-mp-says

https://www.wsp.com/en-au/news/2024/transformational-high-speed-rail-network

https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/reviews-and-advice/bullet-trains-will-never-fire-in-australia-here-s-why-20230825-p5dzkj.html

Feds announce high-speed train between Toronto and Quebec City

 https://dailyhive.com/toronto/alto-train-toronto-quebec-city

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-announces-high-speed-rail-quebec-toronto-1.7462538

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/trudeau-announces-high-speed-rail-network-in-toronto-quebec-city-corridor/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/train-delayed-a-timeline-of-high-speed-rail-projects-in-canada/

The proposed design of the new scaled down Vancouver Aquatic Centre

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-aquatic-centre-new-design-proposal

Nothing like going backwards, that's the nature of Vancouver and its watering down mentality. Apparently, there is no concept to build a much larger facility in 2 or 3 phases, so just scale it down and do something that is impressive by Prince Rupert, Prince George or Kamloops standards. Smalltown Vancouver thinking really gets to be so irritating.

The new Vancouver+Aquatic+Centre could easily be built 6-8 metres above sea level. There is extra space north, east & south of the old buildings footprint. Unfortunatly, Vancouver has become so entrenched with a mentality or an agenda to mostly build what would only be impressive by backwater BC standards.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/aquatic-centre-push-back-1.7462480

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Vancouver+Aquatic+Centre

Are Infrastructure costs driving up housing costs in B.C.?

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/housing-costs-bc-government-mismanagement

If the developer was actually allowed to build what would be tall buildings by Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Toronto & SF standards, then the extra money from selling the much higher condo floors could go towards the removal of the viaducts.

https://www.biv.com/news/real-estate/will-vancouvers-georgia-and-dunsmuir-viaducts-ever-be-demolished-concord-pacific-10049037

Plus, larger buildings could accommodate more affordable housing as well.

https://vancouversun.com/news/vancouver-gridlock-viaduct-removal-funding-question

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/dunsmuir-georgia-viaducts-rethink-vancouver-city-council-2022

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-Toronto-SF

The South Bow River Bridge in Calgary

https://www.alberta.ca/south-bow-river-bridge Being from backwards Vancouver, its difficult to grasp how Calgary was able to twin the South-Bow-River-Bridge. Not only are there 8 lanes, but at least 2 emergency lanes. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoney_Trail#Lane_count In BC, it was tough enough just to have 2 waggon roads side by side. Then to eventually have a bridge the width of 4 waggon roads or 4 carriageways, was amazing. Fortunately, Calgary has progressed so far beyond the 1800s & the early 20th century.

https://www.alberta.ca/calgary-ring-road , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dhrataYz5E

https://majorprojects.alberta.ca/details/Stoney-Trail-SE-Bow-River-Bridge-Widening-Pedestrian-Bridge/4312 There have been a lot of complaints as to why it took so long to compleate this project. While backwater BC notoriously takes longer to get things done than Alberta usually does, there might have been an issue with the river. Still, after any environmental assessment, the construction project should have gone faster.

https://www.on-sitemag.com/bridges/alberta-to-spend-70m-to-replace-south-bow-river-bridge-in-calgary/1003970064/

https://www.renewcanada.net/south-bow-river-bridge-project-receives-70-million/

https://www.on-sitemag.com/construction/alberta-awards-contract-for-final-277m-segment-of-calgary-ring-road/1003968938/

https://westringroad.ca/bow-river-bridge , https://calgaryringroad.com/tag/alberta-highway-201

A fantastic foot and bike bridge is close by and unlike in Vancouver, lanes were added, not removed. Indeed, the Calgary footbridge and The+Helix+Bridge in Singapore were never used as an excuse to remove any lanes from other bridges. The same for the Jubilee+Bridge.

https://www.highway99tunnel.ca/frt-current-work The environmental assessments while necessary, have pushed this BC infrastructure project to at least 2030. https://www.highway99tunnel.ca/project-overview-frt Several decades ago, another tunnel or bus & bike bridge should have already been built. https://www.highway99tunnel.ca/transit-cycling Unfortunatly, when the first tunnel was built, there was no concept to have 2 bus & 2 bike lanes with 2 protected walkways. No need to have 2 wide emergency lanes with a future clearance to allow for 2 truck lanes, given that this is supposed to be a major seaport region. Just funnel everything into 2 lanes each way, whenever possible.

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

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=bike+and+pedestrian+bridges

The Ring Road Concept

A Ring_road has some advantages, but its not a total solution.

Some examples...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardar_Patel_Ring_Road, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A10_motorway_(Netherlands)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Berlin_BAB_10.svg

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Traffic_Bukarest.svg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Road_(Cairo)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoney_Trail, Calgary. https://www.alberta.ca/calgary-ring-road This was possible, because Calgary doesn't have the same restrictions that Greater Vancouver has. Alberta is able to do more, simply because its not bound by the B$ red tape that BC is under.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_9_(Hong_Kong)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Ring_Road,_Hyderabad , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Ring_Road,_Hyderabad

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Autopistam40.svg, Madrid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M80_Ring_Road, Melbourne 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Ring_Road , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Ring_Road_(Moscow)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Svincoli_GRA_Roma.svg

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Rocades_de_Paris_%282024%29.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Ring_Road_System, Singapore 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Beltway, Washington, DC.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_road#Canada Of course Greater Vancouver doesn't make the list. It's always amazing to see what so many other cities are able to do, simply because they don't have the hassles & restrictions that BC has.

Circular Rail Lines

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

https://www.webuildvalue.com/en/infrastructure-news/metro-urban-mobility.html

Some examples...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_%22L%22#Circle_Line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3_(Copenhagen_Metro)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_line_(London_Underground)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3_(Hamburg_U-Bahn)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Line_(Oslo)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_M%C3%A9tro_Line_15 , https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Plan_Lin%C3%A9aire_M%C3%A9tro_Paris_Ligne_15_%28final%29.svg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Circle, Sydney.

CTrain, Calgary

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTrain 1981

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTrain#History

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Westbrook_LRT.JPG 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbrook_station_(Calgary) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMV2fYNBJgk No underground or trench station in Vancouver was designed to be as long as Westbrook station.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45_Street_station_(Calgary)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69_Street_station_(Calgary)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTrain#Further_underground_infrastructure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-metro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMV2fYNBJgk

https://gecarchitecture.com/projects/westbrook-lrt-station/

https://cana.ca/project-details/Westbrook-Station-Transit-Oriented-Development-Offices

https://calgary.skyrisecities.com/news/2018/03/matco-group-developing-transit-oriented-community-around-westbrook-lrt-station.31466

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

Edmonton Light Rail Transit (LRT)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton_LRT#History Unlike what backwards Vancouver would end up doing, Edmonton understood the importance of having long underground stations, right from the start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Line#Stations If you are from Edmonton or Seattle, you will be immediately surprised as to how short & small the underground Vancouver train stations are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_station_(Edmonton) 1978

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Churchill_LRT_station_platform_facing_Clareview_and_NAIT%2C_11-04-2023.jpg 

"The underground station has a 129-metre-long (423 ft) centre loading platform that can accommodate two five-car LRT trains at the same time, with one train on each side of the platform. At just under 8 m wide (26 ft), the underground platform is narrow by current Edmonton LRT design guidelines." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_station_(Edmonton)#Station_layout

Yet, this is big by narrowminded Vancouver & BC standards. Despite Vancouver having its own version of cold & crappy weather, there just isn't the same concept or desire to have a network of elevated & especially, underground corridors like what Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Dallas & Houston have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_station_(Edmonton) 1978

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay/Enterprise_Square_station 1983 Being from wattered down Vancouver, it's hard to fathom a 130m long underground station in Edmonton, but Albertal doesn't have anything like a backwards BC mentality to contend with. The first 2 SkyTrain lines were designed to only have 80m stations. The 3rd line to Richmond & YVR, was only designed to have 50m stations. While this initially might have made sense as a cost saving measure, it will cost so much more to eventually try to lengthen these short stations. Thus, all the stations should have been designed to eventually be at least 153m, or just over 500 feet. 

"The station has a 130-metre-long (430 ft) centre loading platform that can accommodate two five-car LRT trains at the same time, with one train on each side of the platform." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay/Enterprise_Square_station#Station_layout

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_station_(Edmonton) 1983

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Centre_station 1989

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_station_(Edmonton) 1992 It remains to be scene if Vancouver might have a UBC station by 2032. While geology & climate can vary between cities, the laws of physics in the BC part of Canada isn't supposed to be different. Yet, it takes a long time to get things done in backwater BC.

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

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

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

The Valley LRT Line in Edmonton

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Line_(Edmonton)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Line_(Edmonton)#Valley_Line_Southeast

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_station_(Edmonton) A nice, long underground train station with a surface line connecting station above it.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Valley_Line_Downtown.jpg A nice, long train in Edmonton, which just isn't allowed in Vancouver. Indeed, long trains were possible for the Montreal Metro, Toronto Subway, Edmonton LRT, Calgary C Train & Seattle's Link_light_rail didn't have the backwards BC mentality to thwart them. 

https://majorprojects.alberta.ca/details/Valley-Line-West-LRT/3692

https://marigoldinfra.ca/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Line_(Edmonton)#Valley_Line_West_(under_construction)

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

Edmonton to test patience of west-end motorists with accelerated LRT construction

https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/keith-gerein-west-edmonton-lrt-construction

 https://globalnews.ca/news/11014951/valley-line-west-lrt-stony-plain-road-construction-pace/

https://www.edmonton.ca/projects_plans/transit/valley-line-west

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-valley-line-west-lrt-construction-road-closures-1.7452882

https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/letters/tuesdays-letters-edmonton-makes-getting-there-none-of-the-fun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Line_(Edmonton)#Valley_Line_West_(under_construction)

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

Montreal has completed 5% of snow-loading operation, as city braces for winds and chilly temps

 https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/02/18/winds-to-intensify-montreal/

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/02/18/rem-service-disruptions-continue Montreals version of the Skytrain should have a snow-plough at both ends of each train.

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/02/18/exo-trains-cancelled-snow-accumulation Even for the big trains, at a certain point a snow-plough might not be able to properly clear the tracks.

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/02/18/montreal-snow-disabled-mobility-challenges/

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/02/17/snow-piling-up-montreal-clearing-loading 

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

Edmonton is the biggest provincial capital after Toronto.

 https://dailyhive.com/edmonton/edmonton-weather-forecast-temperature-change-alberta

Despite the severity of such cold winters, that never seem to reach down to mild Vancouver & Victoria, Edmonton is quite a thriving northern city. The decades of being a provincial outpost with waggon roads, are long gone.

https://dailyhive.com/edmonton/edmonton-weather-forecast-temperature-change-heat

One might think that since Greater Victoria is the most mild provincial capital region in Canada, it might have at least the same population as Edmonton. It can't even match Winnipeg and Q. City, or even Halifax. Unfortunatly, almost living anywhere is expensive, but if you don't want to endure the real harsh Canadian winters, then Victoria to Nanaimo and Vancouver to Abbotsford, are the best choices.

However, BC has been reluctant to properly keep up with is infrastructure. 

Overnight closures for highway 17 in BC

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/overnight-closures-highway-17-pattullo-bridge-replacement-project

It's unfortunate that the Pattullo-Bridge-Replacement wasn't designed to have 2 levels. Just like the SkyBridge didn't. The new bridge won't be opening with any bus & HOV lanes. Opening a 4 lane bridge in the 2020s with the same number of lanes as the one from the 1930s is a sad joke, an insult & an indication of the reluctance to plan & build for the future. 

While NW & Surrey aren't officially against bus & HOV lanes, this was another case of 2 cities & the province not properly communicating & planning to gradually build a proper regional express bus & HOV network. 

The Skybridge opened in 1990 without any future capacity for 2 express bus lanes & 2 HOV lanes. The inept Pattullo_Bridge just has 4 narrow lanes. Yet, somehow the SkyBridge didn't open with at least 3 tracks & 2 sidewalks & 2 bike lanes on an upper deck & 2 express bus lanes & 2 HOV lanes on a lower deck. Instead, it's just a single level bridge with only 2 SkyTrain tracks. 

Derailment and extreme snowfall disrupt train service between Montreal and Toronto

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/rail-traffic-snow-storm-montreal-toronto-1.7462013

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/southern-quebec-snowstorms-schools-closed-1.7461516

REM’s snow struggles persist in Montreal

 https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article760907.html

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

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

Train length	38.1 m (125 ft) per unit
Car length	19.05 m (62 ft 6 in) over coupler faces

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alstom_Metropolis_Saint-Laurent#Design_and_construction Two 125 foot trains = 250 feet, or half the length of a 9 car Metro train.

An 8 car [19.05 m (62 ft 6 inch)] REM train version of this would be great for Vancouver, but an improved Skytrain could be just as good. Unfortunatly, BC has a tough time thinking big for the future.

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/02/18/rem-service-disruptions-continue/

However, any elevated line or exposed rapid transit train in Montreal, is always potentially disrupted during the winter.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-rem-out-of-service-1.7461000

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

The genius of the Montreal_Metro trains is that they are all underground.

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/02/17/stormy-weather-continues-in-montreal/

Vancouver & BC always have a difficult time in properly planning & building infrastructure for significant future capacity. Thus, just because the SkyTrain is considered to be a Light Rail Vehicle, it still should have been designed to eventually have (152.5m) long trains, like the Montreal Metro has. If you are visiting from Montreal or Toronto, you will be shocked as to how short the Vancouver SkyTrains & stations are. 

It's not that BC is in some kind of a timewarp, it's just that there has been some kind of a strange multigenerational mentality or agenda. Since the BC part of Canada doesn't have the authority or the technology to generate a force_field around its perimeter, the next best thing was to have very restrictive laws. That's especially the case for Vancouver & Victoria. Plus, a general encouragement to symbolically think small & backwards. 

Having short trains, narrow bridges & mostly short buildings, all fits in with the symbolism of a reluctance to accommodate significant urban growth. Canada it self is also part of this larger predicament. Despite its size, Canada is nowhere close to containing even just 1% of the worlds population. Given that most of the human population is non-white, this poses an interesting dilemma. 

Of course during tougher economic times, immigration is generally frowned upon. However, even during various economic boom-times, Vancouver & Victoria continued to lag behind with the scale of its infrastructure development.

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

People told to stay home or use the métro, but avoid taking the bus in Montreal

https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article761925.html

Man dead after he is found in snow-covered car with engine running in Montreal  https://globalnews.ca/news/11023614/man-dead-snow-covered-car-montreal/

Montreal snow clearing proceeding slowly after record storm https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article761613.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/blizzard-school-closure-montreal-1.7460989

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/severe/montreals-historic-snowfall-nearly-ties-this-127-year-record-quebec 

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

Bitter cold arrives in Toronto, GTA with additional snow possible this evening

 https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/02/18/toronto-weather-snow-storm-extreme-cold-forecast-southern-ontario/

Relief from Calgary cold could be on the way with positive temperatures in forecast

 https://calgary.citynews.ca/2025/02/18/calgary-february-warm-up

While Calgary isn't as populated as Montreal, it has some of the tallest buildings in Canada, outside of the Greater Toronto Area.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/calgary-in-for-its-latest-upward-tempertaure-swing-this-week

Tacoma Narrows Bridge history

 https://wsdot.wa.gov/tnbhistory/tale-of-three-bridges-1940.htm

https://wsdot.wa.gov/tnbhistory/1940-bridge.htm Wow, its like the first TN Bridge was just built to a narrow & inadequate BC standard.

https://wsdot.wa.gov/tnbhistory/tale-of-three-bridges-1950.htm Of course the 4 lane replacement was built well enough that it could eventually be twinned. Backwater BC logic would be to still cram everything into just 2 lanes each way.

https://wsdot.wa.gov/tnbhistory/default.htm#3 1950 w

https://wsdot.wa.gov/tnbhistory/default.htm#4 2007 e

https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/tnbhistory

https://www.gigharbornow.org/news/community/new-tacoma-narrows-bridge-turns-15-years-old

The Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge in Seattle

The Lacey_V._Murrow_Memorial_Bridge opened in 1940 with 4 lanes. Once the Homer_M._Hadley_Memorial_Bridge opened in 1989, the Lacey_V._Murrow_Memorial_Bridge could be renovated. This was all part of a plan to have an 8 lane crossing with 2 train tracks. 

The Samuel-De_Champlain_Bridge in Montreal opened in 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel-De_Champlain_Bridge#Specifications

Vancouver might eventually try to have its own version of train & highway bridge to the North Shore. However, what's straightforward for Seattle & Montreal is difficult to accomplish in backwards Vancouver.

https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/study-reveals-potential-replacement-options-for-ironworkers-bridge-8926848

However, it takes a long time to get things done in BC. At least an 8 lane crossing with 2 train tracks should have been built there decades ago, but there is such a reluctance to think big & build BIG in Vancouver & BC, in general.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/05/18/ironworkers-memorial-replacement-bc-transit/

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/north-shore-skytrain-burrard-inlet-rapid-transit-brt-lrt-study

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/upper-levels-highway-north-shore-upgrades-study

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/north-shore-rapid-transit-study-skytrain

Of course Seattle & Montreal would have an 8 lane crossing with 2 train tracks long before slow Vancouver would consider an upgrade to the inadequate Ironworkers+Memorial+Bridge.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=North+Shore

The original Second Narrows Bridge and its replacement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Narrows_Rail_Bridge#Original_bridge_(1925) This is a smaller bridge than what was originally planned. Of course, that's the backwards BC way.

 https://www.nsnews.com/in-the-community/time-traveller-the-first-second-narrows-bridge-1925-3118875

https://vancouversun.com/news/this-week-in-history-1930-the-first-second-narrows-bridge-was-a-disaster-magnet-for-ships

https://www.northshoreheritage.org/blog/2023/11/23/bridge-over-burrards-water

https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/second-narrows-bridge-vancouver-b-c-opened-november-7th-1925-2

https://search.nbca.unbc.ca/index.php/second-narrows-bridge-in-vancouver-bc-6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Narrows_Rail_Bridge (1969)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Tunnel#History Unfortunatly, the new tunnel & bridge weren't designed to be wide enough to eventually accommodate a parallel track. Thus, N. Vancouver & Vancouver are still in the single track crossing trap, just like NW & Surrey are. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=old+and+new+narrow+bridges 

Old and new narrow bridges in BC

The New_Westminster_Bridge opened in 1904 and in typical backwater BC style, it was too narrow to do the job, right from the start. Not only should the bridge have been double-tracked, there should have been at least a 2 lane upper deck. At least having a provision for 2 tracks and more than just a 1 lane wagon road. 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Fraser_River_Bridge%2C_New_Westminster%2C_BC.jpg

https://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=britishcolumbia/newwestminsterrailwaybridge/

http://archives.newwestcity.ca/Results.aspx Thats all you got back then, just a 1 lane wagon road.

http://archives.newwestcity.ca/Results.aspx? Despite the bridge being required to handle passenger trains as well as freight trains, everything is funneled into a single track, even well over a century later.

http://archives.newwestcity.ca/Results.aspx?AC Had there been some real forward planning, there should have been at least 4 wagon lanes on the upper deck & at leas 3 tracks on the lower deck.

Unfortunatly, NW only saw itself as a provincial capital backwater & that also became the case when the BC capital was relocated to Victoria. 

http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/bridges/Vancouver_area.htm

https://www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/looking-back-and-looking-forward-pattullo-bridge-opened-85-years-ago-today-6106270 It must have been amazing to finally have a bridge with 4 wagon roads. Unfortunatly, there was no provision for a lower deck to accommodate interurban tram-trains & trucks. https://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=britishcolumbia/pattullo

https://www.reddit.com/r/SurreyBC/comments/yhf6wg/pattullo_bridge_in_silver_grey_1957 Had there been a provision for a lower deck, then perhaps by 1960, both decks could have provided a wider 3 lanes each way.

Unlike the SHB in NSW, the Old-Pattullo-Bridge wasn't built with the same level of quality and wasn't designed to last that long.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pattullo-bridge-new-replacement-construction-update-2024 Of course the new bridge is a year behind schedule and once again, doesn't seem to be designed with much that much future capacity in mind.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pattullo-bridge-new-crossing-widening-six-lanes-surrey-board-of-trade Aparently, opening the new bridge with 6 lanes & a provision for a lower deck with 2 bus & HOV lanes & 2 truck lanes is too advanced thinking for BC infrastructure development. Just like the short Skytrain stations, having double deck bridges goes against the congestive planning agenda. So, the new bridge will open with only 2 lanes each way & no emergency lanes & especially no bus-HOV lanes or truck lanes for a seaport region. Thus, everything will be crammed into a 4 lane crossing. Why would such a bridge not open with enough width for 2 bus & HOV lanes? Most people in the Greater Vancouver Region know that the Skytrain isn't open 24 hours, so a good bus & HOV bridge between NW & Surrey would make sense, but this is the BC part of Canada where a lot of things don't make sense.

https://www.pattullobridgereplacement.ca/

https://www.pattullobridgereplacement.ca/about/projectoverview/

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Pattullo+Bridge

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=old+and+new+narrow+bridges

Toronto got more snow in the last week than it did all last winter, says climatologist

 https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/article/toronto-got-more-snow-in-the-last-week-than-it-did-all-last-winter-says-climatologist-but-relief-may-be-on-way-with-warmer-than-normal-march/

Snow in even the more prepared cities can still be such a pain.

Frigid Arctic cold returns: back into deep freeze

https://www.alberta.ca/blizzards-freezing-rain-ice-storms-and-extreme-cold

Some people really like winter.

 https://www.newmarkettoday.ca/local-news/snow-strong-winds-may-make-travel-hazardous-environment-canada-10245592

While many others dread the perpetual cold weather.

https://www.collingwoodtoday.ca/local-news/up-to-60-cm-of-snow-accumulation-possible-environment-canada-10245159

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-flights-cancelled-as-much-of-ontario-and-quebec-contends-with-second/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/snowy-weather-continues-in-waterloo-region-environment-canada/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-severe-winter-weather-1.7460768

https://weather.gc.ca/data/wxoimages/wocanmap0_e.jpg A time of the year when every city in Canada is frozen over, except for Victoria & Vancouver. A lot of people from within Canada, or from around the world don't like -10C days & -20C nights with a windchill in the -30s. Usually mild Vancouver & Victoria have been very reluctant to accept the scale of growth that is commonplace in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary & Edmonton. 

https://weather.gc.ca/canada_e.html

https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/polar-vortex-frigid-arctic-cold-blast-winter-storm-february-2025-canada-united-states-mk/

Airport delays and road accidents pile up as severe winter weather grips much of Canada

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-severe-winter-weather-1.7460768

Nothing like crappy, cold weather.

Three dead, one injured in crash on Pattullo Bridge

 https://vancouversun.com/news/three-dead-in-crash-pattullo-bridge

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/02/15/new-westminster-surrey-pattullo-bridge-fatal-crash/

https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/533640/Three-killed-one-seriously-injured-in-crash-on-Metro-Vancouver-bridge

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pattullo-bridge-crash-closed-1.7460474

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/3-dead-1-hospitalized-with-life-threatening-injuries-after-major-crash-on-metro-vancouver-bridge/

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pattullo-bridge-fatal-crash-february-2025

https://www.pattullobridgereplacement.ca Fortunately, the replacement bridge will have a central safety divider.

https://www.pattullobridgereplacement.ca/about/projectoverview Unfortunatly, the new bridge will open with only 4 lanes & no provision for a lower deck. However, there will be 2 bike & 2 footpaths. Despite being what is supposed to be a major port region, there are no truck lanes. Since Skytrain isn't a 24hr system & the Skybridge wasn't designed to have 2 bus lanes open at least during track maintenance, the new bridge should have had 2 bus lanes. Instead, cars, trucks & busses will all be funneled into only 2 lanes each way. So just like with the first bridge, BC bottleneck planning wins out.

https://www.highway99tunnel.ca While its several decades behind schedule, an 8 lane crossing is at least on the horizon.

https://www.highway99tunnel.ca/project-overview-frt Unfortunatly, in accordance with backwards BC infrastructure planning, there is no provision for a train tunnel or a bridge to Delta & especially the Tsawwassen_ferry_terminal. That seems to fit right in with not having a train from Waterfront_station to Park_Royal_Shopping_Centre and the Horseshoe_Bay_ferry_terminal. 

Until the stations on the first 2 Skytrain lines are lengthened, they will be stuck with 5 car trains. Proper long-range planning should have allowed for 8-10 car trains. The joke that is the Canada Line, should have had stations that could initially handle 4-5 car trains, with a provision to eventually accommodate 8-10 car trains. The existing ridiculously short stations can only handle 2.5 car trains. WTH? 

This unofficial congestive BC planning initiative is a multigenerational ME$$! Aparenty, narrow bridges & no regional bus bridges & short trains, can adequately move people around in a region of over 3 million people. Fortunately, when greater Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Sydney, Melbourn, Seattle & especially the SFBA all surpassed having 3 million people, they weren't bound by anything like the backwater BC mentality.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Pattullo+Bridge

Pattullo Bridge closed after three killed in crash

"The Pattullo Bridge between New Westminster and Surrey, B.C., remains closed Saturday morning after three people were killed and one person was left with life-threatening injuries in a crash Friday evening..." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pattullo-bridge-crash-closed-1.7460474

Why not have a few more bridges for Surrey, NW, Richmond & Delta? Apparently for several decades, a inept 4 lane P Bridge & an inadequate 4 lane D Island Tunnel, which can easily get blocked & temporarily shutdown, was the best way to go. Unfortunatly, the concept of redundancy in BC has never really caught on. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pattullo-bridge-5-things-you-didn-t-know-1.3564197

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/pattullo-bridge-history-built-in-1937-the-span-was-expected-to-last-50-years

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Pattullo+Bridge

Another deadly crash on Pattullo Bridge

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pattullo-bridge-fatal-crash-february-2025

When the narrow Pattullo+Bridge was built, NW was a provincial backwater & it was amazing to have plumbing & electricity in Surrey. Being in the BC part of Canada there was such a lack of vision that someday NW & Surrey might become mighty river cities. Such as Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary & Portland, Oregon.

Despite being close to the Pacific Ocean, NW & BC weren't just half a world away from Sydney, NSW, they might as well have been on a different world, altogether. Thus, there was no need or vision to build a structure on the scale of the Sydney+Harbour+Bridge (SHB).

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/pattullo-bridge-history-built-in-1937-the-span-was-expected-to-last-50-years Only one narrow sidewalk on a very narrow bridge. Of course the SHB had the budget & the foresight to have a sidewalk on both sides.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Pattullo+Bridge

History of New Westminster, BC

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster#History

Considering how much smaller New_Westminster is than Vancouver, Burnaby & Surrey, NW permitted its first 40 & 50 story building before it even had 100,000 residents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensborough,_New_Westminster#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster#Geography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_British_Columbia_(1866-1871)

Unfortunatly, by the 1860s NW didn't start to acquire much more of the Burrard_Peninsula. It should have also annexed more or all of Lulu_Island. However, as a provincial backwater, there just wasn't a long-range vision to be that big on the BC map.

Then by the mid & late 1860s, Victoria,_British_Columbia went through the process of becoming the new capital of BC. Unfortunatly by the 1960s & 1970s, NW was firmly entrenched into the small city mentality trap.

Since the 1980s, NW should have been promoted and developed as the link-city between Burnaby, Richmond, Surrey & especially the Tri-Cities.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Tri-Cities

40-year wait to develop Vancouver’s Expo lands ‘unacceptable’: Housing Minister

 https://globalnews.ca/news/11019889/kahlon-pressure-concord-northeast-false-creek/

Burnaby's old Brentwood Mall will soon be closing for good

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/burnaby-brentwood-town-centre-closing-spring-2025

Outdoor sections of any mall in Canada can be OK for the warmer half of the year. However, most people want to be inside a proper warm & dry mall, especially during the crappy & colder half of the year.

Trade tariff turmoil pushes Canada to rethink US ties | DW News

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJKe_m9CL-0

It's strange that by now Canada isn't fully independent of the UK and the US.

New West small businesses are suffering during the Pattullo Bridge replacement project

 https://www.newwestrecord.ca/opinion/letter-new-west-small-business-is-suffering-during-the-pattullo-bridge-replacement-project-10224820

If only the 1937 Pattullo-Bridge was built a little higher & with a provision for a lower deck, It easily could have become a 6 lane bridge. Or, there was a provision to widen the narrow bridge at least a few meters on both sides, but that would indicate thinking & planning for the future. 

Some people have houses that are wider than the incredibly narrow Pattullo-Bridge. The PB should have been twinned in the 1950s, especially by the 1960s. Thus, a new bridge could have provided 3 lanes 1 way, while a refurbished old PB could have 3 lanes in the opposite direction, with not just 1, but 2 wide sidewalks on both bridges. 

Then when the Skybridge was finally built, it should have had at least 3 tracks & 2 bike lanes & a lower deck for 2 express bus lanes, which emergency vehicles could also use & 2 truck lanes, given that this is supposed to be a major seaport region.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Skybridge%2C_British_Columbia.jpg A 2 car joke of a train, on a single deck narrow bridge, just like the 2 car Canada Line. 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/SkyBridge_sunset.jpg This is a 6 car mark 1 train. There would have to be a 12 car train of Mark 1 cars, just to reach the length of a 9 car Montreal Metro train. The newest Skytrain coaches will only form 5 car trains, because unlike Montreal, the first 2 lines only have 80m stations. The almost inept Canada Line has an absurd 50m stations, when the Montreal Metro stations are over 3 times the length, at 152.5 meters, or 500 feet. 

Unfortunatly, backwards BC continually demonstrates what not to do. Why go the correct way, when you can go the inept BC way?

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Pattullo+Bridge+replacement 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Pattullo+Bridge

Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge

The Arthur_Ravenel_Jr._Bridge was built wide enough to accomodate 8 lanes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ravenel_Jr._Bridge#Construction

The Alex Fraser Bridge

Despite being situated in what is suppose to be a major seaport region, the Alex_Fraser_Bridge only opened with 2 lanes each way. Then it was widened from 4 to 6 lanes & more recently to 7 lanes. Unfortunatly, there is no provision for a lower bus & train deck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Fraser_Bridge#Overview

Vancouver’s rental plan would have city competing with private sector

 https://globalnews.ca/news/11014345/vancouver-market-rental-plan-critics/

The developers building luxury towers & especially top floors for people who can afford 5, 10, 20 or even 40 million dollar properties, isn't the issue. Thus, the city providing decent, basic affordable housing can be of great benefit. However, if the city would allow developers to build 20-30 floors taller on the condition that approximately the lower 5th or quarter of the building is for affordable housing, that can also make a big difference. A 60-80 story luxury condo tower just catering to the high-end market doesn't help most people. However, when a taller residential tower can provide affordable housing on the lower floors, that benefits more people. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=City+of+Vancouver+strategy+for+market+rental+housing+on+City+land

Langley sewer fees to rise by 25% due to North Shore Waste Water Treatment Plant

 https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/02/12/north-shore-waste-water-sewer-costs-metro-vancouver/

https://vancouversun.com/news/metro-vancouver-on-track-with-north-shore-wastewater-treatment-plant-final-price-still-uncertain

Total financial North+Shore mismanagement and excrement! 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/what-you-need-to-know-north-shore-wastewater-treatment-plant-1.7235368

https://www.nsnews.com/in-the-community/north-vancouver-district-asks-province-for-public-inquiry-on-sewage-plant-debacle-9777554

https://globalnews.ca/news/10378493/north-shore-wastewater-4-billion/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wastewater-vancouver-b-c-utility-1.7153369

https://metrovancouver.org/services/liquid-waste/north-shore-wastewater-treatment-plant-program-timeline

https://westvancouver.ca/government-administration/major-projects/north-shore-wastewater-treatment-plant

https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/acciona-and-metro-vancouver-beef-goes-public-in-north-shore-wastewater-fiasco-9879874

Abraham Lincoln Bridge

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Memorial_Bridge

London Drugs says privacy laws bar it from sharing security video of violent crimes

 https://globalnews.ca/news/11015114/london-drugs-crime-security-video/

Once any suspected thief or criminal suspect in general, has been found guilty, their image should be shown. 

The Difference between Rail Turnout and Crossover tracks

 https://rail-track.com/what-is-the-difference-between-rail-turnout-and-crossover/

https://www.railroadpart.com/rail-track-parts/railway-turnout.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_junction#Examples

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

LRV vs. LRT

https://www.calgary.ca/green-line/green-line-news/article-engine/jul-28-2023-green-line-brief-history-of-light-rail-vehicles-in-calgary.html

https://www.metrolinx.com/en/discover/what-is-lrt-light-rail-transit-explained

https://www.torontoenvironment.org/what_is_the_difference_between_streetcar_lrt_and_subway

https://www.railforthevalley.com/latest-news/zweisystem/back-to-basics

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Calgary+Green+Line

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

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

https://jf-databits.blogspot.com/search?q=LRT ::

LRT Cities:

https://www.timeout.com/travel/best-public-transport-in-the-world

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/9-north-american-cities-best-165214869.html

https://dailyhive.com/canada/north-america-best-public-transit-systems

https://rankingroyals.com/infographics/cities-with-the-best-public-transport-top-60-cities/

https://www.modeshift.com/where-are-the-best-public-transportation-systems-in-the-world/

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=LRT:  https://jf-databits.blogspot.com/search?q=LRT ::

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

Abbotsford and Mission, BC

There should have been proper regional planning between Abbotsford & Mission several decades ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_Highway_11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbotsford,_British_Columbia#Transportation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission,_British_Columbia#Transportation

https://missionmuseum.com/local-history/the-story-of-the-mission-bridge Instead of thinking & planning for the future by building it wide enough to eventually accomodate 2 sets of tracks, its just a single track BC train bridge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Railway_Bridge

By 2010, the BC Lower_Mainland should have had all freight train bridges double tracked & also had double track crossings for regional passenger rail.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/fraser-valley-metro-vancouver-regional-rail-west-coast-express 

The FVRD is the third most populous Regional District in British Columbia,^[3] incorporating roughly the eastern half of the Lower Mainland of southwestern BC...

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

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Abbotsford+and+Mission