Urban Tech Links: UTL: Search results for H-1

Even if the widest parts of the H-1 could be 10 or 12 lanes, it would still get plugged up. Nevertheless, being from Vancouver, it's quite impressive to see such a wide H-1 by the airport. If you visit Vancouver from Hawaii, you might think that Vancouver is a big city like Sydney, SF or Seattle. Then you discover that the roads & bridges are much narrower than what's in those cities. The real big surprise is that Vancouver not only has shorter trains than Sydney, SF & Seattle, but even Edmonton. Fortunately, the Skyline to the airport isn't a 2 car joke of a train like Vancouver's airport line is.

https://honolulutransit.org/about/route-map , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(Honolulu)#Route

https://www.honolulu.gov/dts/skyline

The Airport Segment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(Honolulu)#Segment_2:_Airport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lelepaua_station If only Vancouver's line to the airport could have opened with 4 car trains, then with Selective_door_operation, eventually 6 car trains. Unfortunatly, backwards Vancouver has been stuck with a 2 car YVR train since 2009, but it has the potential to become a 2.5 car joke of a train, someday.

Downtown Honolulu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(Honolulu)#Segment_3:_City_Center

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(Honolulu)#Rolling_stock "The line uses 256 ft (78 m) four-car train sets, each with the capacity to carry nearly 800 passengers..." "Each car is 64 ft (20 m) long, weighs 72,000 lb (33,000 kg), and has 36 seats with a listed total capacity of 195 people, and sits on standard-gauge (1,435 mm) rails."

While the Skyline cars are similar in length to the YVR-Canada-Line cars, they are of a heavier construction. Plus, the trains are twice as long as any on the embarrassingly short Canada+Line trains.

While it took a long time to get the Skyline to the airport, at least the stations were all initially built to accommodate 4 car trains. Unfortunatly, the joke that is the SkyTrain-Canada+Line is still only running 2 car trains and wasn't designed to eventually have 5 car trains. Its difficult to understand why the joke-line stations are only designed to accommodate a 2.5 car train, someday.

Honolulu like Brisbane, are very far away from the Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV) and much warmer. Thus, they are able to have longer trains to the airport, because they can build on a proper big city scale.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Brisbane+Airport+Railway+Line

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=the+airport+train

Friday, October 18, 2024

Canada's Highway 1 through the BC Interior is an Embarrassment

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-highway-1-bc-interior-embarassment Back in the day, just to have a waggon road there was quite an achievement. Then with the dawn of the motorcar & trucks, having 1 wagon-road each way was amazing. A minimum of 2 lanes each way with 2 emergency lanes on all main highways in BC would be an improvement. Unfortunatly, the backwater BC mentality persists through the decades & generations.

There should have already been a 6 lane Hope bypass with 2 wide shoulders & a provision for 2 Bus & HOV lanes. Another classic three lane BC bottleneck. The inept 2 lane Hope-Fraser+Bridge chokepoint is one of the best examples of BC and Canada's refusal to build proper size infrastructure where its really needed. This 3 lane joke should have been part of the 6 lane Hope bypass.

Since there is a reluctance to have a proper intercity passenger rail network in BC, there should at least be a proper intercity bus network. All the main highways should have 2 dedicated bus & HOV lanes.

A 6 lane elevated section could go right there. A nice 2 lane bridge that should have been twinned or duplicated decades ago. The same for the rail line as well. A single track and a 2 lane bridge are indicative or symbolic of the antigrowth mentality or agenda.

There is nothing wrong with higher levels of immigration for such a vast country, if the infrastructure is allowed to keep up. However, decades of an antigrowth agenda is forced to collide with immigration.

This 2 lane 1963 highway tunnel should have been twinned by the early 1990s. Now the 1960s highway infrastructure is even farther away from being adequate.

Spences+Bridge is another 2 lane wonder, with no emergency lanes and no divider.

Savona+Bridge also meets the backwater BC standard by only having 2 lanes, with no wide emergency lanes and no divider.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kamloops,+BC/@50.6530262,-120.3776251,160m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m16!1m9!3m8!1s0x537a66c7aa6b6aaf:0x881b41e937e7f1f9!2sBritish+Columbia!3b1!8m2!3d53.7266683!4d-127.6476205!10e5!16zL20vMDE1anI!3m5!1s0x537e2cd33d0d3b31:0xd23e96aa9a6945e7!8m2!3d50.674522!4d-120.3272675!16zL20vMDF3ajE3!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/place/R.W.+(Rolf+Wallgren)+Bruhn+Bridge/@50.8358134,-118.9947739,174m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m16!1m9!3m8!1s0x537a66c7aa6b6aaf:0x881b41e937e7f1f9!2sBritish+Columbia!3b1!8m2!3d53.7266683!4d-127.6476205!10e5!16zL20vMDE1anI!3m5!1s0x537ee90068c15d23:0x669386a2a005d716!8m2!3d50.8360309!4d-118.9939614!16s%2Fg%2F11vwq02dl3!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Revelstoke+Suspension+Bridge/@51.0062434,-118.2203159,192m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m16!1m9!3m8!1s0x537a66c7aa6b6aaf:0x881b41e937e7f1f9!2sBritish+Columbia!3b1!8m2!3d53.7266683!4d-127.6476205!10e5!16zL20vMDE1anI!3m5!1s0x537937491061a343:0xb88365d308abe089!8m2!3d51.0063885!4d-118.2201286!16s%2Fg%2F11gnpb6r3f!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Columbia+River+Bridge/@51.4839714,-117.1830525,1170m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m16!1m9!3m8!1s0x537a66c7aa6b6aaf:0x881b41e937e7f1f9!2sBritish+Columbia!3b1!8m2!3d53.7266683!4d-127.6476205!10e5!16zL20vMDE1anI!3m5!1s0x5379b5debedfdda3:0x1b8d0d3bead3846f!8m2!3d51.4842419!4d-117.1806309!16s%2Fg%2F11g8_2_6wc!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Frenchman's+Bridge/@51.2988904,-116.8970772,376a,35y,0.67h,44.93t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m16!1m9!3m8!1s0x537a66c7aa6b6aaf:0x881b41e937e7f1f9!2sBritish+Columbia!3b1!8m2!3d53.7266683!4d-127.6476205!10e5!16zL20vMDE1anI!3m5!1s0x5379c1b7e53bd251:0xfb9e2572de7fcac9!8m2!3d51.3023971!4d-116.8957702!16s%2Fg%2F11v3ltcw_v!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4487081,-116.3233593,253a,35y,86.67h/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast vs. Waikiki, Honolulu

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g255337-i929-k3344251-How_does_Surfers_Paradise_Gold_Coast_compare_to_Waikiki-Gold_Coast_Queensland.html

https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/inspiration/as-a-first-time-visitor-to-hawaii-one-thing-surprised-me-most-20250701-p5mbjg.html

https://www.racq.com.au/articles/holidays/2018/8/hang-loose-in-hawaii

https://www.reddit.com/r/GoldCoast/comments/zw8k7x/why_is_there_so_much_hate_on_surfers_paradise/

https://www.redbull.com/mk-mk/best-places-to-surf-in-the-world

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Waikiki%2C_Honolulu_Panorama_%2816191692896%29.jpg/960px-Waikiki%2C_Honolulu_Panorama_%2816191692896%29.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waikiki , https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=421&searchname=timeline

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Waikiki_As_Seen_From_Departing_Aircraft.jpg/960px-Waikiki_As_Seen_From_Departing_Aircraft.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Rainbow_Tower_Waikiki_%2816178632002%29.jpg/960px-Rainbow_Tower_Waikiki_%2816178632002%29.jpg , https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=20388 , https://hiltonhawaiianvillage.com/stay/rainbow-tower , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_Hawaiian_Village 3,386 rooms https://hiltonhawaiianvillage.com/resort-map

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=H-1

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Metrorail in Miami-Dade County

http://miami.curbed.com/archives/2012/12/13/new-metrorail-cars-1.php

If Metro Vancouver had opted for a modern big city train, IE something like the elevated Metrorail_in_Miami-Dade_County, better future capacity would have already been built in.

http://miami.curbed.com/archives/2014/01/28/miami-getting-shafted-on-money-for-trains.php

Just because SkyTrain is considered LRT, the stations could have & should have been designed to eventually be 153m or just over 500 feet in length. Thus, the original little SkyTrain cars should have been able to form an 8 car train, with a provision for 10 & 12 car trains. Not just 2, 4 or 6 little car trains. That would have been slightly longer than a 4 car Miami_Metrorail_train, which is 300 feet.

http://miami.curbed.com/archives/2013/09/17/-all-aboard-florida-wants.php

http://miami.curbed.com/archives/2013/05/08/miamis-downtown-train-station-breaking-ground-this-year.php

"The cars are semi-permanently attached in married pairs, and joined up to form 4-car trains, which is the normal train length, although 6-car trains are also possible." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrorail_(Miami-Dade_County)#Rolling_stock

"The cars are 75 feet (23 m) long, 10 feet (3.0 m) wide and have a top design speed of over 70 mph (110 km/h)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrorail_(Miami-Dade_County)#Former_fleet

A 6 car train would be 450 feet, the same length as a TTC subway train. A 9 car Montreal Metro train is 500 feet long.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami#Public_transportation

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

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