Kelowna-Victoria-Prince George-Kamloops

There seems to be an unwritten rule that as long as Vancouver, BC builds things that are impressive by Victoria, Prince George and Kamloops standards, that's good enough. Kelowna is set to be the biggest urban area between Greater Vancouver and Calgary. Kelowna has already been able to build taller than what's in Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Kelowna-Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops

or

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Victoria-Kelowna-Kamloops-Prince+George

A-second-okanagan-lake-bridge-for kelowna?

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-conservatives-second-okanagan-lake-bridge-kelowna

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

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=K-V-PG-K

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Kelowna-Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops

Kelowna

 https://www.kelownacapnews.com/news/proposed-46-storey-tower-dubbed-2020-would-be-kelownas-tallest-building

A growing Kelowna should be able to think big and grow to continue to be the main city between Calgary & Vancouver.

https://www.kelownacapnews.com/news/new-34-storey-condo-tower-expected-to-transform-downtown-kelowna/

https://canada.constructconnect.com/joc/news/projects/2021/03/kelowna-approves-three-tower-project-for-downtown

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

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=K-V-PG-K

UBC tower in Kelowna, BC

 https://ok.ubc.ca/about/ubco-downtown , https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=147739

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=48&status=15

https://ok.ubc.ca/about/ubco-downtown/why-ubco-downtown/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ubc-properties-trust-hadgraft-wilson-place-building-safety-risks-ubc-okanagan-downtown-campus-lawsuit-response-1.7467319

https://www.kelownacapnews.com/local-news/new-ubco-campus-construction-causes-damage-evacuation-of-kelowna-building-7117183

https://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/news/article_2957e4e0-d7f1-11ee-84d4-fb12b9ae9269.html

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/ubc-okanagan-downtown-kelowna-campus-tower-550-doyle-avenue-revised-design

There should be a UBC tower in or around Vancouver that's at least 65 stories.

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=1&status=15

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

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.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=K-V-PG-K

Kelowna, BC, Canada

Kelowna and the Okanagan+Valley+Region not only should continue to be the 3rd largest urban area in BC, but really start to rise above its backwater scale.

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

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=K-V-PG-K

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Kelowna-Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops

Landmark-luxury-hotel-resort-approved-downtown-Kelowna

http://dailyhive.com/calgary/landmark-luxury-hotel-resort-approved-downtown-kelowna

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=K-V-PG-K

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Kelowna-Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops

Kelowna-transportation-plan-second-Okanagan-Lake-bridge

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/kelowna-transportation-plan-second-okanagan-lake-bridge

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=K-V-PG-K

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Kelowna-Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops

Kelowna's towers

https://www.kelownacapnews.com/news/landmark-7-breaks-ground-in-kelowna ,

http://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/business_news/article_4af48192-8d98-11e9-92fc-2731cab74bb7.html ,

https://www.kelownacapnews.com/news/new-23-storey-tower-for-kelownas-landmark-district ,

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Stober+Group/@49.8823634,-119.4697017,2918m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x7785da4e8f6a3e2a!8m2!3d49.881119!4d-119.4611079


http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=48&status=15

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=K-V-PG-K

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Kelowna-Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops

View cone changes enable 26-storey West End social housing tower

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/1111-broughton-street-vancouver-social-housing-tower

There has been a muntigerational fear and cultivation to use the local mountains_of_British_Columbia as an excuse to keep Vancouver thwarted & backwards. Yet, most of BC is a mountainous wilderness. Indeed, there are only a handful of cities or urban areas in BC to flourish and thrive. Greater Vancouver & Greater Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops and Prince Rupert. 

Kelowna, Vernon & Penticton are set to be the largest urban region between Vancouver & Calgary.  

https://www.hellobc.com/travel-ideas/mountains , https://peakvisor.com/adm/british-columbia.html

Montreal & Toronto are specks when compared to the wilderness ladndmasses of Quebec & Ontario. NYC & Chicago have hardy overtaken NY State & Illinois. Greater Seattle takes up a small part of Washington State. Calgary & Edmonton are small areas within the Albertan landmass.  

Yet somehow, if Greater Vancouver was allowed to become a proper metropolis, it would overwhelm BC. An area where Switzerland can fit into 23 times. Yet, BC has yet to reach the population of 1 Ch. Canada is nowhere close to containing 1% of the worlds population.

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

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

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Kelowna-Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops

or

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Victoria-Kelowna-Kamloops-Prince+George

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge in Seattle vs. W.R. Bennett Bridge in Kelowna

The Evergreen_Point_Floating_Bridge in Seattle has 6 lanes.

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

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/last-chance-be-heard-potential-toll-increase-state-route-520-bridge/W3TQUWC6DJD7XAKEXLYGRAF5C4

The William_R._Bennett_Bridge in Kelowna should have been designed to eventually have 6 lanes, plus 2 bus lanes, with a long-term provision for 2 Tram-Train or LRT tracks.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/2010-08_Bennett_Bridge_Looking_East.jpg

The sidewalk could be reconfigured into a 6th lane, but only if a bus, bike & train bridge was built next to it. Thus, this remains as another incomplete BC transportation crossing. A parallel bus & bike bridge would also have 2 footpaths & even 2 HOV lanes. Eventually, there should be something like a CTrain or G:link connecting Vernon, KELOWNA and Penticton. Unfortunatly, BC seems to want to excel in congestion planning. 

https://www.drivebc.ca/mobile/pub/webcams/id/149.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Bennett_Bridge#Construction_budget

https://www.google.com/maps/place/William+R.+Bennett+Brg

Somehow Australia is able to put more funding into building better infrastructure. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Evergreen+Point+Floating+Bridge

Kelowna UBC Okanagan campus

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/550-doyle-avenue-kelowna-ubc-okanagan-campus

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=K-V-PG-K

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. 

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/pier-west-1/30319 

178 m / 584 ft https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/complex/3304

https://www.newwestrecord.ca/real-estate-news/new-wests-changing-skyline-pier-west-towers-hit-top-heights-7676861

Senakw should have had at least 2 or 3 towers much taller than the Living_Shangri-La, the tallest in Vancouver. Something like the Crown_Sydney scale, is banned in Vancouver, but it's OK for big city 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/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_San_Francisco#Tallest_under_construction,_approved_and_proposed

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.

One-Water-street-generating-considerable-excitement-in-Kelowna

http://vancouversun.com/sponsored/realestate-sponsored/one-water-street-generating-considerable-excitement-in-kelowna

https://onewaterstreet.ca/

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Kelowna bridge reopens

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kelowna-bennett-bridge-closure-1.7442622

This is why it's a good idea to have another bridge in the region.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10979322/william-bennett-bridge-closed-police-incident/

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=K-V-PG-K

The Stumps of Vancouver, Canada

If you are from Prince_George, Kamloops, Victoria or Kelowna, you might think that Vancouver is a big & tall place. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver#Tallest_buildings

However, it's all on a much smaller scale than real big cities around the world.

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

Seattle & Calgary never fell into the Vancouver trap. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver#Approved_and_Proposed

Simply because they aren't under the Vancouver type restrictions.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Kelowna-Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops

Kelowna International Airport (YLW), the second busiest airport in British Columbia in terms of passenger volumes

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/kelowna-international-airport-ylw-terminal-building-expansion-completion

Much more home construction and infrastructure in Metro Vancouver is urgently needed

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-housing-starts-construction-statistics-2023

After Vancouver & the metropolitan region kept imposing so many restrictions for decades, BC is compelled to upgrade & build more infrastructure. 

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-pre-sales-april-2024

The KEEP THEM OUT symbolism has been perpetuated for well over a lifetime. Especially with short trains & narrow bridges & only a half-assed bus lane network. The Cushing+Bridge in Calgary is a fine example of a new bus-bridge next to a narrow Vancouver type of bridge. The+Tilikum+Crossing+in+Portland is also a great example of the type of transit bridge that should be built next to almost all  of the narrow bridges in Metro Vancouver. Fortunately, the backward BC type of planning mentality never caught on in Calgary, Edmonton, Portland, Seattle & Montreal.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-development-permits-changes-2024 Speeding up the permits & rate of construction is a good slap in the face towards the KEEP THEM OUT agenda. It was hoped so many decades ago, that by gradually imposing so much municipal red tape & BC B$, that would help to stunt BC growth. It also helped the old colonial mentality to see less non-white people moving into BC. 

It's not that BC isn't multicultural, it's just that by slowing down the growth of the 10 largest BC municipalities, that becomes a perpetual excuse to not keep up with building more infrastructure.

The area of Switzerland or the Netherlands could fit into BC 23 times. Yet, BC doesn't even have half the population of the Netherlands. Indeed, BC doesn't even have the population of one Switzerland. 

If Metro Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna & BC in general, would ever allow a proper scale of infrastructure, things would gradually improve. 

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

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

YVR receives unique accolade among the world's best airports

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/yvr-worlds-best-airports-accessibility

Unfortunatly, the YVR-Airport_station has one of the shortest & narrowest stations of any major airport. 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Vancouver_Airport_Skytrain_Station_2008-04-22.JPG All of the C-Line stations should have been designed to ultimately accomodate 10 car trains, at least 8 car trains. This picture shows what a 4 car train could be like. Unfortunatly, its only two, 2 car trains. Ridiculously short 50m stations can only accomodate a 2-2.5 car train, not 4 or 5, let alone 8-10 cars. Combine this with mostly very narrow bridges in the Greater Vancouver Region and you see congestion or bottleneck planning at its best in backwards BC.

In true lack of a big vision for BC, the YVR-Airport_station_Platform is so narrow & short that only 1 train at a time can stop on the very short single track station. While such small-scale train infrastructure would be impressive for Victoria, Kelowna, Prince George & Kamloops, it's hardly impressive to Seattle, WA and Perth, WA. 

https://www.yvr.ca/en/passengers/transportation/public-transportation

https://thecanadaline.com/station-guides/yvr-airport/

https://www.translink.ca/schedules-and-maps/station/yvr-airport/schedule 

Being from backwards BC, it's amazing to see how several major airports will have at least a double track airport train station. The Portland_Airport_MAX_station is another one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Airport_station , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX_Red_Line

Ideally, the+airport+train should be more than a 2 car joke. Even 4 car trains should be able to stop at stations with enough future clearance to accomodate 6 car trains.  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=YVR-Canada-Line

SkyTrain's Canada Line service disruption

(service disruption ends after 14 hours) https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-canada-line-service-disruptions-january-14-2026 

For a rapid transit line that opened in 2009, on the surface, it sure wasn't designed to be an efficient high capacity line for the future. It's still just a 2 car joke of a train. Fortunately, most real cities around the world planned for not only 6 car trains, but even 8-10 car trains. 

Unfortunatly, Vancouver has been hit very hard with a multigenerational agenda of continually imposed small scale infrastructure. Vancouver has water on 3 sides, as its on a peninsula. Since the powers that be couldn't build a Boundary+Road moat or trench, the next best thing was to symbolically show the reluctance to build proper big city size infrastructure. This stunted approach to things is about symbolically holding the scale of the city back for as long as possible. 

Despite backwards Vancouver not being able to apply a castle-moat-and-drawbridge control system, the next best thing was to symbolically keep things smaller than what normal or proper big cities allow. 

Here are some of the best examples of holding the size of things back. The 3 lane joke that is the Lions+Gate+Bridge has never had a rapid transit rail tunnel and no express bus tunnel next to it. Especially, no 6 lane highway tunnel. It's a classic BC bottleneck-chokepoint, by design.

From a 3 lane joke of a bridge to a two car Canada+Line joke of a train. It met the symbolic requirement to be shorter than the LRT in Edmonton, the C Train in Calgary and the trains in Seattle and Portland. 

The+Post+building+complex could have been Vancouver's first 50 story office tower, it's not even 25 floors. It would be impressive if it were in Victoria, Kelowna, Kamloops or Prince George. That's the unfortunate thing about Vancouver, so much is done to only be impressive to small cities or towns.  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+small+Westin+Bayshore+Hotel+in+Vancouver

Things have been kept so small in Vancouver throughout its history, that any big city stuff might seem overwhelming. There has been an unofficial KEEP THEM OUT mentality, but since the city cant have checkpoints, building things small symbolically demonstrates the perpetual reluctance to not allow a big city in backwater BC. 

Since Vancouver can't control Burnaby and can't stop Surrey from eventually becoming the biggest city in BC, they are able to build things on a larger scale than Vancouver.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=YVR-Canada+Line