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Monday, March 3, 2025
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.
Monday, October 7, 2024
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
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Kelowna
A growing Kelowna should be able to think big and grow to continue to be the main city between Calgary & Vancouver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Kelowna
Friday, May 23, 2025
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.kelownadailycourier.ca/news/article_2957e4e0-d7f1-11ee-84d4-fb12b9ae9269.html
There should be a UBC tower in or around Vancouver that's at least 65 stories.
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=1&status=15
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, March 3, 2025
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
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
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
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
Friday, January 24, 2025
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
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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
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.
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
Monday, June 8, 2020
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
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.
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Monday, January 27, 2025
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/
Friday, March 29, 2024
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
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Friday, February 6, 2026
Why Kelowna Is the Opposite of Every Other Canadian City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D42cmFfmI84
Kelowna has over $1 BILLION in major projects either already underway or recently approved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLv1AN6Hlwg
Thursday, November 21, 2024
How the City of Vancouver will pay for its 2026 FIFA World Cup costs
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/fifa-world-cup-vancouver-hotel-tax-costs
https://vancouver.ca/streets-transportation/bus-network-improvements.aspx With so many narrow streets, its difficult to have a proper network of bus-lanes, especially on the bridges.
https://visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/07/10/take-action-add-bus-lanes-to-translinks-priority-routes Unfortunatly, most of the bridges in the Greater Vancouver Region are just too narrow. There was no logic to have enough extra width for future bus-lanes and HOV lanes.
https://www.biv.com/news/transportation/vancouver-new-dedicated-bus-lanes-translink-2024-9267523
Unless there is a regional network of new bus-bridges, Greater Vancouver will remain in a bottleneck or chokepoint nightmare. Stuck with only a half-assed express or BRT attempt. I suppose that would be impressive to Kelowna-Victoria-Prince+George-Kamloops (K-V-PG-K) standards. Unfortunatly, those aren't big league cities.
Of course the 3rd line, or the YVR-Canada-Line or the Canada (embarrassment) Line, still hasn't been expanded up to a 2.5 car train, let alone having 5 car trains. Right from the start, the trains should have consisted of at least three, 20m coaches, with a provision for 6 car trains. Apparently, because of budget cuts, the station platforms weren't built to be 60-100m long in the first phase, they are only a 50m joke.
The stations could have been roughed out to initially accomodate 3-4 car trains and eventually, 8 car trains. 8 x 20m= 160m. The Montreal Metro stations were built to accommodate a 152.5m train. Fortunately, Quebec doesn't have anything like a backward BC planning mentality to hinder it.
The YVR-Canada (embarrassment) Line doesn't have to be stuck as a symbolic example to not properly plan & build for longer trains in BC. This 3rd Metro-Vancouver rapid transit line doesn't have to be stuck with a 2.5 car train buildout. The incredibly short stations should be extended to 60m, which could accomodate a proper 3 car, walkthrough train. Then, with Selective_Door_Operation Technology, a 3 car train can become a 5 car train of 100m. Then, only the middle 3 cars would directly have access to the YVR-Canada-Line station platforms.
Unfortunatly, due to the shortsighted planning mentality that is Vancouver & BC, the underground stations don't have enough level clearance to be lengthened to 152.5m or 500 feet, like the Montreal Metro stations, which can accomodate nine, 55 foot cars. At least a 5 car, 100m or 328 foot train is still possible in short-minded Vancouver.
For some strange reason, the YVR Canada+Line wasn't designed to eventually provide a link beyond the Vancouver_International_Airport to Waterfront_station. Indeed, a 2nd phase of the inadequate line should have connected Waterfront_station with the Park_Royal_Shopping_Centre and the Horseshoe_Bay_ferry_terminal. Then the 3rd phase to connect the YVR-Airport_station with the Tsawwassen_ferry_terminal.
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Like the Catheter Line, the George_Messey_Tunnel was designed to be inadequate, right from the start.
The George_Massey_Tunnel should have had at least 2 wide emergency lanes for future truck or HOV lanes. Plus, there should have been another tunnel section to accommodate a future express or rapid bus corridor & 2 tracks for a light rail train. Instead, cars, busses & trucks were all funneled into a 4 lane chokepoint. Ironically, over the past few decades, a bus & train tunnel or bridge should have been built, at least.
Express Bus lanes or Rapid Bus lanes vs. HOV & Truck lanes. Any bus lane has the potential to move many more people than any HOV lane. Any major port city & metropolitan area should have a truck lane as well as a bus lane. Thus any HOV lane would be more efficient in bussing people & trucking payloads.
Of course the new George_Massey_Tunnel still won't have a provision for a train section. No emergency lanes, but 2 bus lanes in addition to only 3 general lanes each way. Once again, backward BC gets its wrong. Greater Vancouver is suppose to be a major seaport. Unfortunatly, the new tunnel will only have 4 lanes each way & no HOV or emergency lanes, of course.
Even if there are only 3 general lanes each way, there should have been a provision for a truck lane in addition to a bus lane each way. That would be at least 5 lanes each way, but no emergency lanes & still no provision for 2 train tracks either.
Thus, the new tunnel will eventually have to have a bus & train bridge or tunnel next to it. That would allow the tunnel to have 3 general lanes each way & 1 HOV lane each way. A rapid bus & rail corridor would ensure 24 hour high capacity transit, even when the YVR-Canada-Line is shutdown overnight.
Unfortunatly, none of the 80m & 50m SkyTrain stations were designed to have 4 tracks. That would have allowed for a proper express & local train system. The BC mentality seems to be about keeping the trains as well as the roads inadequate to meet future high transportation demands.
The LG Bridge in Vancouver should have had bus, HOV & train tunnels near it decades ago. Surrey_and_Richmond also should have had proper bus, HOV & train tunnels, decades ago.
Why have 3 sets of tracks like the O'Hare_station in Chicago? Or, have at least have 2 tracks like at the SeaTac/Airport_station. The small-scale YVR-Airport_station just has a single track to make congestion more likely. The Vancouver_International_Airport should have had at least 4 long runways by now.
The multigenerational backwater BC mentality is a combination of overlapping restrictions and a, keep it small or backwards agenda. Why plan and build like a big city, when Vancouver can mostly do things that are only impressive to smaller places like, Kelowna-Victoria-Prince+George-and-Kamloops?
Short trains, mostly stumpy buildings and mostly narrow bridges, provides powerful symbolism for the antigrowth agenda. Building up proper size infrastructure is the opposite.
Monday, April 15, 2024
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
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