How the Broadway Subway Will Transform Vancouver

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIRRnfcy8OE

Just because its a light rail train doesn't mean that the stations should only be 52% of the length of a Montreal Metro station. Vancouver really needs 500 foot or 152m long trains like Montreal, but the planners didn't want to allow for such a provision. The Skytrain should have been on the scale of the Montreal Metro. Especially since the city & region has a stunted road network.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLyA3c3O41Q

Half length trains, half width roads & half height buildings, is indicative of a BC power-structure that doesn't want Vancouver & Victoria, or any city in BC to accommodate big time growth.

By keeping the infrastructure in BC quite stunted, it becomes a covert way to hold back development & urban growth. Then less people are likely to move into BC.

There is a sinister side to this, KEEP THEM OUT MENTALITY. Since most of the world is composed of nonwhite people, the slow growth initiative is about reducing the amount of people moving into BC. Even on a national scale, Canada is nowhere close from containing 1% of the worlds population. 

Up to 2,175 rental homes proposed for major development at SkyTrain Burquitlam Station

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/burquitlam-plaza-552-clarke-road-coquitlam-morguard 

There needs to be more of an incentive for developers. Let them build big and tall, but for the extra height they have to provide some affordable housing.

Vancouver ranks 7th out of major North American cities returning to office

  https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/downtown-vancouver-office-workplace-return

Vancouver has tried its damnedest to limit the size and growth of office buildings downtown.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-office-market-september-2021

Seattle's tallest office tower is almost 80 stories and Calgary's is almost 60. Vancouver and BC have yet to  permit an office tower to even have a 40th floor.

It was as if there was an unwritten rule that Vancouver & BC must not allow any building to be taller than what Seattle_had_in_1914. Of course Seattle could build big & tall, simply because it wasn't under V,BC building height limitations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Center#/media/File:Bank-of-america-seattle.jpg

"Smith Tower is a skyscraper in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. Completed in 1914, the 38-story, 484 ft (148 m) tower is the oldest skyscraper in the city..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Tower

It would take until 1973 for an office tower in Vancouver to get close in height to what Seattle had in 1914.

Roof	144.78 m (475 ft)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Centre_(Vancouver) 1973

The Harbour_Centre opened in 1977, but the office floors don't even reach 30. This could have & should have been Vancouver's first 60 or at least first 50 story office tower, but 28 is the highest office floor.

"The CTBUH however lists the buildings architectural height as actually being 147 m (482 ft).^[2] Furthermore, Skyscraperpage lists the buildings height to the roof as being only 139.6 m (458 ft).^[3] This is stated to be the height from the Hastings Street entrance while the height from the back entrance on Cordova Street is 146 m (479 ft). It also lists the buildings pinnacle height to the tip of the antenna as being 177.1 m (581 ft)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_Centre

The fearful little city wanted to avoid the scale of something like the 222m Hopewell_Centre_(Hong_Kong). Today in most cities, a 728 foot, 62 story building isn't even the tallest. The office tower portion goes up to 56 floors. https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/hopewell-centre/1325 62 or 64 floors altogether.

Not counting the antenna or flag pole, the Harbour_Centre is about 480 feet and would be equivalent to a 37 to 40 story office tower. https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/harbour-centre/4144 However, Vancouver refuses to allow any office building to have a 40th floor.

Height	143 m (469 ft)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNP_Tower 2014

Even a century after Seattle's tallest in 1914, Vancouver wasn't allowing office buildings to reach 500 feet & having a 40th floor. 

The Real Reason Washington D.C. Doesn't Have Skyscrapers

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

After the shock of the Tour_Montparnasse in Paris in the early 1970s, almost all new tall buildings for the_Paris_region would be constructed in La_Defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_the_Paris_region#Structures_proposed,_approved,_or_under_construction

Before central London or the inner City_of_London finally allowed much taller buildings, the Isle_of_Dogs was selected as an alternate high-rise core. Especially, the Canary_Wharf complex.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London#Skyscrapers_and_tall_buildings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_London#Tallest_buildings_and_structures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_the_United_Kingdom#Buildings_above_100m

https://wikimedia.org/Canary_Wharf_9_May_2021.jpg 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Eiffel_Tower_from_the_Tour_Montparnasse_3%2C_Paris_May_2014.jpg/640px-Eiffel_Tower_from_the_Tour_Montparnasse_3%2C_Paris_May_2014.jpg

Perhaps someday W,DC will have its own equivalent of La_Defense.

Grand Paris Express

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

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

Honolulu HART

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LlR9apA-w8

https://www.youtube.com/c/HonoluluRailTransit/videos

Toronto's Line 5 Eglinton Crosstown

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFbDlB91wo8

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

Los Angeles Regional Connector

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

The regional connector project connecting people to cities for the 2028 Olympics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUWHZWrrl0g

This video takes a look at the closest thing Metro has to very-long-term plans for a 'final build-out' of LA's Metro system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caskG8S8qww

The Amsterdam Metro: The Weirdest Metro System in the World

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQg0-CVJWrM

The North/South Metro Line in Amsterdam, widely regarded as one of the most challenging infrastructure projects in Dutch history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUryBWF47zU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvCW1zwPS9o

Is Hudson Yards Good For New York?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmlKdyXP4nk NYC

Just simply building tall towers isn't enough. There has to be a provision to provide benefits for the community at large. Improved transit connections & park space & especially, more affordable housing.

Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41VJudBdYXY

Does Vienna Have the World's Best Council Housing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6DBKoWbtjE

How Singapore Fixed Its Housing Problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cjPgNBNeLU

the Broadway plan for little Vancouver

 https://shapeyourcity.ca/broadway-plan 

Broadway has the potential of providing 4 lanes westbound & 12th Avenue with 4 lanes eastbound. This would provide an 8 lane corridor without ever resorting to the 1950s & 60s freeway method. Instead, some of Broadway will be reduced to 2 lanes each way once the subway opens.

Of course instead of the Broadway Subway having 500 foot long stations like the Montreal Metro has, the stations will be barely more than half the length of a Montreal station. 

Fortunately, Vancouver was unable to stop Edmonton, Seattle & Portland from having longer underground train stations.  

Once again, fine examples of half size planning for more congestion. Fortunately, most real cities haven't adopted the Vancouver mentality of having half size roads & short trains & stumpy buildings.

When the Vancouver agenda is to constantly reduce the influx of people, building big city infrastructure would actually show a willingness to dramatically expand for future capacity.

So many cities are able to build bike bridges & not have to reduce traffic lanes. Have much longer trains for future capacity & wide roadways. Many cities are even able to have trams or streetcars that form LRV trains. 

https://shapeyourcity.ca/budget

Apparently, there has never been the budget to enable Vancouver to plan & think like most major cities. Plus, there has been a multi-generational, KEEP THEM OUT AGENDA. Most of the worlds population isn't white, so there is a very strong reluctance to expand the infrastructure for nonwhites. WTH?

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-vancouver-canada-asian-hate-crimes Every city in this video either has longer trains, wider roads or taller buildings than Vancouver. In many cities their overall infrastructure isn't thwarted by something like the Vancouver power-structure.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/this-is-why-vancouver-has-become-north-americas-anti-asian-hate-crime-capital

https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/03/07/vancouver-councillor-racism-email/

A multi-generational predominantly white power-structure has been able to continually stunt Vancouver for so many years. The SLOW GROWTH AGENDA is about slowing down the rate on non whites moving into Vancouver. This is true simply by the fact that most of the world is non white.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/data-shows-vancouver-had-highest-number-of-anti-asian-hate-crimes-in-north-america-in-2020-1.5419915

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/vancoucer-anti-asian-hate-crimes-increase

https://www.voanews.com/a/americas_canadas-most-asian-city-faces-surge-hate-crimes/6204668.html

Decades of a LIVABILITY AGENDA is all about slowing down the amount of people moving into Vancouver. It becomes the perfect cover to refuse to build full size infrastructure, because most of the world really is non white. For most major cities around the world, building up large scale infrastructure isn't the same like it is in Vancouver.

Seattle & Calgary not only have longer underground train stations, wider roads & taller buildings, they also have had non white mayors before Vancouver. It's not that other major cities don't have their problems, its just that they aren't limited like Vancouver seems to be.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/anti-asian-hate-crimes-vancouver

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/vancouver-named-anti-asian-hate-crime-capital-of-north-america-3763561

Unless Vancouver is allowed to grow up & become a proper big city, the refusal to build up its infrastructure like a big city will continue.

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/city-responds-to-vancouver-being-dubbed-anti-asian-hate-crime-capital-of-north-america-3770143

There are so many building restrictions in Vancouver that most cities around the world just don't have.

The Vancouver & BC power-structure are very slow to really allow big city diversity & infrastructure. So the short trains & narrow roads continue...

1450 W. Georgia St

 https://shapeyourcity.ca/1450-w-georgia-st Another nice building that should have been at least a dozen floors taller.

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=117655

https://shapeyourcity.ca/

Toronto and Vancouver

 

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=413 The CIBC tower opened in 1931 with 34 stories & is 476 feet tall.

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=1498 Fairmont Royal York Hotel opened in 1929, it has 28 stories & is 400 feet tall.

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=94620355&offset=25 Toronto

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=1 The Marine Building opened in 1930 with 21 floors & is only 321 feet.

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2 The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver opened in 1939 with 17 floors and is 363 feet.

1177 West Hastings Street Vancouver BC Canada

 https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=1953 342 ft 1968

It would almost take 7 decades until Vancouver would permit an office building to be slightly taller than Toronto's 1890s city hall.

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=1377 340 ft 1899

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=94619301&offset=25 Van

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=12&searchname=timeline Tor

Montreal-worlds-best-city-report-ranking

 https://dailyhive.com/montreal/montreal-worlds-best-city-report-ranking

Unlike Vancouver, Montreal has really put a lot of money into proper big city infrastructure.

translink-ridership

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-ridership-september-2021

whistler-blackcomb-new-chairlift-upgrade

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/whistler-blackcomb-new-chairlift-upgrade-2022

Arthur-Erickson-place-1075-west-Georgia-Vancouver-Macmillan-Bloedel-building

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/arthur-erickson-place-1075-west-georgia-vancouver-macmillan-bloedel-building

This would have been nice as Vancouver's first 52 story office tower.

https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8781

Problem is, Vancouver still wont even permit any office tower to have a 40th floor.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/macblo-building-renamed-for-architect-arthur-erickson

In the late 1960s to even allow a Vancouver office tower to have 30 stories was considered to be too tall for backwater BC.

https://www.urbanyvr.com/macmillan-bloedel-1075-west-georgia-tower/

It would have been very impressive at 55 stories. 

https://www.heritagesitefinder.ca/location/1075-w-georgia-st-vancouver-bc/

However, at 26 or 27 stories, it was enough to be the tallest office building in BC during 1968.

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=6672 340 feet

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=94619301&offset=25

Vancouver finally had permitted an office building to be as tall as the Old_City_Hall_(Toronto). It opened in 1899 at 340 feet or 103.65m.

Major construction on Surrey-Langley SkyTrain expected to begin in 2024

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/surrey-langley-skytrain-project-timeline

Tilting Millennium Tower in San Francisco Faces New Plumbing Problem

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv55bORC_gQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qadCB-r686U

SF

scott-road-rapidbus-route-surrey-delta

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/r6-scott-road-rapidbus-route-surrey-delta

burrard-exchange-tower-bentall-centre-vancouver-hudson-pacific

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/burrard-exchange-tower-bentall-centre-vancouver-hudson-pacific

translink-development-cost-charges-dcc-buildings

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-development-cost-charges-dcc-buildings

Surrey-Langley-Skytrain-opening-delayed-until 2028

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/surrey-langley-skytrain-opening-delayed-2028

BC always has a way of slowing things down.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/surrey-langley-skytrain-fraser-highway-widening Wow, that's a big jump to go from 1 wagon road each way to 2 lanes each way. Of course for many cities, a 6 or 8 lane roadway would have been built. The train wouldn't just have 80m stations, but something closer the Montreal Metro's 152m stations.

If BC really planned & allowed for growth, that would mean accepting more of Canada's immigration. Since most of the world is nonwhite, its as if the multi-generational BC power-structure had to create a way to slow the immigration down. Thus Vancouver & Victoria have such strict slow growth measures, no one really sees through it. The slow growth initiatives are so strong that Vancouver is nowhere close to becoming Montreal size. Victoria is far from even catching up to Q.City.

This is all by design, because the BC power-structure doesn't want Montreal, Seattle or even Calgary size cities. It just so happens that most of the immigrants of the wold are non white. That's because most of the world is non white & its been that way since the beginning. 

Its not necessarily all part of a racist agenda. However, by using all sorts of environmental controls & restrictions just happens to be a potential covert way to keep Canada & especially BC small in population. 

There are those that don't want too many people moving into the mild part of Canada, officially its for environmental reasons. Thus, a slow growth agenda is maintained. Sydney Australia, SF, Seattle & Auckland are just as scenic as Vancouver & Victoria, but they have wider roads, taller buildings & longer trains than what is allowed in BC.

Old and New City Hall in Toronto and other cities.

Construction started	1889
Completed	1899
Inaugurated	September 18, 1899

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_City_Hall_(Toronto)

Height	103.64 m (340.0 ft) (tower)

Roof		327 ft
	Shorter tower (roof)		261 ft

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=5389 The New TO CH although wider & in 2 buildings, was still shorter than the OCH. All these CH towers have become stumps when compared to the tallest in TO.

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=178 Philadelphia City Hall opened in 1901 at 548 feet in height with only 7 grand floors. Today its almost one of the stump buildings when compared to the cities tallest. 2022 will be the first time that an office tower in Vancouver will be allowed to be slightly taller than the PCH. https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=106925

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=326&searchname=timeline Philadelphia Timeline Diagram

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=6044 Los Angeles City Hal opened in 1927 at 454 feet with 28 stories. For several decades, Vancouver tried to not permit any building to be taller than the LA CH.

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=94620562&offset=25 LA

downtown-vancouver-false-creek-streetcar-route-map

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/downtown-vancouver-false-creek-streetcar-route-map

Several other cities already have streetcars or trams. Unlike Vancouver, some cities never totally got rid of theirs in the first place. VBC will be one of the last cities on the planet to revive part of its former streetcar system.

downtown-Vancouver-false-creek-streetcar-route-map

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/downtown-vancouver-false-creek-streetcar-route-map

Of course Vancouver would be one of the last cities on the planet to revive part of its former streetcar system.

Montreals pierre-elliott-trudeau-airport-cleanest-in-north-america

 https://dailyhive.com/montreal/pierre-elliott-trudeau-airport-cleanest-in-north-america

Centre Block Surrey to include 47-storey office tower

 https://www.urbanyvr.com/centre-block-surrey This could have been the first 50 story office tower in BC, at least its a good start.

The first 50 story office tower in Seattle opened in 1969.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeco_Plaza_(Seattle) 192 m (630 ft)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeco_Plaza_(Seattle)#History

1111_Third_Avenue is a 34 story stump built across the street.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Seattle#Tallest_completed_buildings

Then Calgary had its first office tower over 50 stories, it opened in 1984. 

Roof	215 m (705 ft) (west), 130 m (427 ft) (east)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suncor_Energy_Centre#Gallery Its like they even built a Vancouver stump next to the tower. 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Seattle_skyline_at_sunset%2C_circa_1983.jpg/640px-Seattle_skyline_at_sunset%2C_circa_1983.jpg The 76 story Columbia_Center is essentially double the height of most of Vancouver's tallest office buildings.

https://www.urbanyvr.com/b6-bentall-kennedy-office-tower-vancouver So instead of another 32 story stump, a 65 to 70 story mixed used tower could have gone there. But that's what a big city like Seattle & Calgary would do, because there is no Vancouver power-structure to thwart them.

Vancouver's rental-housing-eviction-rate

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-rental-housing-eviction-rate

If Vancouver and BC would allow developers to build taller towers, then they could also provide some affordable rental projects, it could make for a better housing situation, overall.

Instead, the V-BC power-structure still doesn't want to rival the tallest buildings in Seattle, Calgary & Edmonton. 

823 feet in Edmonton: The Stantec_Tower is a 66-storey, 250.8 m (823 ft)^[7] mixed-use skyscraper in Ice District in the city's downtown core of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. https://edmontonjournal.com/business/commercial-real-estate/stantec-tower-set-to-be-canadas-tallest-outside-toronto?r

729 feet in Calgary: Telus_Sky , (also stylized as TELUS Sky) is a 59-storey, 222.3 m (729 ft)^[1] mixed-use skyscraper in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

http://telussky.com/architecture , https://living.westbankcorp.com/property/telus-sky

850 feet in Seattle: The Rainier_Square_Tower is a mixed-use skyscraper in the Metropolitan Tract of downtown Seattle, Washington.^[4] The 850-foot (260 m) tall, 58-story tower is located at Union Street between 4th and 5th Avenues adjacent to the existing Rainier Tower; it is the second-tallest building in Seattle.

659 or 642 feet in Vancouver: https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=9790 The roof is only at 642 feet. Therefore, Vancouver still has its highest residential floor significantly lower than what is permitted in Seattle, Calgary & Edmonton.

Living_Shangri-La is a mixed-use skyscraper in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and is the tallest building in the city and province. The 62-storey Shangri-La tower contains a 5-star hotel and its offices on the first 15 floors, with condominium apartment units occupying the rest of the tower. The high-rise stands 200.86 metres (659 ft) tall.

4444-4488-kingsway-vancouver-bosa-properties

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/4444-4488-kingsway-vancouver-bosa-properties-gensler

Its still at a smaller scale of what Seattle, Calgary & Edmonton allow. That's because BC has no control over thwarting what Washington State & Alberta can do.

https://www.urbanyvr.com/concord-metrotown-presales

Being so close to the train, the area could still really grow.

800-granville-street-vancouver-commodore-redevelopment-proposal-bonnis-properties

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/800-granville-street-vancouver-commodore-redevelopment-proposal-bonnis-properties

Its a nice design but its a 3rd of the height that it should be. Vancouver has to always water down the grand scale of what many other cities allow.

city-parkway-centre-block-surrey-office-towers

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/10275-city-parkway-centre-block-surrey-office-towers

A nice new set of buildings with one attempt of a real tower.

855-865-west-10th-avenue-vancouver

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/855-865-west-10th-avenue-vancouver

Another watered down building in Vancouver that should have been 3 or 4 times the height.

skytrain-newton-surrey-king-george-boulevard

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-newton-surrey-king-george-boulevard

1477-west-broadway-vancouver-south-granville-station-tower-pci-developments

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/1477-west-broadway-vancouver-south-granville-station-tower-pci-developments

Given the cost of the land, it should have been at least 50 stories, if not even 65.

https://www.urbanyvr.com/south-granville-subway-station/

marine-gateway-2-pci-developments-8530-cambie-street-vancouver

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/marine-gateway-2-pci-developments-8530-cambie-street-vancouver

How 9/11 Changed Skyscraper Design

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eE8d94qGPo

NYC

Canada reopens borders to fully vaccinated international travellers

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-border-open-fully-vaccinated-international-travellers

Still, the KEEP THEM OUT crowd will use Covid, the reduced economy and environmental issues as excuses to keep Canada from ever having even 1% of the worlds population.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/coronavirus-covid19.html

https://theconversation.com/covid-19-has-hardened-canadian-views-on-immigration-146512

Amtrak's proposed stations for its Chicago-Detroit-Toronto train

 https://dailyhive.com/toronto/amtrak-stations-chicago-detroit-toronto-train

A Chicago, Detroit and Toronto train service, nice.