https://sf.curbed.com/
https://sf.curbed.com/2018/11/27/18112921/transbay-transit-center-salesforce-park-opening-reopening-date
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Thursday, December 06, 2018
Sunday, November 21, 2021
SF and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HDnn1t9_p8 SF MUNI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aOrjmvVz3s BART
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area#Metro/Heavy_Rail
Monday, February 20, 2012
The Technology Intersection (TTI)
The Technology Intersection (TTI) is essentially an Urban Tech intersection. Technology is continually expanding all over the world. Is it a government-corporate push or is it just that more people that are wanting to live in cities & urban areas in general? (This blog is semi-dormant at times.)
The Internet_of_Things (IoT) is quite a big thing on the horizon. https://www.techtarget.com/iotagenda/definition/Internet-of-Things-IoT
TTI intersects with Science, Urban themes and technology in general. There is also a Sci-Fi, popular cultural aspect as well. Such as the urban monster_movie, Batman & Superman, TRON & the Matrix...
Technology & urban development are key aspects of cities. Some cities grow big because they are in a desirable location, but usually it's for economic reasons.
Being from Vancouver, Canada it's always amazing to see how so many cities are allowed to exist on a much larger scale than what is allowed in Vancouver & BC in general. That's because most big cities around the world aren't limited by anything like Vancouverism.
Even to see how much larger Seattle is able to be than little Vancouver, is astounding. No office tower in Vancouver has ever been permitted to have a 40th floor. Where as the tallest office tower in Seattle has 76 stories.
The people of Seattle and especially the urban planners never had the same thwarting mentality that Vancouver seems to cultivate.
Obviously, the Greater Seattle Area was allowed to become a big high tech industry base. https://www.historylink.org/File/9190 Especially, the SF Bay Area.
Being from Vancouver, BC its amazing to see how several other cities are allowed to be built on a much larger scale, simply because they aren't under Vancouver type controls & restrictions.
The 72 story First_Canadian_Place and the 36 story Exchange_Tower. The Exchange Tower is essentially a stump in Toronto, but in Vancouver it would be among the tallest office buildings.
Commerce_Court#1931_North_Tower & Commerce_Court West 1972
Commerce_Court#1931_North_Tower & Commerce_Court West 1972While CC North has become a stump in Toronto, it would be almost the tallest office buildings in Vancouver & BC, overall.
One of the main features of this blog is to point out how various cities have their tallest towers next to what would be a Vancouver size stump. How their long trains compare to the short trains of Vancouver. Being from Vancouver, its always fascinating to see how wide streets, roads and freeways can get in real cities.
Some how its like a multi-generational agenda was established so that Vancouver, Victoria and BC at large, would continually do things at a smaller scale than what is permitted in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta.
Therefore, by continually building things at a smaller scale, it helped to thwart the economy. That means less economic reasons for people to move to BC. Several generations of extreme zoning and building restrictions have helped to condition people in BC to never expect Victoria to be as big as Seattle or Sydney, NSW. That Vancouver could never be on the scale of a Montreal, especially Toronto & the SFBA.
There has been a long running argument that because Vancouver and Victoria are in a scenic setting, the scale of things have to be held back. Yet, scenic cities such as Sydney, SF, Seattle and Auckland..., don't have the same building restrictions as what Vancouver and Victoria have.
Several cities around the world have a larger scale of urban infrastructure than what Vancouver allows. Even though Victoria has a mild winter climate, Halifax, Q. City, Winnipeg and Edmonton still all have more people. With BC having so many imposed limitations, more business and people go elsewhere. The scale of downtown Calgary and Seattle just aren't thwarted like Vancouver's downtown is.
I wish that Victoria was allowed to be on the same scale as Sydney, Australia or at least Auckland. I wish that Vancouver was allowed to be on the same scale as Montreal or Seattle or especially SF & Toronto. However, a multi-generational power-structure has been quite adept in holding Vancouver & BC back. Then there is a Canadian version of this mentality as well. In spite of Canada being the 2nd largest country in area, its never been allowed to contain 1% of the worlds population. Indeed, Canada has yet to even house half of one percent of the worlds population.
More about The+Urban+Intersection at TTI.
Tuesday, December 07, 2021
Vancouver ranks 58th of top 100 destination cities around the world
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-city-ranking-58-out-of-100
That's the problem with the backwater BC mentality. Why have Skytrain stations longer than the underground Edmonton LRT stations or even at the same length as the Toronto subway stations? Vancouver really should have allowed a provision to have 500 foot or 152.5m stations like the Montreal Metro has. Vancouver opted to have narrow bridges so that it's almost impossible to have proper bus & HOV lanes.
Fortunately, Vancouver, BC wasn't able to stop Seattle & Portland, Calgary & Edmonton from having a zoo within their city limits. Of course Vancouver made sure that it never had a proper big city zoo within its city limits like equally small Boston & San_Francisco did. Boston, SF & Vancouver are all less than 50 sq.mi. or 130 sq.km in area. Yet, those cities were allowed to do so much more than Vancouver.
The lack of proper big city museums & art galleries fits right in with the small city mentality of Vancouver.
Its as if there has been a multi-generational mentality to keep Vancouver small & backward since its early years.
"The first viaduct was completed in 1915, extending what was then called Harris St over the CPR Beatty St yards to connect to Georgia St. At that time, Harris St was renamed East Georgia, and the viaduct called the Hart McHarg bridge, but it was more commonly called the Georgia Harris Viaduct. It was poorly built and plagued by difficulties from the beginning; It was not uncommon to see sagging sections, timber propping it up, and concrete falling to the ground below. In anticipation of the viaduct and the planned streetcar providing easy access to the city centre, apartments began popping up in the area in the preceding years, including the heritage building called the Jackson Apartments at 660 Jackson St/501 E Georgia. Although a track was laid for the Georgia Streetcar to offer service across the viaduct, there were immediate concerns about its ability to hold the weight, and the plan was abandoned." https://www.placesthatmatter.ca/location/georgia-st-viaduct (A fine example of inept Vancouver planning & development. So many other cities were actually able to build a bridge for streetcars or trams, as well as cars & trucks.
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history-the-great-georgia-harris-viaduct-opens-in-1915 (Why properly build infrastructure for long-range durability & future capacity?)
https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/before-demolition-of-old-georgia-viaduct-30-9-70-4 If done properly, the original viaduct should have been built to be strong enough to have 6 lanes with 2 streetcar tracks & bike lanes. Then a lower deck provision for another rapid transit line with bike lanes. Fortunately, Vancouver wasn't able to stop other cities from getting rid of their streetcars or prevent the rebirth of tram trains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Viaduct#Demolition Some people believed that with proper strengthening & maintenance, they could have remained for several more decades. Perhaps even past 2070.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2018/06/27/Vancouver-Inner-City-Slum-Clearance-Repair (While the cancellation of a freeway through East Vancouver was a good idea in the 1960s, since the 1970s viaducts were built, they should remain for several more decades.)
To allow Vancouver to have the infrastructure of Montreal or Seattle would mean to fully accept becoming a major metropolitan area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champlain_Bridge_(Montreal,_2019-present) An 8 lane bride with a provision for a rapid transit train. https://dailyhive.com/montreal/montreal-light-rail-train-rem-video
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_90_floating_bridges Seattle has this as an 8 lane crossing with an LRT line as well. Unfortunately, such big city infrastructure just isn't allowed by the small city mentality of Vancouver.
If Vancouver, BC was allowed to become a major global city like Sydney, Australia or SF, California, the local power-structure would have to give up on its stunting agenda.
A national power-structure has made sure that Canada has yet to even contain 0.005% of the worlds population. It just so happens that most of the world is non-white, but as long as Canada doesn't officially have a, KEEP THEM OUT agenda, the worlds 2nd largest nation won't even have 40 million people, when the world reaches 8 billion.
Saturday, May 21, 2022
A Vancouver City Councillor suggests pushing jobs out of city
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/jean-swanson-vancouver-jobs
This is so sad, but there has been a strong KEEP+THEM+OUT agenda in Vancouver for several decades. If business & the overall urban infrastructure can continually be held back, that means Vancouver can continue to fall behind what Toronto & Calgary, Seattle & SF allow.
Since most of the world is compose on non white people, any agenda to KEEP PEOPLE OUT, or at least slow down the influx of people, has been very carefully crafted. Vancouver has always had a white power structure to try to keep the city a provincial backwater.
To be fair, over the past several decades, its become a predominantly white power structure that refuses to build proper big city infrastructure.
Fortunately, this mentality hasn't taken over Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Seattle, SF & especially LA, Chicago & NYC. Most major cities want to attract business & people, regardless of their skin color. They allow trains to be longer, roads & bridges to be wider & buildings to be much taller.
If Vancouver & BC continues to maintain the, KEEP THEM OUT agenda, the general public must realize that most of the world's population isn't white. Therefore, any agenda to hold Vancouver & BC back is about trying to reduce the influx of non white people.
Sydney, Australia & San_Francisco, CA are just as scenic as Vancouver & Victoria, but they don't impose the same building & infrastructure restrictions that BC does.
Sunday, November 21, 2021
Streetcars and Trams
Streetcars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RftqoygXXHk
Vancouver was one of the first cities to get rid of its streetcars. Its trying its damnedest to be one of the last major cities to bring them back. Fortunately, Vancouver wasn't able to get Toronto, SF & Melbourne to get rid of all their streetcars or trams.
Trams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOS2KUmLcNc
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
TUI
The-Urban-Intersection Point, Of Cities and Technology in general...
(This blog is in a very roughed out format. Perhaps eventually after hundreds of posts, it will gradually start to look a little more complete.)
TUI started out as a place where I could reference & list a bunch of urban links. Then over the past several years I noticed that other cities just as scenic as Vancouver, BC were able to do a lot more things and on a much larger scale. So many other cities don't look for excuses to continually hold things back, like Vancouver does. Simply put, no other major city is subjected to the overall restrictive or scaling down process known as, Vancouverism. Unofficially, the Vancouver planning mentality seems to be about almost watering everything down, while most real cities remain un-stunted in their scale and progress.
TUI isn't just about cities and urban technology, although that is the main theme. It's also about comparing several things that various BIG cities have been allowed to do. Being from Vancouver, its amazing to see what so many cities around the world can do, simply because they aren't under the extreme multi-generational zoning controls and limitations of Vancouver. Apparently, Vancouver is suppose to be a stunted city, because it is in a scenic setting. Yet, several other cities that are also in a scenic setting, have nowhere near the same level of restrictive view corridors & building size restrictions, with short trains and narrow roads that Vancouver imposes. It's amazing to see the size and extent of the urban infrastructure that is so commonplace in most major cities, yet not permitted in small-scale thinking of Vancouver and BC, in general.
Of course the two closest major cities to Vancouver are, Seattle and Calgary. Some might say that Calgary isn't as scenic as Seattle, because it isn't by a big lake or the ocean. However, I think that Calgary is a scenic city in its own right, just as Seattle is by the ocean and lakes. Its impressive to see what both of these cities have been able to accomplish without the small city thinking mentality of Vancouver & BC to curtail them.
It's as if Seattle and Calgary as well as most cities, have a symbolic Vancouver stump next to their version of a towering office building.
The Vancouver stumps vs. the Seattle & Calgary office towers. One_Union_Square at 456 feet (139 m) is just another stumpy building in Seattle. Yet, it would be one of the tallest office towers in Vancouver or anywhere in BC. So in effect, when the 2nd tower was built, it was like showing a major Seattle office tower next to a Vancouver stump.
| Roof | One Union Square: 456 ft (139 m) Two Union Square: 741 ft (226 m) |
|---|---|
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | One Union Square: 36 Two Union Square: 56 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Square_(Seattle)
One of the tallest office towers in Calgary with its Vancouver stump sidekick. At the time of construction in the early 1980s, it was like a symbolic depiction of a big attempt of a Vancouver office building next to a Calgary size office tower. Of course Calgary like Seattle, isn't under the extremely restrictive Vancouver type building limitations.
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The view From_Calgary_Tower , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suncor_Energy_Centre
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons Sometimes I wonder how a city so close to Vancouver could permit an office tower to be 40 stories taller than the tallest office building in BC. Well of course, Seattle isn't under the small scale building limitations that Vancouver has imposed. Indeed, there is no office building in BC that has been permitted to even have a 40th floor, let alone 76 stories like in Seattle.
wikipedia/commons/Vancouver-downtown It's very rare now for a 35 story office building to still be so prominent on the skyline in most major cities. 
wikipedia/commons/Scotia_Tower_Vancouver (Windows only go up to 34 floors with a few non window floors above that. There are also some underground floors. 138m or 452 feet. That's the Vancouver stump, now compare the Sydney office towers.)
The MLC_Center_Sydney has 60 floors, plus 8 more underground. 228m or 748 feet. Both 8 sided buildings opened in 1977, but NSW has nowhere near the building restrictions as found in BC. Yet, Sydney is just as scenic as Vancouver, if not more so.
When the Petro-Canada Centre opened in 1984 its Vancouver stumpy sidekick would be one of the tallest office buildings in BC & still is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Seattle
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Downtown_Calgary_2020-3.jpg The days of a 30 to 35 story Vancouver size office building in Calgary & Seattle being impressive are long gone.
wikipedia/commons/Vancouver_Skyline_and_Mountains The 34 or 36 story Scotia_Tower in Vancouver still remains as one of the prominent office buildings on the skyline. Yet, in most cities it would just be another background stump. Even in other scenic cities like Sydney, SF, Seattle & Auckland. Unlike those cities, Vancouver uses its scenic setting to limit the size of building & infrastructure overall. This helps with the, KEEP THEM OUT Agenda in BC, especially in Vancouver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Shangri-La 200.86 metres (659 ft) tall with 62 residential floors.
View_of_the_Sydney_Opera_House_on_city_skyline
Unlike scenic Sydney, Vancouver has used almost any excuse to have small buildings, short trains and narrow roads. All because the Vancouver interpretation of a scenic city is to keep everything small.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Sydney a height of 271.3 m (890 ft) with 75 floors.
One can clearly see the difference between the tallest residential tower in Sydney vs. Vancouver. Compared to Vancouver, Sydney doesn't really have much of a winter with cold crappy weather. Therefore, I would say that Sydney is just as scenic as Vancouver & much warmer, yet its isn't subjected to the Vancouver building & infrastructure limitations.
Unlike scenic Sydney, Vancouver has used almost any excuse to have small buildings, short trains and narrow roads. All because the Vancouver interpretation of a scenic city is to keep everything small.
It seems like there has been a multi-generational agenda to keep people out of BC. Of course one of the best ways to do that is to limit the growth of the largest cities in BC. Strict zoning and building codes that Seattle and Calgary just aren't bound by. Warm and scenic cities like Sydney, NSW and SF, Ca have never been under such limitations as Vancouver is towards urban scale.
Any slow growth initiative is intended to reduce the influx of people moving in. Since most of the people on earth are of a nonwhite or non European heritage, the slow growth agenda seems to be a clever way to reduce the influx of non whites into Vancouver & BC. Unfortunately, most of the world is still unaware of this unofficial objective. SW BC is the most mild part of Canada and it seems that someone devised a way many decades ago to create several zoning & building restrictions to help keep people out. It's not just about limiting the scale of the buildings, but to even limit the overall infrastructure & economy. That in turn means that less people will be likely to move into BC.
Its just amazing, how a bridge that was started in 1923 and opened in 1932, is wide enough to accommodate 8 lanes, 2 train tracks, foot and bike pathways. In stead of building more bike and transit bridges, the Vancouver approach is to take away what little traffic lanes exist.
The Sydney_Harbour_Bridge is just as impressive now as it was when it first opened.
Of course no bus & HOV tunnel under the inlet has been built either. Of course as if to meet a substandard requirement, Vancouver bridges are designed to be the epitome of bottleneck planning. Unlike Sydney or Perth, the Vancouver mentality was like, "Why would anyone want to cross the water on a wide bridge?" Indeed, the inept Lions_Gate_Bridge started out with only 1 wide lane each way. Unfortunately, the Lions_Gate_Bridge could only become 3 lanes wide, with no provision for an upper deck that could allow for a train, bus or HOV level. There should have been a bus & train tunnel constructed to help the congested bridge several decades ago.
At least the Ironworkers_Memorial_Second_Narrows_Bridge was built to have 6 lanes. However, the bridge wasn't designed to have full width emergency lanes, that could have allowed for a provision to become 4 or 5 lanes each way. Ultimately, the bridge should have been designed to have 5 lanes each way, plus a provision for 2 train tracks & bike & foot paths.
"Under the plan, there would be six lanes on each bridge, including a bus lane on each.[28] The new bridge would run parallel to the original bridge and be separated from it by a gap of 6 metres (20 ft),[28] and was designed to look largely the same as the original."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrows_Bridge_(Perth)#Second_road_bridge:_2001 (5 general lanes each way with 2 train tracks in the middle.)
For Sydney allowing a 4 lane highway harbor tunnel, wasn't the end of their world. Yet, for Vancouver to even seriously reconsider its old harbor tunnel plans still scares the, KEEP+THEM+OUT, power-structure that mostly consists of white people. I just don't get it. My ancestors are from Europe & anyone that studies human history will realize that white people have always been a small portion of the overall human population. So by Canada continually refusing to only contain less than 1 percent of the human population, just happens to fit right in with the, KEEP THEM OUT Agenda.
I'm bewildered that Vancouver is considered to be one of the worlds most_livable_cities. Considering how lacking the overall infrastructure is in Greater Vancouver, it's as if everything is continually watered down, compared to what most major cities allow themselves to have.
UPDATE
Then there is the-covid-era of the 2020s that just might be the perfect excuse to further limit Vancouver, BC and even Canada. As the worlds second largest nation in land area, Canada is not even close to having 1 percent of the worlds population. Again, it just so happens that most of the earth's human population is nonwhite. So using Covid and environmental issues has become the perfect excuse to keep nonwhite people out of Canada. Of course this should be challenged, but a lot of people will continue to use Covid and the environmental restrictions to maintain the, KEEP+THEM+OUT Agenda.
Thursday, September 23, 2021
Thursday, November 25, 2021
Two Gilmore Place, Burnaby, BC
Two_Gilmore_Place is the first time that any building in BC has been permitted to rise above 700 feet. (215.85 metres (708 ft) tall.)
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/gilmore-place-construction-skytrain-station-engineering
http://gilmoreplace.com , https://www.onni.com/gilmoreplace
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/two-gilmore-place/34824
Edmonton already has the Stantec_Tower, which is 66-storeys at a height of 251 metres (823 ft), is the tallest building in Western_Canada in late 2021.
Seattle might eventually have a 93 story tower. https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=27&status=15
So far, Vancouver wont permit any building to rival Burnaby, Edmonton, Calgary, Seattle & especially Toronto & SF. Burnaby might have a few more tallest buildings in BC. https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=31&status=15
Surrey is trying to have the first office tower in BC that's over 700 feet. https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=2&status=15
Vancouver still wont permit any office building to have 40 floors, let alone 50 or 60.
Friday, October 01, 2021
TIoT
TIoT is an Urban Tech Intersection of various links.
Vancouver and even Victoria should have already been high tech hubs for several decades. Seattle, SF and Toronto are so far ahead of whats in backwater BC.
It seems that things like the COVID-19_pandemic will slow down immigration into Canada considerably. Vancouver, one of the most mild parts of Canada, won't be rivaling Montreal's population any time soon and Victoria remains much smaller than Quebec_City. When the world attains 8 billion people, Canada wont even have 80 million. It will be doubtful if Canada will even have a population of 40 million people when the world reaches 8 billion.
Even if the cities and their surrounding urban areas grew by tens of millions, most of Canada would still remain unpopulated and natural for wildlife. Combine that with more renewable energy measures and recycling and the worlds 2nd largest nation could easily contain millions of more people. However, there seems to be a mostly covert, KEEP THEM OUT Agenda, that's been firmly entrenched since colonial times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_metropolitan_areas_and_agglomerations_in_Canada
Canada as a nation, has the 2nd largest land_area and has yet to even contain even 1% of the worlds people.
Some would like to see a dramatic global reduction of population in most countries.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/looking-forward-to-the-end-of-humanity-11592625661
Perhaps releasing an army of Terminator robots upon most of humanity will speed things up.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/doomsday-math-says-humanity-may-have-just-760-years-left-11561655839 (Doom & gloom ecological horror stories or outright fascist extermination policies to reduce the human population is too dam extreme. Education & better urban planning can help to gradually reduce the human population.)
Most of this blog is still roughed out from its link list phase & is under construction & will include sarcasm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersection_(road)#Types
"Long term plans for the route call for grade separated interchanges along its entire length to convert it to a freeway."
Times Square, Piccadilly_Circus and Shibuya_Crossing have all become extensive high tech intersections on the Internet Superhighway for decades.
Sunday, April 08, 2018
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Two more stumps under 30 floors
When the city wont even permit an office tower to have 40 stories, these two are cut before even reaching 30 floors.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/443-seymour-street-619-685-west-hastings-street-vancouver
They would be impressive in Victoria, Kelowna, Kamloops or Prince George. Not in Calgary or Seattle, Toronto or Montreal. That's how it goes for little scenic Vancouver. Fortunately, scenic cities like Auckland, Sydney & SF allow taller office towers than Vancouver & they are still just as scenic as ever.
Another lost potential of the cities first 50 story office tower. It wont even be permitted to have a 40th floor.
The more red tape & B$ that Vancouver can impose or mandate, the better the chance of holding the city back.
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
The CN Tower Area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower#History, http://www.cntower.ca/Intro.html,
http://travel.ca.msn.com/13-things-you-didnt-know-about-famous-canadian-landmarks#image=2
The area is certainly undergoing some big development changes.
http://www.urbantoronto.ca/news/2012/10/breaking-oxford-place-propose-citys-first-supertall-skyscrapers,
http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/48540,
http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=1
Toronto might finally be permitted to have an office tower reaching at least 80 stories.
http://www.retail-insider.com/2012/10/nordstrom-simonstarget-or-walmart-in_18.html,
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/12/oxford-unveils-3-billion-casino-condo-proposal-for-downtown-toronto/
http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=2
NYC and Chicago have had office towers above 70 stories for decades, Toronto still only has one.
http://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/first-canadian-place-rejuvenation
Perhaps when Toronto finally has an 80 story office tower, Vancouver will have an office building that has at least 40 floors. So far, no office building in BC has been permitted to have a 40th floor, let alone those 60 to 80 story office towers that are common in other places.
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities
NYC is still the big guy on the block, but other cities have built some taller stuff in the past few decades.
http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/50991,
http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=202
The 1982 movie Blade_Runner reveals that Rick_Deckard lives in a residential tower that has over 90 floors. Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep? was published in 1968 when Chicago had a 100 story tower topped out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock_Center LA and SF have no buildings with 80 floors yet. So far, California only has one building that's over a 1000 feet tall.
http://travel.ca.msn.com/13-things-you-didnt-know-about-famous-canadian-landmarks#image=2
The area is certainly undergoing some big development changes.
http://www.urbantoronto.ca/news/2012/10/breaking-oxford-place-propose-citys-first-supertall-skyscrapers,
http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/48540,
http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=1
Toronto might finally be permitted to have an office tower reaching at least 80 stories.
http://www.retail-insider.com/2012/10/nordstrom-simonstarget-or-walmart-in_18.html,
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/12/oxford-unveils-3-billion-casino-condo-proposal-for-downtown-toronto/
http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=2
NYC and Chicago have had office towers above 70 stories for decades, Toronto still only has one.
http://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/first-canadian-place-rejuvenation
Perhaps when Toronto finally has an 80 story office tower, Vancouver will have an office building that has at least 40 floors. So far, no office building in BC has been permitted to have a 40th floor, let alone those 60 to 80 story office towers that are common in other places.
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities
NYC is still the big guy on the block, but other cities have built some taller stuff in the past few decades.
http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/50991,
http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=202
The 1982 movie Blade_Runner reveals that Rick_Deckard lives in a residential tower that has over 90 floors. Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep? was published in 1968 when Chicago had a 100 story tower topped out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock_Center LA and SF have no buildings with 80 floors yet. So far, California only has one building that's over a 1000 feet tall.
Tuesday, June 07, 2022
Monday, September 20, 2021
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.
Saturday, March 05, 2022
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
The Samuel De Champlain Bridge in Montreal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champlain_Bridge_(Montreal,_2019-present)
Being from Vancouver its hard to fathom that Montreal has this new cool 8 lane Champlain_Bridge. Then I remember that no one from Vancouver or BC was able to stop it from being built in Montreal. Of course the Vancouver mentality is to prevent any new wide bridge. In fact, to prevent any new bridges that would bring more cars and trucks into its puny city limits.
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https://vancouver.skyrisecities.com/news/2017/05/sibling-bridges-second-narrows
Of course the new Champlain_Bridge would be designed to carry the REM line over the river. https://rem.info/en/work-schedule Simply because Vancouver is classified as a scenic city, its not allowed to have big city infrastructure on the scale of what Sydney, Australia, SF, Seattle & Montreal allow.
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The Ironworkers_Memorial_Second_Narrows_Crossing should have been built with 4 or at least 2 wide shoulders so that by now, the bridge could have had 8 to 10 lanes. Plus a provision for 2 rapid train tracks & 2 express bus lanes on a lower level. Instead, its a congested mess of 6 lanes with no shoulders or provision for rapid transit. Unlike most cities, Vancouver really excels at congestive planing. That's why the first 2 Skytrain lines have stations only about half the length of any Montreal Metro station. The Canada line only has a maximum allowance for 50m stations, while the Montreal Metro has 152.5m stations.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8330542/pothole-ironworkers-memorial-bridge
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Vancouver's Chinatown
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-chinatown-gates-defaced
In stead of Vancouver being allowed to become a thriving metropolis on the Pacific Rim, the HOLD THINGS BACK mentality has been successful in having short trains, narrow roads & bridges & short buildings when compared to what most big cities allow.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-vancouver-canada-asian-hate-crimes/
As an international city, Vancouver has been continually thwarted throughout its history. Then the locals that have been conditioned to only accept a small scale city, blame those that are different than them.
When a predominantly white power structure refuses to allow Vancouver to become a proper big business city like Montreal & Toronto, Calgary & Edmonton, Seattle & SF, this is what happens.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/vancoucer-anti-asian-hate-crimes-increase
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/jean-swanson-vancouver-jobs This is the epitome of the KEEP THEM OUT mentality. Its all part of the backwater BC agenda. Alberta & Washington State are able to do much more, simply because they aren't under Vancouver & BC type restrictions.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-most-congested-city-canada-2020 Unfortunately, long term residents of Vancouver have been conditioned to accept a congestive planning agenda. Then it becomes easier for some BC residents to blame anyone that doesn't seem to be white. When a person is conditioned to accept short trains, narrow roads & bridges, it becomes that much easier to blame anyone that seems to be more cosmopolitan or "foreign".
While it was a wise decision to reject freeways within the city limits of Vancouver, the city has continually failed to improve or even maintain its street network.
Saturday, July 06, 2019
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