https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Skytower
| Roof | 269.6 m (885 ft) |
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| Floor count | 90 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Skytower#Design_and_location
Brisbane can have a building 30 floors taller than the Living_Shangri-La in Vancouver, because it doesn't have Vancouver's imposed restrictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Shangri-La
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane#Transport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Airport#Rail Unlike Vancouver, Brisbane has long trains, as most real cities do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Leo_Hielscher_Bridges#Duplication A 12 lane crossing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Massey_Tunnel The 4 lane tunnel should have been twinned or duplicated by 1980. Then a parallel bus and train tunnel or bridge by around 2000-2010.
https://www.infrastructurebc.com/project/fraser-river-tunnel-project A wattered down 8 lane BC crossing. Even by 2030, there still won't be a train and HOV tunnel or bridge.
https://www.infrastructurebc.com/project/roberts-bank-terminal-2-landmass-and-wharf-project A slow, constipated planning an developing process in backwards BC. It was the total opposite for the Port_of_Brisbane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Brisbane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Expo_88#The_Fair Brisbane was able to grow into a big bustling city with taller buildings, longer trains, wider bridges and more tunnels than restrictive, backwards Vancouver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_86#Fair Unfortunately, Vancouver doubled down on being a watered down, provincial city. Brisbane just never had the overlapping imposed restrictions that Vancouver has.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_railway_line,_Brisbane#Criticism At least Brisbane and Perth allowed for enough clearance to have longer stations and trains than backwards Vancouver. Running longer trains more frequently is better than the Vancouver short train mentality.
The Canada_Line wasn't designed to be like a proper big city train. The stations are only an absurd 50 m when the Montreal Metro has 152.5 m stations. Montreal has 9 car trains, but Vancouver never allowed for future clearance to accomodate 8-10 car trains. Not even a 5 car train was allowed in the cost-cutting design. The Canada_Line is a totally intentional embarrassment in urban planning. Why design stations to accomodate a 10 car or at least a 5 car train, when a 2.5 car joke of a train can provide more congestion?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver)#Network Its taken until 2025 for the first line to start running 5 car trains. Eventually, the 2nd line will also start to have 5 car trains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver)#Canada_Line The (embarrassment) Line has yet to start running a 2.5 car train. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver)#Rolling_stock It's so sad and pathetic that all 3 lines weren't designed to start with 5 car trains and gradually run 10 car trains.
In Vancouver, short trains, mostly narrow bridges and short buildings, all fit in with the symbolic reluctance to build proper big city size infrastructure. Who knows where the money went, because it sure didn't go into the scaled back or watered down BC infrastructure?
South_East_Queensland just like, Perth and especially, Melbourne & Sydney were able to unlock their various restrictions decades ago. Where as the backwards BC Lower_Mainland and Vancouver_Island still have so much red tape and overlapping restrictions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_East_Queensland#Attractions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Mainland#Regional_districts
Fortunately, the backwards BC mind virus hasn't spread to most of the world.
