Sunday, February 9, 2025

Calgary man prefers laid-back Alberta life over Toronto

 https://dailyhive.com/calgary/calgary-man-move-alberta-toronto

Toronto is a big city on a lakeshore like Chicago is. Calgary just doesn't have a sprawling suburban situation like those urban areas have. Calgary can get colder than Denver during the winter and almost as hot as Dallas during the summer.

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

A Toronto building with horrible reputation is facing even more issues

 https://dailyhive.com/toronto/toronto-condo-building-issues-dundas-square-gardens

A reasonable effort should always be made to maintain a decent living standard in new and older buildings.

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Urban Tech Data

https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-city-rankings/largest-metro-areas-in-the-world

https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/bigcities.htm

https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/in-pictures-the-largest-cities-in-the-world

https://www.statista.com/statistics/912263/population-of-urban-agglomerations-worldwide/

https://zenodo.org/records/10458207


 https://jf-databits.blogspot.com/search?q=UTD

Urban Legends

Urban_legends are part of the urban fabric.

 https://www.britannica.com/topic/urban-legend

https://www.vice.com/en/article/we-hired-a-ghost-hunter-to-find-out-how-haunted-our-new-office-really-is/

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

https://www.vcc.ca/about/college-information/news/article/venture-out-into-vancouvers-most-haunted-around-vcc.html

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

https://www.timeout.com/usa/things-to-do/haunted-ghost-trains


https://jf-databits.blogspot.com/search?q=urban+legends

Haunted places in Paris

 https://listverse.com/2023/04/04/10-haunted-places-in-paris/

https://www.offbeatfrance.com/most-haunted-places-in-paris.html

https://www.welcome2france.com/blog-article-3188-dare-to-explore-these-7-haunted-places-in-paris.html


https://jf-databits.blogspot.com/search?q=Paris

https://jf-databits.blogspot.com/search?q=urban+legends

The Urban Tech Intersection

https://jf-databits.blogspot.com/2024/09/urban-legends.html

 https://jf-databits.blogspot.com/search?q=UTI

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Paris hotels struggle with low demand as Olympics approach

 https://www.euronews.com/2024/07/02/paris-hotels-struggle-with-low-demand-as-olympics-approach

While it's nice to have a lot of extra rooms than not. However, low demand isn't a good sign.

Monday, April 1, 2024

The Four corners (Canada)

 "It came into being with the creation of Nunavut on April 1, 1999." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_corners_(Canada)

Sunday, December 17, 2023

Transit, Bike and Pedestrian Bridges

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/worlds-best-pedestrian-bridges

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_Perth,_Western_Australia#Pedestrian_bridges

https://structurae.net/en/structures/bridges/bicycle-and-pedestrian-bridges

https://www.arch2o.com/10-amazing-bridges-passageways-bikes/

Unlike Vancouver, BC, several cities are able to build transit, bike or pedestrian bridges without having to take away any lanes from the existing narrow bridges.

https://www.hellotravel.com/stories/most-amazing-pedestrian-bridges-around-the-world

https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/incredible-suspension-bridges-around-the-world


https://the-data-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=Bicycle+and+Pedestrian+Bridges

Some Perth Area Bridges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_River_(Western_Australia)#Bridges How could so much infrastructure have been constructed? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_Perth,_Western_Australia

Well, WA is very far away from the restrictive backwater BC mentality.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrows_Bridge_(Perth) 5 lanes each way and 2 train tracks.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Narrows_Bridge_from_QV.1.jpg This scale of eneneering simply isn't allwed in Vancouver, BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canning_Bridge#Current_structure:_1939

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Canning_Bridge_2006_SMC.jpg A nice 6 lane bridge that hasnt been Vancoverized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windan_Bridge Another fine 6 lane bridge.

There is a plan to only have two 6 lane bridges within the city limits of Vancouver. While the stubborn city refuses to build bus and HOV bridges, even though that would dramatically improve transit.

Unlike the WA approach, the backwater BC way is to funnel everything into a series of chokepoints. Its the epitome of bottelneck absurdity. https://twitter.com/DriveBC/status/1595492088057335808/photo/1 A 3 lane wonder, or a total blunder? Why have a new structure for bus & HOV lanes & especially a harbor train crossing, when you can just have an inept 3 lane bridge?

Whether you are visiting from Perth, WA or Seattle, WA, nothing can prepare you for Vancouverization. Even if you are visiting from LA, you will notice that the mountains are smaller. Its as if they have been watered down, just like Greater Vancouver in general has.

Perth, WA and Seattle, WA

It's always interesting to see what Perth and Seattle are allowed to do, simply because they aren't bound by any BC type restrictions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth#Transport , https://developmentwa.com.au/projects/redevelopment/new-northbridge/overview , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Farmer_Freeway#2013_tunnel_expansion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle#Transportation , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Route_99_tunnel

Of course Vancouver, BC would never allow anything like the Northbridge_Tunnel or the 99_tunnel to run under the downtown and connect to the North_Shore

https://twitter.com/DriveBC/status/1585381176919076864/photo/1 7L funneled into 3 lanes, a classic bottleneck. Even though an express bus tunnel with a provision for 2 train tracks would immensely improve this transportation corridor, it's not allowed. That's because Vancouver refuses to take a big city approach. Indeed, the Vancouver mentality is to emulate a provincial backwater mentality for as long as possible.

https://twitter.com/DriveBC/status/1595492088057335808/photo/1 LGB 3L

https://twitter.com/DriveBC/status/1736073321178153417?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet 2L


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Australia

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

UTi

The UTi blog is still all about referencing and exploring urban issues.

https://jf-databits.blogspot.com/search?q=UTI

Saturday, July 22, 2023

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Friday, June 30, 2023

Growing Australia's smaller cities to better manage population growth

 https://www.ahuri.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/2022-08/AHURI-Final-Report-386-Growing-Australias-smaller-cities-to-better-manage-population-growth.pdf

Whether its a city of 100K or a million people, or even if its just between 1000 and 10,000 inhabitants, a vast urban area can be added. However, not in the old-style of typical urban sprawl. Efficient trains and roads can be built right from the start. High and medium density housing and commercial places can be better coordinated.

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The Most Evil Building in Europe?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uln3oINe6Kc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu#Systematization:_demolition_and_reconstruction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Romania#Persecution,_the_labour_camp_system_and_anti-communist_resistance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania#Communism

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Passenger Train lengths

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway_rolling_stock#Current_fleet

Train length4 car train: 300 feet (91.4 m)
8 car train: 600 feet (183 m)
Car length74 ft 8.5 in (22.77 m)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R46_(New_York_City_Subway_car)

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

Train length5-car train: 301.05 feet (91.76 m)
4-car train: 240.84 feet (73.41 m)
Car length60.21 feet (18.35 m)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R211_(New_York_City_Subway_car)

Train length5-car train: 255.2 feet (77.8 m)
6-car train: 306.24 feet (93.34 m)
10-car train: 510.4 feet (155.6 m)
Car length51.04 feet (15.56 m)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R262_(New_York_City_Subway_car)

Train length6-car train: 306.24 feet (93.34 m)
10-car train: 510.4 feet (155.6 m)
Car length51.04 feet (15.56 m)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R62A_(NYC_Subway_car)

north-america-best-public-transit-systems

 https://dailyhive.com/canada/north-america-best-public-transit-systems

Monday, January 9, 2023

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