Monday, January 18, 2016

Chinese-Pentagon mall has become abandoned

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3404879/Welcome-Department-Emptiness-150-million-knockoff-Pentagon-built-abandoned-Chinese-city.html

Underground-public-toilet-in-trendy-east-London

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3404584/Underground-public-toilet-spent-noughties-trendy-east-London-nightclub-goes-sale-1million.html

Calgary

http://www.calgarycitynews.com/search/label/Calgary%20Transit

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=149263&page=384

Toronto

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/john-torys-smarttrack-transit-plan-for-toronto-getting-smaller-cheaper/article28208774/

http://www.pembina.org/images/transportation/fast-cities-table.jpg

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=149263&page=385

Grand Central Station

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Terminal#Platforms_and_tracks

Tunnel-boring machines blasted through the 350 million-year-old rock to carve out the space through which four railroad platforms will eventually be built, two on top and two on bottom.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/5/9677300/manhattan-train-tunnel-project-grand-central-lirr-access

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

metro vancouver transit

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2016/01/single-tracking-at-skytrains-metrotown-and-patterson-stations-during-evenings-
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2014/06/dramatic-60-million-commercial-broadway-station-upgrade-include-additional-platform/

https://www.google.ca/search?q=Skytrain+Station+platform+extensions
http://www.railforthevalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/LRT-versus-Skytrain-Copy.jpg-
http://www.railforthevalley.com/latest-news/zweisystem/note-to-city-of-vancouver-ottawas-lrt-can-carry-more-than-a-skytrain-subway
https://pricetags.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/broadway-station-
https://metrobabel.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/transportation-and-transit-plan-15-broadway-skytrain-extension
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2805/13225753634_1d070478a3_b.jpg

http://www.cgenarchive.org/uploads/2/5/2/6/25269392/vanland_v7_3.jpg

http://www.cgenarchive.org/vancouver-landscape.html


http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/01/vancouver-then-and-now-photos-downtown/

Richmond BC port

http://www.richmond-news.com/news/author-tells-of-local-history-through-maps-1.494913

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Vancouver


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Vancouver_Transit_Network_Map.png/1280px-Vancouver_Transit_Network_Map.png-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_in_Vancouver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver)#Future_expansion

http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Vancouver.jpg-
http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2010/09/08/vancouvers-transit-trajectory-densify-the-core-or-extend-out/

Edmonton LRT

http://spacing.ca/edmonton/2014/07/22/five-short-linear-stories-lrt/

CTrain


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTrain#Further_underground_infrastructure-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7YBZvhVwgk
http://www.subways.net/canada/calgary.htm

http://nycsubway.org.s3.amazonaws.com/images/maps/calgary_lrt5.jpg-
http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Calgary,_Alberta

http://www.barp.ca/bus/lrt/calgary/anderson.html

http://forums.beyond.ca/showthread/t-283828.html

http://www.calgarysun.com/2015/08/28/calgary-lawmakers-administration-set-to-make-important-decisions-on-new-lrt-line

http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/elevated-lrt-being-considered-for-north-central-line

https://www.google.ca/search?q=future+8th+avenue+C-Train+tunnel+plans+for+downtown+calgary&safe=off&biw=2133&bih=1078&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1raCynpPKAhUO6WMKHS9uDxwQ_AUICSgD&dpr=0.9

https://www.google.ca/search?q=future+8th+avenue+C-Train+tunnel+plans+for+downtown+calgary&safe=off&biw=2133&bih=1078&espv=2&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGt9SvnpPKAhUD52MKHaa2BoAQ_AUIBSgA&dpr=0.9




Friday, January 1, 2016

tunnels ans stations

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=200709

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

http://www.miss604.com/2010/07/tunnels-under-downtown-vancouver-history-readers-choice.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/03/05/vancouver-tunnels_n_6811500.html


http://i.imgur.com/YARTrxr.jpg-
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/1fk2mq-
https://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1R307&title=thornton-tunnel&guid=a118c7cc-2497-4e98-996f-3b16e9208c00-
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bates+Park/@49.2796785,-123.0192908,1061m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x548670ea6e4154b7:0x165bc59f60fac0e8?hl=en-
https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/49.26446,-123.007227/49.264305,-123.007296/@49.264324,-123.0062142,996m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!4m4!1m1!4e1!1m1!4e1?hl=en

https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=underground%20tunnels%20vancouver%20bc

Where-streets-no-shame-New-Year-revellers-spill-pubs-clubs-night-drunken-excess-Britain

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3380899/Where-streets-no-shame-New-Year-revellers-spill-pubs-clubs-night-drunken-excess-Britain.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3381101/Streets-strewn-litter-parties-night-country.html

Smoke and even the occasional flame continues to billow out of the Address Downtown hotel in Dubai

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3380987/Dubai-hotel-smoulders-day-fire-ripped-luxury-building-guests-reveal-people-climbed-escape-photographer-avoided-flames-dangling-hundreds-feet-air-rope.html

off to a shitty start

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/terror-alert-fires-disrupt-year-celebrations-160101032940782.html

A huge fire has engulfed a 63-storey hotel in central Dubai

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35207451

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3380507/Fire-rips-Dubai-hotel-close-city-hold-New-Year-celebrations.html

https://www.rt.com/news/327592-dubai-hotel-fire-address

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-emirates-dubai-fire-idUSKBN0UE17J20160101

https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=dubai%20hotel%20fire

https://www.google.ca/search?q=dubai+hotel+fire&safe=off&espv=2&biw=2133&bih=1078&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwih-L-xnYjKAhUO72MKHbAZBk0Q_AUICCgD&dpr=0.9