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Saturday, May 30, 2026
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Global temperatures to reach near-record highs in next five years
https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1tq5bb6/global_temperatures_to_reach_nearrecord_highs_in/
https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1tq4hh8/it_hit_482c_118f_in_my_state_in_india_today_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1tq13u0/kew_gardens_just_hit_351c_smashing_its_previous/
Monday, May 25, 2026
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Canada Line station platforms being extended for interchange hub with Broadway Subway
Unfortunately, Vancouver chose to have the shortest stions in Canada. Shorter than the Montreal metro, TTC subway, Edmonton LRT, Calgary CTrain and the Ottawa OTrain. Now, its difficult and more costly to have proper big-city, long station platforms. The CLine only has 40-50 m stations, while the Montreal Metro has 152.5 m stations. A 500 foot long platform is what one would expect for a proper big-city station.
New-Penn-station-design-won't-move-Madison-Square-Garden
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/transportation/mta-penn-station-project-msg-xc4y5s9p
https://www.the-sun.com/sport/16392349/madison-square-garden-trump-arena-move-new-york/
https://www.archdaily.com/407334/madison-square-garden-limited-to-10-year-permit
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
New double-decker elevators at the Seattle Space Needle
https://www.dezeen.com/2026/05/05/olson-kundig-otis-elevators-double-decker-elevators-space-needle/
https://www.spaceneedle.com/elevators
Otis Traction Double Deck Elevators at Wilshire Grand Center in Los Angeles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY_fLUZD_mU
Double-deck_elevators are just one of the many things that don't exist in Vancouver, BC. Some are in the Toronto Scotia Plaza and First Canadian Place.
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
The Urban Trifecta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifecta#History
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trifecta
Ideally, some major cities want to have short buildings, narrow roads & highways and narrow bridges. Short trains, because of short stations.
W, D.C. has very short buildings, but wide streets and freeways and some wide bridges. The Washington Metro system has long trains, because the stations are also long.
SL City has short buildings, an intermediate size LRT system, but some wide sections of streets and freeways.
Honolulu, has short buildings and a short, but fast train. However, the H-1 is wider than 8 lanes in some sections.
San Diego has relatively short building, an intermediate size LRT, and some wide sections of freeways.
The Vancouver Trifecta
Over a century ago, Vancouver in Canada started to allow some buildings to be taller than most of the buildings in W, D.C. However, the streets are mostly quite narrow, as are most of the bridges one would expect for a major seaport city.
A strong case in point is the inadequate 3 lane Lions_Gate_Bridge. The LGB should have been adapted to become a bus and bike bridge several decades ago. Especially, if a parallel highway tunnel could have been built. It remains as the worst bottleneck-chokepoint in BC.
The YVR-Canada_Line wasn't designed to have 5 car trains, due to another case of the city not properly planning for the future. The stations are so short, that there is only enough level clearance to accommodate a 2.5 car train. Very small scale just like the LGB.
So far, no office tower in Vancouver has been permitted to have a 40th floor, but some residential towers have been allowed to be significantly taller.
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/the-stack/35667 38 floors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNP_Tower_(Vancouver) 36 floors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Centre_(Vancouver) 37 floors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Canadian_Place 72 floors in Toronto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Center 76 floors in Seattle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Bank_Tower_(Los_Angeles) 73 floors
That's the Vancouver Trifecta. Small scale or short buildings compared to most cities. Short trains compared to most cities & mostly narrow bridges.
Despite Vancouver having so many overlapping restrictions, the Greater_Vancouver region is the 3rd largest in Canada.
Despite the size of Canada, it has less than 1% of the worlds population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada#Demographics
In spite of a smaller population, Australia seems to function on a grander scale than Canada, in some ways.
Monday, May 4, 2026
Tehran Metro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_Metro
https://www.railway-technology.com/projects/tehranmetro/?cf-view
urbanrail.net/as/ir/tehr/tehran.htm
https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/1952784/tehran-train-line-iran
https://mapa-metro.com/en/iran/tehran/tehran-metro-map.htm
https://www.reddit.com/r/transit/comments/1rtyx70/tehran_metro_appreciation_post_i_had_no_idea_the/
https://orienttrips.com/mag/tehran-metro-map/
https://www.visitouriran.com/blog/complete-guide-to-tehrans-metro-lines/
City of Vancouver exhibit on considering higher buildings
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-lookout-city-higher-buildings-policy-review-exhibit
Over the decades, attempts of tall+buildings+in+downtown+Vancouver have always been stumped. While Montreal has allowed 1 office tower to have more than 50 floors, Vancouver has never permitted any office tower to have a 40 floor.
Its like there has been a multigenerational mind virus (VMV) over the past several generations that holds back the scale of Vancouver. No bus, truck and train tunnel was ever built next to the inadequate 3 lane Lions+Gate+Bridge. Forget about big city symbolism with the YVR-Canada-Line having 10 car trains. Canada+Line wasn't even designed to have 5 car trains. The SkyTrain-Canada+Line was only deigned to ultimately run 2.5 car trains. Since 2009, only 2 car joke trains have been running and that fits in well with the small scale symbolism of Vancouver. The VMV is all about half-size buildings, short trains and narrow bridges like the LGB and the 4 lane Pattullo+Bridge+replacement.
The Vancouver+Mind+Virus isn't supposed to be true, just like the BCMV isn't true, but yet, its like something keeps making sure that Vancouver and BC remain small and backwards.
Melbourne
https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/location/melbourne Vic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyscrapers/comments/1shi1ne/i_never_realised_how_beautiful_melbourne/
https://worldpopulationreview.com/cities/australia
https://www.reddit.com/r/CityPorn/comments/yyiper/melbourne_australia/
https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/location/vic
https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/1mn95wx/im_from_melbourne_australia_ama/
https://www.reddit.com/r/howislivingthere/comments/1q7zjf9/how_is_it_living_in_melbourne_australia/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanisation_in_Australia
Tall Melbourne just wouldn't be the same if it was stuck with Honolulu, Vancouver or San Diego size stumps.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CityPorn/comments/ynx97h/melbourne_australia/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CityPorn/comments/11e2vvq/melbourne_australia/
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Toronto's next super tall
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyscrapers/comments/1t2i8w5/toronto_next_super_tall/
https://www.reddit.com/r/askTO/comments/1lsv995/move_to_toronto_or_stay_put_in_melbourne_australia/
Well, now Toronto finally has 100 story buildings like Melbourne.
Saturday, May 2, 2026
LA and SF
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyscrapers/comments/1t25cdo/us_bank_tower_la/
.tif/lossy-page1-960px-Skyline_view_of_Los_Angeles%2C_California_LCCN2013631685_(cropped).tif.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=index&utm_content=thumbnail)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_California#Buildings_over_500_feet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_California#Buildings_from_400_to_500_feet
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