https://www.transitchicago.com/travel-information/alert-detail/?AlertId=115377
A 4 car train for any big city is almost a joke. Short trains can full up too quickly. However, a late-night train or an overnight train might be adequate with only 4 cars in a big city.
A 5 car train is better than a 4, but not quite as good as a 6 car train.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver)#Canada_Line
What should be called, the YVR-Canada_Line wasn't designed to have 5 car trains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Line#Stations The absurd 50 m stations were only designed to eventually accommodate 2.5 car trains. Since 2009, only 2 car trains have be used.
Unlike backwards Vancouver, most major cities have better transportation planning and are on a much larger scale. The Montreal_Metro was built with 500 foot long stations, right from the start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro#Rolling_stock A 9 car train takes up the full 152.5 m platform.
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 bound by a small-thinking and backwards mindset.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Skytower
| Roof | 269.6 m (885 ft) |
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| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 90 |
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_Gate_Bridge
| Construction start | March 31, 1937 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_Gate_Bridge#History
| Opened | November 14, 1938 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_Gate_Bridge#Gallery
Unfortunately in the 1930s, there just wasn't much vision and motivation to see Vancouver as becoming a bustling and thriving port city. In contrast, Sydney, NSW and SF, California already knew that they were growing major cities by the 1930s.
Then, by the 1960s and 70s, when Montreal and Toronto really started to grow up, Vancouver became immersed into the BC backwater mentality. By the 1960s or 70s, there should have been 3 lane tunnel to provide a proper counterflow to the inadequate 3 lane LGB.
Georgia_Street is seven lanes wide near the entrance to Stanley_Park and the 5 blocks leading towards the park.
Had Vancouver waited until the 1990s, not only a 7, but 8 lane tunnel should have been built under the park and near the bridge. Such a tunnel not only could have provided 3 lanes each way, but a bus lane each way as well in the 8 lane structure. Unfortunately, that never happened, nor did a rail link happen.
Indeed, several decades ago the SkyTrain should have been extended to West_Vancouver. There never even seemed to be a plan to extend the SkyTrain-Canada_Line segment to North_Vancouver either.
There has been multigenerational resistance to have a proper comprehensive transportation plan between Downtown_Vancouver and the North_Shore. There also seems to be a lack of vision or interest to link the Horseshoe_Bay_ferry_terminal to YVR and also a link to the Tsawwassen_ferry_terminal.
