Hi im new to the channel and to vancouver and 8ndeed this place offer so little value for so expensive rent i cant believe it BUT when u do the math, if even just the top one THOUSANDth percent of rich people in india and china will send 1 kid over here thats already 25 million extra population, about half of all canada so yeah makes perfect sense :(

Hunt club should be made into a highway and there should be a highway from the airport through downtown into Gatineau

thank you so much! pls notice the way you pronounce the word 'cotton' isn't clear..

Before the advent of the automobile transit oriented development was just normal development. "They built a subway out there? Let's build apartments houses and shops!"

Canada is 100 years behind Europe and will never catch up.😢

Ah yes Vancouver the most unaffordable city in North America 😂

Here in Turkiye, we are trying to rebuild our cities and change our stock of old weak building stock to earthquake resistant new ones with a comprehensive urban renewal, but various political opposition supported by ''outside powers'' are slowing and attempting block all this with misinformation, and legislative cases. We need to rebuild our cities and towns. :/

I ❤ trains, trams, take a ride, I have a folder on ''transportation'' (folder 2, in playlists) you will love them too :)

Just so you know when you say highway 13 you were actually talking about highway 18, highway thirteen runs from the albert sask broder to the Manitoba sask border gling through the city of weyburn to the town of Carlyle which also is full of ghost towns

The one major issue with your experience is that the rail between montreal and ottawa is one of the only via rail owned lines. I think you need to go and try something like Montreal - Brockville, and then head up to Ottawa from there. This will let you get the via rail experience on the CN Tracks

Great video! Architecture student here

Redevelop old dead, shopping centers. Fix old big boxes to different uses.

PRIVATIZE IT.

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B.C. used to have B.C. rail , now all we have is VIA rail which is a very limited service!

The only thing I'd say is that TOD doesn't flip traditional urban development on its head; it is traditional urban development. In centuries past, people valued and prioritized having access to mobility. A prime example was the dense settlements around natural harbors or crossroads.

If you really want to see crazy Look up 19th century renderings of Future cities.

It's funny and sad how planning documents in Canada especially out West have talked about TOD's since the very inception of the modern Light Rail networks in Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver yet only recently have cities really moved from the realm of theoretical planning documents to actually encouraging and fostering developments to arise at station locations. Vancouver thankfully is doing more than its fair share developing almost every station site to its fullest potential especially at stations like Marine Drive where it really is fully contained village complete with Cineplex. As a film lover that's paradise to me! On the other end of the scale is the ongoing slow botched car crash that is Century Park in Edmonton. Once the site of an 800,000 sq ft, 4 anchor regional mall, it went from second poshest mall in Edmonton after WEM to being demolished in roughly 20 years... Now it's being slowly redeveloped by one developer who lacks the funds to properly get it done with any relation to its OG vision. From holding 25+ story skyscrapers around a central lake/ice hockey pond in winter to basically block after block of value-engineered dreck architecture that's still 20 years behind schedule filling in. I wrote an article on it for journalism school proclaiming its 2010 completion date in 2006 and well? Not even 50% done in 2025 despite Edmonton being the hottest housing market in the nation... Go figure!

As a Canadian freight train conductor I can tell you that via rail takes absolutely priority over us all of the time. We wait hours for them so they don’t get a delay. I work on the Toronto to Montreal corridor.

This cold Region of North America is a real reason why most Americans do not want to move to Alaska.

I dont think CP or CN ever thrived on passenger rail , the freight always payed the bills they only ran passenger because the government forced them to . The day the government stopped forcing them they got out of passenger rail !

Love the channel, a good example of TOD is Burquitlam Station in Vancouver

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What's with all the American images?

Also if you want to see what was Griffintown before the renovation rent/see the movis Gas Bar Blues.

Why does the thumbnail show a German train?

I genuinely believe that all Canada needs is one well constructed, well operated high speed rail line to be completed anywhere in the country really but probably in the Quebec-Windsor corridor. Once we have that and people get to ride it and see how nice it actually is and that it is better than flying or driving for many of the trips most of us take then people's opinions on rail travel will shift. It'll have a domino effect where we'll go from struggling to get one line built to demanding that more lines be built and quickly.

As a Canadian: I’ll let you know that at least we have trains

great video love it

This place is disgusting. My Canadians friends identity is hockey and coffee (I’d cut my wrist)

Generally this video is on the right track, but it gets some pretty important historical context wrong, mainly by assuming the story of Canadian rail in the 20th century is identical to that of the American one. Unlike CP, CN was not a private company in the 1970s when VIA was created, it was a Crown Corporation owned by the government until the 1990s. So even though the tracks VIA rail was running on were not owned by them directly, since CN was fully nationalised it had a mandate to accommodate VIA trains on its tracks (which to this day host the majority of the VIA network), which they no longer have. It's only after CN was privatised and funding for VIA slashed in half by the Mulroney PC government in the 90s that metrics like on-time performance really started to take a nosedive to their current lows. We also had attempts at HSR in the 70s and 80s, first with CN's Turbo and then VIA's LRC sets, which were not as successful as their designers had hoped but are nonetheless still worth mentioning in a video about how we got here when it comes to passenger rail in Canada. Overall good video, just again could really do with a bit more research and historical context for some of the claims made.

It would make more sense to just extend the Trillium line Across the River

Canada welcomes its AMTRAK overlords in 2025 #MIGA

Those stations are missing because it's under construction

I'm old enough to have taken a train from both Halifax and New Glasgow into Moncton and then to Montreal. I miss that

One problem VIA has is that it doesn’t have any statutory authority. It only exists be cabinet fiat and serves many fewer places because certain have cut the network unilaterally which is 100 percent wrong.

Or B.C. getting F over selling B.,C. Rail. We sent all the good looking and funtioning rail cars east. Then they sent all the garbage rail cars west. Rail can go suck an egg.

Yup again, air industry f*cked up ground transportation and prevented the innovation of high speed trains at a critical moment. Now, try to build a real high speed passenger train today, it is nearly impossible due to lobbying and constant help of the Canadian government to the "poor" airlines they've got.

I think if it were to rise again, #VIArail needs to reduce its service responsibilities and focus more on helping local transit expand and connect with other transit systems by giving up timeslots for local transit trains and sharing RoWs with local transit systems. #VIArail should be limited to only providing interprovincial services and occasional tourist services. Else, local regional transit should take priority such as local transit taking up timeslots used for the Canadian service to build regional rail in #Alberta, #BC, and more including expanding #TransLink's #WCE in #MetroVancouver.

It can if its done correctly which is something we haven't done a lot of recently sadly enough. Almost every project in Canada has been behind schedule and over budget and not all of it can be blamed on COVID. We've just gotten bad at building complicated projects with any repeatability or coordination which is why each project feels and is costing too much like a bespoke customized house vs a mass produced trailer which would be much more useful at this point... Personally I'd love for Canada to create at least 3 High Speed Rail routes that top 320 km/h as well as create a 125 mph/200 km/h Trans-Canada Higher Speed railway adding more tracks along existing rights of way or along the TCA itself in the median much like the upcoming Brightline West between Metro L.A. and Las Vegas is going to do to cut down costs and speed up trains simultaneously by mostly running down existing Interstate and railway alignments.. This would also allow an much more incremental approach starting with hybrid-electric trains on one track with passing sections to start with full electrification later OR with full electrification of one line with future space for another, as was the case with BLW which went from the first concept to the second with only a small bump in costs...

Didnt high frequency rail get canceled in favour of going for hsr instead of a farce?

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I would assume that the vast majority of workers for the Government of Canada, if given the choice, would go back to work from home. But this project would be a good idea.

we also have a new automated suvway in Montreal . your report lacks of infornation . you are probably from Toronto .

Montreal is the most sustainable city in north america ( Global inde) and 100 % underground . The new trains do noy need AC . Toronto has the worst old broken subway falling apart with wifi network started in mid 2024 . Montreal has a new express fully automated subway crossing the Champlain bridge and soon he west island and airport. Why do you show the old subway trains all the time ? you must be from Toronto , the most pretentious and worst public transpor, ugly stations , high crime subway and strrets cars stuck in traffic or on fire.

2:28, Calgary dosen't have three lines, it has two, with four legs. A third is being constructed. Also, it's not the fifth largest metropolitan area in Canada, it's the fourth, behind Toronto, Montreal and the Vancouver lower mainland.

European trains on North American rail standard, duh!

when a channel capitalizes fear or anger words like "DESTROY", i automatically think that their channel will be as dishonest and manipulative as their video's title is, and i tell KZbin to not recommend their channel. i'm so sick of this trend on KZbin, that now i'm telling you creators that such titles turn me off, before i block your channel from my feed.

There should not be any excuses. Even village-sized Oceania countries have had professional sports leagues for ages. Its embarrassing for Canada.