Vancouver General Discussion Thread

[Vin]

Originally Posted by GlassCity

People don't want to throw their recyclabes in the garbage and there are still many, many places that only have garbage bins. This is the cities' fault, not the people's.

What? People are so spoilt these days that they can't even hold on to their own recyclables and dispose them at home in their own recycle bin? I'm not absolving the city for not providing enough bins or cleaning up public mess, but someone should know better and not leaving garbage around.

[Klazu]

What's that huge fenced off area just east of Queen Elizabeth Park? It looks a prime area for a huge park or lots of new housing. It looks like it has been deserted for quite some time but what's the story behind it?

[Klazu]

Darn, my BC knowledge outside of Metro Vancouver sucks. I scored 53% (no googling done). How do you fair? No cheating!

QUIZ: B.C. has 51 cities. How much do you know about them?

[Klazu]

It's interesting to first go through Shaughnessy and then East Vancouver. In East Vancouver almost all grass is brown from the drought but in Shaughnessy even sidewalks have nice green grass. Seems that the wealthy do not need to worry about conserving any water whatsoever.

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by Klazu

It's interesting to first go through Shaughnessy and then East Vancouver. In East Vancouver almost all grass is brown from the drought but in Shaughnessy even sidewalks have nice green grass. Seems that the wealthy do not need to worry about conserving any water whatsoever.

If you have been taking care of your lawn all year, and follow today's level 2(?) restrictions which allow watering 4 hours per week, you can still maintain a green lawn.

I'm not sure that's the case, just pointing it out

[osirisboy]

Very true warren and they have huge trees there that really shade a lot of the area

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Darn, my BC knowledge outside of Metro Vancouver sucks. I scored 53% (no googling done). How do you fair? No cheating!

QUIZ: B.C. has 51 cities. How much do you know about them?

..... you're not going to believe this .... 53%, and that's no lie.

[Infrequent Poster]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Darn, my BC knowledge outside of Metro Vancouver sucks. I scored 53% (no googling done). How do you fair? No cheating!

QUIZ: B.C. has 51 cities. How much do you know about them?

Thanks for the link that was kind of fun. 73% I scored.

[GlassCity]

93%

[PaperTiger]

Originally Posted by Klazu

What's that huge fenced off area just east of Queen Elizabeth Park? It looks a prime area for a huge park or lots of new housing. It looks like it has been deserted for quite some time but what's the story behind it?

http://www.vancouverlittlemountain.com/

[Klazu]

Originally Posted by PaperTiger

http://www.vancouverlittlemountain.com/

Wow, that is one huge plan! It seems to be on hold since 2013, though?

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[Vin]

Looks like the City of Vancouver is again failing in street garbage collection lately. Bins are often overflowing with garbage mornings, afternoons and evenings.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Wow, that is one huge plan! It seems to be on hold since 2013, though?

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Holborn was trying to fight with the City for taller buildings there. Perhaps the delay is necessary to let the City see how beneficial it would be for the little community to go taller.

[Klazu]

Ah, well I think the presented scale would be big enough. It is quite isolated from mass transit so no tall towers should go there IMO.

[s211]

Originally Posted by Vin

Looks like the City of Vancouver is again failing in street garbage collection lately. Bins are often overflowing with garbage mornings, afternoons and evenings.

There was one yesterday at the corner of Dunsmuir and Richards that was so over-piled with empty drink cups it almost qualified as art.

God, I hate how the City treats our city like a dump.

[bigbadbrent]

Originally Posted by Vin

Looks like the City of Vancouver is again failing in street garbage collection lately. Bins are often overflowing with garbage mornings, afternoons and evenings.

Major fail today on this front. Walked from West End to Gastown for work this morning, everything was overflowing.

Walk home at 5:30pm and it was just as bad, if not worse. There was not a single one that was not overflowing on Water Street, Granville, Robson Square, Burrard, or Davie.

A business on Davie hung their own garbage bag off the pink garbage can to at least try and keep things contained outside their storefront.

Alleys arent much better either :-(

[Klazu]

Talk about ironic oil pipeline burst in Fort McMurray.

- Brand new "top-of-the-line" double shell pipeline.
- Pipeline burst only 500 meters from the refinery.
- Yet it went undetected for a long period of time. 5 000 000 liters of crude oil in soil.
- Happened in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

That's like 4x the irony. You cannot top this! We should definitely support Transmountain and the likes.

[SpongeG]

it wasn't crude it was something else, bitumen? something like that just as bad

[Klazu]

Yep, you are right. Sticky black stuff in Albertan soil now.

The lesson here is that despite all the BS how safe the new generation pipes are, here is your clear example how accidents can happen everywhere (like on their very own factory backyard) and at anytime (they didn't notice the leak for significant period of time). Imagine if the same would happen in somewhere remote. It could take them days if not weeks to notice anything.

I just don't trust these pipelines enough to risk it. This is a perfect case in point and is so ironic in all aspects. I hope politicians will take note.

[WarrenC12]

Yep, that was a bad one. The only pipelines I can support are LNG.