Victoria also doesn't have an urban freeway and in fact doesn't even have a suburban freeway.

Winnipeg has no freeways - urban or rural.

Winnipeg's Perimiter road has small sections which are freeway standards.

But so does Kelowna with 97 on the west side of Okanagan Lake..

The big difference is that Winnipeg at least has plans for a freeway system which it is (slowly) implementing.

Kelowna threw it's freeway plans in the trash a few years ago.

Victoria has two suburban freeways. Highway 17 and Highway 1. They are divided, with interchanges.

Rimouski
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e09878ce_b.jpg

Is Rimouski's population also growing like crazy like the rest of québec ?

Rimouski (CA), Quebec

2019: 53,924

2023: 55,733

Not blowing anyone away but growing.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1...pid=1710014801

2 i got the other day from Masonville area in London and one from last month

https://i.imgur.com/fkoLmJn_d.webp?m...fidelity=grand

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https://i.imgur.com/cdm1OnH_d.webp?m...fidelity=grand

What about the 1.5 km Disraeli Freeway?

Man, London's looking a lot different compared to a few years ago. I mean, its still distinctly London, but the downtown is slowly changing.

Another London shot this morning

https://i.imgur.com/OQYxuKV_d.webp?m...fidelity=grand

Moncton from Realtor.ca

https://i.imgur.com/YZg4MwK.jpeg

^ Nice on of Moncton. Love that church steeple.


Kelowna from the Mission neighbourhood

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I like the Mission district. I used to hang out quite a bit at Gyro Beach.

It was my stomping grounds growing up.

That poor 7-11 on Lakeshore had to deal with us every weekend. Pre-cellphone, that's where all of us would meet up before finding the next house party.

1994-95 were my Kelowna-area years. I did get back a few times since, as my Dad eventually relocated to Osoyoos.

In about 10 years time, the Moncton skyline will look a lot more like the Kelowna skyline with at least 8-10 new 15+ storey buildings, two of which will be 30 storeys or more.

^wooty days for Moncton! (and Kelowna).

Big changes for both since I last visited (Moncton, late 80s, Kelowna, 2009)

Oh wow I won't even recognize it! It will indisputably be the dominant skyline of the province at that point.

And to think, in even less time, Saint John could build the first 36+ storey building in Atlantic Canada. If the right investors and partners got together and built Brunswick Square up to it's full 36 storey potential as it was designed for.


Why should Moncton want Saint John to build a 36+ storey first?

Because, it will give Moncton even more motivation to build something taller. I don't think Saint John would last very long at the top of the list with the way Moncton has been building and planning high rises.

40 storeys is close to the minimum needed for any sort of ocean view from the centre of Moncton. However, if the Moncton CMA keeps growing, and starts building high rise buildings towards Shediac, or even towards Lutes Mountain, the height minimums for coastal views get lower and lower. Nearer Shediac itself, the height minimums to get coastal views aren't much more than 6-10 storeys. Shediac is no further than Quispamsis is from Saint John. With the way Moncton is growing, Shediac could be the White Rock, BC of the East Coast... something a lot more unique than Riverview, Dieppe, or Quispamsis.

Along with some residential towers with coastal views on the outskirts of Moncton towards Shediac, it could help make the case for Shediac being part of the Moncton Moncton CMA and for Moncton to thus be considered a"coastal CMA". Which would make Moncton the 5th largest coastal CMA in Canada after Vancouver, Victoria, Halifax, and St. John's, putting Saint John in 6th place.

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