This weekend I had my anniversary and stayed in the Carmana Plaza Hotel downtown for a night. I took pictures before I left my house in Kits and on my way to Canada Place to pick up my girlfriend. I took pictures there and then some from the hotel. I tried taking some at night but my camera is garbage and I didn't know how to change the exposure rate and it would stay open forever on night mode and when I didn't use night mode it would come out to dark. There are pictures of the Shangri-la being built as seen from my room. This will be the tallest when completed, too bad it wasn't topped out already for my stay. This is the first Vancouver thread in a while, enjoy.
View from my house:
Traffic leading onto Burrard Bridge and the Molson Canadian brewery.
Going into downtown over Burrard Bridge.
Driving north on Burrard St.
Burrard at Dunsmir - CBD.
Convention Centre Exapansion.
Harbour Air landing.
Ship loading at a port in North Vancouver.
North Vancouver.
Port of Vancouver.
Seabus arriving from North Vancouver.
Canada Place promanade. Much cooler when its lined with cruises.
Harbour Air taking off with boats on either side.
West Coast Air twin otter taxiing for take-off, this guy is loud!
Harbour Centre poking thru the cracks.
One of Arthur Erickson's buildings.
My hotel, the tallest in this picture, its half hotel half appartments. (35 floors)
Robson shots.
Shots from the hotel room. (Shangri-la construction shots)
Shot at dusk.
This is what happend when i tried to take a picture with night mode on, but i had to share this one because it was amazing with all the lights and the moon with the clouds.
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Heck of a view from the hotel room. Thanks for including the pics of the harbor at work, don't get to see that very often. Kind of wish I was dringin into Vancouver some morning this week, but alas it's not to be. Thanks for the tour.
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Now.... being a rail-transit engineer and having never been to Vancouver, I have to ask this....
Knowing that the heart of Vancouver has a huge number of urban residential high-rises (and mid-rises) .... and that the light-rail line (SkyTrain) does not link these residential high-rises to the Urban Commerical (CBD) area.... how do people get to work there? Is the distance so close that people just walk or ride their bikes.... or do people ride buses or worst case...do people drive???
I would imagine that if all of the people living in those high-rises hoped in their cars and tried to drive the mile or so east to the CBD that the streets would be a nightmare.
For the most part, the people that live downtown either walk, bike or bus to work, if they work downtown that is. There is a skytrain station right in the middle of the CBD at Burrard and Dunsmir called Burrard Station. This is a very busy station which connects with the 98 B-Line (Articulated bus line that runs thru downtown to the Granville bridge and all the way to Richmond) Also with the new Canada Line being built it will connect Broadway, False Creek (just south of downtown) with Yaletown, Robson and Granville to Waterfront station. You could then connect to the Expo line which would take to you to Burrard Station. But other than those connections, people still have trouble accessing the CBD without a car or a couple of busses.
There is plenty of info on the Canada Line here, if you have not yet heard of it. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=112753
For the most part, the people that live downtown either walk, bike or bus to work, if they work downtown that is.
Cool.... thanks excel... that's exactly along the lines I was thinking... I just couldn't imagine people from dozens and dozens (hundreds?) of residential high-rises piling up in their cars to only drive one or two miles at most.
And yes, I've heard about the Canada Line before... big thums up... especially with the link to the airport.
^ Yea I should have taken the time to walk around the Shangri-la and get the different angles but my schedual was pretty busy with the hockey game and all. Next weekend im going to the auto show and ill be bringing my camera, so if I have time ill try and catch a couple from other angles and post them in the construction thread.
Cool.... thanks excel... that's exactly along the lines I was thinking... I just couldn't imagine people from dozens and dozens (hundreds?) of residential high-rises piling up in their cars to only drive one or two miles at most.
And yes, I've heard about the Canada Line before... big thums up... especially with the link to the airport.
Edit... cool pictures by the way. Once the Erikson goes up it will add another tower as tall as Living Shangrila.
The main problem with all those people living downtown in those shiny towers is that it has almost turned the DT into a suburban community. Vancouver turned a bunch of office towers into condo towers, The Electra and the The Cube come to mind first. The Cube was the last one that was allowed and then the city put a moratorium on that conversion because all the offices were leaving the core and heading out to Richmond and Burnaby. So what that means is that the traffic is still horrendous because the SkyTrain and the 99 B-line and 98 B-Line can't accommodate the traffic. Translink knows that they will never be able to match supply with demand when it comes to the people taking the 98 B-Line.
Vancouver needs a better Mass Transit System... more like the Go Train than the West Coast Express is. WCE is super expensive and only runs during peak hours.
Once the Erikson goes up it will add another tower as tall as Living Shangrila.
I think you must be meaning 1153 West Georgia rather than the Erickson. Erickson worked on 1153 but it will not be named after him. Instead his name is going to a smaller condo that will be going in the Concord Pacific lands on False Creek.
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The Cube was the last one that was allowed and then the city put a moratorium on that conversion because all the offices were leaving the core and heading out to Richmond and Burnaby. So what that means is that the traffic is still horrendous because the SkyTrain and the 99 B-line and 98 B-Line can't accommodate the traffic.
Well if anything, having similar numbers of people commuting from the burbs to the city and vice versa should help traffic be more balanced. Instead of having huge numbers of people from Richmond heading northbound to work in the city with a relatively empty southbound roadway, now they are more moderate in both directions. Same idea applies to public transit. Overall, the overcrowding on Skytrain and the B-lines is more due to the fact that there just isn't enough transit supply to keep up with demand, rather than being related to prevailing commuting patterns.
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Translink knows that they will never be able to match supply with demand when it comes to the people taking the 98 B-Line.
Hence why they're constructing the Canada Line.
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So yeah, too many people use cars in Vancouver.
Once there are more public transit options and capacity in place, more people will opt for public transit. Why would anybody leave their car right now to hop onto an already overcrowded transit system? We just need to put in more capacity, but at the moment the funding is a little scarce.
Now.... being a rail-transit engineer and having never been to Vancouver, I have to ask this....
Knowing that the heart of Vancouver has a huge number of urban residential high-rises (and mid-rises) .... and that the light-rail line (SkyTrain) does not link these residential high-rises to the Urban Commerical (CBD) area.... how do people get to work there? Is the distance so close that people just walk or ride their bikes.... or do people ride buses or worst case...do people drive???
I would imagine that if all of the people living in those high-rises hoped in their cars and tried to drive the mile or so east to the CBD that the streets would be a nightmare.
Any insight???
Vancouver has (or at least had, I assume they still do) a circulator bus route that just circulates around the downtown area. I assume though that most downtowners would walk to work. The people there are quite physically active, so I can't imagine they would flinch at having to walk a mile or so.
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