How SkyTrain Stations are going to Make Vancouver Awesome
Вставка
- Опубліковано 14 лис 2023
- WANT TO BE ADDED TO THE PATREON MAP OR SEE SOURCES FOR THIS VIDEO?
/ geoperspective
MOST OF MY MEDIA AND FOOTAGE COMES FROM ENVATO:
1.envato.market/rnAxxj
(its much better value than videoblocks and with better selection)
CONSULTATION / MENTORSHIP
patreon.com/geoperspective
Explore the allure of Vancouver, a highly sought-after city in North America known for its desirability and, simultaneously, its high cost of living. Delve into the challenges posed by expensive rents, making the city somewhat unlivable for many. Witness the anticipation of change as the script unfolds the imminent Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) around crucial transit hubs, particularly the bustling SkyTrain stations. The provincial government's recent legislation becomes a focal point, aiming to reshape urban landscapes by allowing high-rise residential towers and reducing parking requirements. The vision painted involves a future where Vancouver embraces TOD, fostering efficient public transportation, mixed-use neighborhoods, and economic vibrancy. Amid the optimism, the script doesn't shy away from acknowledging potential downsides, including gentrification and social impacts. In essence, Vancouver stands on the brink of a transformative journey, with TOD poised to bring substantial high-density housing and elevate the city's overall livability and sustainability.
add yourself to the Patreon Map and help support the channel : www.patreon.com/geoperspective 🙏
I like trains
Ovjectively good take
same
Me too bud
Same
For those who don't get why is saying "Todd" every time, he is saying TOD, or Transit Oriented Development
I just thought it was like a super targeted video.
But, still… why is he saying “Tod”? Does he not know? And if he doesn’t know, …why not? If you’re reporting on this I would assume you’d know what it is.
Put washrooms at every other station on the skytrain lines and more people would use transit. Charge a small amount for the use of the washroom with the "tap" system on your Compass card and that money would pay for an attendant, as they do in Europe, and the washrooms would be clean and safe.
NO NO NO to paying for toilet use....people will crap beside it before they pay! I take it you've never used a washroom in Europe? I have. Most of them are disgusting....IF you can even find one you'll be allowed to use.
@@jaygray7102 I have used a washroom in europe on the train system in germany and amsterdam and that's where I got the idea from. It's a shame that there isn't something that can be done to provide this basic need when using transit.
@@giseleyates3624 My husband's a bus driver in a resort town, and there isn't even a public washroom in the main transit exchange where drivers and passengers wait. It's unacceptable, public transit stations is one place that definitely should have washrooms but no one wants to bother because it means finding cleaners who'll actually clean. Europe's ahead of North America in more than a few ways.
they did at one time but the homeless and junkies ruined it i was around when the skytrain first opened we thought it was great till the the late 90s when junkies and homeless and criminals started using it
@@Roadtripexcursion Ever work as a cleaner? The elite are every bit as disgusting as the homeless drug addicts you describe when it comes to cleaning up after themselves, and many are drug addicts and/or alcoholics. Difference is, they're not homeless. Blame governments who refuse to spend money on mental health care and better education, policing is another thing entirely.
I wouldn’t say that Marine Drive station area is “walkable”. Marine Drive is a huge stroad that makes it a very unpleasant street level experience. But Commercial Drive shouldn’t have this issue as much should it be developed.
Also the gateway doesn’t have everything. You either have to go a ways over to the area with superstore or way over to Granville street where Safeway is.
For some reason, I feel like this video is speaking to me directly.
🤣
The title of this video is "How SkyTrain Stations are going to Make Vancouver _Awesome"_ [sic] but it's all about the areas around the stations, rather than the stations themselves. Compared to stations around the world, the ones in Vancouver are just bus stops with rails instead of actual stations with shops, washrooms and other facilities.
Like housing, we need a lot more housing and to loosen zoning laws by a lot. At least 4 story apt buildings should be allowed in most of the areas in north american cities
@@ocean6462 I don't really know nor care about the rest of North America, but yes. We need to change zoning laws in Canada, except in Montréal, where they don't have that problem.
@@juliansmith4295 The problem is, one would have to deal with the people whose whole family wealth and livelihood is tied to the ownership of their land. Vancouver is already experiencing a large problem with gentrification, and more importantly, a lack of affordable and livable spaces for these people to reestablish.
Maybe if our government cut the bs red tape and allowed previous land owners a portion of the equity (instead of selling the city's soul to foreign developer companies), more flexibility with how owners can use/develop the land, and a guaranteed living arrangement so families aren't completely forced out of the city. We have options, other cities have examples.
Just to be clear, I agree with your point and I realize that this is a nation-wide issue.
@@Abrothers12 Although I completely agree with your second paragraph, I don't understand the first one.
"The problem is, one would have to deal with the people whose whole family wealth and livelihood is tied to the ownership of their land." I was talking about how the stations themselves.
None of them will have public washrooms. City Hall and Arbutus Stations will have space set aside, but Translink says there’s no funding for washrooms.
Keep up the great content, as a urban planning enthusiast it was a great watch.
resident: I love the skytrain
It was interesting 😊
Unfortunately with the local government and the current ABC group Vancouver is going to in fact slide back instead of improving.
Yes the re-zoning will help, but Vancouver is growing an insane amount and desperately needs more connectivity. The millennium line should have already been extended to UBC, that is unfortunately almost 10 years from happening at its soonest.
Further needed expansions would be a r4 replacement with a line extension from ubc so metrotown along 41st.
A North van connection, ideally 2 one along the lionsgate to Park Royal and another to Coquitlam/Lonsdake.
An east-west north van line from Horseshoe Bay to Capilano.
Unfortunately none of these are likely to happen in a reasonable timeframe, if at all. I've been a part of pushing for more investment and development of transit in BC and its a really uphill battle. You would need to vote out the entirety of the current administration, and bar all lobbying from major parties to get better transit systems in place. Unfortunately that at its soonest will happen in 4-8 years, with a major infrastructure project taking s further 20 after then to complete. Vancouver has so much potential but as of now its mostly unrealized as politicians consistently vote down meaningful expansions and upgrade to the transit network.
The current major projects are the george massy tunnel (4.5bn), portillo bridge revamp (1.8bn), likely an overhaul on the lionsgate (proposed at 1.2bn) and the langly extension of the expo line (1.8bn). A tiny fraction of the current budget is even potentially able to be allocated to non-car transit. BC shuttered and sold the Vancouver-Squamish-Whistler-Lillooette-Prince George rail line because it was a net loss of $2m/yr. The leased operator has since left the rail line into disrepair, now estimated at $500mil-$1.5bn to repair even just to low speed capacity. The current local and federal governments don't give a shit about transit, they're in bed with the current monopoly rail companies, airlines and car lobbyists. We could have had a 60min Vancouver to Whistler train every hour for $25 by now, we could have had trans canada passenger rail, Edmonton-Calgary in 75min, Toronto-Montreal in 2hrs, Winnipeg to Edmonton in 6hrs. And you'd make goods and businesses so much more viable across the nation. Electrified modern freight rail is a fraction of the cost of trucking, and next to non-existent on emissions as well. With a non-monopolized modern freight rail system you'd make manufacturing possible again in alberta/sask/manitoba with the ultra low shipping costs. But because CN rail just straight up bribes the government nothing happens. Just straight up corruption and its absolutely crippled the nation as a result.
Vancouver is definitely NOT a city sliding back. The only time I see stagnation is when conservatives are in charge. Vancouver's former mayor did more to improve the city than anyone I remember...one upgrade I especially like is the Burrard St. Bridge. NO ONE walked or cycled over it when I lived in the city 30 years ago...now look at it! Bikes lanes everywhere are enjoyed by a huge number of people now...they never used to exist.
It's definitely an interesting sight to see when riding the SkyTrain through stations like 22nd St and 29th Ave as the tracks goes through some American-style suburbs. And sometimes the tracks quite literally goes through someone's backyard.
It's rare to see a fully grade separated, third rail powered metro train going through a low density suburb. But I guess that's just one of the unique aspects of taking the SkyTrain as the scenery can change drastically from just one station stop. 🚉🚈
I agree with this! except for a major flaw of large cities: Common reasons to be with people we care about. What I mean is: everyone is doing their own thing, which is good in a way-that people are motivated, but what are they doing in common or together? Not much really, Good transit and services make living with so many people more bearable but is that enough? Non Profit societies are good for bringing people with similar interests together, so are sports clubs and art societies. I suppose i'm just saying that we should not forget to connect with people who share common interests.
If there's no law's surrounding minim square footage for these dense condo / towers then we could end up in a situation where all these buildings cater to the "investment" segment of the market.
Hopefully
North America needs more investment in public transportation and public safety.
Like a cross country sky train...coast to coast to coast....the northern trade route will open, we should be prepared
I ride my bike to the Skytrain, train :good, Bus: bad.
Are the building stories minimums rather than "up to". I think it is minimum 20 stories for those within 200 m from a sky train station
Yes, its minimums if I remember correctly.
@@GeoPerspectiveCanada-fr4tjBut it's not possible in Richmond due to its proximity to the airport.
It's a minimum maximum for municipalities lol. So by default you can build up to 20, but municipalities can increase this maximum past 20 if they choose. So yes, it's still a maximum hight limit
@@gentlydown41no, it’s a minimum as in buildings won’t be able to be any shorter, the opposite of a maximum
It's lowest density that cities are allowed to restrict it to with zoning. You could still build a house there, but municipalities can't make it so you can ONLY build a house there with zoning. The city has been forced by the province to permit "at least" "up to" 20 stories. Kind of makes you realize how crazy zoning artificially suppressing density actually is.
You’re saying the marine gateway is great and what other places should be like but that area is one of the worst planned out and congested areas in all of Vancouver and is only getting worse. It was already hard enough getting around because almost everyone drives and there aren’t enough roadways or places for them to be built. The skytrain is already overfilled everyday and is SLOW. They already need to add more carriages but with Vancouver it’s always to little to late.
YVR likes more trans. Trains too.
I have mixed feeling about this as a person that is both interested in SkyTrain and learning how to drive
Densification without more parks and green spaces close by will fail. I am for densification but....
But that is the benefit to being on a transit line, ride a few stops and get to the best parks in the city
After living in Europe, Vancouver transit is lame
But we're far from their propensity for warfare.
yeah but the pricing on transit are astronomical.
Yeah wall to wall towers from Vancouver to Chilliwack in the near future kind of like Tokyo in Japan.
The ALR means no building on farmland.
Not going to happen, look at a map you'll come to the same conclusion
the todd thing was funny maybe the first couple times. after that it was pretty much unnecessary.
Building things without resonable amounts of parking is a recipe for disaster. Many who are going to pay upwards of 600k for a one bedroom drive cars. Having lived in Asia I see what happens when projects are built with not enough parking
SkyTrains are Better!
Sky train's been there for decades, areas around stops have been developing for decades along with it. It's not going to 'make' the city awesome when it already is
Why is he saying “Tod”? Does he not know? And if he doesn’t know, …why not? If you’re reporting on this I would assume you’d know what it is.
Transit Oriented Development
This is great to see but it’s sad to see the damage Vancouver has already done when looking at housing costs. They need to make the supply of housing as elastic as possible by allowing almost any density everywhere and expanding the urban growth boundary. It’s very difficult to achieve affordability with high rises as construction costs are much higher than mid and low rise development due to the increase need to more concrete and steel as well as more skilled labor. Being able to simply add small lot townhomes everywhere would greatly help as well.
Ah yes, the housing crisis is caused by the density, totally not because anything other than single family homes is forbidden in most / almost all neighborhoods
@@Mrtoz-ct3yn where did I say that the housing crisis was caused by density you absolute fool?
@@Mrtoz-ct3yn fool, where did I say the housing crisis was caused by density?
and I think Skytrain should go out to Abbotsford and beyond for the folks who want/need to have a house.
A regional express train would probably be more useful.
at almost a billion per mile I doubt it only high density can pay for it
Vancouver has few trees in the city and no sense of community The No fun city. It is Hong Kong in Canada
Stfu bro get a grip u hate on every city that isn't Montréal 💀
Vancouver has few trees? Compared to where? The Amazon rainforest? Vancouver has to be one of the greenest cities I've ever been to. Besides the downtown eastside area, it's totally lush with huge trees everywhere.
Your prejudice has tripped you up, and made you look ignorant.
@@michaeldowson6988 Being against mass cultural replacement isn't "prejudice". No sane country who loved itself would embrace that in their right mind. Unless they're brainwashed and it happens without a vote.
vancouver has a lot of trees actually
I'm sure the people living on the street on the down town east side think the new trains are a great thing. /sarc
I love public transit but I prefer to drive my own cars. I also want more detached homes being built than towers. I refuse to live in a condo or town house.
Disaster!! My property will skyrocket by Arbutus.
The cartoons were so incredibly annoying
Sky train is the most useless and expensive mode of transport . That’s why there are only I think five in the world . One in Bangkok which I rode on . One in seattle which is still not done and super expensive . Streetcars are the way to go .
Vancouver already has plans in place to build a streetcar system, and also land set aside.
Unfortunately though, it hasn’t been built yet due to costing $1 billion dollars. Also it’s taken the back burner, with high priorities, such as a Skytrain line to UBC, taking priority.
I would watch a video on the topic to learn more, but the ultimate goal in Vancouver is to have a mix of buses, streetcars and skytrain lines in public transportation. The purpose of skytrains is to primarily link together nearby city centres, the purpose of streetcars is to link together city centres, and the purpose of buses is to link together smaller communities within a city centre.
Transit that travels on street level is not ideal in this city at all.
I noted the use of 15 minute city. That is the wef code word for imprisonment, and the means to seize private property. If I do not control the fruits of my labor read be able to spend my wages as I see fit, I am no more than a serf, under the control of a master, a lord. Keep that in mind when watching this utopian sales pitch.
Then stay in Chilliwack
Anything else other than predictable fear mongering word salad?
You do realize how ridiculous you sound, right? I lived years in a place just like the one you fear for years and loved it. Came to visit recently and randomly ran into an old friend on the train, which would have never happened had we been driving.
You are subservient to the auto industry that Forces you to have a government ID and license, pay for mandatory insurance, and continue to pay just to get groceries or visit friends by getting gas which enriches the billionaire oil and gas ruling class.
This is just a conspiracy theory, if anything you are more isolated in suburbs
more criminals will be able to more more freely