Photo prise de la 250 Horseshoe Bay?
Du Lighthouse Park.
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Looks like the Vancouver Art Gallery is (again) starting the process for a new building after the previous proposed design by Herzog & De Meuron was cancelled
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/02/vancouver-art-gallery-14-canadian-firms/
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What horrible news to wake up to 
There are so many elements of this tragedy that hit close to home for me.
Looking at prevention, we’ll know more after investigations are complete, but it seems that cordons were well established, the perpetrator was known and in the mental health system, but the type of SUV used was one of the most dangerous weapons with which one could approach the festival.
Are we going to require SUVs to immobilise when they hit someone? To limit high acceleration? To ban high front-ends?
Nouvelle vidéo de la chaîne About Here sur les multiples centre-ville de la région de Vancouver, spécifiquement celui de Surrey
Why Do Cities Create New Downtowns?
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I was also thinking about this the day after. Collision detection must be a thing, right? We know that cars can brake automatically with existing technology, so there must be a way to apply it to collision detection. This would prevent hit-and-runs as well. It doesn’t even have to completely immobilize the vehicle, just restrict it to some arbitrary low speed so that people could pull over to the side if needed, but not flee the scene or continue to harm others.
The area this happened reminds me a lot of Avenue du Parc just north of Mont-Royal. It is extremely sad that we need to think of such things, but we need to do more to protect people from cars at street festivals — whether those cars be driven by persons with malicious intent or not. It should not be possible to easily drive into a pedestrian area.
One article I read stated that the City did a risk assessment but didn’t think it was necessary to block the road. But I disagree. In all cases that we are blocking a road for an event such as this — or pedestrianizing an area permanently — measures should be taken to ensure that the people are protected from cars. Historically the City has used dump trucks or other large vehicles, which certainly gave the Pride event I attended a certain air of fear. That was not long after a similar attack elsewhere in the world.
I would love to see large planters used. They could be heavy concrete ones that could be lifted with a forklift. When the street is open, they could be stored in street-side parking spots (for places that are often pedestrianized) and it would not be much of a hassle to move them into place when needed. Much less ominous than a dump truck, and less likely to be deemed “not necessary”.
Tallest tower in Vancouver proposed - inspired by sea sponges!
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Great location for it, right next to stations on two SkyTrain lines and along a busy bus corridor. The architecture is ambitious but fits the area very well.
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Reportage de CBC News
New Pattullo Bridge connecting Surrey, New Westminster nears completion
After a lengthy construction period, the new Pattullo Bridge, connecting Surrey and New Westminster, is almost finished. This new crossing will replace the existing bridge, located just a few hundred metres away. CBC’s Jon Hernandez ascended high onto the bridge deck to observe the ongoing construction.
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For anyone not familiar with the original bridge, it was by far the worst in the area. Originally designed for 3 car lanes with a sidewalk on either side, it was modified to make 4 lanes for cars by retiring the sidewalk on one side and significantly reducing the width of the lanes. It was extremely scary to drive across. Trucks took up the entire width of the lane, and often moved into the adjacent lane in order to avoid hitting the bridge structure.
Additionally, when the next-closest bridge was redone it was tolled, so much of the traffic that used to take that bridge moved to take the Pattullo to avoid the toll. The traffic was horrendous. The NDP removed the toll when they came into power, which helped a lot.
The new bridge has much more dedicated space for pedestrians, as well as bike infrastructure. It will also be much safer for vehicles. This upgrade was very needed!
In the region, TransLink (the transit company) is in charge of bridges, so every new bridge built has transit and active transportation considered. This video shows a good example of that.
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