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Thursday, March 14, 2024

The Impact of Population Growth on Urban Planning and Design

 https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/architectural-community/a12262-the-impact-of-population-growth-on-urban-planning-and-design/

If housing continues to become even more unaffordable, will that mean even more people will end up living & dying on the streets?

https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/architectural-community/a12256-us-housing-crisis-impact-of-the-housing-crisis-on-vulnerable-populations/

Effective economic & efficient Urban+Planning must take all income levels into consideration.

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Monday, December 18, 2023

The Steel Bridge (Portland) and Washington Avenue Transit Bridge (Minneapolis)

The Steel_Bridge and the Washington_Avenue_Bridge, if only such bridges were allowed in Greater_Vancouver...

The Steel-Bridge is old, yet adequately functioning as a multi-model crossing.

Upper: 2 outer lanes for general traffic, 2 inner lanes solely for MAX Light Rail, and sidewalks on both sides
Lower: Union Pacific Railroad (incl. Amtrak toward Eugene) and walkway. 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Amtrak_talgo_train_crossing_steel_bridge.jpg

"The bridge has two decks, with the lower deck designated for motor vehicle traffic and light rail trains and the upper deck used for pedestrians and bicycles (lanes specifically for bikes are on the north side)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Avenue_Bridge_(Minneapolis)

Unfortunately, the Skybridge between NW & Surrey, has no bus & bike lanes. Thus, its another fine example of backward BC planning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skybridge_(TransLink)

Even though the SkyTrain wasn't intended to run 24hrs, no adequate future capacity provisions were included into the design of the SkyBridge. Ideally, the bridge should have had at least 3 tracks on 1 deck. Plus, 2 bus & bike lanes on another deck, with 2 lanes for emergency vehicles that would all be open 24-7. 

Apparently, it was better to funnel everything into the inept Pattullo_Bridge. A narrow 4 lane joke of a crossing with only 1 narrow sidewalk. Its so nice that the Sydney-Harbour-Bridge has 2 pathways. Surrey is set to become the largest city in BC. Thus, Surrey & NW should have had several bridges like Portland_OR by now.

In the 1930s, NSW already had a sense of Sydney being a substantial state capital on the Pacific for quite a while. In contrast, NW, BC emphasized its status of a former backwater provincial capital & perpetuated its small-minded city mentality.

Thus, the Sydney_Harbour_Bridge was originally built with six lanes, 4 sets of tracks & two sidewalks. Where as the Pattullo_Bridge was a fine example of backwater BC thinking & planning. Unlike the impressive Sydney_Harbour_Bridge, there is no comparable high level bridge in BC which is capable of carrying double deck passenger trains. Of course it should be noted that NSW has seen itself as a mighty state on the Pacific for quite a long time. Thus, the 1930s Sydney_Harbour_Bridge remains so far ahead of anything in backwater provincial BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Harbour_Bridge_cycleway Unlike the BC aproach, NSW didn't have to remove any traffic lanes. Ultimately, Vancouver will have traffic lanes removed from 3 of its bridges, because the city refuses to build anything like the magnificent Tilikum_Crossing in Portland, OR. Vancouver was one of the first cities to get rid of its streetcars & will likely be one of the last to ever bring them back. Well fortunately, there was nothing like the BC mentality to stop the Portland_Streetcar_or_the_Tilikum_Bridge. 

The tram-train MAX_and_bus_on_Tilikum_the_Crossing. If only backward Vancouver, BC would allow such a fine transit bridge, then there would be less congestion on the existing narrow bridges. Indeed, Greater Vancouver refuses to build a series of bus-bridges, even though that would relieve some of the regional congestion.

Unlike in the largest urban area in BC, Portland,_OR was able to build many more bridges.

https://www.pattullobridgereplacement.ca Of course the bridge wasn't built with the provision for a lower deck similar to what's on the Tilikum Bridge. https://www.pattullobridgereplacement.ca/about/projectoverview It wasn't allowed to have 8 lanes like the Anzac_Bridge_in_Sydney. So no bus & HOV lanes, just have everything crammed into a 4 lane bottleneck. No emergency lanes, it will open with only 2 lanes each way, but with the potential to become a 6 lane bridge, some day. So, just like the Skybridge, it won't have 2 dedicated bus lanes. 

Unlike the Skybridge in NW, at least the North-Arm-Bridge to Richmond has 1 bike lane, but there should have been 2 as well as 2 bus lanes & even 2 emergency vehicle lanes on the North_Arm_Bridge. Since the North_Arm_Bridge doesn't have 24hr train service & no bus lanes, late-night buses only have the 4 lane bottlenecks that are the Oak_Street_Bridge, Knight_Street_Bridge & the Queensborough_Bridge. Of course there are no emergency vehicle lanes, because even they should be subjected to the overall congestion of the region.

The Sydney_Harbour_Bridge, the Anzac_Bridge & the Tilikum_Crossing were all possible, simply because they aren't subjected to anything like the restrictions impose in Greater_Vancouver or BC in general. The BC part of Canada is trapped in some kind of a stagnation loop or a series of restrictions to stiefel or thwart infrastructure upgrades & progress. However, so many other cities around the world just aren't subjected to anything like the BC approach to things. 


https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Portland

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Tilikum+Crossing

https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=transit+bridges

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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Rabbit Portals and Digital Wormholes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole 

https://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/topics_blackholes_wormholes.html 

https://www.askamathematician.com/2011/10/q-whats-the-difference-between-black-holes-and-worm-holes-could-black-holes-take-you-to-other-universes/

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/283627/whats-the-difference-between-wormholes-and-black-holes 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole#Traversable_wormholes 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole#Time_travel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul#Technology , 


The+Digital+Wormhole (TDW) @ The Rabbit Hole (TRP) are like 2 sides of the same coin. They overlap in referencing various points and things. 
Its an Urban Technology Portal and a general digital intersection between science + fiction. Thus, The+Digital+Wormhole @ The-Rabbit-Portal is a multipoint referencing blog of news and entertainment, popular culture and mythology. An intersection between urban legends + urban planning issues. A.I. , AR, VR + SimCity linking into various dimensions and portals. 

TDW @ TRP is either a branch of, or a counterpart to The-Digital-Labyrinth.blogspot.com (TDL). 

The-Digital-Labyrinth is more general in referencing things, thus its a wider scope of a blog. 
TDW @ TRP is supposed to occasionally get behind the scenes of various aspects of technology and reality, but that sometimes happens at TDL as well.

 

The observation of technology through symbolism and metaphysics, etc. https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Monsters 
Occasionally covering a multitude of ideas and topics in general as well.
It's all about going further down the Rabbit Hole to explore The Nature Of Reality. (TNOR)



THX_1138 is the quintessential totalitarian subterranean system. 

Structurae.net is a great site to explore urban-planning and various structures in general.

The Many-worlds_interpretation is a key aspect of this blog.  




In the Oracle’s waiting room, the television is showing white rabbits (which, at the beginning of the film, Neo was instructed to follow) from Night of the Lepus (1972).

The Shore_Leave_Episode is very interesting with astounding implications about reality manipulation. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708446

The Lost_TV_series took people down a rabbit hole of various portals & dimensions that eventually left some people bewildered. https://fusionanomaly.net/lost.html , 
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/ff_lost

Any Sci-Fi entertainment production doesn't necessarily have to make sense. As long as it's interesting & thought provoking, that's usually enough. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Planet_(episode)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history#Quantum_theory_of_many_worlds

TRP is also about referencing various forms of tech, data & mass media & personal expressions through mega-information_technology systems. 



U2 Lemon
https://www.u2.com/media/player/110/1 U2 in their own version of the Holodeck-MATRIX ZOO. 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Muybridge_Buffalo_galloping.gif , 

Although the MATRIX  wasn't released until March of 1999, Bono was clearly channeling his inner Neo in the early 1990s.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Bono_performing_on_Zoo_TV_Tour_in_Melbourne_Nov_13_1993_5.jpg

Bono_performing_on_Zoo_TV_Tour_in_Melbourne_Nov_13_1993. Yes indeed, years before there was YouTube, U2 started their own version called, ZOO TV. https://www.youtube.com/c/U2/videos

Watch more ZOO TV in the MATRIX.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O5b0ZxUWNf0/sddefault.jpg


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/The_Matrix_Poster.jpg 1999 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/No_Maps_for_These_Territories.png 2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Maps_for_These_Territories , https://vimeo.com/ondemand/nomaps/464383787?autoplay=1 , https://www.u2.com/news/title/edge_bono_original_music_new_william_gibson_flick_729


Although Wikipedia is heavily referenced here, it is usually just for a general reference level of information. Obviously, there are more in depth sites around covering specific subjects & topics in greater detail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunication#Computer_networks_and_the_Internet ,
http://www.fiberise.com/computer-networks-and-the-internet , 



 
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/10/is-the-cosmos-a-vast-computer-simulation-new-theory-may-offer-clues.html ,
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/12/14/scientists-ask-are-we-all-part-of-the-matrix ,
http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2012/03/cosmic-computer-hypothesis.html

Octagonal+gates, holes-time-travel-portals, etc.
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/digitalphysics.html ,
http://therabbitportal.blogspot.ca/2012/10/cosmic-computer-simulation-hypothesis.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic_(film) 1995,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QComFWf0DUo&feature=related ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic_(film)#Japanese_release ,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHFOxciYklI ,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL_8Ugp9zI4&feature=related ,
http://www.mobygames.com/game/johnny-mnemonic/cover-art/gameCoverId,51150,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113481 ,
http://www.mobygames.com/game/johnny-mnemonic/cover-art/gameCoverId,51214  



From cave paintings to virtual reality...

http://www.bewareofimages.com


For more comprehensive observations & interpretations of various things, please see these amazing websites,
the TL @ copycateffect.blogspot.com , cyberpunkreview.com , the secretsun.blogspot.com , theuniversesolved.com 



The+Digital+Wormhole @ The Rabbit Portal








jfvrca@gmail.com 



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