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In my not-so-hilly 50k inhabitants hometown, they had 1 or 2 tramways lines from the late 1800's up to the 1950's, then they switched to trolleybuses, on the same lines. In the meantime, the city expanded a lot with many new areas requiring public transports. In the early 70's they finally chose to update the transport network and create multiple new lines... I guess both the trolleybus infrastructure cost (overhead lines), and Vetra company being off-business triggered a change to diesel buses. "Green" was no criteria back then. If Berliet and Renault had taken over Vetra's production earlier, maybe we would still have trolleybuses at least on some of our lines. It might seem "overplayed" to some, but I do find these trolleybus overhead lines ugly. Tramways appear to be too expensive for a city this size, gas-powered buses are a good cost-efficiency/flexibility/noise trade-off, I would prefer an emissions-free solution though.

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This video doesn’t cover the most important part of Vancouverism where all the government employees/authorities/citizens turned a blind eye to foreign money launderers because all their properties values were going to the friggin moon. Vancouver sold It’s soul to become a world class retirement home.

I'm proud about the Metro İstanbul. But in my opinion they planing and organisation from new lines is sometimes chaotic. For example is a new metro planned from Vezniceler to Northern İstanbul Europe side. But in my opinion it makes more sense to let this line start at Yenikapı (1 station before) where interchange to M1 and Marmaray is possible. Or a tunnel under Bosporus to connect the future end of M8 at Kabataş with the M5 at Üsküdar to make a direct line between Europe and Asia.

Vancouver is the most liveable yet most un-liveable city at the same time, how ironic.

I am now in Helsinki

Aaah! The origin of Nymbyism! Thank you!

Important to note that dogs are banned on all forms of public transit in Vancouver.

They don't need to make it work in the suburbs. They are frozen half the year, nobody MOVES LMAO

good place to get screwed over big time, don't trust this old lady she's a scab

I think you gave a it too much credit for the city of Espoo/Esbo, they had been declining Helsinki's proposals to build a metro line for decades by 2008 when they finally gave in. The first serious metro plans were made in 1950s, Helsinki made its own metro decision in 1969 and while Espoo had some reservations for a metro line in the detail plans, they were pretty much ”dead paragraphs” on the map. Espoo was pretty much pressured to make that decision in the 00s, but when it was done, they really utilised the benefits of the line very well, as explained in this video. One thing they cut too short was the length of the stations - instead of the old Helsinki-only line that had stations allowing three-unit (135 m) trains, the West Metro extension to Espoo had only 90 m stations allowing only two-unit trains. This was a cost-cutting measure and made because the passenger numbers were estimated to be relatively low, and made before the decision was made for the heavy land use close to the new stations. So when the line was opened, there was already a huge problem with the lowered capacity - despite the fact that the train intervals were cut from four minutes to two-and-half minutes.

Except for these facts: #1 Worst Traffic and commute times in North America. #2 Poverty on an epic scale. #3 Sold to offshore investors resulting in every single home regardless of actual value costs over 1 million dollars to buy. #4 Drugs everywhere. #5 Crime everywhere. #6 Paranoid unfriendly locals hooked on social media and out of date trends. #7 Completely unaffordable. Great job Ann, you really crushed it!

Living in Vancouver for a while now and here are my observations, - The "Outdoors" are not in Vancouver. They are car-drive away. Same as "Vancouver is beautiful" but anything that is beautiful is NOT in Vancouver. - Housing prices are like that because of rich investors. As a result, there's nothing to do there. False Creek is dead after the sunset. You can walk on the Seawall and "greenways", sure. But is that "fun"? The fun in Vancouver is banned in the name of quiet neighbourhoods suitable to generate value. The owners only care the value to go up. For example, a bar on the Seawall might "ruin" that value. Reason why people call Vancouver as a not fun city. - No highway in Vancouver is just a result of the rich not wanting noise. Reason why all the wider roads are in lower-income East Vancouver. Unfortunately, this video gives only a fraction of information. Historically sound ideas ended up abused and made living for an average person almost impossible.

Clean, quiet, now recharging logistics, don’t catch fire like London battery buses 🤣

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲? We all want to live in a world filled with love, but at the same time, think that it is impossible. But what if we could live in a loving world? We currently live in a hostile world. We find ourselves fighting and competing against each other more and more, and our lives become worse as a result. Our egoistic nature, where we wish to self-benefit at others’ expense, starts turning against us as we can never fulfill our growing desires, and we likewise excrete more and more anger and cruelty into the world, which negatively boomerangs back to us. Now imagine that we could shift our worldview and our relationships to a direction of love and care. What if we could suddenly change the world so that no one would exploit or harm others? We would then see an opposite world, one where our fears, anxieties and negative sensations in general would shift to a positive direction-one of support, encouragement and love for one another. Love would obligate us to want, think and act optimally. We would cease our constant plight to keep ourselves busy with an ongoing array of producing, advertising, using and throwing away unnecessary excesses. If love filled the world, then even if nobody worked, we would still get our needs met because we would have no desire for excesses. Instead, an atmosphere of love and mutual consideration would fulfill us completely. Today’s overblown human ego leads us into an increasing contrast with nature, as around 90 percent of what we produce is unnecessary, while nature itself produces only what is necessary. In nature, everything is repeatedly used in 100 percent of its capacity. Nature functions as a closed integral system, and our influence within nature is the exception. That is, our produce does not return to nature in its natural form, but rather in a distorted form that adds toxins and poisons back into nature. If, however, we related lovingly to each other, then we would clean the world. A loving and caring attitude among us would replace our demands for excess and surplus, and we would reach a newfound balance among each other and with nature. Moreover, until we bring about a major transformation in our attitudes to each other-where love would replace hatred, and where care and support would replace indifference and apathy-then the more we invest in technological means to clean the world without fixing our attitudes to each other, the more we will find our world becoming increasingly polluted. This is because nature ultimately demands of us to come into balance with each other, in our attitudes to each other, that we would create an atmosphere of love and mutual consideration throughout the world. Until we do so, nature will keep reminding us that our efforts to solve our accumulation of problems without fixing our attitudes to each other will only lead us to more and more problems and suffering. In order to develop relations of love in our world, we need to exercise our attention, consideration and responsibility toward one another. By doing so, we will mutually participate in the integral system of nature, and only then will we bear witness to a new loving world that will solve the myriad problems and crises that are tumbling down on us today.

It's a failure of a city or actually a metro region. Sure some aspects may work according to your budget. As a province.. its the land of plenty ..of abundance of mother nature's gifts.. salmon forests etc .. These ppl in the city administration are such navel gazer ...

Seattle's I-5 was a handy warning, which led to a good decision. Developer dollars can seduce urban councils, especially in leaner times. But never forget, you have what they want.

Than why the city isn't doing it at same way?

𝗜𝘀 𝗜𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀? We can benefit from a crisis if we understand its true cause and how we heal the world through it. Otherwise, we cannot say that we benefit from a crisis. At their core, all crises we endure emerge from negative human connections. Likewise, their ultimate solution is for us to positively connect above our negative drives. As much as we positively connect, we will accordingly see positive changes in the world. Positive connection means that we will trust, help, support and encourage each other more and more, and harm each other less and less.

Yeah, great place. Too bad you can't control the foreign investment in real estate driving up the prices so Canadians can't afford to live there! Then you allowed an open drug site in the East end with prostitution which attracted a mass murderer. Way to go woke losers! 🙄☹👎

Love it from Vancouver

Having known an FBI type or two earlier in my life, this documentary is closer to reality than you know, J.

Very informative! I'm a proud Vancouverite that loves the way my city has evolved in the last 40 years. Any chance you could remove the forced closed captioning? CZcams offers CC if needed

We're doing pretty good at #1 (people living in downtown), failing terribly at #2 (providing affordable and diverse housing options), and doing ok at #3 (providing accessible transportation options). Part of the problem with #2 is zoning that enforces that 3+ story buildings have at least 2 staircases built into them (czcams.com/video/iRdwXQb7CfM/video.html). Another, perhaps greater part of the problem is that we don't have enough non-profit housing (NPH) such as cities like Vienna where NPH actually puts downward pressure on housing prices (czcams.com/video/sKudSeqHSJk/video.html). Of course, finding the funding for NPH is difficult, but my favourite option is to tax the value of land which is always rising faster than wages and the cost of living in a place like Vancouver and is also a very significant sum of value (60% of residential property value in Vancouver according to BC Assessment data, acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:620277a0-0353-4e82-aec8-fcf5ff1ccf69). This tax could also be used to fund other important services and projects, and could even replace other harmful taxes like income and sales tax. A great first step toward collecting more land value taxes has been proposed by current city counselor Christine Boyle who is also currently running as the BC NDP candidate for the upcoming provincial election in Vancouver Little Mountain (my riding). She proposed that we tax the increased value of land that is generated by the construction of new projects such as new skytrain stations. This is a great first step, although I'd like to see it go even further. Please support politicians and policymakers at the forefront of innovative policies such as Christine Boyle as this is the key to fighting against the sky-high housing prices that have unfortunately made living in our beautiful city unrealistic for too many.

We've been proud of our peculiarity for a long time in Limoges. Trolleybuses make so much sense, who's weird now ! 🙂

"Vancouverism" its by no means is a bad concept. however I cant understand the false narrative that ignores that this is basically a limited concept because of nimbys . Over 82 of Vancouver is nothing but suburbia, the bast majority of Vancouver residents let along 90% of British Columbians will never be able to live around such environment. Vancouverism should had been implemented not just all over the city of Vancouver but the province could also benefit as well. At what point does a urbanism concept thats supposed to be for residents become an idealistic dream that has turn the city into a theme park. Vancouverism completely fails to also consider missing middle housing as an affordable alternative.

There’s low job-availability here. People from other parts of the country, don’t come here. You’re gonna get depressed.

I love how 'the city' council gets all the credit for these Vancouverism ideas. What a biased take.

Ms McAfee is delusional if she thinks "Vancouverism" is pro-family. Outside of certain experiments like False Creek and southside co-ops, it is virtually impossible to find housing suitable for families. Private developers have absolutely no interest in building anything beyond one and two bedroom investment boxes. Downtown Vancouver has one small secondary, and it has remained that way for decades. If anything, the City of Vancouver bears a great deal of responsibility for BCs suburban sprawl. Families have had to move elsewhere because Vancouver has no real interest in families.

Regarding cycling infrastructure etc. The bottom line is that PRG is on the hills. Thanks to the profile, bicycle can simply never be a regular mode of transport here for regular residents in a way it is in flat cities. Yes, of course, I can go on bike to my office from time to time, but its an athletic achievement rather than something regular person can start the workday with (200 altitude meters measuring only ups on 5 km). Same with most trips here. That is why cycling will never be a 'regular' mode of transport within the city. If there was significant public demand for extensive network of cycle lanes, they would have been already in place. But its not the case. Fore 'regular' usage by the residents, only specific(flat) areas along the river would make sense. But then , few people both live and work by the river. And if Praguers do cycling (and they do a LOT) they typically do it on weekends and in the direction out the city, not along the river within the city limits (why should stay in the city when its leisure weekend activity and there are so many great cycling areas just outside the city limits). So that's the 'mystery' of why few cycle lanes in PRG explained

The metro is busy because there are no other options in the metro areas. All bus lines have been canceled or shortened so that you're forced to either take the metro or your own car. Btw why are you referring to "Helsinki" while walking in Espoo? It's a different municipality.

How did all that creativity, idealism, planning, and good will end up creating the most unaffordable and exclusive city in Canada? I’d like to see a documentary that does a deep dive into that.

I wonder if she is aware she and people like her are a part of why housing is so expensive here. Restrictive zoning, high development fees.

Some good ideas in the video, but it's hard to talk about Vancouver in 2024 without talking about housing affordability. The region needs a ton more middle density housing in the model of Montréal to meet all the demand and to reduce rent prices.

Narrow point towers and automated rapid transit are what Vancouver does best and I am glad these concepts have slowly made their way around the world including Dubai which of course hired plenty of Canadians to design its Marina District and Automated Metro systems!

wow, this video really has top-knotch editing, loved it!

Only truth in this video is that Vancouver doesn't have a highway running through it. Except the very small core part of the city, it is jsut another north american city with single family housing. 1-2 % of apartments in Vancouver have 3 or more bedrooms, so all this stuff about families is BS too. Walk around Vancouver and you rarely see any kids.

Thanks Geogre for making another useful video! Many people like the city Vancouver!