Thanks to Tim Yzerman for pointing my browser to this YouTube video. Narrated by Sam Sullivan, it describes how the layout of very early metro Vancouver took place.
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Sam Sullivan’s revelations of the esoteric chain of measurements upon which Vancouver is based is as interesting as Marie Antoinette’s off hand comment, “let them eat cake!” and as useless in light of the world’s frantic concrete ballet.
Be it the city of London’s Gherkin, Shard and surrounds or for that matter the earlier Parisienne La Grande Arche de la Fraternité backing, appropriately, onto one of the world’s largest grave yards.
But it doesn’t stop with Vancouver measured (appropriately) by it’s chains.
Be it Santa Fe DF, Puerto Madero Arg, or Silicone Valley evidently all desperately in need of warm bods with keys to open the door!
When will people get on their bikes and wake up to the scams these mountebanks concoct?
not sure what the comment above is trying to say, but as interesting as this video is, could they not have chosen a less polarizing narrator?