From James Bligh: This photo was taken Sunday afternoon, the harbour was a madhouse with several large ships coming within very close quarters in order to stay on schedule.
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Hence the widening of Massey Bridge so we can offload some significant harbor traffic to Fraser River. North Shore is too scenic too remain a harbor forever to ship sulfur and stuff, much like coal harbor today is in Delta Port. Expect contraction of harbor activity there over the next few decades and more housing on this south facing shore !
KM could potentially build their widened new twinned oil pipeline to Fraser River / Delta too, and not to Burnaby. Or to Squamish perhaps. Or to Victoria via the new bridge to Vancouver Island perhaps ?
But then, all these boats go very very slow, say 2-4 km/h. All manageable. They are not airplanes coming down at 250 to 300 km/h ! We can easily squeeze in another oil tanker per day.
Are you considering the proposed expansion of Centerm (by 2/3 additional capacity) in your projection of reduced harbour traffic?
Enlighten us to details, please.
More harbours in Delta or in Fraser River would be better indeed, but with so much opposition to anything new and industrial in BC it is no wonder that existing harbors expand where it may not make sense.
North shore could be better used for housing with its southerly views and industrial traffic in newly built port besides DeltaPort and Fraser River. But opposition will kill it, or delay it for decades.
http://porttalk.ca/centermexpansion
A lot of bow wake off that cruise ship for it to be going 2 – 4 kph.
The harbour speed limit is, I believe, 15km/h, though I swear the SeaBus operators have a licence to speed.
Not to mention Thomas has Twin Otters landing in the harbour at their max speed.
Looks lovely until you contemplate the fact that 16 of the world’s largest ship create more pollution than all the cars on the planet:
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwi9o7CK3rzNAhVEwWMKHW7FAqAQFggaMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fsciencetech%2Farticle-1229857%2FHow-16-ships-create-pollution-cars-world.html&usg=AFQjCNER8VUkc1tvzeJ5ixIBCN51QoYGSw&sig2=iEvLlejolJjPrzRrEoNeYg
More SULPHER pollution. Cars do produce a lot of other nasties.
Yes that IS a major issue. Unclear why Canada cannot regulate that once they are in Canadian waters. Plus all the junk they dump in the ocean when enroute.
Unclear why hardly anyone talks about that. Merely global warming. Pollution is not an issue ? It is by far the bigger issue where we can actually do something meaningfully very very quickly !