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Saudi prince seeks Mideast leadership, independence with Xi's visit
RIYADH (Reuters) -Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hosts China's leader this week at a delicate moment in U.S.-Saudi ties, signalling Riyadh's resolve to navigate a polarised global order regardless of the wishes of its Western allies, analysts said.
The ruler of the oil giant has made a comeback on the world stage following the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, which cast a pall over Saudi-U.S. ties, and has been defiant in the face of U.S. ire over the kingdom's energy policy and pressure from Washington to help isolate Russia.
In a show of strength as an aspiring leader of the Arab world, Prince Mohammed will also gather rulers from across the Middle East and North Africa for a Chinese-Arab summit during the visit by President Xi Jinping expected to start on Tuesday.
"Riyadh is working according to strategic calculations that it must accommodate Beijing, as it is now an indispensable economic partner," said Ayham Kamel, head of Middle East and North Africa at Eurasia Group.
Though the United States remains partner of choice for Gulf states reliant on it for their security, Riyadh is charting a foreign policy that serves its national economic transformation as the world pivots away from hydrocarbons, Saudi's lifeblood, the analysts said.
"There is certainly a risk that expanding relations with China backfires and lead to a (further) split in the U.S.-Saudi relationship... but MBS is certainly not pursuing this out of spite," Kamel said.
Xi's visit comes at a time when U.S.-Saudi ties are at a nadir, uncertainty weighs on global energy markets with the West imposing a price cap on Russian oil and as Washington warily eyes China's growing influence in the Middle East.
The Saudi government did not respond to requests for comment on Xi's visit and its agenda.
In a sign of irritation with U.S. criticism of Riyadh's human rights record, Prince Mohammed told The Atlantic magazine in March that he did not care whether U.S. President Joe Biden misunderstood things about him, saying Biden should be focusing on America's interests.
He also suggested in remarks carried by Saudi state news agency SPA that same month that while Riyadh aimed to boost its ties to Washington it could also choose to reduce "our interests" -- Saudi investments -- in the United States.
Saudi Arabia is deepening economies ties to China. It is China's top oil supplier, although fellow OPEC+ producer Russia has increased its Chinese market share with lower-priced fuel.
Beijing has also been lobbying for use of its yuan currency in trade instead of the U.S. dollar. Riyadh had previously threatened to ditch some dollar oil trades to confront possible U.S. legislation exposing OPEC members to antitrust lawsuits.
U.S.-Saudi ties under Biden's administration, already strained over human rights and the Yemen war in which Riyadh leads a military coalition, have frayed further due to the Ukraine war and OPEC+ oil policy.
FANFARE AND DEALS
Diplomats in the region said Xi would have a lavish reception akin to the one shown then-President Donald Trump when he visited the kingdom in 2017, and in contrast to Biden's awkward visit in July that had aimed to mend ties with Riyadh.
Trump was met by King Salman at the airport amid fanfare while clinching over $100 billion in contracts for U.S. military industry. Biden, who once vowed to make Riyadh "a pariah" over the Khashoggi killing, had downplayed his meetings with Prince Mohammed, to whom he gave a fist-bump rather than a handshake.
The Chinese delegation is expected to sign dozens of agreements with Saudi Arabia and other Arab states covering energy, security and investments, diplomats have told Reuters.
Prince Mohammed is focused on delivering his Vision 2030 diversification plan to wean the economy off oil by creating new industries, including cars and arms manufacturing as well as logistics, though foreign direct investment has been slow.
The kingdom is investing heavily in new infrastructure and megaprojects in tourism and initiatives like the $500 billion NEOM zone, a boon for Chinese construction firms.
Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies have said they would continue to diversify partnerships to serve economic and security interests, despite U.S. reservations about their ties with both Russia and China.
Prince Mohammed wants to demonstrate to his own constituency that the kingdom is important to many global powers, said Jonathan Fulton, non-resident senior fellow at Atlantic Council.
"Perhaps he's signalling to the U.S. as well, but...he's more concerned about what people within the kingdom think."
COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP
Biden pledged "consequences" for Riyadh after the OPEC+ output move but Washington has since reiterated its support for the kingdom's security, with U.S. officials stressing the U.S. "comparative advantage" in building integrated defence structures in the Gulf.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Wednesday that Washington wants to make sure that its "strategic" relationship with Riyadh was working "in our best interests".
U.S. officials have declined to comment when asked about Saudi-China bilateral relations ahead of Xi's visit.
Washington has voiced concern over Gulf Arab use of Chinese 5G technology and Chinese investments in sensitive infrastructure like ports, including in the United Arab Emirates which halted a Chinese port project due to U.S. concern.
Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are buying Chinese military equipment and a Saudi firm signed a deal with a Chinese company to manufacture armed drones in the kingdom.
Saudi analyst Abdulaziz Sager, chairman of Riyadh-based Gulf Research Center, told Saudi TV Asharq News that Arab states wanted to tell Western allies that they have alternatives and their relations are primarily based on economic interests.
Though Saudi ties with China appear to be growing "much more quickly" than with the United States, the actual relationships are not comparable, said Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East programme at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"The relationships with China pale versus those with the United States in terms of both complexity and intimacy," he said.
www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1281006.shtml
China-Arab report stresses mutual respect and opposing hegemony as first summit approaches
Ahead of the highly anticipated first China-Arab summit, which is scheduled to be held in early December in Saudi Arabia, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released a long report fully reviewing China's long-standing relations with Arab countries, and highlighted the strategic mutual trust in China-Arab ties in the new era, which Chinese experts believe points out the future direction of China-Arab cooperation.
Amid the profound changes unseen in a century, China and Arab states face similar opportunities and challenges. China has all along viewed Arab states as strategic partners in our pursuit of peaceful development, further cooperation with developing countries and building a community with a shared future for mankind, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Friday.
The comments were made after the Chinese Foreign Ministry released a report titled "China-Arab Cooperation in the New Era" on Thursday night, which looks back at the long-standing friendship between China and Arab countries and highlights the strategic mutual trust of China-Arab ties in the new era.
The report is a comprehensive review and summary of China-Arab relations, from historical exchanges and the build-up of strategic ties in various areas to deepening cooperation in political mutual trust, trade cooperation and cultural exchanges, laying out the principle of China-Arab relations and direction of future ties, Liu Zhongmin, a professor at the Middle East Studies Institute of Shanghai International Studies University, told the Global Times on Friday.
The nearly 19,000-word report elaborates on the friendship between China and Arab states that has been passed down for thousands of years, China-Arab relations in the new era, and how China-Arab cooperation is developing rapidly amidst intertwined changes and building a China-Arab community with a shared future.
Both China and Arab countries advocate respect for sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence. They both oppose external interference and all forms of hegemonism and power politics, according to the report.
Some countries are clamoring for the so-called "power vacuum theory in the Middle East" while China has always believed that there is no such "power vacuum" and that the people of the Middle East are the masters of the future and destiny of the region, and the international community should respect the status of the masters of countries and people in the region, the report said.
Compared with relations between the US and Arab countries, China's relations with them are based on equality and mutual respect with honesty, unlike the US which brings ideological bias in its interactions with the countries, Zhu Yongbiao, executive director of the Research Center for the Belt and Road in Lanzhou University, told the Global Times on Friday.
"Also, unlike the US, which always imposes extra geopolitical conditions on its cooperation with Arab countries, China-Arab cooperation is reciprocal and benefits the people from both sides," he said.
Saudi Arabia plans to host the Chinese-Arab summit on December 9, Reuters reported, which also comes at a "sensitive time for Saudi-US relations" that have been strained by a dispute over energy supplies.
In July, US President Joe Biden visited the Middle East in a bid to reassure the region of his country's commitment to it. However, he ended his trip with little to show.
Also, Saudi Arabia and the US have clashed over OPEC+'s decision to cut oil output, reflecting Washington's typical tendency to sacrifice Saudi interests to meet its own strategic interests in the Middle East, experts said. It also drew a sharp contrast to the cooperation between China and Arab countries, which has nothing to do with geopolitical wrestling but aims for development for both sides, they noted.
China is willing to take the convening of the first China-Arab Summit as an opportunity to work with Arab countries to carry forward the traditional friendship between China and Arab states, continuously enrich and deepen the pattern of all-dimensional, multi-level, and wide-ranging cooperation, and work together to build a China-Arab community of a shared future for the new era for the benefit of all, according to the report.
"The China-Arab Summit is another new and high-level mechanism of China-Arab cooperation, which will help it fully accelerate and upgrade in the future," Liu said.
The report also lays out future fields of cooperation, such as promoting the Belt and Road Initiative, increasing exports of non-oil products from Arab nations to the Chinese market and supporting China-Arab investment cooperation in sectors such as oil and natural gas. Chinese experts believed that given the highly complementary nature of China-Arab countries in energy, the summit will focus on cooperation in this field and push forward exploration in emerging areas such as nuclear energy and new energy.
"The summit is also likely to focus on energy security and regional security, for example, how to tackle rising uncertainties such as the food and energy crises and climate change, which could also be the focus of China-Arab cooperation in the future," Zhu said.
www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1280975.shtml
China, Arab countries to jointly build a community with a shared destiny: Chinese Foreign Ministry
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China steps on Washington’s toes as Xi heads to Saudi Arabia
Trip aims to boost Gulf relations five months after US warned Beijing it would not cede Middle East
The Beijing-Riyadh relationship is underpinned by oil. Saudi Arabia is China’s largest supplier of crude and China is the kingdom’s largest trading partner.
China’s relationship with the kingdom, and other Gulf countries, has gone beyond oil in recent years, particularly when it comes to technology, something the US has opposed on occasion.
That co-operation, particularly on Huawei 5G technology, concerns the US administration, as does the prospect of allowing China security facilities in the Gulf. US hackles have also been raised by speculation that Saudi Arabia could sign a deal with China to settle oil trades in renminbi.
The Central Artery/Tunnel Project, nicknamed the Big Dig, was a megaproject in Boston that rerouted the Central Artery (Interstate 93) - the chief highway through the heart of the city - into a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) tunnel. The project also included the construction of the Ted Williams Tunnel (extending Interstate 90 to Logan International Airport), the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge over the Charles River, and the Rose Kennedy Greenway in the space vacated by the previous I-93 elevated roadway. The construction work began in 1991 and was scheduled to be completed in 1998; it wasn’t finished until 2006. The Big Dig was the most expensive highway project in the U.S. and was plagued by escalating costs, scheduling overruns, leaks, design flaws, charges of poor execution and use of substandard materials, criminal arrests and one death.
Monthly megaproject construction update from MTA Capital Construction.
This photo shows shotcrete operations at the future 72nd Street station of the Second Avenue Subway.
Photo: MTA Capital Construction.
Downtown Los Angeles is separated from the San Fernando Valley by the Santa Monica Mountains, which made major tunneling necessary for any major rapid transit expansion between the two. To extend the city's Red Line Metro north from Hollywood to North Hollywood, a $1.3 billion megaproject requiring twin bored tunnels.
Though L.A. has many transit projects being planned, this Red Line will be the last heavy rail line to be built until the Subway to the Sea is constructed. The region's priority is cheaper light rail. (Note: The project was completed six months ahead of schedule, and on budget.)
Image: LightRailNow
Decided to plan a day to visit the Surrey Light Rail Vehicle (#SurreyLRV) Showcase and then the TransLink pop-up engagement event at Metrotown - Flickr album of all photos up at flic.kr/s/aHsmhHdR82 folks. As to the "pop-up engagement event", well this was at the same Metrotown I'm kinda familiar with... ( www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=63422257%40N08&view_al... )
But I really had to struggle to find the "pop-up engagement event" and it seems there wasn't much of a crowd for this "consultation" on multiple tax increases. I had to from the SkyTrain station cross the street and go deep into the bus barn to ask where the event was. Turns out it was on the second floor and there was ZERO wayfinding signage to the event. No wonder few folks participated.
I felt after talking to the outreach souls there it was more of a chance to explain without filters how TransLink was growing and why TransLink was raising taxes without a referendum. As TheBreaker.ca wrote on Twitter at twitter.com/theBreakerNews/status/992755016921468929 , "TransLink revealed 4/30 two rapid transit megaprojects will cost $4.5B, up $1.5B from 2015 plebiscite plan. Higher taxes and fares coming. This is what it calls “public consultation.” We call it “sales kiosk.” Joe would call it, "TransLink Public Briefing" because it's just TransLink giving the public a dog & pony show of what they're going to do. Which TransLink did quite well regardless of what the majority of the public or transit riders may or may not want.
Nonetheless, I do appreciate the free TransLink pro-transit buttons and the conversations. To each transit agency their own outreach hoping each outreach has better wayfinding than this one please, I suppose...
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com
Stafford County Board of Supervisors Chairman Susan Stimson and Stafford County Supervisor Robert Thomas join representatives from VDOT, Virginia MegaProjects, Fluor-Lane95 and Transurban for a Steel-Signing Ceremony at the Garrisonville Road Flyover Bridge on I-95. (Photo by D. Allen Covey, VDOT)
the chenab railway bridge, when complete will be the worlds highest railway bridge and in general one of the highest bridges. it will be the last link of the collective magnificent national dream of a rail link from kashmir to kanyakumari. the eiffel tower may be a beauty but its a fact that it would pass under this bridge without scraping it. this is going to be ~1200 ft. under construction, june 2013.
Stafford County Board of Supervisors Chairman Susan Stimson joins representatives from VDOT, Virginia MegaProjects, Fluor-Lane95 and Transurban for a Steel-Signing Ceremony at the Garrisonville Road Flyover Bridge on I-95. (Photo by D. Allen Covey, VDOT)
Wong Ai Ai, Member of the Global Executive Committee; Chair, Asia-Pacific, Baker McKenzie, Singapore speaking during the session Delivering the Promise of Megaprojects at the World Forum World Economic Forum on Africa 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
The Central Artery/Tunnel Project, nicknamed the Big Dig, was a megaproject in Boston that rerouted the Central Artery (Interstate 93) - the chief highway through the heart of the city - into a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) tunnel. The project also included the construction of the Ted Williams Tunnel (extending Interstate 90 to Logan International Airport), the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge over the Charles River, and the Rose Kennedy Greenway in the space vacated by the previous I-93 elevated roadway. The construction work began in 1991 and was scheduled to be completed in 1998; it wasn’t finished until 2006. The Big Dig was the most expensive highway project in the U.S. and was plagued by escalating costs, scheduling overruns, leaks, design flaws, charges of poor execution and use of substandard materials, criminal arrests and one death.
Decided to plan a day to visit the Surrey Light Rail Vehicle (#SurreyLRV) Showcase and then the TransLink pop-up engagement event at Metrotown - Flickr album of all photos up at flic.kr/s/aHsmhHdR82 folks. As to the "pop-up engagement event", well this was at the same Metrotown I'm kinda familiar with... ( www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=63422257%40N08&view_al... )
But I really had to struggle to find the "pop-up engagement event" and it seems there wasn't much of a crowd for this "consultation" on multiple tax increases. I had to from the SkyTrain station cross the street and go deep into the bus barn to ask where the event was. Turns out it was on the second floor and there was ZERO wayfinding signage to the event. No wonder few folks participated.
I felt after talking to the outreach souls there it was more of a chance to explain without filters how TransLink was growing and why TransLink was raising taxes without a referendum. As TheBreaker.ca wrote on Twitter at twitter.com/theBreakerNews/status/992755016921468929 , "TransLink revealed 4/30 two rapid transit megaprojects will cost $4.5B, up $1.5B from 2015 plebiscite plan. Higher taxes and fares coming. This is what it calls “public consultation.” We call it “sales kiosk.” Joe would call it, "TransLink Public Briefing" because it's just TransLink giving the public a dog & pony show of what they're going to do. Which TransLink did quite well regardless of what the majority of the public or transit riders may or may not want.
Nonetheless, I do appreciate the free TransLink pro-transit buttons and the conversations. To each transit agency their own outreach hoping each outreach has better wayfinding than this one please, I suppose...
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com
Participants during the session Delivering the Promise of Megaprojects at the World Forum World Economic Forum on Africa 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Think City Vancouver Freeway Revolts – Bicycle Tour
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Tour participants in from of mural celebrating cycling and Raymur Moms battle for a safe crossing of railway tracks in Strathcona.
Starting along the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts we toured significant sites in Vancouver’s successful freeway revolt of the 60s and early 70s. As we head east we moved from the walking city in Strathcona / Chinatown to streetcar suburbs and discussed how public transit has shaped our city.
The tour ended at the site of the present day Highway 1 freeway widening, one of the key locations in the present day freeway revolt against the Gateway freeway megaproject.
Tour Host: Eric Doherty
Eric Doherty is a transportation and environmental planner. In his consulting business, Ecopath Planning, Eric focuses on practical approaches for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts, while improving community resiliency and livability. He is active with StopThePave.org and is also on the steering committee of the Vancouver / Burnaby Chapter of the Council of Canadians.
Emmerson Mnangagwa, President of Zimbabwe speaking during the session Delivering the Promise of Megaprojects at the World Forum World Economic Forum on Africa 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Wong Ai Ai, Member of the Global Executive Committee; Chair, Asia-Pacific, Baker McKenzie, Singapore speaking during the session Delivering the Promise of Megaprojects at the World Forum World Economic Forum on Africa 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Hidden away at Burnaby's Capitol Hill is a street named Scenic Highway. It was supposed to be part of the Scenic Drive tourist highway starting from Downtown Vancouver and ending in West Vancouver. This mega project was abandoned and forgotten when the depression and World War II happened.
The Central Artery/Tunnel Project, nicknamed the Big Dig, was a megaproject in Boston that rerouted the Central Artery (Interstate 93) - the chief highway through the heart of the city - into a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) tunnel. The project also included the construction of the Ted Williams Tunnel (extending Interstate 90 to Logan International Airport), the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge over the Charles River, and the Rose Kennedy Greenway in the space vacated by the previous I-93 elevated roadway. The construction work began in 1991 and was scheduled to be completed in 1998; it wasn’t finished until 2006. The Big Dig was the most expensive highway project in the U.S. and was plagued by escalating costs, scheduling overruns, leaks, design flaws, charges of poor execution and use of substandard materials, criminal arrests and one death.
Decided to plan a day to visit the Surrey Light Rail Vehicle (#SurreyLRV) Showcase and then the TransLink pop-up engagement event at Metrotown - Flickr album of all photos up at flic.kr/s/aHsmhHdR82 folks. As to the "pop-up engagement event", well this was at the same Metrotown I'm kinda familiar with... ( www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=63422257%40N08&view_al... )
But I really had to struggle to find the "pop-up engagement event" and it seems there wasn't much of a crowd for this "consultation" on multiple tax increases. I had to from the SkyTrain station cross the street and go deep into the bus barn to ask where the event was. Turns out it was on the second floor and there was ZERO wayfinding signage to the event. No wonder few folks participated.
I felt after talking to the outreach souls there it was more of a chance to explain without filters how TransLink was growing and why TransLink was raising taxes without a referendum. As TheBreaker.ca wrote on Twitter at twitter.com/theBreakerNews/status/992755016921468929 , "TransLink revealed 4/30 two rapid transit megaprojects will cost $4.5B, up $1.5B from 2015 plebiscite plan. Higher taxes and fares coming. This is what it calls “public consultation.” We call it “sales kiosk.” Joe would call it, "TransLink Public Briefing" because it's just TransLink giving the public a dog & pony show of what they're going to do. Which TransLink did quite well regardless of what the majority of the public or transit riders may or may not want.
Nonetheless, I do appreciate the free TransLink pro-transit buttons and the conversations. To each transit agency their own outreach hoping each outreach has better wayfinding than this one please, I suppose...
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com
Pictured: Nicole Stephano, Bentley Systems; Mike Clarke, AECOM; Ludvig Lovén, ÅF; Paul Wilson, AECOM; Karin Anderson, Trafikverket; Göran Blomberg, Trafikverket; Santanu Das, Bentley Systems; Lyn Clark, AECOM; John Forshaw, AECOM; and Sergio Escobar, AECOM
Palm Islands are three artificial islands, Palm Jumeirah, Deira Island and Palm Jebel Ali, on the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Creation of the islands started in 2001. As of November 2011, only Palm Jumeirah has been completed. This island takes the form of a palm tree, topped by a crescent.
After completion, Palm Jebel Ali will take a similar shape. Like Palm Jumeirah, each island will be host to a large number of residential, leisure and entertainment centers and will add a total of 520 kilometers of non-public beaches to the city of Dubai. wikipedia
Palm Jumeirah[edit]
Main article: Palm Jumeirah
The Palm Jumeirah seen from the International Space Station.
The Palm Jumeirah (Coordinates: 25°06′28″N 55°08′15″E) consists of a tree trunk, a crown with 16 fronds, and a surrounding crescent island that forms an 11 kilometer-long breakwater. The island itself is five kilometers by five kilometers. It adds 78 kilometers to the Dubai coastline.
Residents began moving into Palm Jumeirah properties at the end of 2006, five years after land reclamation began.
Palm Jumeirah Monorail opened in 2009; it is connected to station 9 of the Dubai Tram (Palm Jumeirah Station).
Palm Jumeirah hosts the Atlantis hotel resort and it was opened in 2010.[1]
Palm Jebel Ali[edit]
Main article: Palm Jebel Ali
Palm Jebel Ali
The Palm Jebel Ali began construction in October 2000 and it was supposed to be completed by October mid-2008 but has been on hold since. Palm Jebel Ali was going to be built much larger than Palm Jumeirah, but has not yet been completed.[2][3]
Environmental concerns[edit]
The construction of the Dubai Palm Islands has had a significant impact on the surrounding environment, resulting in changes to area wildlife, coastal erosion, alongshore sediment transport and wave patterns. Sediment stirred up by construction has suffocated and injured local marine fauna and reduced the amount of sunlight which filters down to seashore vegetation. Variations in alongshore sediment transport have resulted in changes in erosion patterns along the UAE coast, which has also been exacerbated by altered wave patterns as the waters of the Persian Gulf attempt to move around the new obstruction of the islands. [4][5]
Dubai's megaprojects have become a favourite cause of environmentalists. Greenpeace has criticized the Palm Islands for lack of sustainability, and Mongabay.com, a site dedicated to rain forest conservation, has attacked Dubai's artificial islands aggressively, stating that:
Significant changes in the maritime environment [of Dubai] are leaving a visual scar [... ] As a result of the dredging and redepositing of sand for the construction of the islands, the typically crystalline waters of the Persian Gulf at Dubai have become severely clouded with silt. Construction activity is damaging the marine habitat, burying coral reefs, oyster beds and subterranean fields of sea grass, threatening local marine species as well as other species dependent on them for food. Oyster beds have been covered in as much as two inches of sediment, while above the water, beaches are eroding with the disruption of natural currents. wikipedia
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Amani Abou-Zeid, Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, African Union Commission, Addis Ababa speaking during the session Delivering the Promise of Megaprojects at the World Forum World Economic Forum on Africa 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Dutch (original) version of the SAA Megaproject map.
source:
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Construction continues on phase one of the Dulles Metrorail Megaproject (off Route 123) near the future site of the Tysons East Station in Northern Virginia.(Photo by Tom Saunders, VDOT)
Daniela Stoffel Delprete, State Secretary for International Finance of Switzerland speaking during the session Delivering the Promise of Megaprojects at the World Forum World Economic Forum on Africa 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Amani Abou-Zeid, Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, African Union Commission, Addis Ababa speaking during the session Delivering the Promise of Megaprojects at the World Forum World Economic Forum on Africa 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
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A mixed-use development in South Park, Adjacent to Staples Center set on a 4.5 acre lot which previously was a parking lot with an subterranean bank vault. Developer Oceanwide is set to build two 40-story towers and a 49-story building, with 175,00 - 200,000 square feet of retail.
Decided to plan a day to visit the Surrey Light Rail Vehicle (#SurreyLRV) Showcase and then the TransLink pop-up engagement event at Metrotown - Flickr album of all photos up at flic.kr/s/aHsmhHdR82 folks. As to the "pop-up engagement event", well this was at the same Metrotown I'm kinda familiar with... ( www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=63422257%40N08&view_al... )
But I really had to struggle to find the "pop-up engagement event" and it seems there wasn't much of a crowd for this "consultation" on multiple tax increases. I had to from the SkyTrain station cross the street and go deep into the bus barn to ask where the event was. Turns out it was on the second floor and there was ZERO wayfinding signage to the event. No wonder few folks participated.
I felt after talking to the outreach souls there it was more of a chance to explain without filters how TransLink was growing and why TransLink was raising taxes without a referendum. As TheBreaker.ca wrote on Twitter at twitter.com/theBreakerNews/status/992755016921468929 , "TransLink revealed 4/30 two rapid transit megaprojects will cost $4.5B, up $1.5B from 2015 plebiscite plan. Higher taxes and fares coming. This is what it calls “public consultation.” We call it “sales kiosk.” Joe would call it, "TransLink Public Briefing" because it's just TransLink giving the public a dog & pony show of what they're going to do. Which TransLink did quite well regardless of what the majority of the public or transit riders may or may not want.
Nonetheless, I do appreciate the free TransLink pro-transit buttons and the conversations. To each transit agency their own outreach hoping each outreach has better wayfinding than this one please, I suppose...
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com
Satellite view of the two Palms and portion of the World islands that is completed.
Check out other Dubai Megaprojects - Dubai Megacity
Fake tilt-shift shot of the Southcore Financial Centre and Delta Hotel Toronto, under construction in downtown Toronto
Even een kleine update van dit langdurige project: Hier kijken we vanaf de Rozengracht richting west over de inmiddels voormalige brug over de Lijnbaansgracht.
De heipalen moeten voorkomen dat deze zijde van de kademuur in het water wegzakt. Aan de andere zijde is de brug en ondermuur weggehaald tot vlak boven de waterlijn, waar nu twee mensen druk aan het werk zijn- gadegeslagen door de man in oranje overall boven. Een smal loopbruggetje verbindt beide zijden van het gapende gat. Achter de hekken steekt een lijn 5 de geamputeerde kruising over.
Een fotoreportage over dit megaproject zie je in DIT album:
On Sunday, Nov.3, 2024, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced the completion of two new elevators providing access to the street level and uptown level at the 14 St 123 subway station, marking another milestone in the 14 St Station Complex megaproject.
Credit: MTA
Palm Islands are three artificial islands, Palm Jumeirah, Deira Island and Palm Jebel Ali, on the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Creation of the islands started in 2001. As of November 2011, only Palm Jumeirah has been completed. This island takes the form of a palm tree, topped by a crescent.
After completion, Palm Jebel Ali will take a similar shape. Like Palm Jumeirah, each island will be host to a large number of residential, leisure and entertainment centers and will add a total of 520 kilometers of non-public beaches to the city of Dubai. wikipedia
Palm Jumeirah[edit]
Main article: Palm Jumeirah
The Palm Jumeirah seen from the International Space Station.
The Palm Jumeirah (Coordinates: 25°06′28″N 55°08′15″E) consists of a tree trunk, a crown with 16 fronds, and a surrounding crescent island that forms an 11 kilometer-long breakwater. The island itself is five kilometers by five kilometers. It adds 78 kilometers to the Dubai coastline.
Residents began moving into Palm Jumeirah properties at the end of 2006, five years after land reclamation began.
Palm Jumeirah Monorail opened in 2009; it is connected to station 9 of the Dubai Tram (Palm Jumeirah Station).
Palm Jumeirah hosts the Atlantis hotel resort and it was opened in 2010.[1]
Palm Jebel Ali[edit]
Main article: Palm Jebel Ali
Palm Jebel Ali
The Palm Jebel Ali began construction in October 2000 and it was supposed to be completed by October mid-2008 but has been on hold since. Palm Jebel Ali was going to be built much larger than Palm Jumeirah, but has not yet been completed.[2][3]
Environmental concerns[edit]
The construction of the Dubai Palm Islands has had a significant impact on the surrounding environment, resulting in changes to area wildlife, coastal erosion, alongshore sediment transport and wave patterns. Sediment stirred up by construction has suffocated and injured local marine fauna and reduced the amount of sunlight which filters down to seashore vegetation. Variations in alongshore sediment transport have resulted in changes in erosion patterns along the UAE coast, which has also been exacerbated by altered wave patterns as the waters of the Persian Gulf attempt to move around the new obstruction of the islands. [4][5]
Dubai's megaprojects have become a favourite cause of environmentalists. Greenpeace has criticized the Palm Islands for lack of sustainability, and Mongabay.com, a site dedicated to rain forest conservation, has attacked Dubai's artificial islands aggressively, stating that:
Significant changes in the maritime environment [of Dubai] are leaving a visual scar [... ] As a result of the dredging and redepositing of sand for the construction of the islands, the typically crystalline waters of the Persian Gulf at Dubai have become severely clouded with silt. Construction activity is damaging the marine habitat, burying coral reefs, oyster beds and subterranean fields of sea grass, threatening local marine species as well as other species dependent on them for food. Oyster beds have been covered in as much as two inches of sediment, while above the water, beaches are eroding with the disruption of natural currents. wikipedia
Constructed 1818–1858, architect Auguste de Montferrand. The extended construction gave rise to an idiom for never-ending megaprojects in Finnish: "rakentaa kuin Iisakinkirkkoa" ("to build like Isaac's Church"). It was the fourth church on the site, replacing a much more modest structure. In lieu of bedrock, the weight of the new building was supported on a foundation of 10,000 (25,000?) tree trunks sunk into the marshy ground. The triple rows of massive solid granite columns supporting the porticos were erected using a special scaffold before the building was built inside them.
Decided to plan a day to visit the Surrey Light Rail Vehicle (#SurreyLRV) Showcase and then the TransLink pop-up engagement event at Metrotown - Flickr album of all photos up at flic.kr/s/aHsmhHdR82 folks. As to the "pop-up engagement event", well this was at the same Metrotown I'm kinda familiar with... ( www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=63422257%40N08&view_al... )
But I really had to struggle to find the "pop-up engagement event" and it seems there wasn't much of a crowd for this "consultation" on multiple tax increases. I had to from the SkyTrain station cross the street and go deep into the bus barn to ask where the event was. Turns out it was on the second floor and there was ZERO wayfinding signage to the event. No wonder few folks participated.
I felt after talking to the outreach souls there it was more of a chance to explain without filters how TransLink was growing and why TransLink was raising taxes without a referendum. As TheBreaker.ca wrote on Twitter at twitter.com/theBreakerNews/status/992755016921468929 , "TransLink revealed 4/30 two rapid transit megaprojects will cost $4.5B, up $1.5B from 2015 plebiscite plan. Higher taxes and fares coming. This is what it calls “public consultation.” We call it “sales kiosk.” Joe would call it, "TransLink Public Briefing" because it's just TransLink giving the public a dog & pony show of what they're going to do. Which TransLink did quite well regardless of what the majority of the public or transit riders may or may not want.
Nonetheless, I do appreciate the free TransLink pro-transit buttons and the conversations. To each transit agency their own outreach hoping each outreach has better wayfinding than this one please, I suppose...
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com
chadderton baths oldham 2007
the art deco chaddy baths still stands at time of writing, but apparently a plot is afoot to knock it down - hence the photograph
Not a particuarly beautiful building, the harsh, art deco architecture has rotted away a bit (esp those old metal window frames) and the fabric of the building needs a few quid spending on it to keep it open.
UK Govt seem to be able to find £billions to squander on grandiose megaprojects like the Olympic Games and Millennium Dome (Doom!) whilst fine old buildings like this - which are of direct benefit to local communities - are left to go to rack and ruin.
To paraphrase an old song:
'The working class
can kiss my ass
I've got the minister's job at last'
Think City Vancouver Freeway Revolts – Bicycle Tour
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Tour participants viewing freeway construction on Hwy 1 from Grandview overpass
Starting along the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts we toured significant sites in Vancouver’s successful freeway revolt of the 60s and early 70s. As we head east we moved from the walking city in Strathcona / Chinatown to streetcar suburbs and discussed how public transit has shaped our city.
The tour ended at the site of the present day Highway 1 freeway widening, one of the key locations in the present day freeway revolt against the Gateway freeway megaproject.
Tour Host: Eric Doherty
Eric Doherty is a transportation and environmental planner. In his consulting business, Ecopath Planning, Eric focuses on practical approaches for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts, while improving community resiliency and livability. He is active with StopThePave.org and is also on the steering committee of the Vancouver / Burnaby Chapter of the Council of Canadians.
R N Singh, Principal Executive Director (Infra), Ministry of
Railways, delivers a special presentation on the revolutionary mega projects being undertaken by Indian Railways. The speech took place at the 8th International Railway Summit in New Delhi on 22 November 2019.
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The UK needs to make a series of major strategic infrastructure decisions over the next few years, including airport capacity, climate change and energy security. Well-judged projects contribute to a successful economy – bad decisions can result in expensive mistakes.
Recent ‘megaprojects’ including High Speed 2, Hinkley Point C and the third runway at Heathrow have attracted both support and scepticism.
This event discussed whether big really is best or if smaller projects provide better value for money.
The Panel:
Bridget Rosewell OBE, Commissioner at the National Infrastructure Commission
Isabel Dedring, Global Transport Leader at Arup and former Deputy Mayor for Transport in London
Dr Ed Hoffman, Strategic Adviser at PMI and former Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA.
The event was chaired by Julian McCrae, Deputy Director of the Institute for Government
We would like to thank the Project Management Institute for supporting this event.
Photos by Candice McKenzie
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Decided to plan a day to visit the Surrey Light Rail Vehicle (#SurreyLRV) Showcase and then the TransLink pop-up engagement event at Metrotown - Flickr album of all photos up at flic.kr/s/aHsmhHdR82 folks. As to the "pop-up engagement event", well this was at the same Metrotown I'm kinda familiar with... ( www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=63422257%40N08&view_al... )
But I really had to struggle to find the "pop-up engagement event" and it seems there wasn't much of a crowd for this "consultation" on multiple tax increases. I had to from the SkyTrain station cross the street and go deep into the bus barn to ask where the event was. Turns out it was on the second floor and there was ZERO wayfinding signage to the event. No wonder few folks participated.
I felt after talking to the outreach souls there it was more of a chance to explain without filters how TransLink was growing and why TransLink was raising taxes without a referendum. As TheBreaker.ca wrote on Twitter at twitter.com/theBreakerNews/status/992755016921468929 , "TransLink revealed 4/30 two rapid transit megaprojects will cost $4.5B, up $1.5B from 2015 plebiscite plan. Higher taxes and fares coming. This is what it calls “public consultation.” We call it “sales kiosk.” Joe would call it, "TransLink Public Briefing" because it's just TransLink giving the public a dog & pony show of what they're going to do. Which TransLink did quite well regardless of what the majority of the public or transit riders may or may not want.
Nonetheless, I do appreciate the free TransLink pro-transit buttons and the conversations. To each transit agency their own outreach hoping each outreach has better wayfinding than this one please, I suppose...
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com