I think you did a fantastic job here. If only I had a camera then, with todays picture quality. But the side-by-side presentation seems to improve my old video, because you can get the details from the "now" image. I can well imagine the work you have put into editing this. It turned out just perfect. Comparing the two images one expects to see a big change in the number of high-rises, but what gets me most, is the increase in growth of the trees and general greenery, often to the point of blocking the view. Lets hope many viewers will find and watch this gem. It would be worthy to be adopted by the National Film Board.
Thank YOU for having the thought to record this video 30 years ago! I really think you created a historically significant bit of footage and the honour was all mine to create this edit. I was stunned by the tree growth as well!
The change in tree growth is what stuck out the most to me as well.. I think out of all the stations New West Station has undergone the most changes to how it looks.. Commercial/Broadway and Main Street/Science World are a lot different now as well.
@@I_Cypher_I The tree growth is in deed amazing. The changes to some of the stations was to be expected with the increase in ridership. Another surprise was the lower overall speed. I guess the travelling speed is the same, but the station time has gone up to handle the traffic. Also there are more trains now, getting in each others way and thereby slowing things down.
Excellent work! I agree 100% with the comments about the growth of the trees and the high-rises. Very good quality in the pre-HD 1990 video, too. Thanks for the great side-by-side movie!
Sometimes, it's cool to see what hasn't changed. Nanaimo for one, definitely stayed the same and quite literally. The only thing that's changed about it is the surrounding bus area. Still under construction now, but can't wait to see when it'll get the same treatment for the upstairs waiting area as most stations have gotten quite the overhaul. The only station I've ever noticed was Main-Science World and Metrotown, can't miss it lol
This is so amazing! I’m only at Columbia station, but already it passed by tiny trees in 1990 that are massive evergreens now. It’s hilarious how many questions the guy in the 1990 video gets about the camera, taking video, why he’s doing it, whether it’s color / black & white and everything. We’re so used to people recording everything now
Awesome video! I counted how many trains passed on the other side and got 7 trains in 1990 and 15 trains in 2020. Really shows how the Skytrain has grown and has become a fundamental part of Metro Vancouver. Some parts I want to highlight: 9:00 It's cool to see the saplings in the 1990s grew to full sized evergreens in 2020. Makes you think that even the Trees of Metro Van are a valuable asset. 9:56 How much Metrotown has grown is suprising, It's hard to believe all those towers were built on the same plot of land. 21:09 Kid says "Not so many high rises in Vancouver eh?". You'll see kid, you'll see
@A real bisexual petrol-head Dude... He said "youll see" as in "just you wait a few years, there will be tons of skyscrapers in the future"... How do you even interpret that as wising death upon someone? I think you need to take a break from the screen and clear your head. Theres really no issue with a kid being excited about what the future holds. Please, just enjoy the video.
no wonder not enough space for housing, overpriced houses, an underdeveloped city with no white-collar positions... those all agglomerated in the silicon valley, and in Asia. GDP decline every single year... what a joke, no improvement for 30 years...
0:00 Scott Road 2:07 Columbia 3:16 New Westminster 5:57 22nd Street 7:06 Skytrain Operations & Maintence Centre (I know it isn't a station but I felt that it had to be here) 8:01 Edmonds 10:25 Royal Oak 11:56 Metrotown 13:02 Patterson 15:03 Joyce-Collingwood 16:31 29th Avenue 17:42 Nanaimo 19:43 Commerical-Broadway 22:19 Main Street-Science World 23:58 Stadium-Chinatown 24:58 Granville 25:43 Burrard 26:59 Waterfront
This video is pretty special to me. I was born in 1990 at Vancouver General and raised in and around the city for the past 30 years of my life. It's incredible to see the growth this city has undertaken since I've been alive.
6:38 See the cemetery? People are dying to get there! In all seriousness, great job! I can't wait for my city to have a great major transit route to do one of these on.
mmwpro63 I once dropped acid with a couple buddies and we sat in that cemetery all night tripping out and listening to metal on the boombox. Boombox...ahhh, the good ol' days. Then the batteries died so we went to the White Spot that used to be in the corner of 12th St. & 6th Ave for breakfast and played with our food for awhile until they asked us to leave, so we went back to my place and passed out.
Right? The SkyTrain was only around five years old at the time of the older recording. Up on TH-cam there's a really neat half hour documentary titled 'Going to Town' that was made at the time of the expo line's completion in 1985, it covers the construction and opening of the SkyTrain system and is jam packed with that 80's feel.
Seeing those little trees become big trees make me feel happy. But then I feel oooooooooooooooooooold. Also, I see that the 3rd Avenue overpass in New West was built by June 1990 @ 4:27. Anyone know why it was built like a T intersection at the top but without one arm? What was the intended north-west alignment supposed to be? Seeing the Central Park rail line still intact was interesting as well!
Yeah, I was born mid May so I feel really old watching this. I have moved to New West 5 years ago and have been wondering the same thing about the overpass...
Fun random little fact, at 16:12 that strange bulge in the chainlink fence off to the left side of the track is from when a tree fell down onto the track last October. It stopped pretty much the entire Expo line, they had a bus bridge set up from Broadway to Metrotown. Ended up being over three hours late for class that day because of it.
19:26, if it wasn't for the 1990 video, I would never have guessed that there was houses to the right 21:38 that flea market is still there, somethings never change 21:56 got to like how we can see that building under construction, and now it's finished!
Great job. Never under-estimate the value of these historic videos. To some they may seem boring right now, but these only get more interesting as time goes on. Instead of being 30 years ago, in 70 years it will be 100 years ago... were already 1/3 there.
This blows my mind - I feel like Marty McFly. It's so weird because I've been riding the SkyTrain since before 1990 (I was 4 years old at the time, and of course would ride at the front of the train when I could). But everything changes so gradually, that I hardly noticed. As I watched this, I kept thinking things like "oh yeah! Joyce-Collingwood used to be just Joyce! Main Street used to be way more open! GM Place/Rogers Arena didn't exist until 1995!" I now live next to Edmonds, and it's staggering how undeveloped this area was back then. 7:50
Greetings from Toronto, Ontario, Canada! I really loved the way you recreated this video - comparing the footage from 1990 to 2020. My uncle and young nephew lived in a place called Surrey, British Columbia and when I first visited Vancouver in 2002, my uncle told me about the transit system. I was actually there last summer (2019) and while the network had changed considerably during my last visit, it made me wanted to visit the city again - some day.
I tried to take the skytrain to the airport in the early 2000s. The transit worker laughed and explained the line to the airport was a planned extension to the network, and I had to grab a bus. I tried to ride a non-existent skytrain line.
That was amazing!! Seeing the differences was so eye opening. When I first came here in 2008, New Westminster Station looked like it did still in the 1990 video. Other exceptional parts were Metrotown where the surroundings are almost unrecognisable Being able to see BC Place from Commercial Broadway was shocking and the sequence from Burrard to Waterfront is unbelievable. Can't wait to show this to my wife later.
Brought back some old memories and more. Trees have grown a lot since I last rode the skytrain. The boot is still there. And that familiar tone when the doors close. Glad they kept the same tone. There is one store in Edmonton that has the same tone when their door opens and each time I visualize the familiar skytrain sounds.
This is really interesting. It feels so similar yet so different. It's much more urbanized, less industrialized and there's so much more foliage. And even better, *THERE'S A DISUSED RAIL LINE*. Some places are so unrecognizable like the area near Metrotown and Downtown. Some stations look completely different like Main Street with the Vancity building surrounding it now and the third platform and Millenium Line at Commercial-Broadway. Grandview also looks different. It has a median and more foliage. The SkyTrain never gets to see the light of day in downtown. And then there are really subtle things like the radio antennae on the building by Commercial-Broadway. It really looks like the SkyTrain is getting old as well. It's getting rusty and loud. At least we can still get cab seats. (I always find it funny when people from London talk about the DLR like it's a god because you can sit at the front but not the tube lol.
That's the old BC Interurban tracks, the predecessor to the Skytrain. All traces of those old tracks have now been ripped out and paved over, which sucks for history buffs like me.
@@bigballz4u Cigarettes, obviously! I actually don't know but if you listen to the New York Subway or the London Underground, they're all just as loud, but they're a century older than the Skytrain. It could possible be that the Skytrain is exposed to the elements. (Especially since it's so rainy here)
Death B. Grapes The tracks and trains at any given time on the New York Subway or London Underground aren’t that much older than Skytrain. The oldest common New York Subway car is from the late 70s, and the early 70s for the London Underground. The oldest MKIs are from the late 80s. The interiors have been upgraded quite a bit compared to, say the NYC Subway though. Skytrain received complaints lately for being abnormally loud though- TransLink responded by saying it was the new track rails and they were trying to fix it.
EXCELLENT editing. Well done! Thank you for allowing me to relive my trips to Expo '86 from Edmonds Station. I booked a vintage motel on Kingsway, and was put up in one of many trailers they'd placed behind their motel.
It's funny to think of the thousands of times I've taken this train over the last thirty years that it took watching a video to show me what I've never seen. Well done!
23:54 - Seeing things come up and unfold was crazy. It almost made me feel claustrophobic, and I'm not even!... It's pretty intense to see how much the city expanded in that time period. Thank you so much for doing this. This is awesome.
Thank you so much for putting the time to meticulously sync up both recordings. It really puts into perspective how various neighbourhoods in Metro Vancouver have changed in 30 years.
I'm not from Vancouver but I was on this train a few days ago. I imagine thats why your video came up in my feed. This was a great video. Thank you for taking the time to make it. I also could not help watching the trees grow.
Oh man thank you for this! Well done video. This really takes me back to when I lived there in 1995. The puff of air @ Burrard station that would tell you the train was coming (usually had earbuds in and didn't hear it). The sound of the train accelerating after the bells.. The views that are surprisingly still accurate in my memory.. The daily trip out Electronics Boutique (now: EB Games) in Metrotown where I worked.. This entire video was a real trip.. thanks again
@21:22 just to the left is were I was working in the early to mid 80s on Terminal Ave. When this section of Sky Train was being built. The whole building shook, as they were pounding in the pilings. It took months. surprised the old building survived! It's still there though, a heritage building now. Canada Packers building, once a slaughter meat packing plant. Now a furniture warehouse!!
Tyvm! Brought back a bunch of memories. Took it from Granville to the end in Surrey for months. 3 hours transit a day (working) So much growth, skyscrapers, appt buildings.
It's weird that parts of the trip look both more urban and more rural. The towers by the stations and also downtown have exploded, but so have the trees alongside the tracks between stations. I remember driving to Vancouver from the U.S. Midwest for Expo 86. We parked at Metrotown, which then had a gravel parking lot that seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. I returned to Metrotown on a trip to Vancouver in 2007 and was amazed at just how much the area had changed. It should be a textbook example of transit-oriented development.
Metrotown has changed so much they actually destroyed the parking lot at the front of Hudson's Bay to make room for a new high rise. I'm guessing the parking lot there is going to be underground.
ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING! Incredible to see the growth of the vegetation and so many buildings! THANK YOU so much for your time and efforts and to the original video too! AMAZING!
Wonderful job matching speeds!! So many more skyscrapers!! Like someone else said trees on steroids. Much clearer day in 1990. Loved the clear view of the mountains then. Thanks for the visit!
Not only do we see more buildings, even nature..the trees have grown so much bigger. At 5:20 you can see the evergreen have grown so much taller, something you'll never notice unless you compare it an old picture.
I was born and raised (for my early childhood) in Vancouver. I moved to Massachusetts in 2007, and I haven't been back to Vancity since. Watching this really makes me nostalgic. I really want to come back some day..
26:26 wow i never knew that is was once open, i knew it was outside and encased, but it feels diffrent now (yes i knew that the tracks are on top of each other)
My last visit for Vancouver was during my childhood in 2002 summer vacation. What I really enjoyed was sit at the front window watching this dreamy, beautiful city. So miss this place! And it's really happy to see there isn't a lot of difference, even 3 decades have passed. But the only sad thing is that snow decreases yearly.
This video reveals so much. How much has remained the same, the changes over time and train speed is still exactly the same. My favorite part is looks at the small trees on the left and how much they’ve grown on the right.
I never visited Vancouver or the Lower Mainland much as a kid, so I never saw the transition, so this is really eye-opening! A lot is the same, but the core neighbourhoods are much denser! I knew New West was going to be a big change, and I’d heard Burnaby densified quickly but the difference shocked me with regard to the number of high-rises. Even downtown Vancouver is much denser. It seems the design priorities were quite different in the 1990s. Then, it looks like all the neighbourhoods had landscaped lawns, shrubs, picket fences, etc., with all plots of land in perfect rectangles, the archetypal image of suburbs. The 2020 version looks much more organic, with large trees all over the place. When looking at them side-to-side, it almost looks like the whole line was left to grow over, but if you didn’t have the “before” footage beside it, I might’ve instead thought it was just pleasantly leafy. Interesting seeing the side-by-side. Thanks for the entertainment!
So nostalgic! Technically my first SkyTrain trip was during Expo '86, but I remember riding SkyTrain in 1990. I'm wracking my brain, trying to remember the donair place that was on the corner of the building pulling into Metrotown station, where the Starbucks is now, just under the H of the Holiday Inn. Was one of my favourite snack stops when catching a bus to BCIT.
Very interesting and enjoyable to watch. Thanks for taking the time to do this... Was anyone else distracted/concerned by someone coughing in the background for a good chunk of the journey? Especially right near the end.
This is amamzing! The best part for me is how we're shown footage of sapplings, and then those same sapplings when they're fully grown. What's even special for me is how I was born in 1990 and we're now 2020, these clips are the boundaries of my life.
Wow. Visiting from Australia I travelled between Vancouver and New Westminster on the line in May 1990. What I remember most was seeing from the train logs floating down the Fraser River, chipped and loaded onto barges.
In June 1990 I lived near Kingsway and Edmonds in Burnaby and was on the Skytrain a lot, I remember everything looking exactly like the left but I also remember a lot of the buildings on the 2020 side being built throughout the 1990s and 2000s like the highrises at New West, Metrotown, next to Main Street Station (I also remember the lumber/pulp mill that was there before Expo '86 when Skytrain took it's first run), and Roger's Arena where I watched them film an episode of Highlander on the construction site. The biggest difference is the trees, damn they got big over 30 years.
Just a super interesting video. I love seeing how, after 30 years, some things haven't changed at all( Like the gate in the first station). On the other hand, the greenery has changed immensely. Absolutely love this vid. Thanks to all involved!
I loved seeing how much the trees have grown and filled in along the route. Last time I was home, I was shocked at all the highrises, but I guess I shouldn't be. There's no room to build out, so up is the only way left.
Spent much of 1986 taking the SkyTrain to Expo86. Then later (1986 - 1990) using the train for going to work. Eventually, I bought a car. Have only been on the train again a few times since the 90's 😅 Cool video, both of you guys 👍
this was such an interesting video, thank you for your hard work! one question, does the train run a lot faster now than it did in 1990? I don't have a clue about video editing and i guess i'm just curious why this was hard to put together! I'm sure that'd be a very complicated answer, but I thought it was worth asking anyway
Actually, the train ran a lot faster back in 1990! I was a bit surprised by this in initially but I think it makes sense given how (as others have pointed out) there were fewer trains running back then. The editing took so long because I was adjusting the speed of the clip on the right every 5-10s to match the one on the left. Which got me about half-way through before I discovered premiere pro's "speed ramp" feature and the process became much faster after that!
23:05 I believe the famous floating McDonald’s barge restaurant used for Expo 86 is still visible to the left here in 1990 as it was still docked at the former Expo 86 site for a few years after the event until it was eventually moved because of the city selling off the property to developers and the new owners wanting the barge gone from their property! :)
Thank-you for this. It was like a walk down memory lane. I imagine the 1990 video was shot on Hi-8 and yours was on a...? On another note, it was nice to see how trees planted after 1986 along the route grew into a beautiful canopy in parts.
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I think you did a fantastic job here. If only I had a camera then, with todays picture quality. But the side-by-side presentation seems to improve my old video, because you can get the details from the "now" image. I can well imagine the work you have put into editing this. It turned out just perfect. Comparing the two images one expects to see a big change in the number of high-rises, but what gets me most, is the increase in growth of the trees and general greenery, often to the point of blocking the view. Lets hope many viewers will find and watch this gem. It would be worthy to be adopted by the National Film Board.
Thank YOU for having the thought to record this video 30 years ago! I really think you created a historically significant bit of footage and the honour was all mine to create this edit. I was stunned by the tree growth as well!
The NFB have released films like this before!
The change in tree growth is what stuck out the most to me as well.. I think out of all the stations New West Station has undergone the most changes to how it looks.. Commercial/Broadway and Main Street/Science World are a lot different now as well.
@@I_Cypher_I The tree growth is in deed amazing. The changes to some of the stations was to be expected with the increase in ridership. Another surprise was the lower overall speed. I guess the travelling speed is the same, but the station time has gone up to handle the traffic. Also there are more trains now, getting in each others way and thereby slowing things down.
Excellent work! I agree 100% with the comments about the growth of the trees and the high-rises. Very good quality in the pre-HD 1990 video, too. Thanks for the great side-by-side movie!
1:44 look at how much the baby trees have grown
I was going to say that lol
30 years later, not so baby now.
I love this part 🥺❤️
4:35 as well
I‘m proud of them... They grow up so fast :‘)
I was expecting there to be a ton of change but what really got me by the end was how much has stayed the same too.
I was trying to find differences in things that seem to be the same
City is much greener
That's why there's traffic jam everywhere. No improvement in infrastructure all these years.
In Canada everything is and was ready.
Sometimes, it's cool to see what hasn't changed. Nanaimo for one, definitely stayed the same and quite literally. The only thing that's changed about it is the surrounding bus area. Still under construction now, but can't wait to see when it'll get the same treatment for the upstairs waiting area as most stations have gotten quite the overhaul. The only station I've ever noticed was Main-Science World and Metrotown, can't miss it lol
Will be awaiting the 2050 video
it will most likely look the same as this one!
@@ChopinSchubert nah it'll probably look like something outta cyberpunk with tons of skyscrapers lmao
Yikes I'm gonna be 50 then that's a scary thought
@@remoteuser Same here.
@@remoteuser same 😬
This is so amazing! I’m only at Columbia station, but already it passed by tiny trees in 1990 that are massive evergreens now.
It’s hilarious how many questions the guy in the 1990 video gets about the camera, taking video, why he’s doing it, whether it’s color / black & white and everything. We’re so used to people recording everything now
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Awesome video! I counted how many trains passed on the other side and got 7 trains in 1990 and 15 trains in 2020. Really shows how the Skytrain has grown and has become a fundamental part of Metro Vancouver.
Some parts I want to highlight:
9:00 It's cool to see the saplings in the 1990s grew to full sized evergreens in 2020. Makes you think that even the Trees of Metro Van are a valuable asset.
9:56 How much Metrotown has grown is suprising, It's hard to believe all those towers were built on the same plot of land.
21:09 Kid says "Not so many high rises in Vancouver eh?". You'll see kid, you'll see
That kid is now a 40 year old man!
@A real bisexual petrol-head Who's wishing death on him? lmao
@A real bisexual petrol-head your personality matches your username.
@A real bisexual petrol-head Dude... He said "youll see" as in "just you wait a few years, there will be tons of skyscrapers in the future"... How do you even interpret that as wising death upon someone? I think you need to take a break from the screen and clear your head. Theres really no issue with a kid being excited about what the future holds. Please, just enjoy the video.
21:06, "not too many highrises in Vancouver, eh?" Oh how times have changed lol.
Luckily we still have many laws/restrictions regarding the height of skyscrapers.
no wonder not enough space for housing, overpriced houses, an underdeveloped city with no white-collar positions... those all agglomerated in the silicon valley, and in Asia. GDP decline every single year... what a joke, no improvement for 30 years...
@@AstroLogicalBeats Environmentally that's a bad thing. People occupying the air up above is much better than sprawling on the ground.
@Eko I literally had to move out of Vancouver because of house pricing and it's general situation. I can tell you it has not improved.
@@ChopinSchubert what?
0:00 Scott Road
2:07 Columbia
3:16 New Westminster
5:57 22nd Street
7:06 Skytrain Operations & Maintence Centre
(I know it isn't a station but I felt that it had to be here)
8:01 Edmonds
10:25 Royal Oak
11:56 Metrotown
13:02 Patterson
15:03 Joyce-Collingwood
16:31 29th Avenue
17:42 Nanaimo
19:43 Commerical-Broadway
22:19 Main Street-Science World
23:58 Stadium-Chinatown
24:58 Granville
25:43 Burrard
26:59 Waterfront
Wow, you must be some sort of physicist...or a time sensitive engineer.
Please put this in the video description! It will make the station names visible in the video player. 😊
@ilijagaming07 if you pause at each timestamp, it says the name of the station in the video
@@DanceDanceNorth Done!
Some of the stations look almost identical.
While most are beyond recognition.
This video is pretty special to me.
I was born in 1990 at Vancouver General and raised in and around the city for the past 30 years of my life. It's incredible to see the growth this city has undertaken since I've been alive.
There's a video of where I live in Ohio back in 1986 and it really shows how much has changed since I was 3 years old.
6:38 See the cemetery? People are dying to get there!
In all seriousness, great job! I can't wait for my city to have a great major transit route to do one of these on.
lmao
Ye, I was not listening to what they talk about and all of the sudden I heard only that part :)
mmwpro63 I once dropped acid with a couple buddies and we sat in that cemetery all night tripping out and listening to metal on the boombox. Boombox...ahhh, the good ol' days. Then the batteries died so we went to the White Spot that used to be in the corner of 12th St. & 6th Ave for breakfast and played with our food for awhile until they asked us to leave, so we went back to my place and passed out.
ha ha vely funny vely vely amusing
@@ll7868 🤣🤣🤣
I love how the tree growth is relentless ;)
So cool!
Right? The SkyTrain was only around five years old at the time of the older recording. Up on TH-cam there's a really neat half hour documentary titled 'Going to Town' that was made at the time of the expo line's completion in 1985, it covers the construction and opening of the SkyTrain system and is jam packed with that 80's feel.
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BSF you are here?
Never thought i would see you here!
I found this to be very enjoyable. Excellent work on timing the two videos together to give an almost stereo - vision.
Seeing those little trees become big trees make me feel happy.
But then I feel oooooooooooooooooooold.
Also, I see that the 3rd Avenue overpass in New West was built by June 1990 @ 4:27. Anyone know why it was built like a T intersection at the top but without one arm? What was the intended north-west alignment supposed to be?
Seeing the Central Park rail line still intact was interesting as well!
Yeah, I was born mid May so I feel really old watching this.
I have moved to New West 5 years ago and have been wondering the same thing about the overpass...
5:00 at the point where the first train in the opposite direction passed in 1990, the forth train passed in 2020
First train in 1990 passes at 2:00
As a Vancouverite who loves his hometown, wow, this got me in the feels. I wish I could go back to those days. Doesn't feel like 3 decades at all.
Things looked more futuristic in the 90's.
Less trees and buildings were newer back then
I remember seeing Cable-stayed bridges in the 90s and thinking they were a fad
@NPC 45 i think that's due to the poor camera quality haha
@@Piaapo is less trees a good thing? honestly kind of hate how little trees there are it's just wide open with small short trees here and there
@@gotworc I'm not saying it's necessarily a good thing, just that those things may account to it looking more "futuristic"
Fun random little fact, at 16:12 that strange bulge in the chainlink fence off to the left side of the track is from when a tree fell down onto the track last October. It stopped pretty much the entire Expo line, they had a bus bridge set up from Broadway to Metrotown. Ended up being over three hours late for class that day because of it.
26:31 That surprised me!
19:26, if it wasn't for the 1990 video, I would never have guessed that there was houses to the right
21:38 that flea market is still there, somethings never change
21:56 got to like how we can see that building under construction, and now it's finished!
Great job. Never under-estimate the value of these historic videos. To some they may seem boring right now, but these only get more interesting as time goes on. Instead of being 30 years ago, in 70 years it will be 100 years ago... were already 1/3 there.
This blows my mind - I feel like Marty McFly.
It's so weird because I've been riding the SkyTrain since before 1990 (I was 4 years old at the time, and of course would ride at the front of the train when I could). But everything changes so gradually, that I hardly noticed. As I watched this, I kept thinking things like "oh yeah! Joyce-Collingwood used to be just Joyce! Main Street used to be way more open! GM Place/Rogers Arena didn't exist until 1995!"
I now live next to Edmonds, and it's staggering how undeveloped this area was back then. 7:50
Greetings from Toronto, Ontario, Canada! I really loved the way you recreated this video - comparing the footage from 1990 to 2020.
My uncle and young nephew lived in a place called Surrey, British Columbia and when I first visited Vancouver in 2002, my uncle told me about the transit system. I was actually there last summer (2019) and while the network had changed considerably during my last visit, it made me wanted to visit the city again - some day.
The Expo Line starts in Surrey, so you may have taken it along your journey!
I tried to take the skytrain to the airport in the early 2000s. The transit worker laughed and explained the line to the airport was a planned extension to the network, and I had to grab a bus.
I tried to ride a non-existent skytrain line.
You don't need to say "Canada" when commenting on a Vancouver video when you're from Toronto.
That was amazing!! Seeing the differences was so eye opening. When I first came here in 2008, New Westminster Station looked like it did still in the 1990 video. Other exceptional parts were Metrotown where the surroundings are almost unrecognisable Being able to see BC Place from Commercial Broadway was shocking and the sequence from Burrard to Waterfront is unbelievable. Can't wait to show this to my wife later.
Brought back some old memories and more. Trees have grown a lot since I last rode the skytrain. The boot is still there. And that familiar tone when the doors close. Glad they kept the same tone. There is one store in Edmonton that has the same tone when their door opens and each time I visualize the familiar skytrain sounds.
This is really interesting. It feels so similar yet so different. It's much more urbanized, less industrialized and there's so much more foliage. And even better, *THERE'S A DISUSED RAIL LINE*. Some places are so unrecognizable like the area near Metrotown and Downtown. Some stations look completely different like Main Street with the Vancity building surrounding it now and the third platform and Millenium Line at Commercial-Broadway. Grandview also looks different. It has a median and more foliage. The SkyTrain never gets to see the light of day in downtown. And then there are really subtle things like the radio antennae on the building by Commercial-Broadway. It really looks like the SkyTrain is getting old as well. It's getting rusty and loud. At least we can still get cab seats. (I always find it funny when people from London talk about the DLR like it's a god because you can sit at the front but not the tube lol.
Death B. Grapes Aren’t most subway systems even older?
@@innosam123 The SkyTrain is in the middle of the pack. Not too old but not the youngest, but it's aging really quickly compared to other systems
That's the old BC Interurban tracks, the predecessor to the Skytrain.
All traces of those old tracks have now been ripped out and paved over, which sucks for history buffs like me.
@@bigballz4u Cigarettes, obviously!
I actually don't know but if you listen to the New York Subway or the London Underground, they're all just as loud, but they're a century older than the Skytrain. It could possible be that the Skytrain is exposed to the elements. (Especially since it's so rainy here)
Death B. Grapes The tracks and trains at any given time on the New York Subway or London Underground aren’t that much older than Skytrain.
The oldest common New York Subway car is from the late 70s, and the early 70s for the London Underground.
The oldest MKIs are from the late 80s.
The interiors have been upgraded quite a bit compared to, say the NYC Subway though. Skytrain received complaints lately for being abnormally loud though- TransLink responded by saying it was the new track rails and they were trying to fix it.
EXCELLENT editing. Well done! Thank you for allowing me to relive my trips to Expo '86 from Edmonds Station. I booked a vintage motel on Kingsway, and was put up in one of many trailers they'd placed behind their motel.
It's funny to think of the thousands of times I've taken this train over the last thirty years that it took watching a video to show me what I've never seen. Well done!
23:54 - Seeing things come up and unfold was crazy. It almost made me feel claustrophobic, and I'm not even!... It's pretty intense to see how much the city expanded in that time period. Thank you so much for doing this. This is awesome.
21:05 June 1990, "Not too many high-rises in Vancouver, eh"?
21:18 June 2020, "Hold my beer"!
Thank you so much for putting the time to meticulously sync up both recordings. It really puts into perspective how various neighbourhoods in Metro Vancouver have changed in 30 years.
I'm not from Vancouver but I was on this train a few days ago. I imagine thats why your video came up in my feed. This was a great video. Thank you for taking the time to make it. I also could not help watching the trees grow.
I can still hear “this is an expo line train to... KiNG GeORgE”
Even with all the really obvious changes like new massive buildings, the thing I notice most is how much the trees have grown.
Oh man thank you for this! Well done video. This really takes me back to when I lived there in 1995. The puff of air @ Burrard station that would tell you the train was coming (usually had earbuds in and didn't hear it). The sound of the train accelerating after the bells.. The views that are surprisingly still accurate in my memory.. The daily trip out Electronics Boutique (now: EB Games) in Metrotown where I worked.. This entire video was a real trip.. thanks again
Hoping the National Film Board picks this up. How absolutely fabulous.... kudos to the editing person and/or team.
Me: “Wow this is the perfect video to have on in the background while i fold laundry”
*stares at the screen the entire time*
I can't believe you caught the black truck/car at the exact same time at 9:23 th-cam.com/video/E0BM4BgN3q4/w-d-xo.html
Must be the same person
Further evidence that we live in some sort of simulation
Bet it is some guy who is going to work for the past 30 years at the same time
@@AboutHere Definitely a glitch in the matrix.
It's The Truman Show !
A nice ride...from someone who grew up in Burnaby, I could appreciate the changes in the last 30 years. Well done and thank you.
Only those gorgeous mountains in the background have remained the same over the years!
I used to look out the front of the train when I was a child in the 90s. This view brought so much memories. Thank you.
Interesting to watch the growth of the greenery as well
I really loved seeing how much some things had changed yet how some things stayed exactly or nearly the same.
@21:22 just to the left is were I was working in the early to mid 80s on Terminal Ave. When this section of Sky Train was being built. The whole building shook, as they were pounding in the pilings. It took months. surprised the old building survived! It's still there though, a heritage building now. Canada Packers building, once a slaughter meat packing plant. Now a furniture warehouse!!
Tyvm! Brought back a bunch of memories. Took it from Granville to the end in Surrey for months. 3 hours transit a day (working) So much growth, skyscrapers, appt buildings.
That moment when you realize you have thirty years of pressure washing to catch up on.
Thanks! This was a fascinating experience and the effort is very much appreciated.
It's weird that parts of the trip look both more urban and more rural. The towers by the stations and also downtown have exploded, but so have the trees alongside the tracks between stations.
I remember driving to Vancouver from the U.S. Midwest for Expo 86. We parked at Metrotown, which then had a gravel parking lot that seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. I returned to Metrotown on a trip to Vancouver in 2007 and was amazed at just how much the area had changed. It should be a textbook example of transit-oriented development.
Metrotown has changed so much they actually destroyed the parking lot at the front of Hudson's Bay to make room for a new high rise. I'm guessing the parking lot there is going to be underground.
ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING! Incredible to see the growth of the vegetation and so many buildings! THANK YOU so much for your time and efforts and to the original video too! AMAZING!
Wonderful job matching speeds!!
So many more skyscrapers!! Like someone else said trees on steroids. Much clearer day in 1990. Loved the clear view of the mountains then. Thanks for the visit!
Not only do we see more buildings, even nature..the trees have grown so much bigger. At 5:20 you can see the evergreen have grown so much taller, something you'll never notice unless you compare it an old picture.
It’s surprisingly incredible to see Canada Place when you exit the tunnels towards Waterfront in 1990, incredible!
I was born and raised (for my early childhood) in Vancouver. I moved to Massachusetts in 2007, and I haven't been back to Vancity since. Watching this really makes me nostalgic. I really want to come back some day..
26:26 wow i never knew that is was once open, i knew it was outside and encased, but it feels diffrent now (yes i knew that the tracks are on top of each other)
Great video!! I was surprised by the trees and the appearance of the high-rises.
My last visit for Vancouver was during my childhood in 2002 summer vacation. What I really enjoyed was sit at the front window watching this dreamy, beautiful city. So miss this place! And it's really happy to see there isn't a lot of difference, even 3 decades have passed. But the only sad thing is that snow decreases yearly.
This video reveals so much. How much has remained the same, the changes over time and train speed is still exactly the same. My favorite part is looks at the small trees on the left and how much they’ve grown on the right.
i’m pretty sure they edited the videos to make them sync up, originally the 1990s train was a lot faster (is what they said)
thanks for all your work on this. what a wonderful trip down memory lane
9:14 It's cool to see the railway has been turned into a greenline. Also 11:37 it's cool to see the train waiting/parked there.
I never visited Vancouver or the Lower Mainland much as a kid, so I never saw the transition, so this is really eye-opening!
A lot is the same, but the core neighbourhoods are much denser! I knew New West was going to be a big change, and I’d heard Burnaby densified quickly but the difference shocked me with regard to the number of high-rises. Even downtown Vancouver is much denser.
It seems the design priorities were quite different in the 1990s. Then, it looks like all the neighbourhoods had landscaped lawns, shrubs, picket fences, etc., with all plots of land in perfect rectangles, the archetypal image of suburbs. The 2020 version looks much more organic, with large trees all over the place. When looking at them side-to-side, it almost looks like the whole line was left to grow over, but if you didn’t have the “before” footage beside it, I might’ve instead thought it was just pleasantly leafy. Interesting seeing the side-by-side.
Thanks for the entertainment!
30 years and city and rails looks almost same. Well planned and it will never get old beautiful ❤️ from India.
So nostalgic! Technically my first SkyTrain trip was during Expo '86, but I remember riding SkyTrain in 1990. I'm wracking my brain, trying to remember the donair place that was on the corner of the building pulling into Metrotown station, where the Starbucks is now, just under the H of the Holiday Inn. Was one of my favourite snack stops when catching a bus to BCIT.
I was in Vancouver last month, took the sky train a lot. I definitely remember the skytrain being a lot quieter and less bumpy 10-15
Years ago.
Wow. So many sky scrapers have gone up, the Dome has changed. Thanks for the ride.😃
Very interesting and enjoyable to watch. Thanks for taking the time to do this...
Was anyone else distracted/concerned by someone coughing in the background for a good chunk of the journey? Especially right near the end.
This is amamzing! The best part for me is how we're shown footage of sapplings, and then those same sapplings when they're fully grown. What's even special for me is how I was born in 1990 and we're now 2020, these clips are the boundaries of my life.
Wow. Visiting from Australia I travelled between Vancouver and New Westminster on the line in May 1990. What I remember most was seeing from the train logs floating down the Fraser River, chipped and loaded onto barges.
It's fun seeing the BC Transit cars on the left, the Translink cars on the right, and sometimes mashup Translink/BC Transit trains on the right too!
What a fascinating trip this video was. I didn’t live in Vancouver until 2007, so seeing this was quite amazing!
This was a wonderful video. The huge differences..but so much the same. And yes ..the trees..Thank you . I thoroughly enjoyed it
In June 1990 I lived near Kingsway and Edmonds in Burnaby and was on the Skytrain a lot, I remember everything looking exactly like the left but I also remember a lot of the buildings on the 2020 side being built throughout the 1990s and 2000s like the highrises at New West, Metrotown, next to Main Street Station (I also remember the lumber/pulp mill that was there before Expo '86 when Skytrain took it's first run), and Roger's Arena where I watched them film an episode of Highlander on the construction site. The biggest difference is the trees, damn they got big over 30 years.
Me: I need to find what has changed in a city ive never been to.
brilliant foresight in whoever recorded the 1990 video, as well as whoever planted those trees. People like this allow cities to age like fine wine
Thank you for this, it was amazing to watch. Loved seeing the growth of the city and all of the trees.
This is why I love stuff like this because it shows just how much an area changes in the course of just 30 years
Just a super interesting video. I love seeing how, after 30 years, some things haven't changed at all( Like the gate in the first station). On the other hand, the greenery has changed immensely. Absolutely love this vid. Thanks to all involved!
26:30 I've never seen it open like this! Very cool. In my brain, the Marine Building goes "below ground" lol
Crazy how big the trees got.
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Bravo trees (11:23)
ive been living in Australia for the past 21years so it definitely brought back a sense of nostalgia, enjoyed watching it
Fascinating! So well done. Thank you for sharing it!
This is the video I never knew I needed to see! :D
I loved seeing how much the trees have grown and filled in along the route. Last time I was home, I was shocked at all the highrises, but I guess I shouldn't be. There's no room to build out, so up is the only way left.
I don’t know why is this in my recommendation but I find this to be very interesting
Spent much of 1986 taking the SkyTrain to Expo86. Then later (1986 - 1990) using the train for going to work. Eventually, I bought a car. Have only been on the train again a few times since the 90's 😅 Cool video, both of you guys 👍
Very cool video. I'm patiently looking forward to the next one in 2050!
this was such an interesting video, thank you for your hard work! one question, does the train run a lot faster now than it did in 1990? I don't have a clue about video editing and i guess i'm just curious why this was hard to put together! I'm sure that'd be a very complicated answer, but I thought it was worth asking anyway
Actually, the train ran a lot faster back in 1990! I was a bit surprised by this in initially but I think it makes sense given how (as others have pointed out) there were fewer trains running back then. The editing took so long because I was adjusting the speed of the clip on the right every 5-10s to match the one on the left. Which got me about half-way through before I discovered premiere pro's "speed ramp" feature and the process became much faster after that!
@@AboutHere excellent work you put in on the timing. Impeccable!
I miss the Sky Train So much. I lived in vancouver for a summer and the SkyTrain was probably the best of thing about it.
Very intuitive video! It's a "then and now" dynamic picture!
WOW! This is so neat! We really need to see more things like this!
Amazing footage. A part of me will always be left in Vancouver, one day I will travel back to get it.
Nice video! Scott Rd station starts after the Skytrain Bridge completions to the end, alot has changed!
23:05
I believe the famous floating McDonald’s barge restaurant used for Expo 86 is still visible to the left here in 1990 as it was still docked at the former Expo 86 site for a few years after the event until it was eventually moved because of the city selling off the property to developers and the new owners wanting the barge gone from their property! :)
My Dad was a bus driver, growing up riding the sky train in the late 80s and 90s, always watched for science world
Thank-you for this. It was like a walk down memory lane. I imagine the 1990 video was shot on Hi-8 and yours was on a...? On another note, it was nice to see how trees planted after 1986 along the route grew into a beautiful canopy in parts.
its also very cool the way the trees obscure the height of the train, its feels a bit more roller coaster like in the 90s
Amazing to see how much the trees have grown.
Trees grow unbelievably quick in this region, especially those cedars. The mild climate and rich soil probably have something to do with it as well...
seeing the trees grow is so fascinating
5:02 how awesome is that!
Love this kind of video's
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1:45 the trees!
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Happy Little Trees - Bob Ross
me and the boys before/after
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