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[ressen]

Of course there will be a pedestrian, cycle and rail bridge across Esquimalt harbour. Every one driving will be doing so in electric cars. Downtown Victoria will be a pedestrian zone only , allowing for personal scooters, Segues, and bikes. Many of the streets will be covered by glass ceilings turning them into malls.

[Holden West]

"Smart" Glass ceilings containing variable-opacity nano-technology glass were installed over the main streets of Downtown Victoria beginning in 2069 but the program was halted in 2073 following complaints about enormous cost overruns, maintenance issues and the decrease in street ambience. Rain-free streets became dusty and muggy, particularly in summer. Residents of highrises missed being able to look down onto the busy, vibrant sidwalks instead of lifeless, litter strewn canopies of glass. The small area of glassed-in downtown was soon dubbed "the Grotto". Businesses faltered and crime surged. The last remnants of the ceiling were dismantled in 2081.

[ressen]

Good one. :-D I was just trying to get it started.

[Holden West]

2031: After twelve years of negotiations, the Fernwood Community Association unanimously approves the conversion of the old hydrogen refueling station at Yates and Fort Streets to a full ion-neutrino refueling/service pod. The main stumbling block was the design of the docking stations, once described by Mayor Ernesto Chandler at a Victoria Urban District Council meeting as a "retro, mini-Coal Harbour mishmash".

[Caramia]

Vancouver Island is an urban node of the Greater Vancouver Megopolis Area, - also known as the "Gateway to the Pacific Rim." It has a charming secondary civic core called "Victoria" at the Southern tip, and then spreads out towards " Nanaimo" also known as "The meeting place," after aboriginal tradition, which passed Victoria as the region's primary central core in the 2050s. While Nanaimo is a bustling economy and high tech centre, Victoria is well known as a cultural and learning centre, and "Victoria education" signifies old world prestige.

Victoria's urban design is influenced by three major factors.... limited room for outward expansion due to natural boundaries (the ocean and the Malahat), factional neighbourhood politics, and a trend towards "neo-traditional urban planning" and "sustainable urban planning" - two post-industrial concepts in the rudimentary western feng shui that was popular around the turn of the millenium. As a result of these three factors Victoria can be best described as a collection of highly differentiated urban villages, each only a few blocks in diametre, each with their own tiny suburban hinterland, village centre, demographic, and cultural makeup.

Although trade is vigorous between these centres, the degree of insularity is such that in the 2080s the noted linguistic anthropologist Lin Yee, who specialises in the study of dying languages noted that in Victoria, each village node had developped a distinct dialect. In fact, the Yuppy slang of Victoria-West was barely comprensible a few blocks away in The Harris Green Projects slum, or even to the chinglish spoken beyond the Ye Old Tweed Curtain.

[m0nkyman]

As capital of the Republic of Vancouver Island aka the Switzerland of the Pacific, Victoria truly began booming in the 2040's.

Densely populated from the chichi suburb of Sooke to the more working class northern neighbourhood of Duncan, It surpassed Vancouver in size in the 2060's as Vancouver's relevance dwindled with the opening of the northern Port of Prince Rupert.

The so called water wars of the 2040's ended with the breakdown of most large nation states including the US, China and Canada into smaller states. As an island state, Vancouver Island became considered a safe place to keep wealth, and as a water rich nation, it boomed in much the same way as Dubai did at the start of the century.

Victoria's wealth has attracted people from all over the world, and it's liberal immigration policy coupled with a zealous deportation policy has resulted in VI being accused of causing a brain drain from the dry nations. Although true, it has resulted in Victoria becoming the home of three world class Universities; Malahat, Uvic and Langford.

[Holden West]

Painstakingly reconstructed after the '35 quake, Victoria's picturesque Old Town is only a short walk from Fairfield Harbour. Tourists from all over the free world have their holo-scans taken in front of our unique, eclectic architecture. Youngsters flock to the latest sensory com-uploaders, while their parents are more likely to be found dancing at Victoria's oldest dining establishment, Mr. Salsa Blue Nile Café.

The Victoria and Duncan subway systems were finally linked underground with the completion of the Malahat/Cowichan tunnel. Excavated by nanobots over the course of twenty years, the Metro extension made it possible to travel from Victoria Central to Downtown Nanaimo in twenty minutes.

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[renthefinn]

It's Nanaimo

[Caramia]

oops fixed

[G-Man]

^I thought that you were expressing a linguistic name shift You know Swart's Bay --> Swartz Bay

[aastra]

2060: 4-story condo proposal for the parking lot behind Laurel Point is rejected.

The exasperated owner of the lot wonders if he'll ever be able to do anything with the property now that nobody drives cars anymore. This is his eighth redevelopment proposal.

JBNEA claims the parking lot is heritage.

[Mike K.]

^sounds about right.

[Ms. B. Havin]

...oh my, predictions! Sounds too much like an [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPxZCBkHTo8:554d6]"in the year 2525"[/url:554d6] kinda thing to me. Think I'll scamper back to 2007 instead!

[Icebergalley]

Us chattering types may benefit from I think it was Oscar Wilde who said...

"A cynic is one who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing"

Ms B.. I agree.. to paraphrase.. lets live for now but think long term...

[Caramia]

^I thought that you were expressing a linguistic name shift Smile You know Swart's Bay --> Swartz Bay

yeah! thats what I was doing!
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[Baro]

Cyborg raccoons that evolvoled in The Falls through the extreme bright light and radiation fromt he Marriot Hotel sign finally breaking the Esquimalt Harbour Tunnel barricades and wiping out the last remaining humans in the city after a bloody battle. Even though the humans planted emergency explosives in a tunnel, hoping to lure the raccoons in, they cleverly chewed through the detonation lines before attacking in the tunnel.

if only we had listened....

[Caramia]

Hindsight is 20/20

Come my brothers and sisters... we have a glorious future to plan!

[Icebergalley]

Caeamia..

Are those some of my neighbours from St. Ann's...?