While these picture forums have been inundated by pictures of Vancouver proper, it is time to see some pics from the suburbs. Burnaby has a population just over 200 000 residents and is located directly east of Vancouver, Canada proper. It is well serviced by skytrain (our metro system) and is also home to the regions second largest University, "Simon Fraser." To the North of Burnaby is Burrard Inlet, to the south is the Fraser River, and to the east are the suburbs of New Westminster and Coquitlam (of which i plan to do photo threads of later.) Although it can not compare to Vancouver proper, i feel as a suburb Burnaby does posses a strong commercial atmosphere and has developed numerous built up areas around transit stations seldom seen in North American suburbs. The most impressive of these is metro-Vancouver's second largest core (after downtown Vancouver of course) called Metrotown. Keep in mind none of these pictures show Vancouver itself, this is all suburbia (including all skyline shots)
First up is Metrowtown
The next pics are taken from a completely different area of Burnaby, i new town center called "Brentwood" also being built along mass transit.
There are two more town centers with towers in Burnaby built along skytrain, but i only have one pic of one and none of the other, here is Lougheed town center from the distance. (the one i have none of is Edmonds)
Here are some pics of the casino and the #1 highway.
And last but not least is Deer Lake Park, which sits in the middle of all these town centers and is a great place to walk, jog, bike ride and row all year long. it is only a 10 min walk from Metrotown.
Thank you for taking a look! I know many hate the suburbs but i feel Burnaby has done a good job making them almost as livable as downtown.
Here is a link to my flicker account:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30634635@N03/