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.

1:44 look at how much the baby trees have grown

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.

Will be awaiting the 2050 video

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

I love how the tree growth is relentless ;)

21:06, "not too many highrises in Vancouver, eh?" Oh how times have changed lol.

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

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.

So cool!

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

26:31 That surprised me!

I found this to be very enjoyable. Excellent work on timing the two videos together to give an almost stereo - vision.

Things looked more futuristic in the 90's.

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.

5:00 at the point where the first train in the opposite direction passed in 1990, the forth train passed in 2020

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!

I can still hear “this is an expo line train to... KiNG GeORgE”

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

21:05 June 1990, "Not too many high-rises in Vancouver, eh"? 21:18 June 2020, "Hold my beer"!

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.

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.

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.

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!

That moment when you realize you have thirty years of pressure washing to catch up on.

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.

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.

Even with all the really obvious changes like new massive buildings, the thing I notice most is how much the trees have grown.

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.

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.

Only those gorgeous mountains in the background have remained the same over the years!

Me: I need to find what has changed in a city ive never been to.

I can't believe you caught the black truck/car at the exact same time at 9:23 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e5ZygJdzzLSXoWg.html

It’s surprisingly incredible to see Canada Place when you exit the tunnels towards Waterfront in 1990, incredible!

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.

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.

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!

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.

Thanks! This was a fascinating experience and the effort is very much appreciated.

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.

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.

thanks for all your work on this. what a wonderful trip down memory lane

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!

Thank you for this, it was amazing to watch. Loved seeing the growth of the city and all of the trees.

30 years and city and rails looks almost same. Well planned and it will never get old beautiful ❤️ from India.

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!

Crazy how big the trees got.

Interesting to watch the growth of the greenery as well

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.

Best game of ‘spot the difference’ I’ve ever played

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.

I love seeing how much the trees have grown.

1:45 the trees!

Fascinating! So well done. Thank you for sharing it!

I don’t know why is this in my recommendation but I find this to be very interesting

Great video!! I was surprised by the trees and the appearance of the high-rises.

What a fascinating trip this video was. I didn’t live in Vancouver until 2007, so seeing this was quite amazing!

My Dad was a bus driver, growing up riding the sky train in the late 80s and 90s, always watched for science world

Wow. So many sky scrapers have gone up, the Dome has changed. Thanks for the ride.😃

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.

Bravo trees (11:23)

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.

seeing the trees grow is so fascinating

I really loved seeing how much some things had changed yet how some things stayed exactly or nearly the same.

its really interesting seeing which buildings still stand! very cool video!

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.

Man I wish I could find one of New York! Awesome video!

This was a wonderful video. The huge differences..but so much the same. And yes ..the trees..Thank you . I thoroughly enjoyed it

Thank you for doing this. Quite a ride indeed!

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

Me: “Wow this is the perfect video to have on in the background while i fold laundry” *stares at the screen the entire time*

so much effort was put into this video man. keep up the good work

I feel like i'm playing a video version of spot the difference!

This is the video I never knew I needed to see! :D

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..

Fascinating, thanks for posting this

What an amazing video!!! Love this so much!!!!

WOW! This is so neat! We really need to see more things like this!

Amazing to see how much the trees have grown.

such a great video, thank you for uploading

this is the coolest thing ever, Vancouver and the skytrains are so neat

Wow. This is so cool to see. Thank you.

Very intuitive video! It's a "then and now" dynamic picture!

Wow...excellent work on editing this...must have been very difficult!!

Thank you! Really beautiful.

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 is why I love stuff like this because it shows just how much an area changes in the course of just 30 years

Fantastic video. Thank you for doing that!

Nice work dude👌👌. This video probably will help me out with my final project.

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!

good vid man! Im almost 40 and grew up riding that train back in the late 80s and early 90s

Awesome video... thanks for making it😃

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!

Well done! This is amazing!!

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.