Highways in Canada

[dmuzika]

Originally Posted by sa230e

Don't let the tunnels fool you, the Herb Gray Parkway required MASSIVE expropriation. It did not, and was not meant to, preserve the existing suburban landscape. Anything standing on the site of the future freeway and tunnels was bulldozed and dug up. Even homes and businesses that were out of the way were demolished to make room for ramps, feeder roads, bike paths and parkland. The Huron Church corridor looked pretty desolate for a while.

It took 15 years to get approval for the project in Windsor. It's inconceivable that would fly in downtown Vancouver.

I think if there is going to be a tunneled freeway in Vancouver it'll probably have to be more like A-720 in Montreal than the 401 in Windsor. I.e, a real tunnel, bored deep under the city, not the cut and cover tunnels used here in Windsor (which, as nice as they are, are more like really big overpasses).

Point taken (re: tunnels saving above ground infastructure). Just for clarification, Boundary Road does not go through downtown Vancouver, rather it forms the border between Vancouver and Burnaby. It would not improve access to downtown but serve as an urban bypass for Hwy 99.