Time for Vancouver to Tear Down Its Viaducts?

[csbvan]

Originally Posted by Vin

Tons of people around the world have seen our viaducts via TV series and movies as they are one of the favourite shoot locations, and what's more, the viaducts serve as a vital link for coach/tourist buses, like the Pacific Coach Lines, zipping to and from downtown to the Terminal bus station. Loads of visitors, tourists and locals have benefited from this vital link.

So yeah, despite not having your sarcastic tale as the true version, the viaducts are still our urban heritage.

It's not a vital link It is a replaceable piece of infrastructure that is underutilized and seismically less than ideal. A vital link would be the Cambie Street bridge. You are overselling these things so much that it is almost comical.

They will find a different road arrangement that works fine for traffic that would normally use the viaduct. Coaches won't be stranded at the bus station and tourists don't care what road network takes them from the bus station to the downtown.

All of this love for a piece of infrastructure that has created a schism between neighbourhoods is strange. Vancouver is hardly the only city taking down or replacing bulky viaducts and elevated road networks. This is what big cities around the world are doing right now.

http://gizmodo.com/6-freeway-demolitions-that-changed-their-cities-forever-1548314937