Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 335

bulliver · #**6681** Posted **Oct 5, 2010, 9:38 PM**

^ There's an article on it in The Greater Vancouver Book, but I don't have the book handy, and don't recall the alignment, but yeah, it was for transporting mail.

officedweller · #**6682** Posted **Oct 5, 2010, 9:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by PaperTiger

I believe it is the tunnel that runs from the post office down to the port. They built it when mail used to be transported by rail rather than by truck. I could be wrong though, I have never seen a map that showed its alignment.

Nope-.

It's the former CP Rail tunnel (the Dunsmuir Tunnel) that used to link the CP rail yards on False Creek to the CP Rail yards on Coal Harbour (the predecessor to the tunnel was the at-grade railway that is preserved by the right-of-way that cuts across Gastown and through the International Village Mall (the mall alignment is roughly along the RoW)).

The main portion of the tunnel is now used by SkyTrain. A new eastern portal was bored for the SkyTrain (at Stadium Station) since the original portal wasn't aligned in the proper direction.

mrjauk · #**6683** Posted **Oct 5, 2010, 10:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by IanS

I saw that the other day, on the way to a Canuck's game.

What's the tunnel for?

It's so that johns can easily escape the pimps of the "masseuses" that will invariably rent out a bunch of the condos when they're completed.

bulliver · #**6684** Posted **Oct 5, 2010, 10:42 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by officedweller

Nope-.

It's the former CP Rail tunnel (the Dunsmuir Tunnel) that used to link the CP rail yards on False Creek to the CP Rail yards on Coal Harbour (the predecessor to the tunnel was the at-grade railway that is preserved by the right-of-way that cuts across Gastown and through the International Village Mall (the mall alignment is roughly along the RoW)).

The main portion of the tunnel is now used by SkyTrain. A new eastern portal was bored for the SkyTrain (at Stadium Station) since the original portal wasn't aligned in the proper direction.

So is there a second downtown tunnel that was used for mail then? I know I read about a mail tunnel in that book...

hollywoodnorth · #**6685** Posted **Oct 5, 2010, 11:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by bulliver

So is there a second downtown tunnel that was used for mail then? I know I read about a mail tunnel in that book...

yes there was. but it was only used for a short period of time then retired.

Spork · #**6686** Posted **Oct 6, 2010, 4:55 AM**

Tunnels in Vancouver: http://simplespot.ca/forums/underground-city-vancouver

I once found a video on the post office tunnel, but could not find it again this time around.

red-paladin · #**6687** Posted **Oct 6, 2010, 7:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Nope-.

It's the former CP Rail tunnel (the Dunsmuir Tunnel) that used to link the CP rail yards on False Creek to the CP Rail yards on Coal Harbour (the predecessor to the tunnel was the at-grade railway that is preserved by the right-of-way that cuts across Gastown and through the International Village Mall (the mall alignment is roughly along the RoW)).

The main portion of the tunnel is now used by SkyTrain. A new eastern portal was bored for the SkyTrain (at Stadium Station) since the original portal wasn't aligned in the proper direction.

I bet they'll keep it and have access to it for filming again.
X-men two had a scene in there when the students were escaping from the Xavier School.

itinerant · #**6688** Posted **Oct 6, 2010, 4:52 PM**

Check out gvtv.ca for videos of Vancouver, but more specifically the video for the Dunsmuir tunnel is in the Archive. The link is here:

Dunsmuir Tunnel/Valve Station (7.4 MB .wmv)

officedweller · #**6689** Posted **Oct 6, 2010, 8:51 PM**

Received a notice about this project in the mail:

http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/rezoning/applications/10terryfox/index.htm

10 Terry Fox Way
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Open House: 5:30 pm -9:00 pm
Walking Tour: 6:00 pm (rain or shine)
Presentation: 7:00 pm
Roundhouse Community Centre - Room B

__________________

BTW - note that the context plan clearly shows Pacific Boulevard converted to a two-way street:

http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/rezoning/applications/10terryfox/documents/context.pdf

Hed Kandi · #**6690** Posted **Oct 6, 2010, 9:22 PM**

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Hed Kandi · #**6691** Posted **Oct 6, 2010, 10:01 PM**

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officedweller · #**6692** Posted **Oct 7, 2010, 12:58 AM**

You should start a new thread with that list like you had before.
BTW Panorama and 10 Terry Fox Way should be side by side since they are related.

flight_from_kamakura · #**6693** Posted **Oct 7, 2010, 5:12 PM**

has anyone heard anything at all about 999 seymour?

wrenegade · #**6694** Posted **Oct 7, 2010, 5:38 PM**

Apparently Townline is going to get the ball rolling again soon. But that could mean anything.

red-paladin · #**6695** Posted **Oct 7, 2010, 7:55 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by bulliver

^ There's an article on it in The Greater Vancouver Book, but I don't have the book handy, and don't recall the alignment, but yeah, it was for transporting mail.

"POST OFFICE TUNNEL Built in the late 1950s the tunnel beneath the main post office was obsolete almost before it was completed. It goes from the former CPR depot on Cordova, via Cordova to Richards, from Richards to Dunsmuir and from Dunsmuir to its gaping entrance in the basement of the post offrce. A two-way conveyor belt carried more than two tonnes of mail per minute from the CPR to the post office. This tunnel, four-and-a-half to 12 metres below the surface and just over two kilometres long, was hand-dug, drilled and blasted (through almost 13 tonnes of sandstone) by Jack Vanim, Art Lemon and their crews at a cost of $1.6 million. Now sealed at its northern (CPR) end, the tunnel was used very briefly before being abandoned."
From that site: http://simplespot.ca/forums/underground-city-vancouver

dreambrother808 · #**6696** Posted **Oct 8, 2010, 7:19 PM**

Fencing going up, site prep work for the restaurant going beside the beach at English Bay.

Porfiry · #**6697** Posted **Oct 8, 2010, 11:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by flight_from_kamakura

has anyone heard anything at all about 999 seymour?

Chatted with a guy from Townline today, and it sounded like it's definitely not on the radar.

SpongeG · #**6698** Posted **Oct 8, 2010, 11:20 PM**

2010 Olympic clock to be split in two

http://www.energeticcity.ca/fortstjohn/news/10/08/10/2010-olympic-clock-be-split-two

one half is going to go to Whistler...

SpongeG · #**6699** Posted **Oct 9, 2010, 12:07 AM**

more info...

This weekend last chance to take a photo with the Olympic countdown clock

Quote:

Over three days from Oct. 12 to 14, the clock will be taken apart in two pieces and moved permanently to two separate locations: The Olympic side of the clock will be relocated inside B.C. Place, while the Paralympic side of the clock will be moved to the Whistler Olympic Park at the Day Lodge.

Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/news/This+wee...ry.html?cid=megadrop_story#ixzz11occ15b2

the half staying in Vancouver will go inside BC place - inside the sports hall of fame? or?

Yume-sama · #**6700** Posted **Oct 9, 2010, 12:20 AM**

I wonder if they are going to do anything with the clock. Like, have it count up from how many days / years since the Olympics.

It's kinda useless to be at 0 all of the time.