Metro Vancouver Road Infrastructure Discussion - Page 109

spm2013 · #**2161** Posted **Jul 28, 2014, 8:32 PM**

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Big trucks will continue to rumble through New Westminster.

The Board of Directors at Translink has declined the City of New Westminster’s request to get truck traffic off three major roadways, and deferred a decision on a fourth.

That means trucks will continue to use East Eighth Avenue, Royal Avenue, and East Columbia Street from Brunette to Braid Street.

A decision on Ewan Avenue is pending.

While the board gets where the city is coming from on this, it says giving the city what it wanted would have had an negative impact on the regional movement of goods, and that can’t be allowed.

http://www.cknw.com/2014/07/28/new-w...truck-traffic/

twoNeurons · #**2162** Posted **Jul 28, 2014, 8:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Based on the cities I have visited, this seems pretty accurate. Honolulu is brutal... good thing they are getting Skytrain soon.

They're not getting SkyTrain. Bombardier lost that bid to AnsaldoBreda (the company that made Copenhagen's metro).

Cars will be 39m long.
Stations will be built 74m long. Long enough to double the train length.
89km/h top speed
Full automated & elevated
Standard gauge
Third rail powered

Shares a lot in common with SkyTrain

Alex Mackinnon · #**2163** Posted **Jul 28, 2014, 11:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Pinion

Apparently the Powell st overpass is now finished and open to the public. Carmageddon cancelled. Maybe now I can consider working downtown again.

Photo from Richard Campbell (@wrychrd) yesterday

Well, it wasn't open this morning. I'll check in on it. Last week I asked some electricians installing street lights when completion was. They said August.

Pinion · #**2164** Posted **Jul 28, 2014, 11:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Alex Mackinnon

Well, it wasn't open this morning. I'll check in on it. Last week I asked some electricians installing street lights when completion was. They said August.

Either it's open or a bunch of people on Twitter are lying about using it for no reason.

AM730 said it opened at 11am. Google maps says it's open too.

madog222 · #**2165** Posted **Jul 29, 2014, 12:18 AM**

^His twitter seems to only be about cycling, trolley bus wires still need to be installed.

adrianroam95 · #**2166** Posted **Jul 29, 2014, 12:21 AM**

Vancity Buzz and Global BC say the overpass is now open:

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2014/07/n...treet-closure/
http://globalnews.ca/news/1478478/po...e-than-a-year/

Video from news1130 from July 24th:

http://www.news1130.com/2014/07/24/p...-in-vancouver/

hollywoodnorth · #**2167** Posted **Jul 29, 2014, 1:11 AM**

I can confirm Powell Street is now open!!

looked 100% ready to go when I was in the area yesterday.

Pinion · #**2168** Posted **Jul 29, 2014, 1:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by adrianroam95

Vancity Buzz and Global BC say the overpass is now open:

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2014/07/n...treet-closure/
http://globalnews.ca/news/1478478/po...e-than-a-year/

Vancity Buzz probably got that from our posts here as usual. At least someone believed me though.

hollywoodnorth · #**2169** Posted **Jul 29, 2014, 3:30 AM**

update to the city page >>

http://vancouver.ca/home-property-de...s-project.aspx

Construction now complete on the Powell Street Overpass

July 28, 2014 — The Powell Street Overpass project is complete. Minor finishing work such as landscaping and trolley wire installation will be ongoing until fall 2014. We thank you for your patience during this project.

Metro-One · #**2170** Posted **Jul 29, 2014, 3:37 AM**

If you guys get a chance I would love to see some pics! Same goes for the new 1km long elevated road along in the port.

jlousa · #**2171** Posted **Jul 29, 2014, 6:52 AM**

Rode over it on my motorcycle after reading the posts that it might be open. It is open, glad to have it back will certainly fix the traffic jam that has backed up Cordova St for the last year. The overpass itself is pretty badly finished though, the asphalt isn't great and the concrete deck is quite rough definitely caught me by surprise. Looks like they rushed things at the end and skimped on the finishing.

hollywoodnorth · #**2172** Posted **Jul 29, 2014, 7:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by jlousa

Rode over it on my motorcycle after reading the posts that it might be open. It is open, glad to have it back will certainly fix the traffic jam that has backed up Cordova St for the last year. The overpass itself is pretty badly finished though, the asphalt isn't great and the concrete deck is quite rough definitely caught me by surprise. Looks like they rushed things at the end and skimped on the finishing.

as well it seems to have made an immediate effect on Terminal/Grandview Viaduct! at last!

spm2013 · #**2173** Posted **Jul 29, 2014, 1:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

as well it seems to have made an immediate effect on Terminal/Grandview Viaduct! at last!

I guess the Main St construction recently hasn't helped.

Alex Mackinnon · #**2174** Posted **Jul 29, 2014, 3:38 PM**

Cordova is still 1 lane due to a big pile of dirt, and the busses are still running down Hastings. Other than, everything is open. Hooray

theKB · #**2175** Posted **Jul 29, 2014, 5:16 PM**

good to see they implemented the bike lane as part of the construction instead of adding it after the fact. Now I wonder if vision will plan on taking out a lane the rest of powell...

Zassk · #**2176** Posted **Jul 29, 2014, 5:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by Pinion

Apparently the Powell st overpass is now finished and open to the public. Carmageddon cancelled. Maybe now I can consider working downtown again.

Photo from Richard Campbell (@wrychrd) yesterday

Question: what have they done with the bike lane in this picture? It doesn't look straight or flat. It almost looks like they modified it after building it... before the project was even opened.

go_leafs_go02 · #**2177** Posted **Jul 29, 2014, 5:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zassk

Question: what have they done with the bike lane in this picture? It doesn't look straight or flat. It almost looks like they modified it after building it... before the project was even opened.

I'm assuming it is a transit stop. Raised to provide accessible connections from the sidewalk to the stop itself. This is typical on Hornby as well in downtown.

makr3trkr · #**2178** Posted **Aug 1, 2014, 5:46 PM**

http://www.vancouversun.com/business...518/story.html
Bruce Constantineau, Vancouver Sun July 31, 2014

"The city has invited offers on 12 parcels of land contained within the Granville Bridge's northeast off-ramp and loop, which will be decommissioned and removed.

The land has a total assessed value of $36.14 million and bids from potential buyers are being accepted until Aug. 15."

image: Cressey Development Group

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Looks like all movements are still retained, so not particularly sad to see them go.

As an aside, this obviously has different zoning, but it's interesting as a point of contrast for the speculated value of the Arbutus corridor (especially considering this is only one offramp, not both).

spm2013 · #**2179** Posted **Aug 1, 2014, 6:00 PM**

Well they're going to build a 60-storey skyscraper so the land is probably more valuable

makr3trkr · #**2180** Posted **Aug 1, 2014, 11:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by spm2013

Well they're going to build a 60-storey skyscraper so the land is probably more valuable

It's not the same quadrant:

http://vancouverhouse.ca/

What is going inside the actual loop is still up in the air.

Just interesting that one offramp (not even both) is valued significantly higher than an entire north-south corridor.