Downtown Vancouver Updates

[delboy]

Originally Posted by entheosfog

A few quick snaps of recently re-opened Pigeon Park:

that could be such a neat area. I love the building at pigeon park. Are there any plans to redo it? It's a pretty unique building.

[flight_from_kamakura]

what is an "edmonton"?

[entheosfog]

Originally Posted by delboy

that could be such a neat area. I love the building at pigeon park. Are there any plans to redo it? It's a pretty unique building.

A few pages back someone mentioned that it was going to be restored then used as a storage facility for homeless people's belongings.
I think there was an article on it, too.

[SpongeG]

it reminds me of Forever 21 in san francisco

[Locked In]

Some small updates from yesterday.

The lot next to the spot at Nelson and Seymour (Olympic Irish house?):



Some rebar sticking up at the corner of Granville and Nelson:



(my photos)

[delboy]

Originally Posted by entheosfog

A few pages back someone mentioned that it was going to be restored then used as a storage facility for homeless people's belongings.
I think there was an article on it, too.

hell of a nice storage unit. What a waste.

[hollywoodnorth]

anyone see the work going on at the BC Hydro Tower on Dunsmuir..........

looks to me as if they are renoing the lobby and putting up a tent or something on the park area to the side of the lobby.......2010 Games Pavilion I assume....

anyone have any insight?

[junius]

Originally Posted by delboy

that could be such a neat area. I love the building at pigeon park. Are there any plans to redo it? It's a pretty unique building.

I heard it was going to be converted into an Art Gallery or something like that. I do believe there are long term plans for this building.

[delboy]

Originally Posted by junius

I heard it was going to be converted into an Art Gallery or something like that. I do believe there are long term plans for this building.

that would be much more fitting. The area has tons of potential. The greenway is really going to revive the area. Very exciting to watch an area, especially one like the DTES, in transition.

[officedweller]

The second strip of the Royal Bank Tower wrap is finally going up. At this rate there'll only be one or two wraps in the whole City before February!

[radacal]

Who's the dimwit that thought that removing the left turn lanes on Pacific and putting a sidewalk down the middle of the street was a good idea? Seriously, I've yet to see one person on that sidewalk in the middle.

[mezzanine]

^^ I was just in Paris and they are also installing them in the abscence of a tranist ROW. There is a new one right by the Quai Branley Museum.

[IanS]

Originally Posted by radacal

Who's the dimwit that thought that removing the left turn lanes on Pacific and putting a sidewalk down the middle of the street was a good idea? Seriously, I've yet to see one person on that sidewalk in the middle.

I agree. I live down there and I've never seen anyone use that silly sidewalk. It would be funny if we hadn't lost a left turn lane because of it.

[duener]

Originally Posted by radacal

Who's the dimwit that thought that removing the left turn lanes on Pacific and putting a sidewalk down the middle of the street was a good idea? Seriously, I've yet to see one person on that sidewalk in the middle.

Left turn lanes belong in the suburbs, with drive-thrus, strip malls, free parking, i.e. a car oriented environment.

Downtown is the one tiny fraction of the city where it's comfortable walking around rather than driving. Left turn lanes make the pedestrian crossing longer and more uncomfortable.

[s211]

Originally Posted by radacal

Who's the dimwit that thought that removing the left turn lanes on Pacific and putting a sidewalk down the middle of the street was a good idea? Seriously, I've yet to see one person on that sidewalk in the middle.

Read my sig; get your answer.

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by radacal

Who's the dimwit that thought that removing the left turn lanes on Pacific and putting a sidewalk down the middle of the street was a good idea? Seriously, I've yet to see one person on that sidewalk in the middle.

Originally Posted by IanS

I agree. I live down there and I've never seen anyone use that silly sidewalk. It would be funny if we hadn't lost a left turn lane because of it.

Any chance of a picture of this?? It sounds too kooky to be real! Thanks.

[SpongeG]

go back a page or two there are pics in here somewhere

[Smooth]

Here it is...

Originally Posted by PopYourColla

I walked down the sidewalk on the re-done Pacific Blvd. today. It felt kinda wierd but it made the street seem far less freeway than before.

pic by me

[Yume-sama]

I just don't understand that....

[trofirhen]

Indeed, it is a bit strange. And right now, with freshly ploughed earth all over it, it's all muddy and all the less appealing. Oh well, people may take to it, or they may not. We're not the only city to try kooky things. But down the middle of a busy boulevard? ...... it IS a bit strange.....

Thanks again for posting the pic, smooth