Downtown Vancouver Updates

[SpongeG]

it will be the street car run eventually - better than just grass it makes sense at the east end of it - easier to join

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by Yume-sama

I just don't understand that....

Maybe they were trying for some kind of "special effect."
(I think they succeeded, but how 'special' do you want to get)??

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

it will be the street car run eventually - better than just grass it makes sense at the east end of it - easier to join

Assuming that the street cars will run parallel to each other, how will they squish two street cars onto that? Otherwise, if it's one ROW only, doesn't that complicate things a bit? It still seems strange to me.

[sacrifice333]

it's very silly... but it's temporary and the future home of a streetcar... yes in the mean time it's ridiculous, but it will be great (eventually)

[SpongeG]

if you are walking from cambie - like where that peter nygard is - to urban fare the middle sidewalk is your best option to pick i think you can easily get to it and than just walk down the middle

[officedweller]

The middle sidewalk doesn't start til west of Davie (the block from Cambie to Davie doesn't have it because it is narrower due to the double turn lanes (to the Cambie Bridge). The median est of Davie has trees on one side and presumably will have lots of grass to fill it out where the turn lane would have been.

In the inside lane eastbound opposite the HSBC, there's a massive "hump" in that lane due to poor paving that you really have to slow down for, otherwise you could lose control of your car.

[IanS]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

if you are walking from cambie - like where that peter nygard is - to urban fare the middle sidewalk is your best option to pick i think you can easily get to it and than just walk down the middle

I don't think it runs to Cambie. I'm going from memory, but I think the odd sidewalk just goes for one black, between Drake and Davie.

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by sacrifice333

it's very silly... but it's temporary and the future home of a streetcar... yes in the mean time it's ridiculous, but it will be great (eventually)

I think the biggest problem with doing this "intermediate" step (besides taking away the left turn lanes. Every area of a city needs at least one slightly higher capacity street with some traffic function, again, it is silly to make every street as if it is a local neighborhood street) is that when it does come time to tear it up and build the tram (which i do support and think is a great idea) you can gurentee that there is going to be some bizarre support group that is going to protest the sidewalk's and the tree's removal. in this city, guaranteed!

Also, would it not be nice to have that money back for our budget shortfall?

[Yume-sama]

If it is going to be a future street car, it would have made sense to not spend untold hundreds of thousands (or millions?) creating a rather silly sidewalk down the middle of the road that doesn't really lead to anything, until you build the actual street car. Which I do think is a nice idea, if it ever happens. But alas, that's why the city is broke and closing the conservatory and other things. I'd bet this sidewalk could have funded that for a few years.

[SpongeG]

lol never mind i thought i saw it run east fromd davie - there is alos a sidewalk in the middle further east near that restaurant with the broken glass

[dleung]

Too much investment for something so temporary. They should have just built the station islands + median strips (which is inevitable if you want traffic separation for the trams), as intermediate safe-zones for jay-walkers, and just leave the in-between space as is.

[NetMapel]

I'm kind of curious how they will have stations if the street car track is in the middle of the road ? Is that what the "side walk" is for in the middle of the median ? I haven't been along the Pacific Blvd for a long time, so I'm kind of curious from where to where along the Pacific Blvd did it get renovated with this median in the middle ?

[SpongeG]

they don't really use stations just a bench like a bus stop

in toronto they are in the middle of the road and you walk off and sometimes there is a car right where you get off

[dleung]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

they don't really use stations just a bench like a bus stop

Yea when i said station, i meant like a 2x15-metre slab of concrete median. I wouldn't think it'll cost any more than the fancy path and trees.

[NetMapel]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

they don't really use stations just a bench like a bus stop

in toronto they are in the middle of the road and you walk off and sometimes there is a car right where you get off

Well I don't mean a fancy station, but the median in the middle of that Pacific Blvd look awfully thin. I gather it'd be just enough to squeeze in two street car lines, but where's the space for people to get on and off safely ?

[entheosfog]

nm

[officedweller]

FYI - TD Tower wrap - south and west sides - 15th to 26th floors.

[Hed Kandi]

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[SFUVancouver]

I snapped a couple photos of the model for Bentall 6 through the window of B+B Scale Models on Granville Island.

[giallo]

Interesting. I'd love if it was clad in an ultra reflective chrome-like skin. Anything but that sea foam green.