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Originally Posted by casper
St. Paul's is the most interesting in that is on the downtown peninsula and serves the core or Vancouver and has outgrown its building. The solution is a completely new hospital campus located downtown but this time next to the Pacific Central Station.
Here is the video of what is planned:
• Video Link
The website for the project: http://thenewstpauls.ca/ |
Thanks for the video and the hospital looks great.
I can however see one big problem. For those of you who are unaware, the 2 elevated but separate lanes you see in the photo are the Georgia Viaduct. The viaduct offers a short little bypass to downtown by not having to take Pender {thru Chinatown}, Granville {thru skid-row}, and thru slow moving Gastown.
The problem?...........Vancouver is intent on tearing down the viaducts. It will be interesting to see how this will playout. The city will tear down the viaducts because they want some more green space and a lot more condos in the area and it has the stigma of being the only part of the once cancelled Chinatown Expressway to get built and Vancouver doesn't "do" expressways.
With the viaducts gone, getting the tens of thousands in the West End to the new St.Pauls in an emergency is going to be VERY time consuming and potentially deadly.