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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Cambie's been a Heritage Boulevard since 1930-47 (Council merely made it official in '93), so probably never on the table. Not a big deal.
There's even an old streetcar ROW they can use... assuming they can un-convert it from park space.
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Pretty sure we literally just had a major discussion about the preservation of historical property.
But really, the space underneath Skytrain tracks (outside the station areas) didn't have to be barren- there are plenty of shade-loving plants, and Richmond has plants underneath the Skytrain tracks as well (including where it's double-tracked.)
The reason Cambie
specifically, and not King Edwards (for example, which has very similar street design, and is still not in the heritage register) was declared 'historic' was due to worries about RAV being built on top of it by nearby NIMBYs.
They're also planning on building the UBC Extension elevated atop the University Blvd median (also designed similarly).
They can probably keep the trail with the streetcar/BRT south of Granville Ave, similar to the Artubus Streetcar.
The bigger issue is that the tracks after Granville Ave were removed a much longer time ago vs the tracks from Granville to Steveston, so the corridor is narrower from there to Bridgeport.
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