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Originally Posted by Alex Mackinnon
Has anyone got any potential plans for what a malkin connector would look like?
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It basically follows the current alignment of Malkin Ave. along False Creek flats.
Speaking of which.... that was also the alignment chosen for the only City of Vancouver freeway plan (circa 1970) that made any logical sense.
The current end of the viaducts were to continue along Malkin Ave. as a "free-flow" highway and connect to the Grandview Cut whereby twin, 3-lane viaducts were to be constructed with a gap in the middle to allow the diesel exhaust to fan out from the railway below.
At the eastern end of the Grandview Cut the 6-lane "free-flow" highway would connect directly to Hwy 1 taking regional thru traffic away from the municipal street system (Hastings, 1st Ave, 12th Ave.) making those city streets more livable for the residents that reside adjacent to them.
That Swan Wooster engineering report was pretty cool inclusive of the detailed design drawings. Over the years, people seem to bring up that plan albeit only one such 3-lane directional viaduct could ever be built through the Cut with the current Millenium Line configuration. Another 3-lane directional would probably need to be constructed as tunnel. Vancouver is not ready for that yet - the "European" solution.
Even one Toronto municipal party is now advocating the completion of "missing link" expressways within the city (through tunneling) in conjunction with a large expansion of transit infrastructure.
http://www.thetorontoparty.com/trans...ion_posit.html
Bits and pieces of Vancouver's Malkin/Grandview freeway plan also seem to resurrect themselves over the years albeit not in "free-flow" form but in typical City of Vancouver municipal street format.
First it was Mayor Mike Harcourt during the early 1980's promoting the Grandview Cut as a "truck route" and now it's Malkin Ave. as a 4-lane municipal connector.