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Old Posted Mar 11, 2019, 10:47 PM
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Arrow Waterfront Station Discussion

Altho the plan for Central Waterfront Hub was approved in 2009 (10 years ago!) and nothing came to fruition since, we do have potential to revive this topic if the Cascadia High Speed Rail gains momentum and chooses a terminus at Waterfront Station.

The 2009 concept:



New glass concourse to serve as the main hub of the expanded node. It indicates a future rail line accomodated:


Interesting perspective from back then... convention west wasn't even built yet!


Street extensions:



Even looks at taxi and potential streetcar options:


3-Level transit hub:


Cross section:


Really hope something comes of this soon so that the ugly duo (Harbour Centre & Granville Square) towers can be less visible in our skyline!!!!!

This plan really shows how Waterfront Station can be expanded to accomodate traffic and volume from a potential Cascadia high speed rail terminus, and serve as the best connection for 1) downtown-to-downtown; 2) connections to the rest of the city with Canada/Expo skytrain lines, seabus & WCE.

Pics & info from Daily Hive & City of Vancouver.

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Old Posted Mar 12, 2019, 2:25 AM
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I am getting some wicked Project 200 vibes from that proposal.



There is no denying that we cannot deactivate the rail yard but I am all for almost any decision to safely build over it, if not to future-proof options for heavy rail transport.
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basically a mini version of what was proposed in the 1960s. and people worry we're going backwards.




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Old Posted Mar 12, 2019, 3:29 AM
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you are literally dreaming if you think HSR (which is already a fantasy by itself) will terminate at Waterfront. There's simply no room and the freight tracks aren't going away.
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