Vancouver's Proposed 3rd Crossing of Burrard Inlet - the 1960's

Stingray2004 · #1 Posted: **Jan 20, 2008, 8:23 AM**

Some proposed renderings of the Third Crossing Of Burrard Inlet during the 1960's: (sorry for the side sroll)

excel · #2 Posted: **Jan 20, 2008, 9:21 AM**

cool renders.

mr.x · #3 Posted: **Jan 20, 2008, 10:36 AM**

my worst nightmare, rendered and depicted.

Aylmer · #4 Posted: **Jan 20, 2008, 12:53 PM**

In the 60's, they seemed to like everything concrete...

vanman · #5 Posted: **Jan 20, 2008, 5:27 PM**

We are so lucky that the province and the feds back then did not have such a good relationship as now. According to yesterday's sun that was the real reason why none of these freeway plans took off, the feds backed out at the last minute. Btw don't go to Canada.com apparently it is one of 100s of legit sites that are infected with that new silent banker trojan virus.

osirisboy · #6 Posted: **Jan 20, 2008, 5:52 PM**

the one thing i do like is having a tunnel as a 3rd crossing over to the north shore, although not like how they planned in the above renderings.

nathan6969 · #7 Posted: **Jan 20, 2008, 6:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by vanman

We are so lucky that the province and the feds back then did not have such a good relationship as now. According to yesterday's sun that was the real reason why none of these freeway plans took off, the feds backed out at the last minute. Btw don't go to Canada.com apparently it is one of 100s of legit sites that are infected with that new silent banker trojan virus.

Some of the pictures in the sun were incredible, at the extreme they would basically have turned downtown into a giant interchange, with a huge trench cutting it right down the middle.

AKA-007 · #8 Posted: **Jan 20, 2008, 7:28 PM**

That would put a huge scar into the skyline from the North Shore. Glad we can't fit it now. Too bad back then they didn't think "hey, we could use a second Lions Gate Bridge because these lanes are too narrow and in 40 years it will be a pain in the ass. And why don't we fit it for rapid transit while we're at it, we just might need it."

Coldrsx · #9 Posted: **Jan 20, 2008, 7:33 PM**

dodged a bullet there...brutal...although i still think a tunnel at the end of burrard to northshore would be coo

Nutterbug · #10 Posted: **Apr 1, 2008, 6:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by Coldrsx

dodged a bullet there...brutal...although i still think a tunnel at the end of burrard to northshore would be coo

Skytrain tunnel...eventually.