Comments on: Project 200 and the Waterfront Freeway https://evelazarus.com/project-200-and-the-waterfront-freeway/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:58:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Concrete octopus: Some unrealized Vancouver rapid transit plans. | Stuff I Done Wrote - The Michael A. Charles Online Presence https://evelazarus.com/project-200-and-the-waterfront-freeway/#comment-4839 Sun, 19 May 2019 07:30:19 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6916#comment-4839 […] As the seventies arrived, megalomaniacal neighbourhood-razing schemes were falling out of vogue. Notice that this map from a 1972 study still has its rapid transit lines terminating at “Project 200” – a massive waterfront redevelopment proposal then in its death throes. […]

]]> By: Re-Inventing CPR Station/Waterfront Centre | Vancouver As It Was: A Photo-Historical Journey https://evelazarus.com/project-200-and-the-waterfront-freeway/#comment-4162 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 23:59:54 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6916#comment-4162 […] situated where the 2nd CPR station had been located until 1914 (demolished that year) and where the Project 200/Granville Square platform ultimately would be built (above the platforms) in the early 1970s. It […]

]]> By: Raymond Parker https://evelazarus.com/project-200-and-the-waterfront-freeway/#comment-3405 Tue, 24 Jan 2017 16:31:41 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6916#comment-3405 Though the Georgia Viaduct destroyed Hogan’s Alley and disrupted Union Street, it did provide an excellent base for my camera gear in the 1980s. On the NW exit, I photographed the beginning of the development of Keefer Place, the Sun Building Woodward’s “W”, etc., all now obscured by the condo towers … and, of course, that vantage point will be gone if plans to demolish the viaduct proceed.

]]> By: terry slack https://evelazarus.com/project-200-and-the-waterfront-freeway/#comment-3403 Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:42:11 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6916#comment-3403 How about the North Fraser River Harbour Commission with plans for a Massive Ferry Terminal and bridge to Point Grey on the Iona Island Jetty and Highway across Sea Island to Y. V. R, and the Freeway ?
I still got a copy of the first concept report .

]]> By: John Atkin https://evelazarus.com/project-200-and-the-waterfront-freeway/#comment-3400 Sun, 22 Jan 2017 09:45:08 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6916#comment-3400 Project 200 and the Waterfront freeway died because of the dispute between the two senior governments. Without their contribution the whole project didn’t make financial sense and collapsed.

The east/west freeway running through the east side and Strathcona died because of grassroots opposition.

BTW, Woodwards survived because they were investors in Project 200.

]]> By: Doug Parks https://evelazarus.com/project-200-and-the-waterfront-freeway/#comment-3399 Sun, 22 Jan 2017 00:06:55 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=6916#comment-3399 Thank God that never happened. BUT having said that leave the damned viaducts alone.

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