5 dead, 10 injured after falls into Vancouver's Grandview Cut over the past decade

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/grandview-cut-falls-9.7202509  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Grandview+Cut

The Old Georgia Viaduct and Burrard Street Bridge

The first Georgia_Viaduct was supposed to have 2 active streetcar tracks in the middle. Unfortunately, no one in authority was around to make sure that the viaduct would be strong enough to support fully loaded streetcars, as well as trucks and cars. So, it was just for cars and trucks.

https://www2.laiwanette.net/fountain/project/georgia-viaduct-archive 

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history-the-great-georgia-harris-viaduct-opens-in-1915 

https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/10a4f31/tbt_downtown_georgia_viaduct_october_5_1957

The Burrard_Bridge was also suppose to have 2 streetcar tracks, but in typical Vancouver style, it never happened.

 https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2017/10/02/burrard-bridge-1934when-motordom-reigned-supreme/

The original configuration of the BB had a 6 lane top deck and a provision for 2 streetcar or tram-train tracks on a lower level.

https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2017/10/04/burrard-bridge-always-controversial/

Given the backward Vancouver planning mentality, a 2 level bridge was like something out of a Sci-Fi movie. Thus, a lower level crossing was never completed. 

https://vancouversun.com/news/metro/vancouvers-viaducts-were-built-in-anticipation-of-a-freeway-that-never-happened The freeways plans between the 1950s and 1970s would have meant clearing various swaths of land through the city.

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/history/georgia-viaduct-1915-1933837 

https://placesthatmatter.ca/location/georgia-st-viaduct/ 

https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2009/02/08/tear-down-that-viaduct

https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2015/01/13/john-mackie-the-georgia-viaduct-and-the-freeway-fight-1972

https://scoutmagazine.ca/vancouver-lexicon-grandview-cut After the official cancelation of the freeway, the viaducts should have continued in the form of 2 express bus lanes into the Grandview Cut.

https://www.facebook.com/elevationrailway/videos/climbing-the-grandview-cut/10153022444271781/

https://www.tiktok.com/@uncouver/video/7234753547152133381 By the mid 1970s, the Grandview Cut should have been upgraded to being double tracked. That would have made it easier for the flow of freight trains, Amtrack and a future commuter train to and from Abbotsford and the Lower Fraser Valley. 

https://globalnews.ca/news/3701535/bc-hydro-proposed-new-cycling-and-pedestrian-bridge-for-grandview-cut Not only should the Grandview Cut have been double tracked, but have 2 rapid bus lanes and 2 bike lanes and footpaths. 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/128486813979056/posts/1106138719547189/

https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/streetscape-design.aspx 

Vancouver just had to be one of the first cities to get rid of its streetcars and interurban tram-trains. It will likely be one of the last cities to reinstate some of its streetcar lines. 

BC Government housing near Nanaimo Station in E. Vancouver

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/3805-3919-nanaimo-street-vancouver-coromandel-bc-government-housing

Proper big planning should have been implemented at least a few decades ago. Now people have finally been bought out so that denser housing can be put in.

https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/grandview-woodland-community-plan.aspx

The Broadway Station area remains a constipated mess. Stubborn people refuse to accept or be bought out, because NIMBY is the perpetual way to be in BC. Nevermind a magnificent 80 story tower, even 40 floors is too much for this constipated part of Vancouver.

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/two-more-towers-up-to-80-storeys-tall-more-rental-housing-could-be-coming-to-burnabys-brentwood-8461795

The intersection of 2 Skytrain lines, but no Brentwood size towers. 

The trench or cut at Commercial_and_Broadway could easily be covered over, so that big towers can go up. However, the constipated NIMBYs refuse to receive an urban enema & be pushed out. They don't want growth, because that means more non-white people in their neighborhood. But as long as they don't set up a bunch of KEEP THEM OUT signs, their agenda remains strong. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial%E2%80%93Broadway_station

https://www.translink.ca/schedules-and-maps/station/commercial-broadway/map

Vancouver & the metropolitan region remains very stunted when compared to Toronto & Montreal. At least Burnaby, Coquitlam & Surrey are starting to allow a larger scale.

grandview-cut-bridge-central-valley-greenway

http://urbanyvr.com/grandview-cut-bridge-central-valley-greenway

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