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There's a Bruce Cockburn song that was on the Billboard charts, "Wondering Where The Lions Are", which was a take on air pollution blocking the view of those Lions.

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This is what Vancouver wanted. Kind of like rampant homelessness cause in part by height restrictions and “view cones” not allowing high density housing.

West Vancouver did NOT want the great unwashed to even be ABLE to come over to the North Shore. Even NS drug addicts still have that "attitude".......plus being Brit doesn't help. God Save the King is on the NORTH side of the Bridge.

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That's awesome. Thanks for sharing your story.

What was your great grandpa's first name? Sound like mine.

@@AIMEE911 I have 3 stories, if you guess them all then we're related. 1. Before the city was established the pioneers such of west van - they made tents, coming from actual homes, on the beach (as they saw the potential) and without giving away the name, was someone a little surprised at what when they travelled over...? And from where? 2, or simply, what's the first letter of the last name! Actually unsure first name. I'll edit this when find out 3. the next grandfather (his son). What did he pioneer in west van after as an Engineer? It's a building and network still standing today.. and had to wake up at 4am sometimes to drive over and fix the [blank] on occasion.

@@YourBoyRob my grandpa's initials were g.b. Lived up in west van. Built own house in aboit 1955 after ww2 was a pilot got a medal for saving 2 other officers. Had a son, my uncle that fell from a local bridge in 1975, cable stuck on his leg... an iron worker rode a wrecking ball on a crane up and saved my uncle. Same initials.

I did a fireplace on a house built into the rock in West Van. (owned by old Japanese family money, local) Was that the house? I was told the lead Engineer for the bridge that that was his house. It listed for just under 4 million a few years back, and a photo of my fireplace casting was on it, but there were several fire places.

I think this would be great! Thanks for the idea

North Shore Brit and Iranian owners do NOT want the great unwashed to even be able to do the north shore. Seabus is an embarrasment enough. No chunnel, no Sky Train, no nada.

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Thank you! Will do!

Because it's 1939 and it was funded by the Guinness family so they could sell their land in the British properties.

Vancouver didn't even have 100,000 people in the 1930's. The problem always has been BC never looks to future planning.

It's 50% better than 2 lanes 😮

It was a two lane bridge originally.

It was the Depression. The bridge’s construction was ambitious for its time. We should ask ourselves why we still haven’t built a fixed rail link over the Burrard inlet, nearly a century later.

Agreed

Not necessarily. There are sky trains all over the city and to various suburbs yet the road traffic is worse than ever. I do not believe a sky train to the North Shore will change the traffic much anymore than it has to those places that already have sky train.

Thanks for watching. I will definately add the Cleveland Dam for future projects. Thanks for the suggestion.

@@HistoryOfBritishColumbia thank you I'm sure you have also considered the old riverview in Coquitlam

@@EskimoCanadian44 Riverview is definitely on my list for future projects

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Awesome, thank you!

Victoria also had a connection to the Guinness family. The owned and operated a farm in Saanich called Broadmead. It has now been built out as a large subdivision.

Definitely

You are absolutely correct. Thank you for pointing that out. The 2nd narrows road/rail bridge opened June 3, 1926 and Lions Gate Bridge opened Nov 14, 1938. 12 years later.

They close it because of drunk drivers. The risk of having the middle lane open could potentially cause a drunk driver to drift. They also keep it closed because between 10pm to 2am the cops, mostly from WVPD, perform sobriety checks.

I came in on the Ovation of the Seas last year and it felt like we were going to scrape the bottom of the bridge. It only starts and ends the season in Vancouver probably for that reason and sails out of Seattle the rest of the year. I watched a really good video that discussed this same subject by Uytae Lee that is worth a watch. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jrp0p9yJ38XReZ8.html

I'd be ok with a 6 lane tunnel, along with rail/skytrain. There was a proposal for this in the late 80's, but it never gained traction.

Problem is they're expecting a massive earthquake...and it's got them confused.

When I moved to Van. in 1978 I never understood the most expensive real estate was up a hill freezing and icy cold!!!

Regardless what price you pay for “your” views the rest of the city is entitled to beautiful views too. The view of the bridge with all its lights is iconic in Vancouver and I for one absolutely love it!!

I believe they made the lanes 18” wider! 😂😂

24”, I stand corrected.

It was deemed to be not just infrastructure but a landmark tourist draw, plus doubling the black top through Stanley park would be a non starter. Should’ve started the 3rd crossing tunnel about the same time they upgraded the bridgedeck.

Limited by both the width of the Stanley Park Causeway and the load bearing capacity of the bridge.