Doesn’t Vancouver have a history of rejecting highway plans?
Since plans to build a freeway system through Vancouver were first proposed in the late 1950s, many of the city’s residents have voiced strong opposition to freeway projects. Original plans would have made Broadway Ave, 16th Ave, Oak Street, Cambie Street, Clark Street and much of what is now Yaletown into freeways. Later proposals made variations to these plans, including the use of the Burrard and Granville bridges as freeway components. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, residents organized and rejected freeway plans when, among other things, vast sections of Chinatown and Strathcona were slated for pavement.
