Vancouver unveils plan to replace viaducts with ‘super road’, more housing
The Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts could be demolished almost immediately, paving the way for new housing and a neighbourhood park system, if the plan is approved by council this fall.
On Tuesday, city transportation planners unveiled a new plan to create a “super road” around the north end of False Creek that would allow for the accelerated destruction of the viaducts and create more than 850,000 square feet of new housing space in Strathcona. It would also affect several other planned changes, including the construction of a long-awaited truck bypass route along Malkin Street.
The plan has yet to be approved, and the planners will bring back a final version within months, but the general proposal received thumbs up from both Vision Vancouver and Non-Partisan Association councillors.