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Originally Posted by originalhypa
Very cool!
Just to add a little to this, I was taught that the viaducts were an experiment in how they proposed to build the highway. Federal funding allowed for a km of elevated highway which they used to build the viaducts. Ideas changed in the late 60's and the public was now against a highway running through Vancouver. So they turfed the plans and ran with the viaduct as a way into the DT core.
This is eerily reminiscent of the Deas Island tunnel/bridge fiasco. In 50 years our grandkids could be talking about how they had a plan for the crossing, and never went through with it.
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Unfortunately, the viaduct was also a means to displace Vancouver's black population at the time.
Crazy. Jimi Hendrix grandmother lived at Hogan's alley for decades
https://www.vancouverheritagefoundat.../hogans-alley/