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Granville Mall, Vancouver
The Granville Mall is a transit mall and pedestrian zone in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It comprises the section of Granville Street in Downtown Vancouver between Hastings and Smithe Streets. Most routes that service the mall are primarily trolleybuses operated by TransLink. In addition to bus service, the Granville Mall can be accessed by SkyTrain from either Granville and Vancouver City Centre stations of the Expo and Canada lines, respectively. History The idea of closing off a section of Granville Street to automobile traffic arose after the city withdrew its freeway plan in 1968 because of community opposition. The city concluded that automobile use within downtown should be restricted to avoid overloading the area's street network and subsequently designated the section of Granville between Hastings and Nelson streets a pedestrian and transit mall. The Granville Mall opened for service on September 15, 1974. The Downtown Vancouver Association sought to reope ...
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Granville Island
Granville Island is a peninsula and shopping district in the Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, across False Creek from Downtown Vancouver, under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge. Formerly an industrial manufacturing area, it was named after Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville. The area is managed by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and includes a public market, restaurants, a marina, a hotel, the False Creek Community Centre, numerous artists' studios and workshops, and various performing arts theatres, including the Arts Club Theatre Company and Carousel Theatre. It was the location for the finale of the film '' Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol'' (2011). The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down, first broadcast in 2024, was filmed in the area. The Vancouver International Children's Festival, the Vancouver Fringe Festival, and the Vancouver Writers Fest are held there. Transportation False Creek ...
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Busking Venues
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Streets In Vancouver
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Vancouver City Council
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Parking Meter
A parking meter is a device used to collect money in exchange for the right to Parking, park a vehicle in a particular place for a limited amount of time. Parking meters can be used by Municipality, municipalities as a tool for enforcing their integrated on-street parking policy, usually related to their traffic and mobility management policies, but are also used for revenue. History An early patent for a parking meter, U.S. patent, was filed by Roger Babson, Roger W. Babson, on August 30, 1928. The meter was intended to operate on power from the battery of the parking vehicle and required a connection from the car to the meter. Holger George Thuesen and Gerald A. Hale designed the first working parking meter, the Black Maria, in 1935. The History Channel's... ''History's Lost and Found'' documents their success in developing the first working parking meter. Thuesen and Hale were engineering professors at Oklahoma State University. They began working on the parking meter in 193 ...
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Granville Street Bridge
The Granville Street Bridge or Granville Bridge is an eight-lane fixed cantilever/truss bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, carrying Granville Street between Downtown Vancouver southwest and the Fairview neighborhood. It spans False Creek and is above Granville Island. The bridge is part of Highway 99. History First bridge (1889) The first Granville Bridge opened in 1889, crossing from Beach Ave to 3rd Ave and was part of the scheme to clear Granville Street through to the North Arm of the Fraser River, where a bridge crossed to the farming community of Eburne. Granville Street was called Centre Street south of False Creek (until 1907) and the new slit through the forest heading south was initially known as North Arm Road. The long, low timber trestle bridge opened on January 4, costing $16,000 to build, and was designed by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). It had a swing span near the downtown side, was wide enough for two wagons, had a wide separated path ...
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Canada Line
The Canada Line is a rapid transit line in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that is part of the SkyTrain (Vancouver), SkyTrain system. The line is owned by TransLink (British Columbia), TransLink and InTransitBC and is operated by SNC-Lavalin, ProTrans BC. Coloured turquoise on route maps, it operates as an airport rail link between Vancouver, Richmond, British Columbia, Richmond, and the Vancouver International Airport (YVR). The line comprises 16 stations and of track; the main line runs from Vancouver to Richmond while a spur line from Bridgeport station (SkyTrain), Bridgeport station connects to the airport. It opened on August 17, 2009, ahead of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Canada Line was anticipated to have 100,000 boardings per day in 2013 and 142,000 boardings per day by 2021, but it has consistently exceeded early targets.Canada Li ...
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Robson Street
Robson Street is a major southeast-northwest thoroughfare in downtown and West End of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Its core commercial blocks from Burrard Street to Jervis were also known as Robsonstrasse. Its name honours John Robson, a major figure in British Columbia's entry into the Canadian Confederation, and Premier of the province from 1889 to 1892. Robson Street starts at BC Place Stadium near the north shore of False Creek, then runs northwest past Vancouver Library Square, Robson Square and the Vancouver Art Gallery, coming to an end at Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park. As of 2006, the city of Vancouver overall had the fifth most expensive retail rental rates in the world, averaging US$135 per square foot per year, citywide. Robson Street tops Vancouver with its most expensive locations renting for up to US$200 per square foot per year. In 2006, both Robson Street and the Mink Mile on Bloor Street in Toronto were the 22nd most expensive streets in the world, with ...
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Transit Bus
A transit bus (also big bus, commuter bus, city bus, town bus, urban bus, stage bus, public bus, public transit bus, or simply bus) is a type of bus used in public transport bus services. Several configurations are used, including low-floor buses, High-floor, high-floor buses, double-decker buses, articulated buses and midibuses. These are distinct from all-seated Coach (bus), coaches used for intercity travel and smaller minibuses, for more flexible services. Specifications The US Federal Transit Administration offers some definitions of terms for a bus in public transit service. "Bus means a rubber-tired automotive vehicle used for the provision of public transportation service by or for a recipient of FTA financial assistance." FTA also adds that automotive means that the bus does not rely on external power sources for its motion; its motor and fuel or battery are contained in the bus. It defines public transportation service as "the operation of a vehicle that provi ...
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Georgia Street
Georgia Street is an east–west street in the cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Its section in Downtown Vancouver, designated West Georgia Street, serves as one of the primary streets for the financial and central business districts, and is the major transportation corridor connecting downtown Vancouver with the North Shore (Greater Vancouver), North Shore (and eventually Whistler, British Columbia, Whistler) by way of the Lions Gate Bridge. The remainder of the street, known as East Georgia Street between Main Street (Vancouver), Main Street and Boundary Road and simply Georgia Street within Burnaby, is more residential in character, and is discontinuous at several points. West of Seymour Street, the thoroughfare is part of British Columbia Highway 99, Highway 99. The entire section west of Main Street was previously designated part of British Columbia Highway 1A, Highway 1A, and markers for the '1A' designation can still be seen at certain points. Ro ...
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BC Hydro
The British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, trade name, operating as BC Hydro, is a Canadian electric utility in the province of British Columbia. It is the main electricity distributor, serving more than 4 million customers in most areas, with the exception of the City of New Westminster, where the city runs its own electrical department and portions of the Kootenays, West Kootenay, Okanagan, the Boundary Country and Similkameen Country, Similkameen regions, where FortisBC, a subsidiary of Fortis Inc. directly provides electric service to 213,000 customers and supplies municipally owned utilities in the same area. As a provincial Crown corporation, BC Hydro reports to the BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation, and is regulated by the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC). Its mandate is to generate, purchase, distribute and sell electricity. BC Hydro operates 32 hydroelectric facilities and two natural gas-fueled thermal power plants. As of 2014, 95 pe ...
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