This also indicates the reasons why in-street Light Rail Transit is not as cheap to construct as some people make it out to be – any existing infrastructure (sewer, water, gas, hydro, telephone, cable, data) under the proposed trackbed must be relocated away from right-of-way to allow future maintenance and repair of the infrastructure (i.e. you can’t shut down the transit system to repair a broken water main or phone line).

One was a streetcar system in the roadway and the other was the interurban system which was largely in its own right-of-way (city to city express service more or less). The streetcar system used smaller vehicles, while the interurban system used larger vehicles. If there were track on Kingsway (in the roadway) they would have been streetcar tracks rather than interurban tracks. The Map 1 linked to above appears to show a streetcar line branching at Fraser & Kingsway, presumably the Kingsway branch went a few blocks further east to Knight Street.

The City’s Kensington Cedar Cottage committee noted the possibility of streetcar tracks in the median along Kingsway (mind you the City could be wrong):

“• Concern was raised regarding the option of constructing a median with trees along Kingsway at Knight, given the possibility of buried street car tracks and the prohibitive cost of removing them to construct a median. Other possibilities for greening the median were suggested that may not require the removal of the street car tracks.”

http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/COMMSVCS/planning/cityplan/Visions/kcc/meetings/03nov6.htm