Cover Your Ears
The Canada Line construction is in full swing and making a mess of everything in its path. I went along South Cambie for the first time in a long time the other day, spotting the preserved “Heritage Boulevard”, flooded trenches and snow-covered (at the time) gravel mounds and machinery. You can’t say there hasn’t been much progress.
Downtown, Granville construction at the Vancouver City Centre station is about to move up to another, unexpected level.
From a press release issued yesterday, available on the Canada Line site:
…limited rock blasting will be required on site, as excavators have been unsuccessful in removing deep ground rock. This work is scheduled to commence this week and may continue intermittently until station excavation has concluded, which is scheduled for the spring of 2007 [pdf]
If you live or work in the area, be aware when you hear that whistle, cause you know a “whump!” is coming next (according to the press release anyway). Although you’d think most downtown residents would be used to construction noise by now.
If you’re planing on shopping at stores located just off the squished, shrunken sidewalk be wary of what’s going on in the construction zone behind the fence.
The Vancouver City Centre station is being constructed between Robson and Georgia, between Sears and Cafe Crepe/Future Shop/London Drugs, as seen in the photo above.
(Photo is property of SqueakyMarmot on Flickr)
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Cramped sidewalks and all, it is nice having that section of Granville car, bus, and taxi free.
Citizens should be pushing for a permanent pedestrian zone when all of this is finished.
Imagine street vendors, buskers, and various other vendors setting up shop in the heart of downtown…a massive free-form public space that would put the Art Gallery steps to shame!
I occasionally have to teach classes in a classroom overlooking the construction. What a racket!