When did BC 99 move off Granville Street in downtown Vancouver?

[Max Rockatansky]

Does anyone happen to know when BC 99 was shifted off Granville Street north of the Granville Bridge onto couplets along Howe Street and Seymour Street?  Images on GSV have the couplet present from the Granville Street Bridge all the way back to 2007.  Was this realignment part of improvements to downtown Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics?

[splashflash]

No, way back in 1974 when Art Phillips was mayor and TEAM was the council.  Granville was converted to a busway and BC99 rerouted along Howe and Seymour.

https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/opening-of-granville-mall-by-mayor-art-phillips-on-raised-platform-with-singer-pat-rose-plus-large-crowd

[Max Rockatansky]

No, way back in 1973 or '74 when Art Phillips was mayor and TEAM was the council.  Granville was converted to a busway and BC99 rerouted along Howe and Seymour.

Hence why I ask for a citation. WSDOT maps which I admit probably aren't reliable seem to suggest this needs a serious looking into.  I'm finding this frustrating since this is literally the only thing about BC 99 in Vancouver I can't find anything solid on.  I got about two months to find a real answer.  I rather not something publish on my page with a "I dunno."

[splashflash]

No, way back in 1973 or '74 when Art Phillips was mayor and TEAM was the council.  Granville was converted to a busway and BC99 rerouted along Howe and Seymour.

Hence why I ask for a citation.

See edited comment above.  I can verify it was in the 70s because when I was a kid, the bus mall was there and I knew it had once been open to cars.

[Max Rockatansky]

No, way back in 1973 or '74 when Art Phillips was mayor and TEAM was the council.  Granville was converted to a busway and BC99 rerouted along Howe and Seymour.

Hence why I ask for a citation.

See edited comment above.  I can verify it was in the 70s because when I was a kid, the bus mall was there and I knew it had once been open to cars.

Noted, thank you.

[LilianaUwU]

Canada.

now moved, so moot

[Max Rockatansky]

Canada.

The amusing thing is that I'm so infrequently in Canada these days that I forgot we have a dedicated board.  The last time apparently was right after I got married in 2019.  Never would have thought that I would be going to Mexico far more often as a married adult having grown up in the Midwest.

[dmuzika]

Has there ever been any discussion/proposal about moving BC 99 out of Downtown Vancouver entirely, aside from cancelled 1960s freeway plans? Admittedly there isn't a good route that connects YVR with the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge (TCH 1).

[splashflash]

Has there ever been any discussion/proposal about moving BC 99 out of Downtown Vancouver entirely, aside from cancelled 1960s freeway plans? Admittedly there isn't a good route that connects YVR with the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge (TCH 1).

Not seriously.  About 25 years ago there were meetings about a so-called third crossing of Burard Inlet, with Capilano Road on the North Shore connecting to Clark Street by a tunnel.  No costing was done as there wasn't any major money and Vancouver didn't want more highways.  That route would have connected south to Knight Street which becomes a freeway at Marine Drive.  Knight Street Bridge was incidentally also built in 1974.  Fraser St. Bridge, just west, closed.

[splashflash]

Incidentally, BC 99 was extended north in the early 1990s, I believe, north of Lillooet.  Hwy 99 subsumed BC 12 between Lillooet and Hat Creek (north of Cache Creek) that had been formerly Highway 12.  It's a nice drive if you ever get that way, one of the prettiest in the province, imo.

[dmuzika]

Has there ever been any discussion/proposal about moving BC 99 out of Downtown Vancouver entirely, aside from cancelled 1960s freeway plans? Admittedly there isn't a good route that connects YVR with the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge (TCH 1).

Not seriously.  About 25 years ago there were meetings about a so-called third crossing of Burard Inlet, with Capilano Road on the North Shore connecting to Clark Street by a tunnel.  No costing was done as there wasn't any major money and Vancouver didn't want more highways.  That route would have connected south to Knight Street which becomes a freeway at Marine Drive.  Knight Street Bridge was incidentally also built in 1974.  Fraser St. Bridge, just west, closed.

Interesting. About the same time when I was a kid, I was traveling through Vancouver and recall seeing some "No Granville Highway" signs in front of some of the residential properties along Granville Street. I wonder that was related?