City Of Water

[rider_eman]

~This is what I have come to think of Vancouver and the surrounding sub-cities. The whole lower mainland here is built around a bunch of rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Now, back when Europe was 'the cats meow' water features were a status symbol; it is a beautiful place because of it as well. The problem, well, Vancouver itself is crammed in and

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[frysco]

Yike? Which bridge was this?

[lope]

It was the east side approach to the Pattulo bridge, (Surrey end) that was burned by what are believed to have been homeless people. Apparently they were trying to keep warm or cook something when a fire they lit got out of hand. The small section that was burned was made of wood. It could be periodically adjusted when the bridge expanded, contracted or there were movements in the soil that it was built on.

The Surrey end or "Brownsville Landing" as it was known by in the 1870's was a swampy area. Road engineers from the Province had a devil of a time building the Semiahmoo Road from the landing to the end of the McDonough contact ( Section A-B, Brownsville Landing to Snake Hill in the summer of 1873 which required 2550 feet of corduroyed road to allow passage of traffic.

[lope]

If you think things are congested now just wait a few years after the Olympics. We will have a flood of new immigrants moving here after seeing all the lovely pictures the media beams around the world. I saw quite a population explosion that happened in the decade after Expo 1986, traffic has steadily become worse since then.