A yearly ritual is the hanging of a stripped down Volkswagen Beatle shell from the center of the bridge, done by qualified riggers on behalf of UBC's physics students. In the early '70s I used to do a frequent circuit on my 10 speed from Gastown, across the Lion's Gate bridge, to North Vancouver, and back to Gastown via the Second Narrows bridge. I purchased Silver from an older gentleman, Anton Nique, in North Vancouver. My Silversmith studio was in Gastown.
00:50 before the Lions Gate Bridge was built, the North Shore could be accessed by vehicle over the Second Narrows Bridge. The original Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver was completed in 1925. It was a combined rail and road bridge that connected the city of Vancouver to the North Shore across Burrard Inlet. The bridge was a vital link for transportation and economic development in the region but faced challenges, including its limited capacity and vulnerability to marine collisions. It was later replaced by the current Second Narrows Ironworkers Memorial Bridge, completed in 1960, which remains a key part of the area's infrastructure.
Those new sections installed in 2001 were built and stored under the Alex Fraser bridge on Annacis Island. They were floated by barge down the Fraser River and around Point Grey to the First Narrows site where they were installed. I remember seeing these new sections when cycling over the Alex Fraser bridge.
There's a Bruce Cockburn song that was on the Billboard charts, "Wondering Where The Lions Are", which was a take on air pollution blocking the view of those Lions.
I remember around 2015 or 2016 I used to cross it every night around or after midnight and for many months they were doing some serious construction work to the expansion gaps I believe. I wonder what that was about. But this is cool insight. I first moved here when I was 9 back in 1999 and only saw the bridge for the first time in my young teenage years. It felt like they were working on it non-stop for at least two years but they were probably putting the finishing touches on the replacement of the suspended decks. A joke I've heard as a teen was that by the time the workers are done painting the bridge from one end to the other, they need to start repainting it again because it took them so long lol
My great grandfather used to take that boat, had to live on the beach before he became a lead Engineer for the bridge and got the cut the ribbon on the unveiling. Wish to have seen the last name on the monument, but I guess as all stories you're told from parents - are unique, and just as proud to have that in the history of [Last name]. :) Cool it became 3 lanes, and oh eventually built a house in west van. Only recently was it replaced with a modern house. I wonder, if I have children... who then have children, etc... what my story may be. We've had engineers for 4 generations, maybe it'll be one of my children. Who knows! Great vid.
@@AIMEE911 I have 3 stories, if you guess them all then we're related. 1. Before the city was established the pioneers such of west van - they made tents, coming from actual homes, on the beach (as they saw the potential) and without giving away the name, was someone a little surprised at what when they travelled over...? And from where? 2, or simply, what's the first letter of the last name! Actually unsure first name. I'll edit this when find out 3. the next grandfather (his son). What did he pioneer in west van after as an Engineer? It's a building and network still standing today.. and had to wake up at 4am sometimes to drive over and fix the [blank] on occasion.
@@YourBoyRob my grandpa's initials were g.b. Lived up in west van. Built own house in aboit 1955 after ww2 was a pilot got a medal for saving 2 other officers. Had a son, my uncle that fell from a local bridge in 1975, cable stuck on his leg... an iron worker rode a wrecking ball on a crane up and saved my uncle. Same initials.
I did a fireplace on a house built into the rock in West Van. (owned by old Japanese family money, local) Was that the house? I was told the lead Engineer for the bridge that that was his house. It listed for just under 4 million a few years back, and a photo of my fireplace casting was on it, but there were several fire places.
never going to happen. They spent a ton of money on a huge report only a few years ago which concluded as much. They have multiple other skytrain lines to extend which will benefit much more people for much less cost. Post Covid much fewer people commute certain 5 days a week to downtown so even less need. Most of the proposed options increased transit times for most after spending billions. adding lanes in the iron workers was predicted to just fill up with more traffic and have no material time savings within only a few years. We definitely need to look to improve north shore traffic but unfortunately geography with so many rivers and the highway really limit things. The only way i can see improvements is better dedicated transit lanes for busses. The only way you'll get many more people to take public transit is make it much more efficient in time than driving, and with limited space that means decreasing driving lanes which is a real tough proposition to get voters to agree to.
@@RainCity3rd The crossing would be expensive but a separate skytrain could be built over there and served well enough by the existing seabus and eventually connect to the Evergreen line if it got that far. Basically the skytrain "equivalent" of being able to choose highway 1 or 7 to be north or south of the water. The far fetched dream is being able to leave your vehicle secure underground somewhere between Hope and Chilliwack and have all the Lower Mainland be skytrain accessible but if the biggest highways in the densest part of the LM had parallel skytrains it would do a lot to future proof the highways from becoming near-future impossible gridlock in a land where we dont have space for another lane usually. I think the Broadway skytrain will be a massive self advertising case of why it's worth building more skytrain I hope the stats people are really closely measuring traffic and it's effects there now so we have a good before after. Interesting that theyve decided the Surrey-Langley skytrain will parallel the old hwy 1A in the future.
I have found a proposed plan to build a suspended foot bridge before that bridge was built. In the same area. Stored in the Vancouver Archives I think.
There was an upgrade to the reversible lane control system somewhere around 2000. I know this because I was the co-author of that software. It may have since been upgraded again with a newer, generic lane-control software package, something I also had a hand in writing.
I lived there in the 1960 as a kid from ages 5-13.. hard to think of doing it these days but i cycled from kerrisdale 34th and arbutus area, through downtown or Beach Ave. Over the Lions Gate to Horseshoe Bay and back many times (i think about 18 miles?)
Did the reno at the house into a rock in West Vancouver, BC built for the Engineer head of the Lions Gate build. Fireplace was shown on the listing five years ago for 3.6 million asking, and showed my fireplace. Proud of the work. Interestingly, it DIDN"t show the mantel in the low ceiling dining room. I can't even describe it; some baumeister carpenter did layers of wood trim and it just pops at you. Need a photo.
It was the Depression. The bridge’s construction was ambitious for its time. We should ask ourselves why we still haven’t built a fixed rail link over the Burrard inlet, nearly a century later.
I was told that during construction of the Lions Gate Bridge, before netting was used to catch any iron workers who fell, the fall protection safety plan was a guy in a rowboat.
There are amazing photos and videos showing spine tingling construction methods of the lions gate, this video barely showed this. Or mentioned that a worker died, in the construction. Did mention a ferry boat death though?
Nice, but the map you show at 0:49 demonstrates the original combined car/rail bridge at 2nd narrows was already in place, so when you say "prior to opening, the only way for people to reach the North Shore was by ferry service", that is false.
You are absolutely correct. Thank you for pointing that out. The 2nd narrows road/rail bridge opened June 3, 1926 and Lions Gate Bridge opened Nov 14, 1938. 12 years later.
@0:32 "north bound traffic on the bridge heads in their general direction." That may be true, but the mountains you zoom in on are, in fact part of Grouse Mountain, not the Lions. The Lions are located more directly North of Cypress Mountain 😉
On September 22, 1960. A 17 year old woman climbed the bridge before plummeting to her death. That was my sister. I wonder how many other suicides occurred,
Victoria also had a connection to the Guinness family. The owned and operated a farm in Saanich called Broadmead. It has now been built out as a large subdivision.
I came in on the Ovation of the Seas last year and it felt like we were going to scrape the bottom of the bridge. It only starts and ends the season in Vancouver probably for that reason and sails out of Seattle the rest of the year. I watched a really good video that discussed this same subject by Uytae Lee that is worth a watch. th-cam.com/video/XTDtyXz_mIk/w-d-xo.html
Not necessarily. There are sky trains all over the city and to various suburbs yet the road traffic is worse than ever. I do not believe a sky train to the North Shore will change the traffic much anymore than it has to those places that already have sky train.
@@AsiaOceans-nx5lr exactly. sky trains would if people stopped driving in favor of using it which they wouldn't as the various proposed sky train options actually increased commuting times for most. i say this as a lower bus to downtown commuter.
North Shore Brit and Iranian owners do NOT want the great unwashed to even be able to do the north shore. Seabus is an embarrasment enough. No chunnel, no Sky Train, no nada.
way to expensive and would far to few vs. half a dozen alternative new lines for the sky train. The most simple is just add lanes to iron workers but even that was just predicted to fill with more traffic within a few years. Improving traffic simply results in more traffic as we take more trips because they are less annoying. the other solution is stop improving traffic, actually de-prioritize cars in favor of dedicated bus lanes. the only thing which will materially increase public transit usage is when we are sitting in traffic watching busses fly past. residents will never be in favor of this however, because everyone loves their audis and teslas.
There was no mention that the deck replacement that had occurred in 2000 to 2001 eliminated the "hump" on the bridge deck.... I had always wondered what kind of engineering mistake created that hump.... Prior to that work, there was always a spot toward the south end where the old deck with two different arches was joined.
The bridge, is woefully inadequate for modern Vancouver's needs. A much wider and traffic efficient bridge is required to manage the vast traffic going across the bridge.
This is what Vancouver wanted. Kind of like rampant homelessness cause in part by height restrictions and “view cones” not allowing high density housing.
West Vancouver did NOT want the great unwashed to even be ABLE to come over to the North Shore. Even NS drug addicts still have that "attitude".......plus being Brit doesn't help. God Save the King is on the NORTH side of the Bridge.
Yes the bridge is inadequate for todays needs. However any attempt to consider twinning the bridge has been met with basically total opposition because of the impact it would have on Stanley Park and the environment.
and the north side really has no where for the traffic it has to go already. the north end of the bridge ends rather abrutly, ive always found it odd like the project ran out of money or something which wasnt even what happened.
They close it because of drunk drivers. The risk of having the middle lane open could potentially cause a drunk driver to drift. They also keep it closed because between 10pm to 2am the cops, mostly from WVPD, perform sobriety checks.
0:18 It’s Not A Suspension Bridge. Let Me Tell You What A Suspension Bridge Is. It’s A Bridge That’s Shaky And Allowed Only For People No Bikes, Cars Cuz Cars Are Too Big, But I’ve been on Lynn Canyon suspension Bridge
@@leftcoaster67 there isnt anywhere for that traffic to come from even if you skip over people freaking out of a single tree being cut but there is no way to get that much traffic to the bridge. The north side is much the same, it basically cant handle the traffic it already gets. That bridge certain ends abruptly as it is like the project went under before completion.
The Guinness family walked away with billions of dollars of property in todays dollar, and was completely repaid their initial investment much earlier. Pretty good deal…
You pay a high price for the great views of Vancouver from West Van. At night, you used to see the back shadow of the bridge against the beautiful illuminated skyscrapers. Now, someone spent big bucks to ruin the view, with lights on the bridge cables! They are brighter to the eye than the city lights!
Regardless what price you pay for “your” views the rest of the city is entitled to beautiful views too. The view of the bridge with all its lights is iconic in Vancouver and I for one absolutely love it!!
Retired iron worker speaking and I say it was a monumental mistake putting in only three lanes,wasting money instead of improving infrastructure with at least six lanes. It will bite in the ass .
Still working ironworker. I have added girders to widen bridges all over Alberta and the new construction bridges should have all been made wider from the start. Seems to me they make them with less lanes on purpose for some reason, because it’s definitely cheaper to build them wider the first time.
@@grd1184 people are cheap, we rarely build for the future we build for the now even when usually its vastly cheaper in the long run to build more capacity from the get go. plus we'll make something non political into much more so then its drags on for decades for no real reason so the problem is much worse and solutions much more expensive. Pretty much every public infrastructure project... massy tunnel, site c. the human brain very poor at thinking into the future. People would rather have a new car than save for retirement. first narrows is an issue to even get traffic to the bridge on both sides because what is built around. Vancouver never completed to highway into and around downtown in the 60's, was supposed to be a raised highway from iron workers town the waterfront over the train tracks. the only parts which were built was that large exit on the south side which turn into a residential road, and the towers and complex by the seabus including the tower which used to be called the province for the newspaper - cant remember what its called now.
It was deemed to be not just infrastructure but a landmark tourist draw, plus doubling the black top through Stanley park would be a non starter. Should’ve started the 3rd crossing tunnel about the same time they upgraded the bridgedeck.
47 years in North Vancouver, I knew the history but this was a nice documentary.
Thank you for watching
61 in north van......aint north van like it used to be....horrible conjested shithole now
A yearly ritual is the hanging of a stripped down Volkswagen Beatle shell from the center of the bridge, done by qualified riggers on behalf of UBC's physics students. In the early '70s I used to do a frequent circuit on my 10 speed from Gastown, across the Lion's Gate bridge, to North Vancouver, and back to Gastown via the Second Narrows bridge. I purchased Silver from an older gentleman, Anton Nique, in North Vancouver. My Silversmith studio was in Gastown.
00:50 before the Lions Gate Bridge was built, the North Shore could be accessed by vehicle over the Second Narrows Bridge. The original Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver was completed in 1925. It was a combined rail and road bridge that connected the city of Vancouver to the North Shore across Burrard Inlet. The bridge was a vital link for transportation and economic development in the region but faced challenges, including its limited capacity and vulnerability to marine collisions.
It was later replaced by the current Second Narrows Ironworkers Memorial Bridge, completed in 1960, which remains a key part of the area's infrastructure.
As a child, I remember crossing the bridge. At that time the road deck was an open steel grating and you could see the water below while crossing.
Oh, ya Mum, and now I have pitures of the ferry. Must look for them.
Can't wait for the video on the Okanagan Bridge!
Thanks for the History lesson!
I knew a little about it, & now I know more!
Keep your smiles on!
Thanks for watching!
Those new sections installed in 2001 were built and stored under the Alex Fraser bridge on Annacis Island. They were floated by barge down the Fraser River and around Point Grey to the First Narrows site where they were installed. I remember seeing these new sections when cycling over the Alex Fraser bridge.
I’d always wondered what the Lions were about. Had no idea they were mountains. Thanks dude.
Thanks for watching!
There's a Bruce Cockburn song that was on the Billboard charts, "Wondering Where The Lions Are", which was a take on air pollution blocking the view of those Lions.
There is a smaller hill between the Lions. It's called the Unecessary Mountain.
Mannnn sooooo awesome!! Loveee learning all the history behind BC things, great work on putting this all together!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I remember around 2015 or 2016 I used to cross it every night around or after midnight and for many months they were doing some serious construction work to the expansion gaps I believe. I wonder what that was about.
But this is cool insight. I first moved here when I was 9 back in 1999 and only saw the bridge for the first time in my young teenage years. It felt like they were working on it non-stop for at least two years but they were probably putting the finishing touches on the replacement of the suspended decks. A joke I've heard as a teen was that by the time the workers are done painting the bridge from one end to the other, they need to start repainting it again because it took them so long lol
Great video. Definitely makes me want to visit Vancouver… again! Thanks for the history lesson. Well done.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it!
My great grandfather used to take that boat, had to live on the beach before he became a lead Engineer for the bridge and got the cut the ribbon on the unveiling. Wish to have seen the last name on the monument, but I guess as all stories you're told from parents - are unique, and just as proud to have that in the history of [Last name]. :) Cool it became 3 lanes, and oh eventually built a house in west van. Only recently was it replaced with a modern house. I wonder, if I have children... who then have children, etc... what my story may be. We've had engineers for 4 generations, maybe it'll be one of my children. Who knows! Great vid.
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing your story.
What was your great grandpa's first name? Sound like mine.
@@AIMEE911 I have 3 stories, if you guess them all then we're related.
1. Before the city was established the pioneers such of west van - they made tents, coming from actual homes, on the beach (as they saw the potential) and without giving away the name, was someone a little surprised at what when they travelled over...? And from where?
2, or simply, what's the first letter of the last name! Actually unsure first name. I'll edit this when find out
3. the next grandfather (his son). What did he pioneer in west van after as an Engineer? It's a building and network still standing today.. and had to wake up at 4am sometimes to drive over and fix the [blank] on occasion.
@@YourBoyRob my grandpa's initials were g.b. Lived up in west van. Built own house in aboit 1955 after ww2 was a pilot got a medal for saving 2 other officers. Had a son, my uncle that fell from a local bridge in 1975, cable stuck on his leg... an iron worker rode a wrecking ball on a crane up and saved my uncle. Same initials.
I did a fireplace on a house built into the rock in West Van. (owned by old Japanese family money, local) Was that the house? I was told the lead Engineer for the bridge that that was his house. It listed for just under 4 million a few years back, and a photo of my fireplace casting was on it, but there were several fire places.
could you make a history of the skytrain? thank you
I think this would be great! Thanks for the idea
Lovely docu; really enjoying these. Keep em coming :)
Great video. Also, we need Skytrain to the North Shore.
never going to happen. They spent a ton of money on a huge report only a few years ago which concluded as much. They have multiple other skytrain lines to extend which will benefit much more people for much less cost. Post Covid much fewer people commute certain 5 days a week to downtown so even less need. Most of the proposed options increased transit times for most after spending billions. adding lanes in the iron workers was predicted to just fill up with more traffic and have no material time savings within only a few years. We definitely need to look to improve north shore traffic but unfortunately geography with so many rivers and the highway really limit things. The only way i can see improvements is better dedicated transit lanes for busses. The only way you'll get many more people to take public transit is make it much more efficient in time than driving, and with limited space that means decreasing driving lanes which is a real tough proposition to get voters to agree to.
Bridge deep cove to port moody
@@RainCity3rd The crossing would be expensive but a separate skytrain could be built over there and served well enough by the existing seabus and eventually connect to the Evergreen line if it got that far. Basically the skytrain "equivalent" of being able to choose highway 1 or 7 to be north or south of the water. The far fetched dream is being able to leave your vehicle secure underground somewhere between Hope and Chilliwack and have all the Lower Mainland be skytrain accessible but if the biggest highways in the densest part of the LM had parallel skytrains it would do a lot to future proof the highways from becoming near-future impossible gridlock in a land where we dont have space for another lane usually. I think the Broadway skytrain will be a massive self advertising case of why it's worth building more skytrain I hope the stats people are really closely measuring traffic and it's effects there now so we have a good before after. Interesting that theyve decided the Surrey-Langley skytrain will parallel the old hwy 1A in the future.
Seabus.
I have found a proposed plan to build a suspended foot bridge before that bridge was built. In the same area. Stored in the Vancouver Archives I think.
They should build a sky bridge connecting Vancouver to the north shore. Like the one crossing the Fraser river connecting Surrey to new west.
Continue creating content like this video, and I believe your channel will achieve great success! Well done!
Thank you!
There was an upgrade to the reversible lane control system somewhere around 2000. I know this because I was the co-author of that software. It may have since been upgraded again with a newer, generic lane-control software package, something I also had a hand in writing.
Matt wearing a “Canucks” jersey???? Cool. You’re a braver man than I am! But I still support the team!😳 Cheers 🍻to ya man👍😎
Love the channel! You should do a video on the Johnson street bridge in Victoria!
Thank you! Thanks for the suggestion too. I've added it to my project list
I lived there in the 1960 as a kid from ages 5-13.. hard to think of doing it these days but i cycled from kerrisdale 34th and arbutus area, through downtown or Beach Ave. Over the Lions Gate to Horseshoe Bay and back many times (i think about 18 miles?)
Great video!! found at the top of my yt home page. and watched till the very end!! good luck
Thank you so much!
i really enjoyed the info here.your channel is excellent
Thank you! I appreciate it
Well done! Thanks.
Thank you for this great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Did the reno at the house into a rock in West Vancouver, BC built for the Engineer head of the Lions Gate build. Fireplace was shown on the listing five years ago for 3.6 million asking, and showed my fireplace. Proud of the work. Interestingly, it DIDN"t show the mantel in the low ceiling dining room. I can't even describe it; some baumeister carpenter did layers of wood trim and it just pops at you. Need a photo.
You have troubles staying on topic, don't you?
This video is about the Lions Gate Bridge, not a house in a rock with a ridiculously priced fireplace.
Cool! Thanks.
Seriously, why on earth would you build a 3 lane bridge?
Because it's 1939 and it was funded by the Guinness family so they could sell their land in the British properties.
Vancouver didn't even have 100,000 people in the 1930's. The problem always has been BC never looks to future planning.
It's 50% better than 2 lanes 😮
It was a two lane bridge originally.
It was the Depression. The bridge’s construction was ambitious for its time. We should ask ourselves why we still haven’t built a fixed rail link over the Burrard inlet, nearly a century later.
Awesome video! I love learning about this province! Keep it up 🎉
Thank you! Will do!
I was told that during construction of the Lions Gate Bridge, before netting was used to catch any iron workers who fell, the fall protection safety plan was a guy in a rowboat.
What you zoomed into at 0:33 was not the lions, but crown mountain. The lions are much further west and can’t be seen from the bridge.
Great channel. You've got another subscriber.
Awesome, thank you!
Great channel
Thank you!
There are amazing photos and videos showing spine tingling construction methods of the lions gate, this video barely showed this. Or mentioned that a worker died, in the construction. Did mention a ferry boat death though?
Nice, but the map you show at 0:49 demonstrates the original combined car/rail bridge at 2nd narrows was already in place, so when you say "prior to opening, the only way for people to reach the North Shore was by ferry service", that is false.
You are absolutely correct. Thank you for pointing that out. The 2nd narrows road/rail bridge opened June 3, 1926 and Lions Gate Bridge opened Nov 14, 1938. 12 years later.
@0:32 "north bound traffic on the bridge heads in their general direction." That may be true, but the mountains you zoom in on are, in fact part of Grouse Mountain, not the Lions. The Lions are located more directly North of Cypress Mountain 😉
On September 22, 1960. A 17 year old woman climbed the bridge before plummeting to her death. That was my sister. I wonder how many other suicides occurred,
I know of one. It happens more than you think.
Please do Riverview!
Definitely
The MacDonald bridge in Halifax shares a similar design
Hey I just found the channel and really enjoying these videos. Any plans on doing a History of the Cleveland Dam?
Thanks for watching. I will definately add the Cleveland Dam for future projects. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@HistoryOfBritishColumbia thank you I'm sure you have also considered the old riverview in Coquitlam
@@EskCan44 Riverview is definitely on my list for future projects
I had no Idea Vancouver had connections to Gueness like that
Victoria also had a connection to the Guinness family. The owned and operated a farm in Saanich called Broadmead. It has now been built out as a large subdivision.
Thanks guinness. that was kind of you
As cruise ships get taller, will the bridge be raised (or the ocean lowered?)
I came in on the Ovation of the Seas last year and it felt like we were going to scrape the bottom of the bridge. It only starts and ends the season in Vancouver probably for that reason and sails out of Seattle the rest of the year. I watched a really good video that discussed this same subject by Uytae Lee that is worth a watch. th-cam.com/video/XTDtyXz_mIk/w-d-xo.html
Cant imagine its that limiting. They get a massive US aircraft carrier in at low tide having to lower some antennae
Soundtrack in this kinda hits wth 😂
Guinness is my favourite beer. 🍻
4:13 g beer
A skytrain to North Van would alleviate so much traffic.
Agreed
Not necessarily. There are sky trains all over the city and to various suburbs yet the road traffic is worse than ever. I do not believe a sky train to the North Shore will change the traffic much anymore than it has to those places that already have sky train.
@@AsiaOceans-nx5lr exactly. sky trains would if people stopped driving in favor of using it which they wouldn't as the various proposed sky train options actually increased commuting times for most. i say this as a lower bus to downtown commuter.
It is now time to: a) bring the sky train to the north shore and West Vancouver, and b) build a tunnel under the Lions Gate Bridge. It is time!!!
North Shore Brit and Iranian owners do NOT want the great unwashed to even be able to do the north shore. Seabus is an embarrasment enough. No chunnel, no Sky Train, no nada.
way to expensive and would far to few vs. half a dozen alternative new lines for the sky train. The most simple is just add lanes to iron workers but even that was just predicted to fill with more traffic within a few years. Improving traffic simply results in more traffic as we take more trips because they are less annoying. the other solution is stop improving traffic, actually de-prioritize cars in favor of dedicated bus lanes. the only thing which will materially increase public transit usage is when we are sitting in traffic watching busses fly past. residents will never be in favor of this however, because everyone loves their audis and teslas.
There was no mention that the deck replacement that had occurred in 2000 to 2001 eliminated the "hump" on the bridge deck....
I had always wondered what kind of engineering mistake created that hump....
Prior to that work, there was always a spot toward the south end where the old deck with two different arches was joined.
the guiness family from england built the bridge...owned britsh properties....stood with big sign...land of opportunity...etc etc...
The bridge, is woefully inadequate for modern Vancouver's needs.
A much wider and traffic efficient bridge is required to manage the vast traffic going across the bridge.
This is what Vancouver wanted.
Kind of like rampant homelessness cause in part by height restrictions and “view cones” not allowing high density housing.
West Vancouver did NOT want the great unwashed to even be ABLE to come over to the North Shore. Even NS drug addicts still have that "attitude".......plus being Brit doesn't help. God Save the King is on the NORTH side of the Bridge.
@@calvinnickel9995 yea because back in the 1910's they were thinking about how to screw over the people of the 2020's
Yes the bridge is inadequate for todays needs. However any attempt to consider twinning the bridge has been met with basically total opposition because of the impact it would have on Stanley Park and the environment.
and the north side really has no where for the traffic it has to go already. the north end of the bridge ends rather abrutly, ive always found it odd like the project ran out of money or something which wasnt even what happened.
Everytime I crossed it - it was 2 lanes against me
Also closing middle lane at night is dumb!!!
They close it because of drunk drivers. The risk of having the middle lane open could potentially cause a drunk driver to drift. They also keep it closed because between 10pm to 2am the cops, mostly from WVPD, perform sobriety checks.
0:18 It’s Not A Suspension Bridge. Let Me Tell You What A Suspension Bridge Is. It’s A Bridge That’s Shaky And Allowed Only For People No Bikes, Cars Cuz Cars Are Too Big, But I’ve been on Lynn Canyon suspension Bridge
You're drunk. Or stupid.
Either way, your fingers tapped out nonsense.
u are not very bright are u
Bro there are different kinds of suspension bridge. Lions Gate IS a suspension bridge the deck is suspended by the cables
Seriously, it is time to replace the LG bridge with a 6 lane road tunnel.
I'd be ok with a 6 lane tunnel, along with rail/skytrain. There was a proposal for this in the late 80's, but it never gained traction.
Problem is they're expecting a massive earthquake...and it's got them confused.
@@leftcoaster67 there isnt anywhere for that traffic to come from even if you skip over people freaking out of a single tree being cut but there is no way to get that much traffic to the bridge. The north side is much the same, it basically cant handle the traffic it already gets. That bridge certain ends abruptly as it is like the project went under before completion.
The Guinness family walked away with billions of dollars of property in todays dollar, and was completely repaid their initial investment much earlier. Pretty good deal…
You pay a high price for the great views of Vancouver from West Van. At night, you used to see the back shadow of the bridge against the beautiful illuminated skyscrapers. Now, someone spent big bucks to ruin the view, with lights on the bridge cables! They are brighter to the eye than the city lights!
When I moved to Van. in 1978 I never understood the most expensive real estate was up a hill freezing and icy cold!!!
Regardless what price you pay for “your” views the rest of the city is entitled to beautiful views too. The view of the bridge with all its lights is iconic in Vancouver and I for one absolutely love it!!
@@AsiaOceans-nx5lr and it is not as if those insanely high prices came down any because of the views. It as if many dont even care...
Retired iron worker speaking and I say it was a monumental mistake putting in only three lanes,wasting money instead of improving infrastructure with at least six lanes. It will bite in the ass .
Still working ironworker. I have added girders to widen bridges all over Alberta and the new construction bridges should have all been made wider from the start. Seems to me they make them with less lanes on purpose for some reason, because it’s definitely cheaper to build them wider the first time.
@@grd1184 people are cheap, we rarely build for the future we build for the now even when usually its vastly cheaper in the long run to build more capacity from the get go. plus we'll make something non political into much more so then its drags on for decades for no real reason so the problem is much worse and solutions much more expensive. Pretty much every public infrastructure project... massy tunnel, site c. the human brain very poor at thinking into the future. People would rather have a new car than save for retirement.
first narrows is an issue to even get traffic to the bridge on both sides because what is built around. Vancouver never completed to highway into and around downtown in the 60's, was supposed to be a raised highway from iron workers town the waterfront over the train tracks. the only parts which were built was that large exit on the south side which turn into a residential road, and the towers and complex by the seabus including the tower which used to be called the province for the newspaper - cant remember what its called now.
why in hells name would anyone build a 3 lane bridge, then redo it later with another 3 lane bridge, crazy logic
I believe they made the lanes 18” wider! 😂😂
24”, I stand corrected.
It was deemed to be not just infrastructure but a landmark tourist draw, plus doubling the black top through Stanley park would be a non starter.
Should’ve started the 3rd crossing tunnel about the same time they upgraded the bridgedeck.
Limited by both the width of the Stanley Park Causeway and the load bearing capacity of the bridge.
Bridge sucks, traffic is the worst in the world. Has to be.
I have a video from Dominion Bridge of the construction of the Lions Gate bridge, and my grandfather was a carpenter on the site.
Dumbest bridge Ever... 3 Lanes What a joke...