History of Lions Gate Bridge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Season 1 - Episode 6; History of BC.
We visit landmarks around British Columbia and share the history and events about them.
In this episode we look at the history of the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver. A National Landmark with ties to the Guinness family.
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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
Great video. Also, we need Skytrain to the North Shore.
Thanks for the History lesson!
I knew a little about it, & now I know more!
Keep your smiles on!
Thanks for watching!
Mannnn sooooo awesome!! Loveee learning all the history behind BC things, great work on putting this all together!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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.
Great video. Definitely makes me want to visit Vancouver… again! Thanks for the history lesson. Well done.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it!
Cool! Thanks.
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.
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.
Can't wait for the video on the Okanagan Bridge!
Continue creating content like this video, and I believe your channel will achieve great success! Well done!
Thank you!
Lovely docu; really enjoying these. Keep em coming :)
i really enjoyed the info here.your channel is excellent
Thank you! I appreciate it
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.
Great video!! found at the top of my yt home page. and watched till the very end!! good luck
Thank you so much!
Well done! Thanks.
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?)
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.
Thank you for this great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Guinness is my favourite beer. 🍻
Great channel. You've got another subscriber.
Awesome, thank you!
could you make a history of the skytrain? thank you
I think this would be great! Thanks for the idea
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.
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.
Awesome video! I love learning about this province! Keep it up 🎉
Thank you! Will do!
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.
Great channel
Thank you!
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.
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.
Please do Riverview!
Definitely
@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 😉
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.
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
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
@@EskimoCanadian44 Riverview is definitely on my list for future projects
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?
the guiness family from england built the bridge...owned britsh properties....stood with big sign...land of opportunity...etc etc...
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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…
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.
Lions didn't build this bridge, I checked..😁
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...