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A brand new Patullo Bridge will be constructed within the next 5 to 10 years and it will most likely be tolled. Translink has started the preliminary public consultations and construction could start as early as 2015. The new bridge will be six lanes. Not all lanes will be for all vehicles, four lanes will be multi-purpose while the other two lanes will be dedicated to truck traffic only.

TransLink has presented a few options (see below) for replacement of the existing bridge. 

A few more photos have popped up from the soon to be released video game Mass Effect 3. We first published the original screen caps of what Vancouver would like like in the year 2187 a week ago, you can see those photos here. In those photos Canada Place and the Burrard Inlet were clearly recognizable. These next two screen shots show the the broader region within the context of the game. As you can see in 2187 Vancouver  is littered with highrises and what looks like elevated roadways. Rising sea levels have also played havoc with the city’s land base. The mountains still look beautiful.

The Vancouver Special, for those of us born and raised in the Lower Mainland we know all too well about these homes that litter the east side and sporadically appear on the city’s west side. Although under appreciated at the time (majority were built between 60′s and late 80′s), today home buyers and investors seek them as they maximize living space in a standard 33 x 12o city lot. Many homeowners have renovated these architectural icons and here is an example of one that circulated through architecture sites a few years back. 

Yesterday evening was the first open house for the soon to be developed Rogers Arena towers. The site comprises of two office/residential towers, one residential only tower and one to developed in the future over the existing Skytrain line. It also looks as though the development is anticipating the viaducts will not remain as they don’t interact with the viaducts, except for the West Tower. We’ll know the fate of the viaducts in the near future.