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Broadway (MAP) |
Broadway is a major east-west Street in Vancouver, BC. In
Vancouver's numbered avenue grid system, it runs in place of a 9th Avenue and is
mostly four lanes.
The Street begins as "West Broadway" at the intersection of Wallace Crescent and
8th Avenue, in an affluent residential neighbourhood of West Point Grey, a few
kilometres east of the University of British Columbia. Past Alma Street,
Broadway enters the Greektown section of
Vancouver's Kitsilano district. East
of here are several blocks of generally trendy, upscale shops interspersed with
low-rise apartment blocks and small supermarkets.
As Broadway approaches Arbutus Street, the commercial establishments become
larger before transitioning into a mix of small to mid-size apartment blocks.
East of Burrard Street, the apartment blocks get progressively taller, and
commercial establishments larger and busier.
Between Burrard and Main Street, Broadway can be considerably congested by cars.
The stretch there has many medical related buildings.There are many
Restaurants and shops in this area and 2 blocks away you will find The Vancouver
General Hospital at Oak St.
Hotels on Broadway near Oak Street include the
Holiday Inn Vancouver
Centre, which contains a
Casino and the Park
Plaza Hotel Vancouver across the street. A couple of Blocks up on 12th
street at Cambie is The Vancouver City Hall, the
Plaza 500 Hotel and
Vancouver City Square
shopping plaza.
Between Cambie and Main, the commercial establishments become smaller and
somewhat more downscale.
At Ontario Street, two blocks west of Main, the route becomes "East Broadway."
After bisecting Main and Kingsway, traffic on Broadway eases somewhat, and the
character returns to residential all considerably less affluent than those to
the west.
At Commercial Drive,
Broadway passes under the Broadway and the Commercial
Skytrain Stations. As Broadway travels east the neighbourhood once again
becomes residential with some blocks that contain larger industrial, commercial,
and warehouse establishments.
Broadway finally ends at Rupert Street, just short of the Vancouver-Burnaby
boundary, where it becomes the Lougheed Highway.
Vancouver Neighbourhoods Broadway passes through
(from west to east):
West Point Grey
Kitsilano
Fairview
Mount Pleasant
Grandview
Kensington-Cedar Cottage
Hastings-Sunrise
Renfrew-Collingwood
The major north-south streets crossing Broadway
(from west to east):
Alma Street
Macdonald Street
Arbutus Street
Burrard Street
Granville Street
Oak Street
Cambie Street
Main Street
Kingsway
Fraser Street
Clark Drive
Commercial Drive
Nanaimo Street
Renfrew Street
Rupert Street |
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