Vancouver is following the lead of other world cities by repurposing a disused rail line to create a new walking and cycling route. Providing a continuous route for pedestrians and cyclists from ...
Ask a cyclist, skateboarder or inline skater to design the perfect commuting route and it might look a lot like the temporary path Vancouver is constructing in its newly acquired Arbutus Greenway.
Vancouver residents have come forward with a variety of concepts for an 8.5-kilometre strip of land running from the Fraser River to Fir Street near False Creek. They include everything from community ...
The City of Vancouver has announced that all train rails and ties have been removed from the former Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (CP) line running through the Arbutus Corridor, ahead of schedule. The ...
The city has released early ideas for the Arbutus Greenway, a cycling path and collection of small parks that will run from Kitsilano all the way to the Fraser River. “Over three days last fall, 110 ...
Research has shown that where people live is an important predictor of their health and well-being, but can cities make people healthier by design? Meghan Winters, a professor in the Faculty of Health ...
Fifteen years of bitter fighting over an unused rail corridor on Vancouver's west side have ended with an announcement the city has agreed to buy the nine-kilometre line from CP Rail for $55-million ...
The Arbutus Greenway came to life Sunday in illustrations and sketches as part of a “design jam,” but the real project is still a long ways away with a final recommended design expected to come before ...
City of Vancouver considers selling part of Arbutus Corridor back to CP Rail. The price: $1 The deal would allow CP to buy back 0.62 hectares of land at the north end of the Arbutus Greenway for a ...
The drawn-out bitter dispute between the City of Vancouver and CP Railway ended in March after the city bought the land for $55 million. Now, the city is calling for ideas on what to do with the ...