{"id":237929,"date":"2025-10-24T22:45:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237929\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T22:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:45:04","slug":"vancouvers-broadway-subway-project-will-close-1-block-of-thoroughfare-to-cars-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237929\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver’s Broadway Subway project will close 1 block of thoroughfare to cars for months"},"content":{"rendered":"

The provincial transportation ministry says one block of Vancouver\u2019s Broadway stretch will be closed to cars for months due to work on the construction of the SkyTrain extension.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the ministry says the thoroughfare will be fully closed to vehicles from Main Street to Quebec Street for approximately four months starting in January, with a detour around the block.<\/p>\n

Once re-opened, it will then be limited to one lane in each direction for a further four months.<\/p>\n

Pedestrian access will remain throughout the work. <\/p>\n

The ministry says the closure is for crews to tear down a traffic deck \u2014 a temporary bridge \u2014 in place since the start of the project where a station is under construction.<\/p>\n

Workers will also reinstall utilities, cover the station roof in soil and repave the roadway. <\/p>\n

By closing Broadway, the ministry says the work can be done \u201cas quickly as possible. \u201d<\/p>\n

The Broadway Subway extension is set to open in the fall of 2027.<\/p>\n

‘A challenge,’ staff concede<\/p>\n

Staff from the City of Vancouver and Transportation Investment Corporation, the Crown corporation building the project on the province\u2019s behalf, provided more details to reporters in a technical briefing ahead of the announcement.<\/p>\n

One city official acknowledged the closure would be \u201ca challenge,\u201d but argued significant time savings made it worthwhile.<\/p>\n

Reporters heard the alternative to the complete closure would have been keeping one lane open in each direction \u2014 but this would have meant a 16-month-long impact on vehicle traffic at the intersection, instead of eight.<\/p>\n

\"AConstruction crews are pictured working on the underground construction of the Broadway Subway Project in Vancouver on June 2, 2025. The extension is set to open in 2027. (Ben Nelms\/CBC)<\/p>\n

The detour plan, they added, also means most of the noisiest work can be carried out in daytime hours.<\/p>\n

A similar approach may be taken to the removal of the four other traffic decks on Broadway, one Transportation Investment Corporation staffer said, but the intention is for a staggered approach to minimize traffic impact.<\/p>\n

All traffic decks are set\u00a0to be removed by 2027, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The provincial transportation ministry says one block of Vancouver\u2019s Broadway stretch will be closed to cars for months…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-237929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}