Hastings Street (Vancouver)

Hastings Street is an east–west traffic corridor in the cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.[2] It used to be a part of the decommissioned Highway 7A. In the central business district of downtown Vancouver, it is known as West Hastings Street; at Carrall Street it becomes East Hastings Street and runs eastwards through East Vancouver and Burnaby. In Burnaby, there is no east-west designation. The street ends in Westridge, a neighbourhood at the foot of Burnaby Mountain where it joins Burnaby Mountain Parkway and diverges from the continuation of the former Highway 7A as the Barnet Highway, to Port Moody, British Columbia.

Hastings Street
100 Block East Hastings Street (north side) near Columbia Street
Part of Highway 7A (former)
NamesakeGeorge Fowler Hastings
Length13.4 km (8.3 mi)[1]
LocationVancouver, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Nearest metro stationWaterfront station
West endCardero Street
Major
junctions
Granville Street
Main Street
Highway 1 (TCH)
Barnet Highway
East endBurnaby Mountain Parkway

Route description

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Formally named in 1885 for Rear-Admiral George Fowler Hastings of the Royal Navy,[3] the street runs past such well-known Vancouver landmarks as the Marine Building, the Vancouver Club, Sinclair Centre, Harbour Centre (once Spencer's, Eaton's, then Sears and now the downtown campus of Simon Fraser University), Dominion Building and Victory Square (the location of the city's original courthouse) and the Woodward's Building; located in the old Dunn's Tailors building at Homer and West Hastings is the campus of the Vancouver Film School, while on the corner of Cambie is the Carter-Cotton Building, the former headquarters of the Vancouver Province newspaper. East of Woodward's, the street forms the heart of Vancouver's historic original downtown, once known as the Great White Way because of its neon displays, and which is today the Downtown Eastside. Through the East End, after a stretch of warehouse-type commercial and wholesale businesses, the street forms one of the commercial cores for Vancouver's Italian community in a mixed-ethnicity retail area in the area of Nanaimo Street, just east of which the Pacific National Exhibition and Playland are on the city of Vancouver's eastern fringe. After leaving Vancouver, Hastings forms the core of a Burnaby retail neighbourhood known as the Heights and then traverses Capitol Hill to the Lochdale and Westridge areas.

Major intersections

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From west to east.

Locationkm[1]miDestinationsNotes
Vancouver0.00.0Cardero Street
0.0–
0.1
0.0–
0.062
Bicycles & pedestrians only
0.10.062Nicola Street
1.00.62Burrard Street
1.20.75Howe Street to Highway 99 southOne-way, southwest bound; west end of former Highway 7A concurrency
1.30.81Granville StreetGranville Mall (transit only) south of Hastings Street; near      Waterfront station
1.40.87Seymour StreetOne-way, northeast-bound
1.81.1Cambie Street
2.21.4Carrall StreetOne-way, southbound; division between West and East Hastings
2.51.6Main Street
4.12.5Clark Drive
4.62.9Commercial Drive
5.63.5Nanaimo Street
6.54.0Renfrew StreetAccess to Hastings Park
7.44.6  Highway 1 (TCH) (Cassiar Connector) – Hope, WhistlerHwy 1 passes underneath Hastings Street via the Cassiar Tunnel; Hwy 1 exit 26
Vancouver–Burnaby boundary8.05.0Boundary Road
Burnaby9.55.9Willingdon Avenue
12.88.0Inlet Drive (to Barnet Highway)East end of former Highway 7A concurrency; through traffic follows Inlet Drive
13.48.3Dalla Tina AvenueBecomes Burnaby Mountain Parkway
15.49.6Galgardi Way / University DriveContinues as University Drive East to Simon Fraser University
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Photos

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KML is from Wikidata

References

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  1. ^ a b "Hastings Street in Vancouver and Burnaby" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  2. ^ "101 West Hastings Street: Urban Design Guidelines Administrative Report, City of Vancouver, April 6, 2004". Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved February 2, 2007.
  3. ^ Snyders, Tom. Namely Vancouver. 2001. Arsenal Pulp Press.