Hastings Street (Vancouver)

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Hastings Street
East Hastings Street Vancouver.JPG
100 Block East Hastings Street (north side) near Columbia Street
Part ofBC-7A.svg Hwy 7A (former)
Namesake George Fowler Hastings
Length13.4 km (8.3 mi) [1]
Location Vancouver, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Nearest metro station Waterfront station
West endCardero Street
Major
junctions
Granville Street
Main Street
Hwy 1 (TCH)
Barnet Highway
East endBurnaby Mountain Parkway

Hastings Street is one of the most important east-west traffic corridors in the cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, [2] and 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 the recently built Burnaby Mountain Parkway and diverges from the continuation of the former Highway 7A as the Barnet Highway, to Port Moody, British Columbia.

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Route description

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

From west to east.

Locationkm [1] miDestinationsNotes
Vancouver 0.00.0Cardero Street
0.0–
0.1
0.0–
0.062
Bicycles & pedestrians only
0.10.062Nicola Street
1.00.62 Burrard Street
1.20.75Howe Street to Hwy 99 southOne-way, southwest bound; west end of former Hwy 7A concurrency
1.30.81 Granville Street Granville Mall (transit only) south of Hastings Street; near Translinkcanada.svg Translinkexpo.svg Translinkseabus.svg Translinkwce.svg   Waterfront station
1.40.87Seymour StreetOne-way, northeast-bound
1.81.1 Cambie Street
2.21.4Carrall StreetOne-way, southbound; division between West and East Hastings
2.51.6 Main Street
4.12.5 Clark Drive
4.62.9 Commercial Drive
5.63.5Nanaimo Street
6.54.0Renfrew StreetAccess to Hastings Park
7.44.6BC-1 (TCH).svg Hwy 1 (TCH) (Cassiar Connector) Hope, Whistler Hwy 1 passes underneath Hastings Street via the Cassiar Tunnel; Hwy 1 exit 26
Vancouver–Burnaby boundary8.05.0Boundary Road
Burnaby 9.55.9Willingdon Avenue
12.88.0Inlet Drive (to Barnet Highway)East end of former Hwy 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

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References

  1. 1 2 Google (September 16, 2021). "Hastings Street in Vancouver and Burnaby" (Map). Google Maps . Google. 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.