British Columbia Highway 7A

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Highway 7A

Barnet Highway
Barnet Road
Hastings Street
St Johns Street
Inlet Drive
Route information
Maintained by British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
Length25.9 km [1]  (16.1 mi)
Existed~1953–1999
Major junctions
West endBC-1A.svgBC-99.svgBC-99A.svg Hwy 1A  / Hwy 99  / Hwy 99A (Georgia Street) in Vancouver
Major intersectionsBC-1 (TCH).svg Hwy 1 (TCH) in Vancouver
East endBC-7.svg Hwy 7 in Coquitlam
Location
Country Canada
Province British Columbia
Major cities Vancouver
Burnaby
Port Moody
Coquitlam
Highway system
    BC-7.svg Hwy 7 BC-7B.svg Hwy 7B

    Highway 7A, known locally and on street signs as the Barnet Highway, Barnet Road,St. Johns Street, Inlet Drive and Hastings Street, was Highway 7's original 1941 route between the harbour in Vancouver and Port Moody. The highway gained the 7A designation around 1953 due to Highway 7 being re-designated along Lougheed Highway through Maillardville and Central Burnaby and was disestablished on April 1, 1999.

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    Route details

    The 26 km (16 mi) long Highway 7A largely followed a parallel route alongside the Canadian Pacific Railway. The highway started off in the west at Seymour Street in Downtown Vancouver, and went 8 km (5.0 mi) along Hastings Street, passing its junction with Highway 1 en route, until it reached Boundary Road, where the highway crossed into Burnaby. Highway 7A continued east along Hastings Street in Burnaby for 5 km (3.1 mi) before turning northeast via Inlet Drive onto Barnet Highway. Once Hastings Street terminates the road narrows from 6 lanes to four, and the speed limit is upped from 50 to 80 km/h (from 31 to 50 mph). Barnet Highway carried Highway 7A on a winding 9 km (5.6 mi) long route on the south shore of Burrard Inlet through Burnaby and into Port Moody, where it meets an intersection with St. John's Street. Highway 7A then travelled 5 km (3.1 mi) east along St. Johns Street to its junctions with Dewdney Trunk Road and Ioco Road, after which it bears the street name Barnet Highway again, before terminating at its junction with Highway 7 in Coquitlam.

    History

    Historically speaking, the route that Highway 7A took consisted of three distinct roads: the Dewdney Trunk Road, the Barnet Highway and Hastings Street. All of these roads have existed for well over a century. Dewdney Trunk road was once the principal route for traffic north of the Fraser and Hastings Street had been established early on in the history of Vancouver and Burnaby as municipalities. Both Barnet and Dewdney were completed around the turn of the 20th century [2] [3] [4]

    In 1941, a province-wide highway numbering scheme came into effect, [5] with Hastings, Barnet, St. Johns and Dewdney Trunk becoming part of Highway 7. [6] In 1952, Dewdney Trunk lost its highway designation as a new segment of Highway 7 from Shaughnessy Street to today's intersection of St. Johns and Dewdney Trunk Road was completed. This included the building of a new overhead crossing the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks. [7] [8]

    At some point in the early 1950s (possibly 1953) Highway 7 was rerouted to the newer Lougheed Highway through Maillardville and Central Burnaby. This finally gave Hastings, Barnet Highway and St. Johns Street the Highway 7A designation. During the mid-50s multiple improvements were made along the Barnet Highway section. [9] In 1959, a study conducted by the Technical Committee for Metropolitan Highway Planning suggested the building of a series freeways throughout Vancouver. The committee looked at the possibility of a freeway over Burnaby Mountain which would be a bypass the Barnet over Burnaby Mountain, but ultimately rejected it. [10] Different proposals called for a freeway bypass of Port Moody, a freeway through the Coquitlam Chines and others. None of these plans ever came to fruition. [9]

    Barnet Highway remained a two lane highway until the 1990s, when the province began to recognize that congestion was starting to build throughout the overall length of highway 7A. Using the concept of HOV lanes as a means to lessen single occupancy vehicle use and reduce said congestion, the province began to design the Barnet/Hastings People-Mover Project. The project started in 1991 and saw various layouts be considered. However, it was ultimately decided that Hastings would be widened to six lanes and the Barnet highway be finally upgraded into a four-lane facility. The right hand lanes in each direction along the two segments would operate as HOV lanes from 6:00 AM to 8:30 AM towards Vancouver and from 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM towards Port Moody. The improvement also saw the addition of an HOV lane going westbound on St. Johns Street and Clarke St. in Port Moody. [11] The project was completed on September 4, 1996, at a cost of $105 million (equivalent to $161,811,024 in 2020). [12] Counterintuitively, the project led to an increase in travel times on certain stretches of the route. [13]

    As part of the creation of TransLink, a major road network was to be created and maintained. The province had also decided to handover hundreds of kilometres of roadways to municipalities throughout the province. [14] [15] [16] Highway 7A's component routes were a part of the handover, and so on the April 1, 1999, Highway 7A ceased to be. [17] [18] [19]

    The Burnaby section of this road has been renamed to Barnet Road.

    Major intersections

    The entire route is in Metro Vancouver Regional District.

    Locationkm [1] miDestinationsNotes
    Vancouver 0.00.0BC-99.svgOntario M502.svg Howe Street, Seymour Street (Hwy 99 south) Airport, Canada–United States border
    BC-99.svg Georgia Street (Hwy 99 north) Whistler
    Former western terminus; Hwy 7A followed Howe Street and Seymour Street (one-way pair) north; former Hwy 1A  / Hwy 99A south
    0.50.31 Hastings Street Hwy 7A followed Hastings Street
    0.60.37 Granville Street Granville Mall (transit only) south of Hastings Street; near Translinkcanada.svg Translinkexpo.svg Translinkseabus.svg Translinkwce.svg   Waterfront station
    1.10.68 Cambie Street
    1.81.1 Main Street
    3.42.1 Clark Drive
    3.92.4 Commercial Drive
    6.74.2BC-1 (TCH).svg Hwy 1 (TCH) (Cassiar Connector) Hope, Whistler Hwy 1 passes underneath Hastings Street via the Cassiar Tunnel; Hwy 1 exit 26
    Burnaby 12.88.0 Hastings Street (to Burnaby Mountain Parkway) Simon Fraser University Renamed "Barnet Road"
    Port Moody 23.514.6 Dewdney Trunk Road
    Coquitlam 25.916.1BC-7.svg Hwy 7 (Lougheed Highway) / Pinetree Way Port Coquitlam Former eastern terminus; continues as Hwy 7 east
    1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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