Last year, the Ministry of Transportation put out a video driving from Horseshoe Bay to New West. I filmed the segments and matched them up from Taylor Way to just after Metrotown. Enjoy!
The sequence on the left was taken by the B C Highways Department with a Highway scanner designed and build by B C Research. It took a still picture exactly every 20 feet with a modified 16mm Bolex film camera. Each frame included a set of instruments a the bottom, showing: Distance, speed, compass heading, grade, side slope and road roughness. The highways department used it to schedule maintenance as well as in legal matters. It was installed on the roof of a Surburban Truck. I know these things, since I was in charge of designing, building and maintaining this system and many others that went to highways departments around the world. How quaint it all seem now...
Many thanks for taking the time to put this together, it was enjoyable. The best part for me was that the 1966 film drove over the original Georgia Viaduct, which joined Main St at E. Georgia, a couple of blocks to the north of the current viaduct, which was built in 1972.
@@henrystowe6217 Public transit is the answer. Vancouver is far too dense to try be a car city like Edmonton. They should be looking at other dense cities around the world. It's not an insurmountable problem.
