Views of the area just a few years back.

Post Office Building viewed from York Street
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From la tower.
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View through scaffolding of ACC under construction.
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and before even that...

Overgrown brownfields around tower base...
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View towards site of rising Telus Tower. Note crane on top of BCE (cough!) place.
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The physical quality of the last two photos make them look like they are from 1900.
 
Another crane went up today on site. While I was there the crane swung out and almost clipped a lamp post on the highway. They had to lower it back in the pit and start over. There was a pretty good crowd watching and waiting for something to happen from across the road.

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urbandreamer said:
what if? a car/truck has accident on gardiner and flips over railing into MLS pit? just a thought that came into my brain staring@that photo.
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I think the pit is too far away from the gardiner for that to happen (unless you use Hollywood physics).
 
(unless you use Hollywood physics).
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That's where everything moves really slow, right? Followed by Hollywood chemistry, where the car explodes as if loaded with a small nuke.
 
urbandreamer said:
what if? a car/truck has accident on gardiner and flips over railing into MLS pit? just a thought that came into my brain staring@that photo.
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This makes me wonder, has anyone managed to crash badly enough to flip over the guardrail in the Gardiner's history? It seems like it'd be quite a feat.
 
There was an accident one or two winters ago where someone hit a snow bank on the Gardiner and went over the railing... and somehow survived.
 
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