Cambie Street
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Cambie Street is a 6-laned arterial road in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The RAV line is proposed to be underneath Cambie Street for most of its route but residents protest that Cambie Street is a heritage boulevard and argue in favour of using Arbutus Street instead.
The original Vancouver City Plan, as laid out at the beginning of the twentieth century, made provision for rail transit along several corridors. Three well-preserved examples are First Avenue, Twenty Fifth Avenue (now known as King Edward) and Cambie Street.
Those rail transit corridors can be seen today. They form grassy boulevards down the middle of the streets. Somehow, this original plan was lost, misplaced or forgotten. For example, in the intervening decades several trees were planted along some of the boulevards, including non-native redwoods on Cambie Street.
In the opening years of the twenty first century, local residents along the Cambie corridor mounted effective protests against developing the Cambie corridor for its original application, hence the movement to run the RAV rapid transit line underground through that area. This would result in much higher costs to develop the transit system.