Cambie Street

Cambie Street is a street in Vancouver. The street has two different sections: the Main section and the Downtown section. Main runs from Smithe Street & Nelson Street in the north end to Kent Avenue N in the south end and the Downtown section runs from Water Street in the northwest to Pacific Boulevard in the southwest. Main is 7.7 km long and Downtown is 1.4 km long.^[1] It is one of the main streets in Vancouver.

There are many buildings, areas and neighborhoods along Cambie Street. Some are Gastown, Victory Square, Oakridge Park shopping centre, Park Theatre, and the Vancouver headquarters for St. John Ambulance.

The Cambie Bridge is connected to Cambie Street. It was officially opened on December 8, 1985.^[2] It runs over False Creek, connecting Cambie Street and both Nelson and Smithe Streets in the downtown peninsula.

TransLink operates six stations along Cambie Street. They are Olympic Village, Broadway–City Hall, King Edward, Oakridge–41st Avenue, Langara–49th Avenue, and Marine Drive. They are all for the SkyTrain's Canada Line. The construction of the Canada Line was controversial. It greatly affected both businesses and traffic along Cambie Street. Residents wanted a rail in the tunnel for the train but the winning bidder decided to use a cut-and-cover type of tunnel instead. This cost less money but much of the street was shut down which angered shopkeepers.^[3] A lawsuit was brought to the Supreme Court of British Columbia by a shop owner named Susan Heyes for profit loss. She won and was awarded $600,000 but the verdict was later reversed on appeal.^[4][5]

Cambie Street is named after Canadian Pacific Railway chief surveyor Henry John Cambie.^[6]