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There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
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#12Related: https://globalnews.ca/news/2445052/bridge-closure-blocks-tra...
In January 2016, the cable-stayed bridge over the Nipigon River in northern Ontario that is the only road link between eastern and western Canada was closed when it began to buckle at an expansion joint.
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For that route, ultimately you'd need to take Highway 99 through Lillooet, which is closed between there and Pemberton.
Or cut down to Highway 1 in the Fraser Canyon. Which is closed. As you noted, the two more convenient routes, highways 3 and 5 are closed as well.
And that's it for Canadian land routes into Vancouver. There just aren't any additional routes through the mountains.
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#14You can still go around, through the US.
It might have just opened, but I5 was closed overnight as well south of Bellingham.
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#15I surprised you didn't link Kelowna's finest newspaper, Castanet: https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/351544/Mudslides-close-all-... I love them because their reporting is terrible and the site itself is straight out of the 90's. They used to run polls that were easy to manipulate, according to a ex-coworker of mine. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Nonetheless, everybody in Kelowna acts like Castanet is…
Holy heck it looks dope, straight out of 90s. I’m surprised it works well with Safari’s Reader though.
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#16As of a few seconds ago, this is the best route Google Maps can find to go from Vancouver to Kelowna: https://archive.md/we9X5
You have to go pretty far into the US on this route.
Edit: Incidentally, asking for directions from Vancouver to Edmonton currently causes Google Maps to fail and give you a route that's closed: https://archive.md/7lLu4
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#18The other day, I was in Whistler and tried to use Google Maps to route back to Vancouver. It wanted me to take logging roads through the back country.. roads that are actually deactivated and impossible to traverse unless you have a trail bike perhaps. That’s Canada for you…
Re: There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
#19As of a few seconds ago, this is the best route Google Maps can find to go from Vancouver to Kelowna: https://archive.md/we9X5 You have to go pretty far into the US on this route. Edit: Incidentally, asking for directions from Vancouver to Edmonton currently causes Google Maps to fail and give you a route that's closed: https://archive.md/7lLu4
Back to the historical norm! Until the Trans-Canada Highway, automobiles from BC had to enter the US to travel to eastern Canada. (https://np.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/3rsv0k/til_that_unti...>)
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#20I surprised you didn't link Kelowna's finest newspaper, Castanet: https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/351544/Mudslides-close-all-... I love them because their reporting is terrible and the site itself is straight out of the 90's. They used to run polls that were easy to manipulate, according to a ex-coworker of mine. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Nonetheless, everybody in Kelowna acts like Castanet is…
Castanet is gloriously imperfect. I hope they never change and never fade away.
It's exactly what it looks like: a hodge-podged effort by some local folks with little experience and ability among them, besides an earnest desire to report local news with a local perspective, that has stood the test of time (it launched in 2000!).