Cambie Street

Located in Vancouver City, British Columbia; Cambie Street is a very busy and popular street. Its name comes form Henry John Cambie. He was a chief surveyor of the CPR or Canadian Pacific Railway's western division. Not to be confused with Cambie Road that is a main thoroughfare situated within nearby Richmond.

The road has two distinct portions running along the northeast-southwest alignment north of False Creek, following the downtown cores rotated street grid. Due to this fact, the road really extends perpendicular to the Cambie Street Bridge, and there is no seamless connection between them. As a matter of fact, Nelson Street carries southbound traffic onto the bridge and Smithe Street carried northbound traffic away from the bridge. Cambie Street's downtown part is a two-way street for its whole length and extends from Water Street within Gastown in the north to Pacific Boulevard within Yaletown in the south.

The road becomes a main 6-lane arterial lane south of False Creek. It runs as a two-way south and north highway according to Vancouver's street grid. The street has a 10 metre boulevard with many well established trees and lots of grass between Southwest Marine Drive and King Edward Avenue West.

The Cambie Street Bridge is a varying-depth-post tension-box girder bridge that is six lanes wide spanning False Creek. This precast, bi-symmetric bridge actually opened in the year 1985 and is the 3rd bridge at this location. It is the easternmost of False Creek's fixed crossings. The new Canada Line SkyTrain tunnel lies just to the west of the Cambie Bridge and the Burrard and Granville Bridges are located just a little more than a kilometre to the west.