A no messing around guide to the coolest things to eat, drink and do in Vancouver and beyond. Community. Not clickbait.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If Bicycles Could Cruise Above The SkyTrain

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We absolutely love this rendering by UK architecture firm Foster + Partners for their SkyCycle concept. If you squint a little, it looks like the SkyTrain line between Science World and Chinatown/Stadium stations.  The British design would see dedicated bike paths installed above the 136 miles of suburban rail lines that snake in and out of London, which is all kinds of amazing pipe dream stuff. Does Vancouver need this? Not really. The cost would be so prohibitive as to be amusing, and the ranting from both sides of Vancouver’s spectacularly stupid bike lane divide would prove too insufferable a daily torment. We just wouldn’t be able to stand it. Still, Vancouver would be a little cooler if its SkyTrain – where it runs parallel with the Dunsmuir Viaduct – had a traversable roof of some kind. And you are free to deny that at your soul’s peril.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If We Had More Safe Indoor Spaces for Skateboarding

Its vaulted ceilings may have once carried the tenors and altos of Catholic choirboys, but nowadays the acoustics of the abandoned St. Liborius Church have been repurposed to carry the screeches and echoes characteristic of a DIY Skatepark. We think Vancouver would be cooler if we had an all-inclusive indoor community skatepark of our own...

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had a Massive Floating Housing Project at the Port

Imagine a colourful, mixed-used, housing complex like Amsterdam's Silodam floating at the foot of Victoria Drive.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had Floating Camp Sites in False Creek

Imagine Belgium's Vlot Kamp - essentially eight floating campsites accessed from the shore by canoe - next to Olympic Village.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had a Cocktail Bar Hidden in a Skytrain Station

This 15-seat speakeasy-style bar is located behind a nondescript door in New York City's 28th Street subway station.