Hastings Street (Vancouver)

Hastings Street
	100 Block East Hastings Street (north side) near Columbia Street
Part of	Highway 7A (former)
Namesake	George Fowler Hastings
Length	13.4 km (8.3 mi)
Location	Vancouver, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Nearest metro station	Waterfront station
West end	Cardero Street
Major; junctions	Granville Street; Main Street; Highway 1 (TCH); Barnet Highway
East end	Burnaby Mountain Parkway

Hastings Street is an east–west traffic corridor in the cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.^[2] It used to be a part of the decommissioned Highway 7A. In the central business district of downtown Vancouver, it is known as West Hastings Street; at Carrall Street it becomes East Hastings Street and runs eastwards through East Vancouver and Burnaby. In Burnaby, there is no east-west designation. The street ends in Westridge, a neighbourhood at the foot of Burnaby Mountain where it joins Burnaby Mountain Parkway and diverges from the continuation of the former Highway 7A as the Barnet Highway, to Port Moody, British Columbia.

Route description

Formally named in 1885 for Rear-Admiral George Fowler Hastings of the Royal Navy,^[3] the street runs past such well-known Vancouver landmarks as the Marine Building, the Vancouver Club, Sinclair Centre, Harbour Centre (once Spencer's, Eaton's, then Sears and now the downtown campus of Simon Fraser University), Dominion Building and Victory Square (the location of the city's original courthouse) and the Woodward's Building; located in the old Dunn's Tailors building at Homer and West Hastings is the campus of the Vancouver Film School, while on the corner of Cambie is the Carter-Cotton Building, the former headquarters of the Vancouver Province newspaper. East of Woodward's, the street forms the heart of Vancouver's historic original downtown, once known as the Great White Way because of its neon displays, and which is today the Downtown Eastside. Through the East End, after a stretch of warehouse-type commercial and wholesale businesses, the street forms one of the commercial cores for Vancouver's Italian community in a mixed-ethnicity retail area in the area of Nanaimo Street, just east of which the Pacific National Exhibition and Playland are on the city of Vancouver's eastern fringe. After leaving Vancouver, Hastings forms the core of a Burnaby retail neighbourhood known as the Heights and then traverses Capitol Hill to the Lochdale and Westridge areas.

Major intersections

From west to east.

Location	km^[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Vancouver	0.0	0.0	Cardero Street
	0.0– 0.1	0.0– 0.062	Bicycles & pedestrians only
	0.1	0.062	Nicola Street
	1.0	0.62	Burrard Street
	1.2	0.75	Howe Street to Highway 99 south	One-way, southwest bound; west end of former Highway 7A concurrency
	1.3	0.81	Granville Street	Granville Mall (transit only) south of Hastings Street; near Waterfront station
	1.4	0.87	Seymour Street	One-way, northeast-bound
	1.8	1.1	Cambie Street
	2.2	1.4	Carrall Street	One-way, southbound; division between West and East Hastings
	2.5	1.6	Main Street
	4.1	2.5	Clark Drive
	4.6	2.9	Commercial Drive
	5.6	3.5	Nanaimo Street
	6.5	4.0	Renfrew Street	Access to Hastings Park
	7.4	4.6	Highway 1 (TCH) (Cassiar Connector) – Hope, Whistler	Hwy 1 passes underneath Hastings Street via the Cassiar Tunnel; Hwy 1 exit 26
Vancouver–Burnaby boundary	8.0	5.0	Boundary Road
Burnaby	9.5	5.9	Willingdon Avenue
	12.8	8.0	Inlet Drive (to Barnet Highway)	East end of former Highway 7A concurrency; through traffic follows Inlet Drive
	13.4	8.3	Dalla Tina Avenue	Becomes Burnaby Mountain Parkway
	15.4	9.6	Galgardi Way / University Drive	Continues as University Drive East to Simon Fraser University
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Closed/former Concurrency terminus HOV only Route transition

Photos

West Hastings, looking east from Harbour Centre
200 Block East Hastings Street (north side) near Main Street, Downtown Eastside, Vancouver
East Hastings Street, Vancouver. Looking east from Victoria Drive.
East Hastings Street in East Vancouver, between Cassiar St. and Skeena St.
Hastings Street in Lochdale, North Burnaby; Westridge in background.
Hastings Street joins Inlet Drive (on the left) while continuing uphill towards Simon Fraser University. Eagle Ridge and Westridge in the distance.
Hastings and Granville, Vancouver, featuring a streetcar and folk in formal wear, circa 1905
Looking northwest towards the Marine Building from Granville Street, circa 1945.
West Hastings, looking eastward from the corner of Granville Street, circa 1911
View looking westward from Cambie Street. Probably taken from an upper floor or the roof of the Carter-Cotton Building. March 1, 1912. The Dominion Building is on the right-hand side of the frame.
A trolley bus on Hastings Street in downtown in 1981