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The work will explore upgrades to Hastings Street from Boundary Street all the way to Duthie Avenue, where Hastings Street transitions into Burnaby Mountain Parkway. Hastings Street is part of the region’s Major Roads Network and Frequent Transit Network, and a designated route for trucks and goods movement. It is a major regional arterial route, linking downtown Vancouver to Simon Fraser University’s campus atop Burnaby Mountain, and communities along the way. It is one of the region’s b...

  VANCOUVER -- The truck driver in a crash that snarled traffic into North Vancouver for hours has been arrested for driving while impaired, local Mounties say. In a statement, the North Vancouver RCMP detachment said the crash happened shortly after 4 a.m. on Highway 1. The driver of a semi-truck was heading west, when the vehicle left the highway and struck a "support structure" of the Fern Street overpass. The man, who has not been publicly identified, is 47 and lives in Surrey, the RC...