Knight Street is a major north-south roadway in Vancouver and Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. It is a four-to-six lane freeway from Westminster Highway in Richmond to Marine Drive in Vancouver, thus serving as an alternate way to exit Vancouver southbound, rather than the Granville Street/Oak Street corridor. Upon entering Vancouver, Knight Street provides major access routes to East Vancouver; at 14th Avenue, the road turns into Clark Drive, and runs northbound until it reaches the Port of Vancouver at Burrard Inlet. It is the busiest truck route in Vancouver,[2] and a key link between Vancouver and its neighbours to the south.
 Knight Street's freeway portion highlighted in red. | |
| Maintained by | TransLink, City of Vancouver |
|---|---|
| Length | 9.8 km (6.1 mi)[1] |
| Location | Vancouver, Richmond |
| South end | Westminster Highway |
| Major junctions | Highway 91 SE Marine Drive Kingsway |
| North end | Clark Drive |
| Construction | |
| Inauguration | 1974 |
The freeway section of Knight Street crosses the Fraser River via the Knight Street Bridge, connecting Vancouver to Mitchell Island and Richmond. This is the only officially designated freeway in Metro Vancouver that is not also designated as a provincial highway. However, the whole length of Knight Street is part of TransLink's Major Road Network:[3] the agency owns the Knight Street Bridge,[4] and provides funding to the cities of Vancouver and Richmond for maintenance and major projects on the rest of the street.[2][5]
The street has become a favourite for street racers in the Vancouver area probably because of its long straight bridge, though the police presence has recently improved to thwart this activity.[6][7] The intersection of Knight Street and Southeast Marine Drive, at the northern end of Knight Street Bridge, ranked among the top ten motor-vehicle crash sites in all of British Columbia in 2008.[8]
The Knight Street (formerly known as Knight Road) was named after Robert Knight, a property owner in South Vancouver in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[9] Clark Drive is named after Ephraim James Clark, a realtor who donated land to the city for a park in 1889.[9]
Major intersections
editThe entire route is in Metro Vancouver Regional District.
| Location | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond | 0.0 | 0.0 | Westminster Highway | ||
| 0.8 | 0.50 |    Highway 91 to Highway 99 – Delta, Surrey, BC Ferries (Tsawwassen), USA Border | Interchange; southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
| 2.0 | 1.2 | Jacombs Road | Southbound exit only | ||
| 2.4 | 1.5 |  Bridgeport Road – Vancouver International Airport | Interchange | ||
| 2.8– 3.9 | 1.7– 2.4 | Knight Street Bridge over Fraser River North Arm | |||
| 4.0 | 2.5 | Mitchell Island (Mitchell Road) | Interchange | ||
| Richmond–Vancouver boundary | 4.1– 4.4 | 2.5– 2.7 | Knight Street Bridge over the Fraser River North Arm | ||
| Vancouver | 4.6 | 2.9 | Southeast Marine Drive | Interchange | |
| 7.0 | 4.3 | East 41st Avenue | |||
| 8.7 | 5.4 | King Edward Avenue | |||
| 8.9 | 5.5 | Kingsway | Former Highway 1A / Highway 99A | ||
| 9.8 | 6.1 | East 14th Avenue | Becomes Clark Drive | ||
| 10.0 | 6.2 | East 12th Avenue | To Highway 1 east | ||
| 10.3 | 6.4 |  E Broadway (Highway 7) | |||
| 10.6 | 6.6 | East 6th Avenue (to Great Northern Way) |  VCC–Clark station | ||
| 11.1 | 6.9 | East 1st Avenue (to Terminal Avenue) | To Highway 1 | ||
| 12.4 | 7.7 | East Hastings Street | Former Highway 7A | ||
| 12.5 | 7.8 | Port of Vancouver | Grade separated, left exit; northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
| 12.6 | 7.8 | Powell Street | |||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
edit- ^ a b "Knight Street (Vancouver)" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
- ^ a b [1], City of Vancouver, March 2003. Accessed online January 20, 2011.
- ^ TransLink's Major Road Network, Highways and Gateways Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Knight St Bridge Archived 2010-09-15 at the Wayback Machine, TransLink
- ^ TransLink 2010 Capital Program Cost-Sharing Submissions, City of Richmond, March 26, 2010. Accessed online January 20, 2011.
- ^ Police turn radar guns on Knight Street Archived 2012-11-09 at the Wayback Machine, Vancouver Sun, April 4, 2006. Accessed online January 20, 2011.
- ^ Vancouver police launch new speed-trap tactic, CTV British Columbia, June 5, 2008. Accessed online January 20, 2011.
- ^ Accident-prone Metro home to all top 10 crash sites Archived 2012-11-09 at the Wayback Machine, Vancouver Sun, November 12, 2009. Accessed online January 20, 2011.
- ^ a b Walker, Elizabeth (1999). Street Names of Vancouver (PDF). Vancouver Historical Society. pp. 24, 67. ISBN 0-9692378-7-1.
External links
edit- Clark-Knight Corridor Whole Route Analysis Project, City of Vancouver