was to be built over industrial land and railroads. Failure The project failed due to the lack of federal and provincial funding. Councilors had trouble building freeways in the past. The councilors expected to get some money from the National Housing Board since it was a redevelopment project, but there were many confusions and conflicts between senior levels of government. However, some housing along the paths of proposed freeways was built, such as 1450 Chestnut St., 350 Keefer, Skeena Terrace, and most notably Raymur Place housing. At one point the provincial government would have paid for 1/3 of the cost if the federal government would pay for another 1/3 but they refused again. After this city councillors were infuriated that they were not receiving the same funding as other cities, such as the recently completed freeways in Montreal. In fact, Vancouver mayor Tom Campbell went as far as to call the freeways "parkways" to make the federal government happy, to no great effect. Large civil protests over the Carrall Street connector through Chinatown also contributed to the failure. At first the Chinatown Homeowners Association was happy that a freeway was being built through Chinatown—meaning more customers—until they found out it would be 30 to 50 feet high, 8 to 10 lanes wide and would form a "roof" over Carrall Street. But there were no civil protests like these against Project 200 as it was laid over railway tracks. There are still small remnants of this freeway project including a curved park on Gore & Union which was supposed to accommodate an offramp. Vancouver is now the only major city in North America without a freeway in its downtown core. See also Highway revolt References Further reading History of Vancouver Anti-road protest Cancelled highway projects in Canada