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[VicHockeyFan]

Correct me if I'm wrong...

But during business hours.... can a guy walk from the 700-blk of Fort to the 700-blk of Discovery, without setting foot on Douglas or Blanshard?

I think a guy can.

Start on Fort and nip thru the access to the View parkade. Out of the parkade onto View, then thru St. James (?) Square and you are on Yates. Go down the theatre alley and you are on Johnson. Nip thru the parkade and you are on Pandora, and can walk behind the Royal Bank to get to Cormorant.

Then use the alley to get out by First Island Financial.

Thru a parkade again (old Bay) and then use the red Hot parking lot to get you out onto Caledonia.

Thru the vehicle underpass of the Travellers Inn City Centre, and you are on Discovery.

I think that's it.

[D.L.]

You can start even further south that Fort Street. You can start at the SE corner of the library, walk through the library courtyard. Cross the street, then through the Rohani building, or Sussex Place and the Royal Bank.

[VicHockeyFan]

^ You're right!

[G-Man]

Can you really go through the Johnson Street parkade to Pandora?

[D.L.]

Yes, there is access at the back of the parkade to a walkway alongside one of those apartment buildings on Pandora built about 10 years ago.

[VicHockeyFan]

^ Ya, and you have to zig-zag a bit thru the Bay parkade, but it is achievable.

[D.L.]

There's also that alley behind the Strathcona. Is the Falls still going to have that public access lane?

[VicHockeyFan]

^ Oh, ya. And YES. So that block will remain passable.

[Mike K.]

Go back even further, fellas. From behind the Spaghetti factory you can walk through to the Aria lot, and then walk up past the Marriott and onto the Falls/Milos alleyway. Then do what Dylan/VHF said.

[VicHockeyFan]

Well, that short-cut is a street though, beside the Marriott.

[Mike K.]

Ok, cut through along Astoria's walkway and head towards the Milos/Falls alley.

But you did say "without setting foot on Douglas or Blanshard," right?

[VicHockeyFan]

Ok, cut through along Astoria's walkway and head towards the Milos/Falls alley.

I'm not familiar with Astoria's walkway... it must be a fairly thin strip..

[Mike K.]

It's obviously time to get acquainted

[Holden West]

You can cut through the Executive house hotel Go through the south entrance near Barts or in the parkade, up the stairs and out through the main lobby opposite Millos.

When will the madness stop? Port Angeles?

[Mike K.]

Yup, hop off a boat at Mile 0 then rip through the park, cross into St Annes, then cross from St Annes to where the bums stuck up tents on the Aria lot, through Barts/Astoria's walkway and onto the Milos/Falls alley.

[HOMBRE]

why don't you just hop on a bike and ride down the entire length of it, i've noticed your allowed to blow through red lights so that in itself guarantes you don't put your feet down

[Lover Fighter]

Wow, it's funny you mentioned this! I noticed the other day how there are crosswalks midblock between Johnson and Blanshard on almost every street downtown. The only block I couldn't figure out how to get through was by the Corazon to the old Bay.

[VicHockeyFan]

Did the trip today (Broughton to Caledonia), and realized it was the first time EVER I have been in St. Andrew's Square. That place rocks! Reminds me of downtown malls in Toronto, Ottawa or Vancouver.

[aastra]

Back in the day you could cut through the Chateau Victoria. There was an unsecured door on Courtney Street that took you into the hotel and eventually out the other side. When I was working at 940 Blanshard (the library) many years ago we used to cut through that way to get to the Executive House restaurant.

You can also cut through the Broughton Street parkade.

So it's possible to walk in the middle of the block, mostly under cover, all the way from Aria to Discovery Street.

Can you really go through the Johnson Street parkade to Pandora?

You used to be able to drive into the parkade from the Pandora side. That was the most common way to enter just a few years ago. But they turfed that entrance, didn't they?

[D.L.]

right there was an entrance driveway there. Is that where the brown stucco residential buildings are now?