Victoria Freeway Plan. Awesome.

Here is an artist's rendition of a planned major freeway, linking James Bay with Highways 1 and 17.

The freeway plan, discussed in the 1965 Overall Plan for the City of Victoria by the Capital Region Planning Board of British Columbia outlines the need for extensive transportation upgrades in the Capital Region, including improvements to the Pat Bay and Trans Canada Highways. According to the report, researchers input data into a highly advanced super computer, which ominously "forecast that the 1/4-million people expected in the region by 1981 will make 533,000 personal trips daily in their 90,600 cars and public buses." Bearing these facts in mind, the Report cites a number of recommendations put forth in a "Transportation Study" of the same year. Notably, that the Pat Bay and Trans Canada Highways should  "join in the Douglas-McKenzie Avenue area...[continuing] south to link with a Blanshard Street extension and a West Victoria Freeway," and furthermore, that Michigan street be widened into a boulevard and connected to Blanshard thus creating a transportation loop.

The West Victoria Freeway would use the "C.N.R. right-of-way across the Selkirk Water and the industrial reserve to terminate in James Bay by way of a new bridge or tunnel at Laurel Point." In other words, what is now a popular bike trail, i.e., the Galloping Goose, could have been a super-awesome freeway, with a less-stupid name.