Olympic rings to light up airport
 

Visitors to Vancouver are now being welcomed by a set of 15-metre-tall, illuminated Olympic rings as they leave Vancouver International Airport.

The rings are the first in a series which are being erected by the Ministry of Transportation.

On Thursday at 6 p.m. B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell will officially light the rings, which are made up of more than 20,000 low-energy LED lights.

According to one Province source, it will cost $3 per day to power the lights.

A government news release says the rings can be programmed "for stunning light displays."

Two other candidates for sets of rings are believed to be the Burrard Street Bridge and the Lions Gate Bridge and there's been speculation that a giant, illuminated set of rings may be placed on the North Shore mountains.

Colin Hansen, Minister responsible for the 2010 Winter Games confirmed that the cost of the rings at Vancouver International Airport is $1.3 million.
http://www.theprovince.com/news/story.html?id=1354058

$3 a day? who cares. $1.3 million to build it, that should be the focus.

seen the rings already while driving by the airport.. its pretty cool i guess

$1.3 million is peanut compared the bail out money for american automakers..

1.3 million to build it? how bout a multi million dollar robert diszkenski inquiry that "should be the focus"

3$ a day lol

Nice.

How about investing 1.3 mil to help get homeless people off the street.

maybe i'll see it when i go to the airport on saturday

1.3 million isn't gonna do anything for the DTES. An article from last week or the week before stated they spent about 365 million on the DTES for the 08 calender year? That's ~1 million/day.

When it comes to government spending, a million is peanuts but I do have to say that this 1.3 million could have been spent in better ways instead on some "stunning light displays".

I think it's a really good idea

cool

nice. something to stare at as i'm stuck in traffic trying to merge onto the arthur lang...

how about the 1.4 billion we have already spent on the homeless in since 2001?

How about they pay taxes first before they get a piece of our pie?

useless

$1.4B has poored (pun intended) into the DTES already with no visible change (other than an increase in the population of homeless).

Considering Vancouverites desire to waste tax money on the homeless (a problem that cannot be fixed, mentally ill people need to be hospitalized) I'm all for wasting $1.4B on the Olympics. I'll at least enjoy the Olympics, I don't enjoy the DTES.

useless and not creative at all

laser beam would be nicer

You're not gonna miss it:)

How do you get creative on a Logo that's not allowed to be altered? It's the Olympic Rings afterall.

^ werd

i saw it, looks very cool.

1.3 mill though? fuckk

1.3 million to build THAT?

after all this talk you would think someone would post a pic of them at night!!! how about we see that huh

laser beams and airplanes don't mix ;)