Vancouver Downtown During Olympic 2010
 

I heard they are closing down all the main roads such as Georgia viaduct.. burrad, granville, around the stadium..etc ? Remove all streets parking for 24hrs? Many of the cars will be restricted entering downtown unless travel with special dedicated shuttle bus ?
Was this been announced already ?

From what i heard, people were saying it will be a nigtmare if you're working in downtown during olympic months due to traffic, power outage...

fuck that, i aint working next year during the gay olympics



Better start saving up my OT and use it next year

If we have any jobs in the downtown core we'll be closing them down during the Olympics. Unless you're in the service industry your employer would be a nutter to not shut it down.

good luck downtown workers :)

working for government, around thurlow and georgia area...
does that consider as downtown core ? my impression for downtown core would be like stadium, robson square

dude, i dont think your vacation time could be carry over to next yr

There was a thing in the news a few months ago about this. Certain major roads will be closed, others will have no stopping, and others will have no parking.

I'm on the other side of the boat. I live downtown, but work outside of it. Hoping it doesn't take me 20mins to get out of my parkade lol.


Here's the blueprint of the disaster to happen
http://www.lockergnome.com/bradleybr...-plan-full.jpg

yes, you are fucked.

Same here. But I'm half happy/half aggravated. Yes the traffic will suck but the Olympics is in my own backyard.

Think of the street parties if Canada takes the gold in hockey. DT will be nuts. At least I hope so.

and canucks on fire in that period of time after ending their losing streak in january.....

this isnt looking too bad afterall !!!! :thumbsup::haha::thumbsup::haha:

Nope guess i better do shit load of OT next year and take 2 months off or sth

haha I agree. I just keep telling myself 'Hey, at least i don't have to pay for parking'.

I live in the Fraserview area and I work in North Van... normally I have two routes I can take, the Lionsgate and Hwy 1. I normally take the hwy to work but sometimes there's an accident and I can hop off at 1st ave, Hastings or Mcgill and take the Lionsgate, on an average day, I'm there in under 30 mins. There was a time a few months ago where there was a major accident on the hwy and it took me 2 hours to get to work. I can see that happening everyday during the olympics. The hwy will be clogged with traffic going to whistler and the Lionsgate will be a bitch to get to with the downtown traffic plan. Needless to say, I'm off to Hawaii after the opening ceremony.

great, I work in North Van & I have to go to UBC for classes at night. Just great.

I work at Hastings & Granville.


Shit.

im gonna be so fucked next year...work at 1 of if not the busiest area in downtown...
robson/thurlow...FFFFUUUUU

I am gonna be on Parental leave during that time lol

God I love my kid

hmm.. I'm not sure, but I might be earning a lot of money from doing OT during the Olympics.

:h5:

The best part is renting out my place to some out of towners I know is going to pay for almost half the trip.

Enjoy your traffic nightmare suckers :p

let the nightmare countdown begin LOL

shit. i work and go to school downtown.

this is gonna suck so badly.

im gonna rent out my parking to make some money

What does "Olympic Lane" mean? No regular traffic allowed?

thats what i wanna know... i work in the friggin hospital!!! THEY BETTER LET ME DRIVE. oh god... the parking lot at work is public, so screwed.

glad we got a condo at kitsilano


anyone wanna rent some rooms for a pretty penny? :)