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Compared with Salt Lake City, which had five Olympic venues within a nine-kilometres radius of its downtown, Vancouver will have 10 venues within the same radius. Photograph by: Ian Smith, Vancouver Sun
Traffic flows along Pacific Blvd. Wednesday beside Olympic venues B.C. Place(at left) and Canada Hockey Place. Photograph by: Ian Lindsay, Vancouver Sun
Traffic flows along Pacific Blvd. Wednesday, March 11, 2009 in Vancouver beside Olympic venues B.C. Place and Canada Hockey Place. Photograph by: Ian Lindsay, Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER – Vanoc will start closing streets around the Lower Mainland as early as Nov. 1 as it starts to secure sites and install screening stations ahead of the 2010 Olympic Games.
But Vanoc officials insist it has been working with businesses to ensure they can access their shops and won’t suffer economic fallout from the closures.
A section of Quebec Street between First and Second avenues and a portion of Stanley Park around Olympic Village will be the first to be closed. A series of other closures will occur in January.
Vanoc has released a website today to allow residents to see where the closures will occur.
Meanwhile, Olympic Games spectators and residents are urged to “know before they go” to work or any Olympic events to ensure they have enough time to get there.
Vanoc is encouraging spectators to get to an event two or three hours in advance so they can get screened and in their seats before the event starts.
Spectators will be able to book their bus tickets in November.
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