Hmmm...they probably voted no just for the sake of voting against what the government would probably have liked to see happen.
Thankfully, I'm no longer bound by the rulings of the Vancouver School Board.
According to today's 24 Hours:
A July 7, 2008 memo from City of Vancouver transportation engineer Christopher Darwent to Olympic transportation director Dale Bracewell, obtained by 24 hours under Freedom of Information, said "if the K-12 March break were to occur during Games time, a reduction in background traffic similar to the expected increase from the Olympic overlay [five per cent] may be realized."
Approximately 600,000 school-related trips are made on weekdays "which results in more than 300,000 vehicle driver and passenger trips throughout the region and up to 67,000 vehicle driver and passenger trips to/from Vancouver."
Quote:
School's not out for Olympics
By Staff reporter, The Province
February 16, 2009 10:01 PM
Vancouver schools will be open during the 2010 Olympics.
The Vancouver School Board Monday night decided to keep the schools open, despite concerns that traffic and security problems will make it extremely difficult to get schoolkids to and from school during the 17-day Games.
Only trustee Ken Denike opposed the move, arguing unsuccessfully that the schools’ regular spring break should be moved to coincide with the Olympics.
The B.C. government has asked businesses and employees to schedule vacations or to work from home because of the expected bottlenecks caused by tens of thousands of Olympic visitors and security checkpoints that will slow or stop traffic movement during the Games.
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