Posted Feb 6, 2010, 2:33 AM
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Location: Vancouver, BC
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With some obvious exceptions, driving around Vancouver proper has actually been better than it normally is. Besides Olympic lanes, which regular drivers can't use any time, the lack of parking on streets like Broadway and Cambie etc gives an extra lane for buses, taking them out of the way of the regular lanes. And on streets where parking has been temporarily removed but there's no Olympic lane, like 12th Ave, parts of Clark Drive etc etc, there's a whole added lane. Plus so many people are not driving until the Olympics are over. It's really not that bad if you pay attention to the road closures and take the best routes available. If you try using the viaduct to get into downtown, you're in for a very long wait, but detour down 2nd Ave to the Cambie bridge or just take Powell into downtown, it's not that bad.
Now parking, that's another story...
And a side note, I noticed team Sweden has the same teal-coloured jackets as Olympic volunteers.
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