2010 Vancouver Olympic & Paralympic Super-Thread - Page 12

officedweller · #**221** Posted **Mar 1, 2009, 1:42 AM**

From the Vancouver Sun Feb 28th - anyone know where this is located exactly?

Workers lift the first of five giant Olympic rings into place at Vancouver International Airport on Friday.
Photograph by: Ian Lindsay, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Sun

zivan56 · #**222** Posted **Mar 1, 2009, 2:25 AM**

^^ Right where the "Welcome to BC" sign is when leaving YVR.

officedweller · #**223** Posted **Mar 1, 2009, 3:56 AM**

Thanks.
Expo legacy and Olympic legacy(?) next to each other.

Yume-sama · #**224** Posted **Mar 1, 2009, 4:08 AM**

Wow that is cool!

mr.x · #**225** Posted **Mar 1, 2009, 5:24 AM**

^ omg, that is awesome! i wonder if it's coming from YVR's budget or VANOC's look of the games budget.

Yume-sama · #**226** Posted **Mar 2, 2009, 7:27 AM**

They look to be done now

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41645839@N00/3320021443/ < EuroNorb

I wonder if they light up at night in the real colors!

raggedy13 · #**227** Posted **Mar 2, 2009, 7:32 AM**

^Awesome, thanks Yume-sama. I'm sure they'll light up and look great at night. I'd love to see a few more of those around the city, especially somewhere visible from downtown. It would be great to have a little extra night lighting to look at for the next year at least.

mooks28 · #**228** Posted **Mar 2, 2009, 7:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by raggedy13

^Awesome, thanks Yume-sama. I'm sure they'll light up and look great at night. I'd love to see a few more of those around the city, especially somewhere visible from downtown. It would be great to have a little extra night lighting to look at for the next year at least.

Whatever happened to hanging them off of the Burrard and Lion's Gate bridges?

mr.x · #**229** Posted **Mar 2, 2009, 8:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by mooks28

Whatever happened to hanging them off of the Burrard and Lion's Gate bridges?

Well, it's still a bit early. :p I would think you'd see them hanging off the Burrard Street Bridge and Lions Gate Bridge.

If you look carefully at the picture, the Olympic rings at the airport are edged with what appears to be lights....so they definitely do light up at night.

It also appears that the rings are held up together by tension cables.....I could so see some crazy protester going near it with clippers.

raggedy13 · #**230** Posted **Mar 2, 2009, 8:28 AM**

^In that case I'd hope it becomes unstable and falls on them.

djun · #**231** Posted **Mar 2, 2009, 10:12 AM**

Looks wonderful. I'm sure there will be other Olympic related landmarks scattered across the city.

On a side note, how was your training/orientation X2? I'm not sure if I saw you or not (I was checking people in...).

mr.x · #**232** Posted **Mar 2, 2009, 10:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by djun

Looks wonderful. I'm sure there will be other Olympic related landmarks scattered across the city.

On a side note, how was your training/orientation X2? I'm not sure if I saw you or not (I was checking people in...).

I was actually in a car accident on the way there, a guy on a cell rear ended me....didn't make it to the orientation unfortunately.

djun · #**233** Posted **Mar 2, 2009, 10:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by mr.x2

I was actually in a car accident on the way there, a guy on a cell rear ended me....didn't make it to the orientation unfortunately.

That's very unfortunate! I hope you're okay as with your car. I think someone will be in contact with you to make rearrangements, but I think you can contact the Volunteer Information Centre (I forget the phone number, it's on the 2010 site somewhere) and mention your unfortunate circumstances (I'm not sure if they're able to make the changes, but you can always try).

Do you recall if you were coming in for the 1pm session?

mr.x · #**234** Posted **Mar 2, 2009, 10:27 AM**

Yea, I signed up for the 1pm session.

Left home at around 12.30ish, got hit from the behind a few blocks away, had to deal with the whole insurance/photo evidence/argument 🞵🞵🞵🞵 for 30 minutes, drove back home, felt crappy, and decided not to go....and transit would also have taken more than an hour from UBC, by the time I get there more than half of it would be over.

I'm planning on calling them tmrw to hopefully sign up for another session. argh.

Kodii · #**235** Posted **Mar 2, 2009, 4:57 PM**

The Volunteer Center is 1-866-925-8657

It's on my cell phone... I pestered them

twoNeurons · #**236** Posted **Mar 2, 2009, 6:32 PM**

When will they outlaw using a mobile and driving at the same time? Even if 50% of people obeyed it, you'd see a reduction in accidents.

mr.x · #**237** Posted **Mar 3, 2009, 1:00 AM**

argh....got home late, office is closed.

Quote:

More than 6,000 signs to help direct Olympic visitors

By Damian Inwood, The Province
March 2, 2009 4:02 PM

More than 6,000 temporary street and transit signs will be put up to help people find their way to the 2010 Olympics.

The signs will include Vancouver 2010 transportation operations at depots, compounds and park-and-rides, TransLink and B.C. Transit routes, municipalities around Greater Vancouver and the Sea-to-Sky corridor and celebration zones.

According to a tender document, TransLink will need between 3,378 and 3,598 signs, Vancouver will need 1,030 signs, Richmond will need between 706 and 997 signs, Vancouver 2010 will need 475 signs, West Vancouver will need 250 signs, the B.C. Ministry of Transport will need 69 signs and the University of B.C. will need 67 signs.

The number of signs needed in Whistler is still to be determined.

The signs need to have "visual uniformity" and integrate Vancouver 2010's "look of the Games."

They will be installed between Aug. 1 this year and Jan. 31, 2010.

The request-for-proposals document lists competition venues in Vancouver, Whistler, West Vancouver and Richmond.

It also lists non-competition venues, including four official hotels, Vancouver International Airport, B.C. Place Stadium, the Main Press Centre at Canada Place and the Olympic Villages at False Creek and in Whistler, celebration sites and three Vancouver practice rinks.

[email protected]
© Copyright © The Province

http://www.theprovince.com/More+than+signs+help+direct+Olympic+visitors/1345786/story.html

Delirium · #**238** Posted **Mar 4, 2009, 1:59 PM**

here's a pic showing the completed olympic rings at the airport (with lighting)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thephotowalla/3327075015/

mr.x · #**239** Posted **Mar 4, 2009, 5:47 PM**

^ in another forum, there's this member that keeps insisting these rings are the same ones from Torino.

Yume-sama · #**240** Posted **Mar 4, 2009, 6:54 PM**

Can I guess who the member is?

They do look similar