2010 Vancouver Olympic & Paralympic Super-Thread

[SpongeG]

and remember every olympics has its detractors and protesters

i have people in toronto who haven't heard any coverage of whats going on here they hear the good stuff - i was explaining to him all the road closures and restrictios and he says their news hasn't shown anything like that only good stuff... so local news i doing its job giving all sides and franklly the negative is bigger right now

the protesters here are just that career protesters and vancouver is where greenpeace started - its got a culture of anti-everything - i remember the out cry over Expo 86 and shutting down and moving all the DTES hotels when that was going on exact same reaction as now

the general public as polled is probably getting a little more against because its now close and its affecting their day to day life - driving is already a pain, the parking meters increases are automatically linked to the games - so many people complaining about the extended meter hours and lack of parking now etc... it has nothing to do with the games but people say oh its to pay for the games blah blah blah

plus most people here in the city cannot afford to go anything and those that can have now found out the restrictions and transport options and are not happy - my old co-worker won tickets months ago and was extremely excited to go to whistler and watch - but just last week found out they must be on a bus at 4:30 am and stay there until 9:00 pm and hike 2km to the venue and she doesn't even want to go now - so theres probably a lot of that now that we are so close and its real