aggregated from: Beyond Robson

An Olympic disaster? Complete rubbishWherein official sponsor of the 2010 Winter Games takes on those grumpy brits at The Guardian. If you're going to say the Vancouver Games cost $6-billion, have the decency to note $4-billion is for infrastructure...

topics: 2010-winter-games, tax, translink, vanoc

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

An Olympic disaster? Complete rubbishWherein official sponsor of the 2010 Winter Games takes on those grumpy brits at The Guardian. If you're going to say the Vancouver Games cost $6-billion, have the decency to note $4-billion is for infrastructure...

topics: 2010-winter-games, tax, taxes, translink, vanoc

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

Downtown Vancouver is being shut down one street at a time, the Lower Mainland is awash in green and teale O-advertising, it still refuses to snow at Cypress, and the VANOC/Translink team has pulled every single newspaper box from the Seabus termin...

topics: elected, translink, vanoc

aggregated from: Vancouverite

(Photo: Terry Murphy)Staged across the border north of Lynden, Washington, VANOC has amassed an army of Vancouver 2010 buses - complete with Quatchi markings (Mascots = trustworthy, right?) My Dad was traveling across the border and found the VANOC b...

topics: olympics, translink, vancouver-2010, vanoc

aggregated from: Vancouverite

Dear Translink, Do you think we could maybe NOT encourage families of flip flop wearing douchebags from using the Canada Line like it was a bath house? This was their ad running full page in most papers today. I will return the favor by riding you sa...

aggregated from: Metroblogging Vancouver

Remember how I said my brain turned to mush after all the fare weirdness we ll see during the Olympics and I couldn t sort through all the bus route changes and how to get to Whistler options, etc? Well, Miss 604 did the heavy lifting for us already ...

topics: downtown, olympics, vancouver-2010, whistler

aggregated from: Metroblogging Vancouver

With the Olympics about to begin, the city including those who saw the international games as a boon as well as those that originally expressed concerns is starting to ask, What effect, exactly, will the games have on the day-to-day living in th...

topics: downtown, olympics, richmond, translink, whistler

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

It's that time of the year when we start to look back at the year that was, take stock of our accomplishments, lessons learned, and move boldly into the new year!As is the tradition here at NorthVancouverPolitics.com we built a list of the top politi...

topics: elected, mla, north-vancouver, political, translink

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Last night, when leaving the newly renovated and name-condensed Broadway-Commercial SkyTrain station, I saw a group of about eight SkyTrain police/attendants and four people being ticketed for fare evasion. But in three years, this sight could be a s...

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Hey so because of all my awesome Olympic spirit that I have inside of me, teeming inside my black, black heart, I've been invited to go behind the scenes of the Torch Relay by General Motors. Seriously. Vancouver 2010 Olympics will be 'financial disa...

topics: olympics, translink, vancouver-2010, vanoc