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Streetcar Named Desire
May also prove to be an Olympic legacy unexpected, because suddenly high on the public transport passenger numbers on the continent during the game showed, emphatically, that the people on move, in fact, leave their cars. They have been doing since driving and parking in downtown Vancouver last few weeks have been very limited and, more importantly, to expand public transportation alternatives are available.
The challenge now, however, is for players from the major regional transit – Translik, municipalities and the Government of BC – to implement the Olympic experience Transit planning from this point. This is very important in the southern Fraser River where, frankly, the imbalance between taxes paid and transit traffic services received from the damaged seriously.
It was, of course, Skytrain and Canada who do most of the heavy lifting for the game. Around 600,000 people per day use the system than expected, leading to some 1.6 million per day. However, a small demonstration project Olympic tram 1.8 miles between Granville Island and Olympic Village, which may be inherited – especially in the south of the main transit Fraser. False creek services also attract more riders than expected and, since the first day had been “a streetcar named desire” for those in the valley which calls for such services in the corridor of former Inter-rail from Surrey to Chilliwack.
