-The public is being advised to take public transit throughout the Olympic, but Translink has no actual plans to increase capacity. The additional 200 buses added between 2007 and 2009 mentioned in the plan were actually purchased to make up a shortage within the existing fleet. Increasing capacity during the Olympics means going out and getting more buses. By contrast, Calgary Transit borrowed dozens of buses and LRT cars from neighbouring Edmonton during the 1988 Games.
-Notice to anyone who purchased tickets for events in Whistler but has accommodations in Vancouver: you will miss your events. The restriction on non-resident private vehicles along the Sea-to-Sky Highway has been downgraded to a traffic patrol in Squamish who will try to "discourage unnecessary vehicle traffic". For those of you who have never been to Vancouver, there are a lot of people who here who consider driving absolutely necessary because they are convinced they will be somehow diminished if they're seen riding public transit.
-Almost 20% of Vancouver's population walks or bicycles to work, which makes shutting down bike lanes and pedestrian corridors (such as Southeast False Creek at Science World) unfair, if not counterintuitive - make it hardest for the people who make the fewest traffic problems by giving them the biggest detours.
-This page has always held the opinion that there is far too much free public parking in Vancouver. However, I would not want to be the traffic control officer who has to ticket people parked near a hospital under the Olympic parking restrictions. Having experienced the blowback from physicians who can't find a convenient space near a hospital, I'd be worried that some officers may find themselves parked in the hospital as a result.
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