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Arbutus Station will be on the northeast corner of Broadway and Arbutus streets. A bus loop will connect people headed to the University of B.C. with the 99 B-Line. An artist’s rendering of the Arbutus SkyTrain Station. Photo by City of Vancouver
South Granville Station will be on the northeast corner of Broadway and Granville streets. An artist’s rendering of the South Granville SkyTrain Station. Photo by City of Vancouver
Oak-VGH will be on the southwest corner of Broadway and Laurel streets. An artist’s rendering of the Oak-Vancouver General Hospital SkyTrain Station. Photo by City of Vancouver
Consultation materials note there will be single-occupancy washrooms accessible from the public areas of the stations with the assistance of a SkyTrain attendant, similar to the existing policy on the SkyTrain network.
Two of the busiest stations Broadway-City Hall Station and Arbutus Station will be built with accessible washrooms in the fare paid zone in the future.
At Broadway-City Hall Station, the Millennium Line extension will share the existing Canada Line street entrance through an expansion. An interconnected series of underground pathways will seamless connect the Canada Line and Millennium Line platforms to support transfers; with the project replacing the 99 B-Line, it is estimated 75% of the Canada Line and Millennium Line passengers at Broadway-City Hall Station will remain underground when they perform their transfer.
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The Olympic Cauldron at Jack Poole Plaza relit on February 12, 2020 for the 10-year anniversary of Vancouver 2010. (Kenneth Chan / Daily Hive)
BC leaders in business, tourism, and sport convened earlier this month for a virtual public discussion on how hosting the 2030 Olympic Winter Games could align with the province’s long-term goals, while also providing a jump start to the battered tourism industry after the pandemic.
During an event held by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, former VANOC president and CEO John Furlong maintained that the Games could be re-hosted in Metro Vancouver, Whistler, and possibly elsewhere in the province as the sports venues and infrastructure already exist, and more importantly because of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) flexible reforms on hosting requirements.
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Ready to dig out those red Olympic mittens for 2030? John Furlong sure hopes you are and he’s leading the charge to do it all again.
The former president of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics began musing about it last year on the 10th anniversary of the Games’ opening. That was in February before the pandemic arrived in B.C. But, between then and now, Furlong’s legendary enthusiasm has only grown as he and others have been working on a plan.
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Ready to dig out those red Olympic mittens for 2030? John Furlong sure hopes you are and he’s leading the charge to do it all again.
The former president of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics began musing about it last year on the 10th anniversary of the Games’ opening. That was in February before the pandemic arrived in B.C. But, between then and now, Furlong’s legendary enthusiasm has only grown as he and others have been working on a plan.
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