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Welcome to a new feature at Infrastructurist: Photo galleries! Please click the link or photo below to tour our first gallery, which depicts the fruits of Vancouver’s $580 million investment in construction and upgrades of its 2010 Winter Olympics facilities. All text is by Yonah Freemark, and all photos courtesy of VANOC/COVAN.

Olympics Vancouver

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 12:58 pm and is filed under International Infrastructure. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “What’s Being Built in Vancouver? A Sneak Peak at the Olympic Construction”

  1. Eric Says:
    February 11th, 2010 at 2:45 pm

    Didn’t they also build a brand new light-rail line from the airport to the center city? It was in the final stages of construction when I was there in May of last year.

  2. Brian Lang Says:
    February 11th, 2010 at 4:11 pm

    They built a medium-rail, mostly underground automated system from the airport to city centre.

  3. Brian Lang Says:
    February 11th, 2010 at 4:19 pm

    I have to add (now that I’ve viewed the photos) the following items that were built for the Olympics, but are not “official” Olympic projects:
    1. Sea-to-Sky highway improvements.
    2. Vancouver Convention Centre expansion.

    Also one issue:
    Cypress is hard-pressed for snow this winter, and is trucking snow over 250km to the site and using helicopters to spread it. This to allow elite athletes the ability to compete in the Olympics. Not for the public. Not very sustainable.

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