mr.x Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 These pics below are the crowds at approximately 4 pm today Vancouver time, just one hour after we won the men's ice hockey Olympic gold a few blocks away. An estimated 400,000 are in the streets partying. Because of the crowds, many more roads have had to be shut down to vehicles for pedestrian-only streets. In fact, all bus service in and into the Downtown peninsuala have been canceled. All bridges into the peninsuala have also been shut down and before I left I saw thousands walking over the Cambie Street and Granville Street bridges into the city centre. People have to walk across the bridges in order to take the bus or they can take the subway/SkyTrain or the SeaBus ferry. Today at 4pm (and last I heard, as of midnight time right now it's even more packed...it probably won't end until late tomorrow morning): It's like this for about 20 blocks: Crowds keep going and going: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walei Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Thanks for the pix! I wonder how many of those lame protesters are in the crowd celebrating also... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4seasonscentre Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Holy Crap! They had to shut down streets in Toronto as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temo Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 It's no where near as packed as it was after the game, more of a late night crowd now, but still very noisey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.x Posted March 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nonstopdesign/4396774949/ Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nonstopdesign/4396774913/ Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nonstopdesign/4397025029/ Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nonstopdesign/4397791684/ Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nonstopdesign/4396774859/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2012 Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 F*ck me, those protesters really did shut down the streets as they said they would. Hang on a minute..... Gotta love the irony there. Fantastic pics X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micheal_warren Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 wow brilliant! Thanks for posting these photos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkiFreak Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Holy crap! And I thought it was busy last week when I was there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.x Posted March 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 VANCOUVER Granville Street yesterday...Granville Street Bridge is in the distance, closed yesterday because of 500,000 people in the peninsuala Every Canadian community was at an uproar when we won the gold medal game yesterday....particularly Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Halifax, etc. In Vancouver and in all of these communities, every street was blaring with car horns going off every 3-secs for 4 hours. TORONTO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkiFreak Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Here in Kelowna, there were people out on the streets waving flags and cheering. Lots of cars honking too. It was great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mr.x Posted March 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Where the camera guy is standing is approximately 400-metres away from Downtown...and it's not just where the hockey game was being aired on big screen, but these were sounds from all across the city: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VMxt-MqTiI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citius Altius Fortius Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 (edited) ... the videos remind me totally on the Fifa World Cup 2006 in Germany ... Edited March 2, 2010 by Citius Altius Fortius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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