Seattle Adult Entertainment: Winter Olympics set to begin with a few issues to sort out

Posted on February 11th, 2010 in Seattle adult entertainment by seattlesleuth

Protests should be limited Friday when more than 60,000 people assemble at BC Place Stadium for the first indoor Opening Ceremony – the culmination of a 106-day Olympic torch relay. No word on whether the red-gloved, cartoon kangaroo in the athletes’ village that drew the ire of the International Olympic Committee will be part of the festivities.
Still, many Canadians are angered over a 17-day Olympics projected to cost $5.6 billion. Vancouver officials forecast roughly $4 billion in benefits from hosting the Olympics – a small fortune, some argue, considering $1.9 billion spent on a light rail line, $825 million on a media center, $748 million on a highway and $580 million on venues.
And part of a $1.75 billion operating budget includes more than $900 million on security, topping the original estimate by about $725 million. That presumably doesn’t count extra money spent policing Vancouver’s salty Downtown Eastside, not a tourist destination for 350,000 visitors, unless they want to hang with homeless, drug addicts and prostitutes.

See the full article from “San Luis Obispo Tribune”




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