Transportation still big issue for Vancouver

VANCOUVER: Come downtown but leave your car at home.

That is the mantra organizers of the Vancouver Winter Olympics were reciting on Tuesday as transportation, particularly the movement of people, remained a huge issue one month before the start of the Games.

In a city divided geographically by mountains to the north and east, the US border to the south, and water nearly everywhere else, Vancouverites appear to be slow, or perhaps defiant, in getting the message about going without their vehicles during the Winter Olympics starting Feb 12 and the March Paralympics.