Vancouver’s Kitsilano pool is the latest example of Canadian cities allowing community spaces and infrastructure to fall into disrepair
Repair s continue at the pool at Vancouver 's Kitsilano beach on July 8, in an effort to be completed by the promised Aug. 7 opening date. Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim promises the popular 137-metre outdoor pool will open in August after public outrage over an original indefinite closure.
also have heard the last few months as major pieces of infrastructure or community attractions, from Calgary’s main water pipe to Ontario’s Science Centre, have broken down or been declared unusable. In their response, city staff said they were already doing structural and geotechnical studies and that they’d come back with optionsThat midterm report went to council late last month, two years later.
A manager with Vancouver’s Park Board was the first to flag how serious the situation was in December, 2023 with a public report – one that now seems like a cry for help to the city – saying that the pool was leaking at a rate of 30,000 litres an hour. The leak is now up to 1.7-million litres a day, as various efforts at repair have never seemed to provide a complete fix for all problems.
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