Olympics transportation update
It is day 12 of the games – what a journey for us all! Vancouver is showing off so well, and I think we are all so proud!
Road closures and restricted access to Olympics zones have turned out to be managable for our Operations Department. We were certainly braced for the worst and it seems that our plan of getting downtown every morning early has worked. Drivers are leaving for the downtown core at about 4:00 AM and start servicing downtown clients from 5:00 AM onwards. Our Operations Department refers to it as “full court press”.
Office recycling or shredding clients of course cannot be serviced at this hour, so instead of starting earlier Urban Impact is sending down two or three trucks (where we would usually send one) to provide services. So far so good, any clients whose offices are open during the Olympics are getting their regular services.
The next time the Olympics to Vancouver we will be prepared!
Olympics transportation logistics is proving to be a challenge
The Olympics are practically here! Road closures are in affect and are ramping up over the next few days.
Urban Impact has been calling clients and suppliers in the affected areas to inquire about their operating hours, access issues, passes required and any other special considerations. Although this is a bit of a generalization it seems that most clients are not alternating their work schedules. It seems that most business are open as usual. This is actually a bit of a surprise to us, we were hoping that some businesses would consider opening earlier to accomodate suppliers like Urban Impact. Servicing our clients during the peak Olympics period is certainly going to be an issue. We are allowed in the RED ZONES early (5:00 AM) but if no one is open – it is not really going to help us.
Our contignecy planning is kicking into gear. Likely our course of action will be to deploy several trucks at a time into an area and sweep it as quickly as we can. If we succeed with this strategy we should be able to move into the affected areas, pick up quickly and efficiently as possible and then move out to the next area.
Wish us luck!
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