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Canadian Press is reporting “Robson Street: A palpable feeling of patriotism” (emphasis added),

Vancouver’s downtown Robson Street – a standard-issue urban retail strip in its pre-Olympic life – has blossomed into a vibrant, giddy pedestrian hub, replete with street dancers, skaters, caped patriots wrapped in flags and a crazy popular zip line that hurls screaming participants across the sky every couple of minutes.

With traffic cordoned off near its nexus outside the Vancouver Art Gallery, the street has been transformed from a sea of cars into a tidal wave of cheerful humanity.

Throughout the day and night, throngs of people saunter the street, taking in the sights or becoming part of the action themselves.