{"id":724455,"date":"2026-06-09T04:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724455\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T04:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:32:12","slug":"vancouver-cleaned-up-ahead-of-fifa-world-cup-starting-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724455\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver cleaned up ahead of FIFA World Cup starting &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/vancouver\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver<\/a> gets ready to host fans from around the world for the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/fifa-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup<\/a>, some may notice that the city is looking a lot cleaner than perhaps it has in the past.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On the Granville Street strip, which is now closed to vehicles and buses, every piece of trash is being picked up and a hand-washing station has been installed.<\/p>\n<p>In Yaletown, new sanitation carts have appeared on the streets and sources tell Global News that as many as 80 city workers are temporarily redeployed to clean-up duty.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in many years, the Plaza of Nations has been cleaned up with new art and flags and fresh paint.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>Derelict boats from northeast False Creek have all sailed down the inlet, past the Cambie Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With five government agencies sharing responsibility for False Creek, derelict vessels have been a perennial problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe often get bogged down and quagmired in our own cross-jurisdictional issues,\u201d Vancouver Coun. Sarah Kirby-Yung said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city is definitely a willing partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'How ready is Vancouver to welcome soccer fans just days before the start of FIFA World Cup 2026?'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WEB_JESSIE_ADCOCK_INTVU.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t7:16<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHow ready is Vancouver to welcome soccer fans just days before the start of FIFA World Cup 2026?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Kirby-Yung said they hope these moves lay the groundwork going forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s really been a question of priorities and for our council,\u201d she said. \u201cIt definitely has been a right-sizing of some of those functions. This is definitely a trend that we want to see continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size As Vancouver gets ready to host fans from around the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,14990,43,44,41,39,42,40,55],"class_list":["post-724455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-canada","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}