We’ve been told we’re going to hear more about the Vancouver host committee’s “Know Before You Go” campaign, though there’s already a basic page for that on the official host site. 

The gist is, if you want to get anywhere on game day, take transit, walk, bike or hop on whatever your flavour of electric wheeled device is. 

If you take transit, prepare for it to be busy and give yourself extra time for your journey. TransLink says it’s boosting service, but with the city expecting to welcome more than 350,000 visitors across the seven match days, it’s going to be packed.

All the same, Vancouver is blessed among host cities in that its host stadium is downtown and a short walk from the rapid mass transit SkyTrain network, so you’d be silly not to make the most of that. (And you’d be remiss not to be smug that you aren’t being gouged $150 US for a train ticket to a suburban host stadium.)

Fittingly, today’s event is being held at a SkyTrain station. Though, oddly, it’s at one of the quietest stops on the network, 29th Street, in the city’s residential southeast.