Vancouver Pools Extend Hours for Summer

0:00It's March 25, I'm Cory with the story. This is Vancouver News Today, driven by AI. Vancouver City Council is set to vote on Monday about extending hours at outdoor pools this summer to meet growing demand. Staff recommend Longer Weekends at Kits Pool, which opened at 9 a.m. last year on Saturdays and Sundays, plus an early 8 a.m. public swim in. Second Beach Pool. New Brighton Pool would shift openings 30 minutes earlier to 6.30 a.m. weekdays and 8.30 a.m. weekends, while Maple Grove stays the same at 10.30 a.m. daily. Public swim sessions would stretch from 2.5 hours to 3 hours, with the last one at Kits Pool running 4 hours and length swims, growing to 2 hours from 1.5. The city also wants to tweak reservations, dropping public swims to 75% bookable and 25% drop-in from 80-20, while making length swims 50-50. Last summer saw nearly 244,000 visits, mostly drop-ins, leading to heat exhaustion cases,

1:05patron frustration, and some. Aggressive incidents, so these changes aim to ease the pressure as the vote approaches.