Re: CityRail Olympic Passenger Numbers

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

"Malcolm Purvis" <malcolmpurvis@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
m31yy6dume.fsf@co3018576-a.rivrw1.nsw.optushome.com.au">news:m31yy6dume.fsf@co3018576-a.rivrw1.nsw.optushome.com.au...
> >>>>> "Bill" == Bill McNiven <wmcniven@gunzel.ozemail.com.au> writes:
>
> Bill> If we're going to be on-topic, these statistics are magnificent.
>
> Indeed they are.  OK, getting back on topic:
>
> 1) Does anyone have an idea of why the forecasted numbers have been
revised
>    down 10%.  Are there less commuters fighting the crowds or less
spectators?

perhaps because of the "lack of tourists" around? I remember reading in the
SMH around 4 weeks before the games that many Games packages in the US were
being sold at almost cost price after demand failing to meet expectations.

>
> 2) After looking at the daily breakdown, I'm surprised how deceptive the
>    overall figure can be.  Sure CityRail is moving 2.5 times the number of
>    people it normally does, but Sunday absorbs a lot of that increase.  A
>    better description is saying that three peak hours a day without a
break
>    for two weeks.
>
> It's still a heck of a lot of people to move with so few problems.
>
> Malcolm