[NSW] Is Olympic Park really a ghost town?

[James Shugg <jshugg@MailAndNews.com>]

We saw this on the newswires today. A colleague was asking whether it really 
is this quiet out at the Stadium. How often is it used these days?

Thanx, James

Sydney, May 3 (Bloomberg) – Train driver Alec Roun hangs out of his window 
and 
gazes down the empty Olympic Park platform that, just seven months ago, 
echoed 
with the footsteps of three million people from around the world.
	The platform, at one end of a A$150 million ($78 million) rail line 
ferrying 
spectators of the 2000 Olympics between Sydney and the venues, is almost 
deserted, a reminder to New South Wales state taxpayers that they may not be 
finished footing the bill for the city’s two weeks in the spotlight.
	The line leads to the $364 million Stadium Australia, where the roar of 
110,000 spectators has been replaced by the whistle of the southern 
hemisphere’s autumn wind in empty stands. Here, it’s not just taxpayers who 
are losing, it’s investors.
	“You could fire a gun out here most days and not hit a soul,” said Bruce 
Speers, a laborer at the stadium, “People are busy looking busy, but there 
aren’t many visitors to look after. It’s like a ghost town.”