Re: [NSW] Is Olympic Park really a ghost town?

["David Martin" <d_martin@mountains.net.au>]

There are plans to hold a Le Mans car race in the streets of Olympic Park.
See Sydney Morning Herald www.smh.com.au May 3, page 9.
A "memorandum of understanding" is expected to be signed this week between
the government & the organisers of the Le Mans series sports car races.


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"James Shugg" <jshugg@MailAndNews.com> wrote in message
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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110,000 spectators has been replaced by the whistle of the southern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."