Sydney Olympic transport

["David Proctor" <daproc@spam_this.umpires.com>]

Went to the Easter Show the other day, and was impressed by the public
transport facilities. Olympic Park station has supposedly been designed to
handle 50,000 passengers per hour, and there are "Olympic test events" that
are designed to test this.

My concern is that there "test events" (NRL games, Bee Gees concerts, Easter
Shows) are lucky to see 50,000 passengers per hour, and if they do, it is
for an hour or two at the most.

During the Games, there will be these sorts of numbers, all day, EVERY day
for 16 days. How can they test whether or not a system will cope for this
length of time based purely on one or two hours?

Perhaps for the 2000 Easter Show they should make it free admission (maybe
subsidised by SOCOG) in an attempt to get many MANY more people through
there and REALLY test out the facilities. Either that or make the tickets
valid over the whole show - so you only need to buy one ticket and can keep
going back, day after day after day.

Either of these options would mean that the usage of the transport
facilities would be much greater than they are now.

DaveP