Re: Sydney Olympic transport

[debard@winshop.com.au (Ricky)]

On Fri, 2 Apr 1999 15:16:36 +1000, "David Proctor"
<daproc@spam_this.umpires.com> wrote:

>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.
>
And look at the stuff up when that event happened.

>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?
>
True David. You cannot test a 50,000 crowd in 2 hours. Have they made
provisions for an emergency.
eg. overhead down, fatality etc
They have enough trouble now with those sort of problems now without
having to cope with 50,000 angry people in 1 place as well.

>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.
>