Re: Sydney Olympic transport

[consultancy@auto.spam.block.bigpond.com (greg h)]

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

I really feel sorry for the ppl who attended the BG's concert - fancy,
being subjected to 3 40+year old boy sopranoes catawalling for hours,
then having to be subjected to further torture on public transport.

But then again, I suppose they got what they deserved ..... I mean, if
you want to subject yourself to that sort of tortuous entertainment, a
bit of delay in the public transport system probably pales into
insignificance

>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
>