How Were Transport Problems Addressed During The Sydney Olympics?
Sydney hosted 2000 Olympic Games but before that Australia had its share of hosting Olympics when same was arranged in Melbourne in 1956. Sydney’s transport system is made up of trains, buses and ferries. (Sydney Transport). State Transit Authority of New South Wales is the official transport authority operating in Sydney with close to 1900 buses. However, following Atlanta Olympics example, New South Wales government formed Olympic Roads and Transport Authority (ORTA) to coordinate all the transport during Olympics. (ORTA). In order to face the situation, Olympic Roads and Transport Authority (ORTA) have decided to conduct tests to assess the systems and based on those findings they undertook two different initiatives: 1) Expansion of Sydney’s CityRail Network 2) Purchasing of up-to 3800 new buses A new high capacity rail station was built to handle about 80% of Olympics generated Traffic but despite performing well under the extreme pressures of 2000 Sydney Olympics games, it failed
