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Old Posted Feb 28, 2010, 8:29 AM
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The scale of the Summer games is almost unfathomable.

1.8 million tickets available for 2010.

8.7 million tickets available for 2012.

Can you imagine it being 5x bigger? You think Robson St. is busy *now*!
Well that's London...as one of the world's largest cities, they have the population to build larger venues beyond IOC requirements/standards.

Athens 2004 had 5.3-million tickets.


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Can you imagine it being 5x bigger? You think Robson St. is busy *now*! We'd have to replace the Canada Line with a real train.
"THREE CAR TRAINS ONLY....COME BACK IN 5 HOURS!!!"

We'd need to expand the Canada Line to 6-car train minimum with a train arriving every 2-minutes min....giving it a max. capacity of something like 30,000 pphpd.
     
     
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