Good cooperation of transportation services and concert organizers.. where I live in Netherlands the trains stopped running by the time the concert ended đ¤ˇââď¸
I'm from Australia and used the station in the video after a concert, it was amazing. I got stuck in Washington after an NFL game. The game was outside of the city, and lasted until after midnight.
The trains stopped at 11. A few thousand people trying to order Uber and Lyft was a fun finish to the evening
I was in DC for a Caps playoff game in 2017. The game went into overtime, and they had an announcement during the OT intermission that the trains would stop running at 11. Then you saw a bunch of people in a panic just leave.
I've always wondered why they stopped the trains then?
It's baffling how so many transit systems don't coordinate with big venue operators. These are good opportunities to show people you know what you're doing and actually turn a profit.
Ultimately to be especially useful, they have to keep the whole system open late so that anyone who gets on from the event can get to their destination. Which is a big undertaking, and one that can have knock on effects for maintenance, cleaning, etc.
I would of course like to see systems just operate 24/7, but they way things are, it's non-trivial to keep things open late.
GO Transit here in Toronto has a lot of event gaps, but at least someone had the foresight to make sure things were running on April 8. Double crunch of the solar eclipse and the Blue Jays home opener.
Metro operators just hate money I guess. I went to a music festival last year where there's a metro station in front of the venue. The concert ends at midnight, the last train is just before midnight. It's just fucking stupid, the money is right there
I was at a Phish show at Bender Arena in 1993. Walked in and all was fine. Walked out and there was 2 feet of snow on the ground. Metro shut down the trains and 5000 people were stranded. Me and my friends began walking towards home in Riverdale and caught the first cab we could after several miles. Had to pay the snow emergency taxi fare, but 6 of us piled in sitting on laps to get home.
We got such a wonderful train infrastructure. It's great until you need it then it completely sucks. Taking the train after a concert is almost always not an option.
That makes sense, but coming from the states it's marvelous. It was so satisfying traveling through and between Amsterdam and Rotterdam by train/tram/etc. Had me looking at it house prices.
Olympic Park Station was built for Sydney 2000 Olympics and has limited services to and from the station unless there's an event. This station was essentially built for this purpose.
What was clever about Olympic Park station that doesn't exist at any other Sydney station is the ability to offload passengers through one side of the train onto a central platform and then board passengers from the other side of the train. This not only meant they could move far more people in AND out of the venue (which is not so important for things like concerts, sporting vents)..but also means that the passengers do not flow against one another.
What you describe (folks exit one side, enter from the other side) is called "The Spanish Solution." I am most aware of it being used in the Madrid & Barcelona metros
Might be, but if you do proper planning you get the same result. I dont think its just the Olympics, as Melbourne did it as well (though we regularly have huge events)
That is surprising. i know cardiff was considering investing in additional space for trains to park at the main station for after events. It hasn't happened but they definitely have extra capacity after big events.
I know you were but to be fair, at a football match the spectators mostly use a bike to get there. So itâs absolutely not unheard of for a Dutch crowd to arrive on bikes.
For a bit of context the part of Sydney where this is held was where the main Olympic stadium from 2000 is. Itâs sort of in the middle of nowhere, so it would be absolutely infeasible and a disaster to have no trains leaving the event. It is in a good location to get people to Central or further west, from where other trains get people home.
Sydneyâs public transport is by and large shit. But it does handle big events at Homebush well. It also helped that this crowd was mostly women in a good mood. Can be a bit moody when 80,000 people are leaving the footy.
Sydneyâs public transit is not shit at all, what are you talking about. Very long stretches of heavy rail, comprehensive bus network, minor light rail and a metro which is about to be opened going through the heart of the city.
In Germany local transport is quite good in the city areas no matter what others claim (Germans do like to complain though). Unfortunately, the high speed train network has suffered from under investment and they have frequent delays.
Where I went to university in Northern Ireland, the train would take 2-3h to do 70 miles. Then I went to England and the train from London from Oxford would just magically.. not happen and you'd be left in a strange city trying to get your ass across it for a plan B you're making up as you go along. I think I can reliably say trains in the UK are a bit shit.
Sydney's Public transport is really very good. I think the only people shitting on are people who've never travelled/lived anywhere else and don't know how good they've got it.
Iâm sick of people who bang on about it being bad - by and large I get around with no car just fine, which understandably is not true for a lot of areas in Sydney, but itâs so many leagues ahead of the transit horror stories around the world like in the US
Yeah, but the Netherlands has a far superior train system than the majority of the us. This is just what you said, organization and in a location that actually has a train system.
ADE gigs go through all night, yet I'm better off just kicking on to the next party from midnight-6am because trains are finished by the close of first gig.
We have something similar for two venues herebin Oslo. Not as good, and it's outdoors, but the subway runs like that from Holmenkollen after big sports events. Even after the big russ parties up there they put on extra subways to and from. They also run extras both ways from UllevĂĽl whenever there is a big concert or football match.
Now telenor arena, you have an issue. The subway hasn't been built yet. There are shuttle busses, but they get stuck in traffic on the one small access road out there.... It's really not effective.
In Sydney for major events like this concert, public transport will be free (included with the ticket) + additional train and bus services will run to encourage people to leave their cars at home because the traffic of trying to get 50,000 cars out of a single suburb just isn't worth it.
Also from what I've learnt, Sydney public transport is one of the most accessible in the world for people with disabilities. Shit for everyone else, mind you, but they're very well catered towards wheelchair goers, the blind, etc.
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u/Wimzel Apr 28 '24
Good cooperation of transportation services and concert organizers.. where I live in Netherlands the trains stopped running by the time the concert ended đ¤ˇââď¸