In message , at 15:35:51 on Wed, 4
Jan 2012, Robin9 remarked:
You mention 100,000 people arriving in the course of a day. We have been
told that millions, not hundreds of thousands, will come to London for
the Olympics.

There are supposed to be 6.6m tickets available to the public, about
half of which are for football (which is typically outside London). So
maybe there are about 5m "London" tickets altogether if you add in the
ones for sports insiders and sponsors. Spread over approx 10 days that's
500k/day. The main stadium holds 80k, and ExCel 40k. And you've also got
the officials, other staff, security, and not forgetting the athletes.

(If anyone has better numbers, I'd be glad to receive them).

ps. For an idea of the pre-planning, traffic estimates etc for one site,
see:
http://www.london2012.com/excel/cons...application.ht
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Roland Perry