The transportation plan for transporting athletes and spectators around the region should San Francisco host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games has been unveiled by Bay Area transportation officials.
Anne Cribbs, President of the Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee said, “we’re just four weeks away from the U.S. candidate city election in Colorado Springs”. She said the traffic impact is a prime concern of local residents.
“The number one question I always get asked about the 2012 Olympics and the bid is what about the traffic”.
Metropolitan Transportation Commission Executive Director Steve Heminger said, “we, right now, have more rail capacity than many of the recent Olympic cities: Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney”.
The transportation plan includes using existing and planned mass transit systems such as CalTrain and BART and dedicating the Bay Area’s carpool lanes for transporting Olympic athletes and officials.
Spectators will be transported to the Olympic events almost exclusively on public transportation under the BASOC plan.
“The spectators will arrive on public transportation for the simple reason that we’re not going to give them any parking. We’re going to use the Pacific Ball Park model”, said Heminger.
