Athens: the traffic Olympics

 
Date: 2002-03-09

Leave the first comment

Athens has a very limited highway system and rush hour traffic that often moves at a walking pace. Spyros Kapralos, executive director of the 2004 organizing committee, describes Athens as a city originally designed for 80,000 people that now has a population of 5,000,000. The International Olympic Committee has listed traffic congestion as one of the main challenges facing the city, particularly since limited hotel space means that most ticket holders will be forced to stay in private homes or far away from Athens.

Organizers have not decided how to limit and control private vehicles during the games and IOC officials have expressed frustration that Athens has canceled several planned road works and transportation projects aimed at easing traffic congestion. However, Greek Premier Costas Simitis promised recently in Tokyo that the necessary work will be completed in time. Read Mar.6 CNN article

Login or sign up to receive email notification
when a comment is added to this thread.

NOTE - You can cancel at any time, and we have a strict privacy policy which forbids us from sharing your email address or other information with any third party.