Olympics Transportation

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Olympics Transportation

• What, How and Why

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Structure of this Discussion

• Recap of Readings-Topic Areas
• Difference in Summer and Winter Games
• Minnesota Olympics! What do you think?

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Topic Areas-Atlanta

• Transportation Planning
• Environmental Externalities
• Urban Design
• Financing
• Urban Revitalization
• Hopes and Dreams

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Topic Areas-SLC

• Planning Process and Structure
• ITS Deployment
• Social Consequences
• Tourism Market

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Difference in Summer and Winter Game

• Number of People to Move Around
• Location of the Events

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Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics
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Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics

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Minnesota Olympics!
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Minnesota Olympics!

• The Game Rules
• This is a public forum and each of us represents
  a role. We will discuss
• Winter or Summer Olympics
• Location
• Transportation of visitors and locals
• Positives and Negatives of playing host

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Public Participation! We are

• Banker
• Housing Developer
• Office Developer
• Downtown Office Owner
• Metro Dome Owner
• U of M Sports Facility Manager
• Minneapolis Poor Citizen
• St. Paul Rich Citizen
• Duluth Very Rich Citizen
• Citizen who Hates Olympics and works in Downtown
• Citizen who Loves Sports and Works in suburb
• Mother with 2 kids age 1 and 3

• MN Governor
• Minneapolis Mayor
• St. Paul Mayor
• Duluth Mayor
• Met Council Chair
• FTA Grant Allocation Officer
• Mn/DOT Commissioner
• Metro Transit Manager
• Downtown Retail Owner
• Road Builder
• Car Dealer
• Taxi Driver
• Gas Station Owner
• Tourism Agency Manager
• Environmental Activist

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Minnesota Olympics!

• Winter or Summer Olympics?
• Where to hold the Games?
• Financing the Olympics, Structure and Nature
• Transportation Planning Structure and Process
• Fear of Congestion-Travel Behavior
• Build Transit in 6 years?
• Urban Revitalization
• Who wins and Who loses? Rosy or Blue?
• Facility Reuse, Sustainable Utilization

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Winter or Summer Game? Please Vote!

• Yes, we want Summer Games!
• Yes, we want Winter Games!
• No, we dont want Olympics at all!

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Where to hold the Games?

• Midway Area?
• U of M?
• Downtown Minneapolis?
• Somewhere outside the Metro Area?
• Duluth?
• NIMBY!

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Minnesota Downhill Skiing

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• Cross Country Ski Sites

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Hopes and Expectations

• Urban Design
• Housing and Commercial Redevelopment
• Economic Development
• Eliminating Social Ills
• In what areas could the Twin Cities benefit from
  the Olympics?
• What do you not want to see happen?

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Financing the Olympics, Structure and Nature

• Who pays for the Olympics?
• Tourists
• Participating Countries
• Tax payers?
• Federal Funding?
• State Funding?
• Local Funding?
• Business Pact?
• Who Else?

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Financing the Olympics, Structure and Nature

• Who pays for Transportation?
• Tourists
• Each participating country
• US DOT
• Mn DOT?
• Local Gov.?
• Who Else?

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Transportation Planning Structure and Process

• Who does what?
• Multi-layer of Governments
• Inter-jurisdiction coordination
• Policy-making Structure?
• Planning-making Structure?

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Congestion?Tales from SLCThere was a
Transportation Guide that was widely
distributed, which basically told almost
everything that you would need to know to get
around during the gamesThere were park n
rides to park your car, and take public transit
up to the venue...thus cutting down the number of
vehicles.
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• Congestion? Cont.
• There was a fair amount of warning to the
  locals about the possible problems...and I think
  that it worked, because many people didn't leave
  their homes unless they really had to.
• I think that many people at the end of it all
  said, Gosh, where was all of the traffic and
  congestion that they talked about? I feel that
  many people were upset because it wasn't all that
  bad...like they had been duped into staying
  home.

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Congestion

• What does it cost the region during the Olympics?
• What would need to be done to lesson it?

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Transit

• What infrastructure improvements would need to be
  made?
• What resources would be needed to augment our
  current transit system?
• How do you expand a transit system to handle an
  influx of visitors, but make it sustainable for
  when the crowds leave?
• Will travel behavior adopted during the Olympics
  remain?

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Atlanta Travel Behavior

• Even in a city like Atlanta, where the auto is
  king, people will make short-term adjustments in
  their travel patterns. But I would be very
  surprised if there were any long-term effectsin
  terms of bus and subway ridershipI dont see a
  major lasting impact.
• Michael Meyer, Director of the Transportation
  Research and Education Center at Georgia Tech.

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Urban Revitalization

• What should we concentrate on?
• How do we make our expectations a reality?
• How do we deal with gentrification issues?
• Lessons learned from Atlanta

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• The games would uplift the people
• of Atlanta and fight poverty in the
• process.
• Maynard Jackson, Atlanta Mayor

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• Perhaps it was unrealistic to expect that an
  event like the Olympics would motivate people to
  tackle deeply embedded social ills. - Steven
  French and Mike Disher

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Turner Field

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Olympic Village

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Environmental Concerns

• Facility Reuse
• Waste Management
• Air Pollution
• Brownfield Redevelopment

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Other discussions?

• Terrorist Attack on Olympic Games?

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Winter or Summer Game? Please Vote!

• Yes, we want Summer Games!
• Yes, we want Winter Games!
• No, we dont want Olympics at all!

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Ok, Lets Go Home