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伦敦奥运会将禁止所有观众开车看比赛
[ 2007-10-26 15:27 ]
英国伦敦将于2012年举办第30届夏季奥运会。伦敦奥组委立志办成一届“现代最绿色”奥运会,其中一项措施是,奥运期间800万左右的观众将被禁止开车前往观赛,只有残障人士可以破例坐车前往。
The organization charged with developing the infrastructure for the London 2012 Olympics is planning a car ban for all of the game's major venues across Britain.[Agencies]
The organization charged with developing the infrastructure for the London 2012 Olympics is planning a car ban for all of the game’s major venues across Britain, The Times reported.

Citing a preview of the travel plan it had seen, which described the 2012 games as the "country's largest peacetime logistical operation", the paper said that aside from a small number of disabled people, all spectators will be forced to take public transport, walk or use a bicycle.

"We have a very aggressive programme to make it the greenest games in modern times," Olympic Delivery Authority transport director Hugh Sumner told The Times.

"We want to leave both a hard legacy in terms of infrastructure and a living legacy in the way people think about transport and about how they travel to sports and cultural events."

The expected eight million visitors will not be allowed to drive to the games's events in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Cardiff as well as two smaller towns -- Weymouth and Portland.

On the busiest of days during the games, some 800,000 people will converge on the venues, The Times said.

Everyone who books a ticket for any event during the 2012 Olympics will receive a personalized itinerary which will show how to get from their home to the venue itself, and on the day of the event, live travel information will be sent to ticket-holders on their mobile phones.

To boost usage of public transport, all ticket-holders bound for an event in London will receive a travel card allowing them travel throughout the capital, and those from outside the city will be given discounted train tickets from any station to London.

"We want to accelerate the shift to public transport and cycling that we have seen in London in recent years," Sumner said.

"There will need to be traffic controls around competition venues. We will make it very plain to people that there isn't going to be parking."

(Agencies)

Vocabulary:

personalized itinerary: “量身定制”的(乘车)路线

(英语点津 Celene 编辑)

 

 
 
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