In message , at 17:15:06 on Wed, 6
Jun 2012, Robin9 remarked:
A crucial question is whether Stratford Station will be able to cope.
As I understand it, people buy Olympic tickets for a three hour period

Known in the business as "morning", "afternoon" and "evening".

which presumably means that every three hours or so there will be
a
major surge in passengers. If that is correct, will the ticket
barriers
at Stratford be sufficient to "process" the resulting hordes or will
there be massive congestion?

There isn't just one pinch point (at the barriers), spectators first
have to exit the particular event, then exit the Olympic Park, then
filter through the Westfield environs to either the International or
Domestic stations (which are some way apart).

That should string out the queues, so you don't have everyone in a
single scrum.

What'll be interesting to discover is how they segregate the passengers
according to their destinations, and presumably won't want the DLR link
from International to Domestic being saturated by short-hop people,
rather than those genuinely headed for docklands and beyond on DLR.
--
Roland Perry