SYDNEY -- Transport bungles of Olympic proportions, Part One: Aussies don't know how to run a train service.
Imagine Shinjuku Station on a busy weekday but with security guards refusing to let people on the trains.
That was the scene this week at Olympic Park Station, the station meant to carry hundreds of thousands of people to and from the main venues for the Sydney Games. The job is not that big when you consider that Shinjuku Station handles more than 2 million people every day with relative ease. OK, so it is push and shove and obachan elbowing you with shopping bags. But it works. The trains leave on time, filled to the gills, and there is no backup on the platform.