When the Sydney Olympic bid was initiated in 1990, the then director of the New South Wales Department of Planning said that although the former abattoir site in outer Sydney's Homebush neighborhood was indeterminably toxic and miles from, well, anywhere, it was available, easy, and cheap. There was no attempt to locate Sydney's Olympic Park to achieve strategic benefits for the city. This expediency resulted in a site that remains excruciatingly difficult to reuse.
The park's Olympic village, now a medium-density residential enclave midway between Sydney's two most populous business districts, is so distant from public transportation that most of its families must own two cars. And the broad, sweeping boulevards, for which the Olympic Authority bought up virtually every flowering jacaranda in metropolitan Sydney, remain deserted.
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