PANSTADIA & ARENA MANAGEMENT AUTUMN 2013
set by the Japanese Green Building Council are amongst the toughest in the world. In the run-up to the Olympics the city has rolled out programmes to green most of the fl at roofs in the city to curb the ‘urban heat island’ problem that plagues Tokyo.
But overcoming its CO2 and particularly CO2
emission, emitted by
cars, is something different. In the 1970s CO2
in Tokyo was amongst the
highest in the world but since then the city has rolled out a reliable, clean and safe public transport system. However, for the 2020 event it wants to add another three ring roads, 28 kilometres of new motorways and widen 20 kilometres of urban arterial routes.
“That’s a lesson we learnt from the 2012 Olympics in London where, despite the dedicated lanes, many vehicles of the Olympic family (offi cials, media, athletes and sponsors) got stuck in traffi c. The streets in London were too small to deal with the traffi c,” explains Mizuno.
The chances that athletes will get stuck in traffi c if Tokyo wins the bid are slim. “The location of the Olympic Village is pivotal to our plans. In our approach we have taken the concept of Athletes First. To them distance is always the fi rst problem they want to tackle. So we have made sure that
distances to the various venues and facilities are as short as possible.” The Tokyo 2020 LOC aims to house the athletes on an island in the harbour. From here almost all venues are located within an eight-kilometre radius. The only exceptions are venues in Sapporo, Miyagi, Saitama and Yokohama where local stadiums will be used for the football preliminaries.
Leaving a legacy
Tokyo is planning to use 35 venues for the various sports in 2020. Twenty of these venues will have to be built from scratch. “Eleven of them will be permanent and legacy. But we will not have any white elephants after the event,” Mizuno assures. In November last year the London-based Zaha Hadid Architects won the competition to design the new Olympic Stadium. In 2020 this new stadium will replace the existing national stadium that was built for the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Tokyo will use the 2020 Olympics to rebuild the nation’s pride after the 2011 Tsunami and nuclear power station disaster.
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