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Originally Posted by socram
From a trusted source...
"The police estimated the crowd at 10,000 on Friday, 25,000 Saturday and 30,000 on Sunday.
I bet the ‘official’ numbers will be 110,000. Difficult when the total stands only hold about 12,500!"
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The official figures were released today by Auckland Council at 117,167 over the three days.
It appears that Bill's prophecy of attendance figure "massaging" may be in play here as the Council "official" figures are about double the Police estimate.
There was a huge push by Council to get spectators to travel to Pukekohe by train or bus but over the three days only 7339 people travelled by train and 1753 by bus. Council targeted 25% of spectators travelling by public transport but in reality only 7.7% did. Auckland Council have refused to release how much it cost them to put on the free public transport.
Whichever way you look at it the figures used by ATEED to justify the "investment" by ratepayers seem to be way short of what actually happened.