RWC 2011 MEOC Media Report
10 September 2011
• Match:
• France v Japan
• Venue:
• North Harbour Stadium
• Headlines:
• Happy, colourful, good-humoured crowd attend match
1 Estimated full house at NHS
2 Successful transport systems to and from game
3 Festive and steady night at waterfront and downtown

• Transport:
1. Bus operations worked well for all parts of the region with 7000 fans travelling by bus to the match and just under 11,000 carried home.
2. Clearance rate - All passengers cleared from venue within 65 minutes
3. Auckland Transport says operations at North Harbour worked according to plan with all fans reported seated at opening time.
• Fanzones
1. Queen’s Wharf:
• Good numbers of people passed through QW during the day
• No major issues
• St John attended 8 minor incidents onsite
2. Northern Lights:
• N/A
3. Southern Seas:
• N/A
4. Outrageous West:
• N/A
• Fan Trail report:
• N/A
• Police report:
• Seven people evicted from game , no arrests
• The rest of town quiet
• Fire report:
• One incident reported – cigarette in rubbish bin fire outside NHS
• St John report:
• 14 patients with minor incidents attended to at NHS

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