Local urban planners have highlighted hotel districts and public transport as areas the city desperately needs to improve upon before playing host to the 2016 Games.
Building a transport network through the city's soaring hilltops and winding coastal roads to connect Olympic sites is proving to be a major headache. Progress in drilling a six-metre tunnel through a granite hillside is slow, and many other transit projects are behind schedule.
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Urban planner Professor Chris Gaffney says some of the city's planning decisions are questionable.
"There's no plan to put rail, metro, water taxi or anything between the international airport and downtown. This is unheard of in urban planning, anywhere."
