Getting thousands of athletes, families, friends and cheering sections out to six sporting venues is a challenge, but organizers of the 2001 Special Olympics World Winter Games have designed and identified two transit systems to do the job. Delegations will travel daily from their Olympic village hotel sites via a shuttle system serving only them. These will be Laidlaw school buses. The shuttle will pick up at Olympic village hotel locations and transport athletes to the train depot, dubbed the Bus Transfer Center. A separate shuttle will service Olympic Village hotel sites and the Egan Center downtown, site of the Special Olympics Town.
Routes link venues with central locations.
Route 3 originates downtown to the Alaska Center for the Blind. Route 4 originates downtown for the U.S. Air Force hospital. Route 7 originates downtown for the Dimond Transit Center via Spenard. Route 8 originates downtown for the Muldoon Mall. Route 9 originates downtown and links via the Dimond Transit Center to buses bound for Alyeska Resort, Hilltop Ski Area and the Tesoro Sports Centre.