To think the Olympics will totally fuck transport in London?

[coraltoes]

Right, I've read about the Olympic super fast route for the committee members and athletes. I've read about ambulances not being allowed on them unless blue lighting (not all urgent ambulance trips are blue light emergencies), about transplant organs being transported at night to avoid the route and congestion, and about delays at major tube stations being predicted to be approx 30 minutes.

Wat the fuck is all that about?! Did tfl not know this was coming our way?? Did they really think, oh 2012, by then we will all be flying about with pissing rocket packs?!

I cannot believe it may add an extra hour to my daily commute.

To top it off I have heard canary wharf are asking firms to reduce workforce by up to 30% during the games to ease congestion on the dlr and tube!! So companies are expected to reduce productivity so boris and Seb Coe can have their wet pant moment as the world hails London as an Olympic dream? Ugh.

Not to mention how farcical and discriminatory the ticketing system was. Oh yes, if you are well off and can risk bidding for £5k of tickets that's great. If you can only afford to risk winning £100 worth well you've a far lower chance of making it to the games mate. Welcome to the London Olympics.

, piella. We're in the process of trying to move house at the moment, so I'm hoping we'll have sold and moved by the time the Olympics happen - we'll still be in London but at least a bit further away from the mess.

It's not just the transport. Anyone else lucky enough to live near a park which has been comandeered by a particular country? My local park has been taken over for an olympic country festival expecting 15,000 people a day. Music all day every day for two weeks and sports coverage till 11pm. I should say that bass from other festivals held in this park is so loud it makes my bed shake, and I don't even live right by the park. Perish the thought of going to the playground- shut, enjoying my garden or even opening the windows for two weeks.
The Olympics can fuck off. Hearing that Lambeth Country Fair is off is soooo depressing. Owls and cider and performing dogs and fire engines and honey- that's my kind of festival. Grrrr.

It feels very much like the city is hosting something for other people, not for it's own

And lying to them about the cost and hassle while shafting them .

I work in Canary Wharf - we've been asked to take annual leave or work from home for the duration. I think most of us are planning to work from home

I'm hoping it'll be like Y2K, ie, months of dire warnings so that everyone is actually pleasantly surprised by how smooth it all goes #vainhope

Eerrrrr hello, millions of visitors pouring money into our cash strapped economy??

Surely you can put up with a little noise, inconvenience and hassle if it boosts the economy? More jobs?

Eerrrrr hello, millions of visitors pouring money into our cash strapped economy??

As opposed to millions of Londoners pouring in billions to subsidise it - this is a great black hole of cash.

Millions paid in to the economy but it's costing BILLIONS!

What jobs? most are voluntary!

It's not just Londoners who are financing it. National Lottery cash that would have gone into projects elsewhere in the country has been diverted too.

But at least the traffic won't affect most of us. I do feel sorry for those of you who are trapped.

OneLieIn you are having a larf?!

Thank you all for your support of the Lambeth Country Show!

Yes, the owls, the Chucklehead Cider, the Knights of the Damned jousting display, and best of all, the vegetable modelling tent! yes, for 2 days a variety of vegetables are provided free of charge, and you can carve, mould and arrange the veg into figures as inventive as your imagination allows. All will be displayed, some will win a prize.

Granted some acts are a bit...hit and miss. We have had the Kamikaze Kestrel - the poor bird that flew into the fence surrounding the arena and brained itself in front of thousands of horrified children. The sheep dog display by a rather inexperienced sheep dog who not only didn;t get the sheep into the pen but let them out of the arena and had them charging loose and delirious around Brockwell Park (this was replaced by a sheepdog herding ducks the following year), a display of Unarmed Combat by the Marines did not appear on the programme after the first year of demonstrating to the asssembled youth of Brixton how to do someone in with a quick twist of your thumb in their jugular....There are flower displays, cake competitions, a steam engine cutting wood, wooden mushroom carving, a farm petting zoo.....and none of it happening in 2012

No Lambeth Show?? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!! Damn - My girls carved potatoes into Macca Pacca - really looked like him too! I heard about the Marine guys - Hilarious :)