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Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: 'For as long as I can remember the first thing that strikes you as you travel further to the east of town are these ugly structures dominating the skyline and blighting the area.'

I take it he'll be funding the demolition of the south-east London pylons which fan out from Welling, then?

"ugly structures dominating the skyline and blighting the area"

Bojo isn't talking about all the tower blocks going up to replace them is he?

For as long as I can remember the first thing that strikes you as you travel further to the east of town are these ugly structures dominating the skyline and blighting the area.

means - "Just the place to put a big airport then, with the added advantage that those people who'll be most affected by it, in the extremely unlikely event that it goes ahead, even though even now my own party leadership have rejected the idea, don't get to vote for me, anyway"

Ah for the days when we had a mayor who actually invested in infrastructural projects and who knew what he was doing and what he was talking about. Was it really only six and a half months ago?

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dg writes: If you'd left your name I'd have left your comment. And then I'd have violently disagreed with you.


Now we just need to dismantle all the other pylons that blight the Lea Valley in North London and bury the cables underground, and then we'll be in business.

In all honesty though, I did think that the power lines around Stratford would have to be removed at some point. After all, the pylons are a blot on the landscape in any case, and having them ruin the view of our £9bn+ Olympic Games surely wouldn't do, would it?

One of the things that was batted around at the time all the last big lot of our money was wasted on Mandy's Dome was that the amount spent would have paid for all the overhead electricity wires in this country to be put underground. How true this is I don't know.

So, presumably the amount the Olympics is going to cost could do the same? I know which I'd rather the money was spent on...

Given the number of high-rise developments shooting up around Stratford, I wonder how many local residents will even notice the pylons have vanished.

You'll miss the Pylons when they're gone.. mark my words..

T'was the same all those years back with the Trolleybus wiring..

Hated it while it was there.. missed it when it was gone..

Have the comment back-as for alias's i'm reasonably sure that your name isn't dg or 'diamond geezer' so why does my use of an alias get my comment deleted? What's good for the goose...

""Had we known what we know now, would we have bid for the Olympics? Almost certainly not," she told the gathering.

The budget for the 2012 games has risen almost four-fold to £9.35bn"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport...-
recession.html


My opinion-for what little it appears to be worth-it's another white elephant like the Dome and a complete and utter waste of money.

And whilst i'm here,

http://www.construct2012.co.uk/
n...esource=6062891


http://www.dailymail.co.uk
ews/...f-
predicts.html


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
tol...icle3792641.ece


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/
200...12.olympics2012


So it's now up to £9.35bn-here's a few ideas on what the money could've been spent on.

http://www.stwr.org/special-
feat...calculator.html


Wonder how many proper police that would get?, what about Doctor's, Nurses. Firefighters, Ambulance men and women or teachers, not to mention schools or hospitals or affordable housing, decent pensions for old people etc etc etc etc etc

I bet you're a right laugh when you're away from the keyboard, 'Tony'.

Dear 'Tony'

[old news]

dg

Tony:

Do you live in East London?

Have you been to the O2 recently?

We constantly fail to get enough investment in the East, look at our "Elected Comedian's" latest chopping of the Dagenham Dock extension of the DLR as a prime example and there are many more.

The cost of the 2012 games which, although high, will bestow the area with a huge amount of amenities, usable land and transport infrastructure and unlock huge amounts of potential investment.

I too felt that the Millennium experience was underwhelming but had you unburied your boatrace from the Daily Mail and gone to the Greenwich Peninsula recently you would be amazed to find Europes most successful arena, a college campus in construction and a once dead part of the city "unlocked" and ready to join the rest of the docklands revival when this economic crisis ends (which it will).

With respect, your doctors, police and nurses argument whilst always emotive and vote winning is a red herring.

CF

The removal of pylons from any area is something that we should all be happy about, the fact that I can now sit here at my computer look out of the window and watch them coming down first hand is something that I am obviously very happy about, but I would also be very happy for anyone else anywhere in the country who's view was improved by the removal of pylons, so to all the moaners out there "Get a life and dont be so selfish" The Dome WAS built and is no doubt now a great success, "The Olympic Park WILL be built and I believe will also be a great success, this country is full of people moaning about the fact that they think they might miss out on something, whatever the public purse is spent on there will always be a disgruntled voice saying it could have been spent better elsewhere, and that usually involves, their street, their kids school, their hospital, their library, their everything.

dg-old news, maybe-but still relevant-more so in the midst of a recession. What happened to the violent disagreement?

CF-i lived in London for 35+ years and left 2 years ago and bloody glad i did. Yes i am aware that vast parts of London are under funded and so are far more areas of the country. What makes the inside of the M25 more special?

Yes you will get amenities-but how many of the 'playstation' generation are honestly going to use them? A stadium that unless it gets a decent sized football team in will probably stay mostly empty-last time i looked athletic tracks were a no no at football grounds-so that would have to go. What other sport is going to use it almost year round?

The village-if it gets built, how many of the flats will end up being affordable by people who earn 'real' wages, yes i know about 'affordable housing' but what about the other 65 odd percent of them?

Swimming Pools-last time i looked they were being closed down-not opened?

The land was usable before and if enough people cared it would've been-as for the public transport i agree with you on that one. I never used anything else when i lived there and going by the cost of running a car (road tax, petrol etc-that go to the govt) and the amount they waste on building more roads to be filled by more cars earning the govt yet more money, they could have long ago had a decent transport system if they really cared about it-they don't. It doesn't make them any better off and doesn't get them a large enough vote boost for them to give a toss.

Potential investment-i think the keyword is potential. Don't forget it could be reasonable said that it was 'potentially' there before.

The Millenium Dome was a complete waste of money, a white elephant and a joke-both here and abroad-underwhelming that's gotta be an understatement.

The Daily Mail and my boatrace. LOL. I listed 4 newspaper links-three were broadsheets as well as two other sites. Yet you chose the Daily Mail, says more about you than me.

Europe's most successful arena-using what criteria? http://www.amsterdamarena.nl/ove...ie/advisory/en/


A college campus, glad to hear it, is it going to be affordable for students, have adequate teaching staff and facilities oh and give real world usable qualifications?

With respect go and tell that to someone in hospital with a 'superbug', or the family of someone whose gran has just been mugged in broad daylight, or someone who has to wait two weeks to see a GP or two years to see a specialist.

i lived in London for 35+ years and left 2 years ago and bloody glad i did.

So are we.

Is that the best you can do?

If you take out the 'tone', 'Tony' has made some good points...

It occurred to me that there could be a Joni Mitchell type song, "Took down all the pylons, put them in a pylon museum, charged the people a quid and a half just to see them..." (or, more likely, "ten and a half quid."

'Tony'

We know you're wrong.
You know we're wrong.
Pointless arguing any further.

Hang on - just what are you disagreeing with 'Tony' about?

That 10 billion (and rising daily) couldn't have been better spent?

Sorry, but...











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