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And what do they expect terminating Southern customers/passengers to do at London Bridge?
Chz | 01.12.11 - 7:46 a.m. | #
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I wonder what all the "Short-term non-stopping of some services (particularly xxx line) at xxx station" comments will really mean?
James | 01.12.11 - 8:38 a.m. | #
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Given that TfL didn't even plan ahead enough to use a proof-reader on slide 97, I'm not over-optimistic.
Pippa | 01.12.11 - 9:41 a.m. | #
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Am I missing something or have they not detailed yet the effect on buses??
For example, there are 8 buses that run from Waterloo up Kingsway to Holborn - and yet Kingsway has games lanes in both directions. That road is pretty congested at the moment as it is thanks to so many buses and quite a lot of cars - if you halve the road capacity it'll be bus gridlock. Or are the buses being diverted elsewhere?
Geoff | Homepage | 01.12.11 - 10:19 a.m. | #
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I'm planning to use the river boat, wonder how that will be affected...
H | 01.12.11 - 11:45 a.m. | #
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>And what do they expect terminating Southern customers/passengers to do at London Bridge?
Well at Waterloo now, they've got poster signs up saying "Why not walk it?", and times of how long it takes to get to the City & other central parts of London. Perhaps this is the way to go, ban tube rides and you just have to walk to work from central London termini. Hey! it's like going back to pre-1860 !!
Geofftech | Homepage | 01.12.11 - 12:00 p.m. | #
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Many of the Olympic venues, and the stations that serve them, are well used to handling large crowds - Wembley, Wimbledon, Earls Court, Excel, the O2 (specially renamed for the Olympics - can't have a non-sponsor's name involved!). Why is this goin to be any different?
There are some oddities - why is Fulham Broadway on the list - reading it, it would seem the entire Wimbledon branch is affected, but with both Earls Court and Southfields more directly affected than Fulham Broadway.
One of the biggest effects is likely to be the huge pink splodges out to the south west, actual all-day road closures for the cycling road races -it was bad enough on the practice event last summer, but this time round we've got three lock-ins in five days: an entire weekend, plus the following Wednesday.
Timbo | 01.12.11 - 12:42 p.m. | #
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The idea is to get people to walk and cycle as much as possible by producing route maps and times. This way we hope the idea catches on for after the Olympics also, easing tube and bus congestion generally and of course it will make the population far more healthy and increase life expectancy which means, er, that pensions will cost more for us all to service... oh. Er, um, ah... back to the spreadsheets...
HerbOfRomford | 01.12.11 - 1:09 p.m. | #
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Dear DG: I love you a bit. Just yesterday I was put in charge of planning our staff travel strategy and was dreading having to trawl TfL for all the relevant bits of information. And now you've done it for me. So, a very sincere & heartfelt thank you!
Beth | 01.12.11 - 1:18 p.m. | #
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With Pudding Mill Lane DLR closed, the Games Lanes right outside my flat, and the queing nightmares at Stratford and Leicester Square, I'm just going to take two weeks off and watch the whole thing on TV.
P.S. You're welcome TfL.
Michael | 01.12.11 - 3:18 p.m. | #
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Email the people at the bottom of this link http://www.london2012.com/get-involved/business-network/travel-advice-for-business/business-support.php and they may be able to help, either via workshops or bespoke advice, depending on the size of your business.
Might help Beth? | Homepage | 01.12.11 - 5:29 p.m. | #
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There are other ways the Olympics will disrupt normal services:
E.g. Police - huge numbers will be needed and so they will be less of them to deal with other important but less high-profile matters such as assisting with teams trying to assess people suffering from acute mental health crises who may need to go into hospital - with attendant risks to the person, others in their family/ home and possibly the public. During the recent summer's riots all such requests for support to MH teams were turned down for several days - the Olympics 'riots' will be 6 weeks long.
Would you like to be left looking after your increasingly distressed relative who is too ill to realise they need to be in hospital for that long?
daguerrotype - aka 'Midnight Cowboy' | 01.12.11 - 7:03 p.m. | #
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DG - you're doing great work on this - really helpful.
I think tfl have done good work with the trains and DLR - useful investment for next year and beyond. It is just the zil lanes that do my head in.
Slide 57 in that presentation is scary. Anyone who is familiar with the approach to Tower Bridge knows that this whole area goes into gridlock at the slightest hiccup. Yet they plan to turn TowerHill Terrace (the main route eastwards) into a zil lane and force all other traffic towards Minories. Even if half of London stays at home, that still looks like a traffic disaster to me. I'm a frequent bus user - but it looks like the buses won't be going anywhere in the east end next August!
IslandDweller | 02.12.11 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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A late reply, but thank you to the anon who pointed me in the direction of the workshops. I'd already been in touch and they said they don't have any workshops planned for my business's area (it's only Hyde Park! Why would they?) but they should be doing so in the New Year. Fingers crossed.
Beth | 06.12.11 - 1:31 p.m. | #
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