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The Open East Festival has two other presales not mentioned - one for LLDC e-newsletter subs (before 31 May I believe) and one for Anniversary Games ticketholders. Links to both were emailed, and the latter offers a £2.50/ticket discount for adults (£2/ticket discount for kids).

I bought tickets for both days through the LLDC email, then learned about the discount only when the Games email arrived hours later and realised I could have saved myself a fiver...ah well, £23 for 2 evenings during the first anniversary weekend is still good value.

(P.S. The public opening date is indeed 29 July; specifically at 2pm if Adrian Warner of BBC London News is right.)

Edvid | 02.06.13 - 3:39 a.m. | #

Does anyone know how hard it is to get between the two parts of the Greenway? That's from the NW part with the ViewTube to the SE part that runs from Stratford High St to Beckton.

The other point of interest is trying to get from the tow path where the river splits at Middlesex Filter Beds past the Hackney Marsh and into the northern park, preferably by bicycle. It still looks like getting from the Lea Bridge to Three Mills is limited to the main navigation channel with most of the other routes being littered with dead ends and metal fence.

Julian Bond | Homepage | 02.06.13 - 8:03 a.m. | #

Thanks Edvid, I've added the 2pm opening time to today's post.

And Julian, getting between the two sections of the Greenway isn't difficult, it just requires a wiggly (fairly obvious) detour past Pudding Mill Lane station.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.06.13 - 9:08 a.m. | #

I took my car to a garage on White Post Lane twice recently, and I had the chance to walk around a bit and finally see what you have been blogging about.

It was good to relate everything to your posts (ViewTube, waterbus stops, Greenway etc).

Greg | 02.06.13 - 9:30 a.m. | #

Will be interesting to see the (lack of?) cycle infrastructure when this all opens up. Did the new go-Dutch enthusiasm manage to influence things in time? (Doubt it).

Wish the rerouted buses would go live. I want my direct bus to John Lewis! No more slogging through the horrors of Westfield to by my Jonelle salt cellars.

Dan | 02.06.13 - 10:30 a.m. | #

That whole Waterden Road/Eastway junction is awful even for motorists. It's terrifically badly laid out. the traffic lights don't appear to be phased in any way and the signposting/road markings are diabolical.

I'm not sure that prioritising traffic was top of anyone's list when they designed it. In fact they seem to have gone out of their way to make it bad for any kind of road user.

BethPH | Homepage | 02.06.13 - 11:31 a.m. | #

its a year now, drapers field in leyton what used to be football pitches for kids and schools is a concrete wasteland. olympic structures pulled down fences pulled down but no signs of any work putting pitches back.

adam | 02.06.13 - 12:04 p.m. | #

I can't see all those Hammers fans and their opponents being able to get on the DLR at Pudding Mill Lane. They should bring back that Greenway bridge to West Ham station.

Also will all these events capture the spirit of 2012 and stop you bringing liquid into the events?

kissenme | 02.06.13 - 9:50 p.m. | #











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