please empty your brain below
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I take it the South-West part of the Loop road isn't open yet.
Julian Bond | Homepage | 02.12.14 - 8:13 a.m. | #
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We were among those visitors this weekend - the first time I had been back since the Olympics.
Struck by how much paving and tarmac there was for a 'park'. Also the wilder areas were often marked off with borders - not much open grass or green space for lounging and ball games in summer. I guess this is partly to handle visitors to the stadium and it will feel more 'green' once the trees grow. But lots to see - some of the art installations ('toys') were fun!
The Orbit had great views on Saturday. We almost had it to ourselves though...
Joe | 02.12.14 - 8:21 a.m. | #
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It's ridiculous to call this a park. It's not5 a park in my book and it will only get worse. By the time they've built Glasshouse Gardens, the International Quarter, 4 other "neighborhoods", the Victoria & Albert mystery and, I dare say some other built stuff approved by the idiot planners, this so called Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will just be a concrete sprawl with a few grassed areas and canals in between. It's a fallacy and is a smokescreen for someone to make a lot of money. Rant over!
dg write: see this post from April.
| 02.12.14 - 9:24 a.m. | #
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You will be glad to know that there is a 10K road race held in the park on the first Saturday of each month from October - March. http://www.qeopraces.com/ A bit over priced though and clashes with your local parkrun http://www.parkrun.org.uk/events/events/ There's one in Mile End park.
Just thought you'd like to know.
Running Correspondent | 02.12.14 - 9:26 a.m. | #
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#Running Correspondent
Sounds far to enegetic - some of us just like to go to the Pub
| 02.12.14 - 10:15 a.m. | #
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Further to my 9.24am comment above, this from the Evening Standard today:
Mr Osborne hailed the Mayor’s proposals for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as one of the most exciting developments the city will see.
“The exciting plans are for the construction of a new higher education and cultural sector, working with some of the city’s most famous institutions — University College London, the Victoria & Albert Museum, University of the Arts London and Sadler’s Wells.
So as I said, even less of a real park then.
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the photo link does not work at the end of this blog entry. it takes you to a blank page.
dave | 02.12.14 - 9:04 p.m. | #
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The story of the Warton Road link is actually even more complicated, as the original proposal was to put the footpath through the railway arch next to the road, until they found that the arch didn't go all the way through.
The F03 bridge project will actually result in 2 narrower bridges, with a gap between them.
And they've replaced the fingerposts to make them even more pink.
Ben | 02.12.14 - 9:06 p.m. | #
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@Ranter. They aren't building those museums and international park over Park but on the concrete bits that surround them. This will be an urban park surrounded by buildings. It is designed to a green heart to a new neighbourhood. It is not going to be a green refuge surrounded by low rise housing, which is what the majority of Londons parks are.
It is a park filled with leisure activities and places people can gather, more a pleasure garden than rec ground with some flower beds.
It is already very popular and isn't it nice to have something different.
Rational Plan | 02.12.14 - 9:54 p.m. | #
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Good luck to the park; but that Orbit thing is just ugly.
Suse | 02.12.14 - 10:45 p.m. | #
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@Rational Plan
"It is not going to be a green refuge surrounded by low rise housing ......"
No - unfortunately not.
That's the issue with this so called "park" too much concrete which should be grass or gardens. The concrete just invites more high rise building.
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Re "Lockable gates."
I have cycled through several times late at night (1am - yes I know!) and the gates linked to you in your blog were closed but not locked; it was just a case of sliding the bolt but ensuring I closed it again behind me.
The last time was a few weeks ago so maybe they are locked now, but I had asked security soon after the park opened whether they would be closed at night and his reply that the park was 24 hours implied not.
Tim | 03.12.14 - 11:52 a.m. | #
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