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I used London Bridge station in my attempt to see the Jubilee River Pageant. Now I know why I left the station via the footbridge and a long walk down a platform.
Now the Olympics are getting near to opening I see problems already.
Hyde Park is cancelling a concert because the ground became a mud-bath during the concert there on Sunday. Does not bode well for the events planned there throughout the Olympics. The M4 main route from Heathrow is closed as the viaduct is cracking up.The long range weather forecast is for rain and more rain. Will these be the Summer Olympics held in winter like weather! There are still unsold tickets for the games. Hotels are bringing their prices down due to empty rooms. The tube network still has signalling problems and overrunning engineering work.
I hear Paris is doing well for tourist at the moment!
Roll on the Olympics it should be fun.
Love it, DG. I'm sitting here hooting with laughter :)
Sounds exactly like the Jubilee arrangement they had. And they've apparently learned nothing at all from the experience. Splitting off traffic for the through lines from the terminating platform is the only thing that makes sense - the split is right at the station entrance and can back up horribly. Although last time they were doing that *and* banning the overbridge use from other platforms, so if you got it wrong you had to leave and queue again. *facepalm*
I was in London last weekend 7 & 8 July, I do think that transport is going to be the Olympics Achilles heel. Crowd control on a crowd who understand English is one thing, but crowd control on a crowd where 40% will not understand is quite another.
The weather didn't help either.
Seemed fine overall - except for those of us who can't use stairs or walk very well. And have carefully planned all our travel routes so that we avoid stairs, with as short a walk as possible. No thought given there, unfortunately - the (very friendly) advice people looked at me blankly when I asked if there was a disabled accessible route and ended up moving the barriers instead (after 10 mins of consultation... which doesn't sound like much but is ages if you can't stand very well.)
The media and some bloggers and tweeters are clearly determined to use every millisecond of delay and every ounce of "change" as a stick to beat the organisers with. If we think it's irritating now just wait for the actual event when the word "ghastly" just won't do it when describing the "unmitigated chaos" of waiting 20 seconds longer for a tube train.

If there is a serious problem and it is badly handled then fair enough. If people get caught out because they haven't planned properly then I would have rather less sympathy. We can't say we haven't been told - endless adverts, posters, stickers, tweets and "Booming Boris" on the PA.
some people may have missed your irony! Seriously, though, what does the press expect? They expect disaster but they report inconvenience as though that was justifying their expectations.

Yes, the Games will cause inconvenience, but I don't expect anything near to a disaster. But then I'm an optimist and not a journalist.
The planners don't just make things one way, they close whole exits to all traffic, which is daft. There is no evidence their ideas help anyone, but they can't accept criticism

Somehow I feel you'd be more damming if it were on your regular commute
LUL are getting in the act with trials too.

One way flow test, east out, west in at Yellowbird Tower on Tuesday 17th evening peak to be repeated at evening peaks through the games, waiting times expected to be 30+ minutes.










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