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Strange that the 'venue regulations' cannot be found on their website. However, Google search reveals this document:
[http://www.london2012.com/documents/olympic-park/olympic-park-venue-regulations.pdf]
Joachim | 06.06.12 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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Thanks Joachim! Post updated!
diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.06.12 - 8:47 a.m. | #
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The terrorists have won
Quaidy | 06.06.12 - 9:47 a.m. | #
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By entering or attempting to enter the Venue you are certifying that you have read, understood and accept these Venue Regulations.
Absolute Rubbish. If Lord Denning, a former Master of the Rolls, were alive today he would have something forthright to say if a case disputing this came before him.
I might as well put I sign on my gate "By entering or attempting to enter this property you agree to pay me £1000". Can't see it standing up in court though.
Pedantic of Purley | 06.06.12 - 10:17 a.m. | #
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What? This all seems very over the top.
Kirk | 06.06.12 - 10:25 a.m. | #
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Travelling on the 339 bus route onto the Olympic site I found that the so called security checks were at best very casual and at worst non existant, one morning I was the sole passenger travelling towards Stratford City and when we reached the security checkpoint the security guard boarded and never got any further along the bus than standing next to the young lady driver telling her how nice she looked etc, he swayed from side to side with a huge grin on his face and she looked very flattered at all the attention, unfortunatly he totally forgot to check the bus for anything suspicious and got of again waving her goodbye, thankfully there were no bombs on this occasion but I hope his devotion to his duty improves before the start of the games.
fishislandskin | 06.06.12 - 10:26 a.m. | #
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LOCOG reserves the absolute right to change these Venue Regulations from time to time.
What rights are these that they reserve ?
One would like to think that normal laws of contract for England and Wales apply and one accepted those terms when clicking to buy the tickets. LOCOG affirmed the contract by email or sending the tickets out. Normally you cannot retrospectively apply conditions to an already agreed contract and if LOCOG could why could not the ticket purchaser do the same?
Of course there may be some nasty bit of legislation hidden in the Olympic Games act that does give them these powers. During the Olympics normal rules (of law) do not apply.
Pedantic of Purley | 06.06.12 - 10:58 a.m. | #
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Well, the D8 ended at the bus station outside the station not that long ago, so there may well be people chuffed at its (temporary) return.
mighty mouse | 06.06.12 - 11:00 a.m. | #
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Well the diversion of the 97 will be unpopular as it is very well used to and from Westfield and breaks a convenient link to rail services via the new ticket hall at Stratford from where I live. Using the other side of the station is hellish.
The security checks have been both a farce and an insult. Every bus being checked and yet very few cars were ever checked IME. There are probably hundreds of bombs already in the car parks given the lack of checking of motorists! Why are bus passengers more likely to transport a device than motorists?
I agree Westfield is a nightmare and I rarely visit simply because I hate the crowds and being boiled to death with the heat. Adding in thousands of Olympic visitors will make it completely unbearable.
PC | 06.06.12 - 11:07 a.m. | #
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Westfield Stratford is deteriorating in other ways. Several shops on 'The Street' are now boarded up and I wonder how many of the luxury outlets will be there post-Olympics? There always seems to be one or other escalator out of service at the Meredian Square entrance, and various glass doors or lift cladding around the site lie broken for weeks. At the rear it looks as of several cladding panels above Mothercare have fallen out, and why do you STILL have to walk through the International ticket hall (where a poster still announces that 'Preview' services are operating [they aren't]) in order to reach the DLR station?
Kim | 06.06.12 - 12:52 p.m. | #
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However, if Westfield continues to thrive despite lack of car access, that must surely be a good thing for London.
Ian Brooker | 06.06.12 - 12:56 p.m. | #
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Hmmm. Well if it's going to be like that, I think I'll simply stick with the one at White City, thanks very much.
RogerW | 06.06.12 - 1:44 p.m. | #
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omg.... Westfield Stratford "cut off" - how will we cope...?
Paul | 06.06.12 - 2:15 p.m. | #
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When I read the LOCOG notice about where to find their Venue Regulations, I was reminded of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months."
"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display ..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
Nails UK | 06.06.12 - 4:16 p.m. | #
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Watching the logistics of the Games in action may be as interesting as the sports themselves, and I am sure DG will keep up updated on that front.
With regard to Westfield, I am quite looking forward to purposely deviating from the LOCOG preferred route (ie along The Street) at Westfield... possibly to nip to the shopping centre loos which are sure to be superior to the OP ones ;-)
@Kim, you're correct, though the new pop-up (read: temporary) pub The Calf has just about opened and Liberty has taken over the former Fashion Rocks unit. It will be interesting to see which of the Pradas and Mulberries are still around post-Christmas, though the recently-completed shopfront works by Prada appear to indicate a heavy investment. Whether this cost will all be recouped in the next 6 months is yet to be seen. Out of interest, what do you think of the new landscaping works in The Street?
EskimoPie | 06.06.12 - 4:51 p.m. | #
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People said the same about the luxury brands at Westfield White City. Most are still there. Never underestimate the lure of such pointlessness.
Case in point - earlier today I was on a train on the Cumbrian Coast Line. Two (female) teenagers got on going to the Trafford Centre, which is near Manchester.
Their journey would have taken them three hours - longer if they missed their connection at Lancaster due to our train being late. Yet this was an exciting trip for them - a magical place. A place of wonder.
I've been to the Trafford Centre. The shops are smaller than those in Manchester city centre, and I'd hazard a guess are of a similar size to those in Lancaster and Carlisle which those two teenagers could have gone to. But the Trafford Centre was the place to be. So that's where they went.
Trauma getting to it or not, Westfield Stratford will still draw the crowds.
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 06.06.12 - 10:17 p.m. | #
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@PofP: My crumbling faith in the law was further eroded when I read that Manor Garden allotments had had their land seized for the Olympic Park - land that had been legally given to them "in perpetuity".
Great Aunt Annie | 06.06.12 - 11:50 p.m. | #
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You'll note that LOCOG have also made them tear the logos off the bus. Only approved corporates get to show their own identity!
SGK 374V | 07.06.12 - 6:40 a.m. | #
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The closer we get to these Olympics, the more I wonder just who on earth they are for.
For the people of London? No. Our entire city is now being run for a bunch of corporate idiots.
All this for the regeneration of East London that we could have done anyway.
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 07.06.12 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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And more bollards and concrete blocks around the station entrance too.
Kim | 07.06.12 - 12:41 p.m. | #
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Supposedly the 'free standing' retail units in the middle of the Westfield mall floors are to be cleared away prior to the Olympics.
Kim | 07.06.12 - 12:43 p.m. | #
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The 'Search for Venue Regulations' link in your post now returns one search result: the Spectators page which does indeed contain a link to download the venue regulations.
Either remarkable timing, or some of your readers have influence!
CS | 08.06.12 - 9:04 a.m. | #
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[smiles contentedly]
diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.06.12 - 9:28 a.m. | #
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