Olympic Lanes

giraffe69

What a total joke.

Lets disrupt and delay MILLIONS of people for a few hundred.

And what is wrong with these "special people" using public transport, like we are always being told to do.

Total hypocrites grrrrrrrrr

Don't special lanes come from the debacle at Atlanta in 1996 where athletes and others missed events? Since then it has been a requirement so the solution would, of course, have been not to apply to have the games.

Have you only just noticed this is going to happen?

I'm sure it would be a special Olympics if we could put Usain Bolt on the No 15 bus or the central line.

Yes, there will be disruption but thus far I think TfL and others in charge have handled it quite well. A test of this is the papers relative inability to come up with any transport disasters thus far and not for want of looking. Still G4S are giving then some cheap headlines.

SimbaSimon

This article is probably appropriate for you. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2176672/London-2012-Olympics-A-message-moaners--BELT-UP-Des-Kelly.html#ixzz21Gm8BPwB

Specifically, this part...

Olympic Lanes

No, you can't drive in them. Boo hoo. They are annoying, but they are a necessary evil. They've been at every Olympics and London is no different. Did you think staging the world's biggest sporting event would cause no disruption whatsoever?

Or did you believe Usain Bolt really runs to the start line just like he does in that advert?

MothballsWallet

The special Beemers - I wonder if they're fitted with sensors to detect the shops that sell all the products made by the sponsors, and then redirect the sat nav to point them out? :rotfl:

prowla

Well, I'm trying to keep away from the whole thing.

giraffe69

Well, I'm trying to keep away from the whole thing.

Console yourself. You will probably be dead before it is next in London.

prowla

giraffe69 wrote: »

Console yourself. You will probably be dead before it is next in London.

Almost certainly.

luckwudaveit

Imagine spending 4 years of your life training for an event and then on the day you are stuck in traffic. This could result in your frame of mind being different and your discus/ javelin / welly / other heavy article doesn't go as far as it did during your wasted years of training. Even worse, some Sunday driver has broken down blocking your route and you miss your booking-in time at the event. You end up getting disqualified.

Games Lanes are disruptive and will attract bad press, but either of the above situations will attract humiliating press coverage.

dacouch

luckwudaveit wrote: »

Imagine spending 4 years of your life training for an event and then on the day you are stuck in traffic. This could result in your frame of mind being different and your discus/ javelin / welly / other heavy article doesn't go as far as it did during your wasted years of training. Even worse, some Sunday driver has broken down blocking your route and you miss your booking-in time at the event. You end up getting disqualified.

Games Lanes are disruptive and will attract bad press, but either of the above situations will attract humiliating press coverage.

Get the tube or train, works for the rest of us Londoners

SailorSam

luckwudaveit wrote: »

Imagine spending 4 years of your life training for an event and then on the day you are stuck in traffic. This could result in your frame of mind being different and your discus/ javelin / welly / other heavy article doesn't go as far as it did during your wasted years of training. Even worse, some Sunday driver has broken down blocking your route and you miss your booking-in time at the event. You end up getting disqualified.

Games Lanes are disruptive and will attract bad press, but either of the above situations will attract humiliating press coverage.

There seems an easy answer to the athletes being late for an event without having to disrupt the rest of the population of London.
They only have to do what everyone else does when they're going to work ........ leave home earlier.

Takeaway_Addict

Can't wait for the Olympics to be over, a waste of money IMO