Talking up Defiencies
They’ve just had a very one-sided phone-in on BBC Radio 5, with virtually an hour of the dismal Jimmies and Jennies complaining about all the inadequacies.
We’ve just had a volunteer complaining, that they are not being given car parking on the Olympic Park. It sounds to me, that they should have been turned down as a volunteer.
Let’s face it, if you don’t like the conditions, don’t volunteer.
We should be celebrating what we got right.
My field is project management and we should be celebrating the fact that all of the venues and transport links have been constructed on time and generally on budget.
Remember the Olympic Park is built in a marsh and with all the bad weather we’ve been having lately, that has not only caused construction problems, but made the design of the park difficult. Luckily, the main site of the Games is by the River Lea and Joseph Bazalette‘s massive Northern Outfall Sewer, so hopefully we’ll cope, with water and sewage.
I’ve watched the plans unfold and East London has improved beyond all expectations.
When we won the bid the London Overground from New Cross to Dalston and from Stratford to Richmond only partly existed as a set of travelling urinals. now it is a modern railway with new trains, signalling and completely renewed track. The East London Line deserves five stars in its own right, as it was built through Brunel’s Thames Tunnel of 1840 and under the Kingsland Road, without breaking anything.
As the icing, London has now got its magnificent cable-car, which will be the fun legacy of the games.
And now the phone-in is talking about the failure of the O2 mobile phone network. My Nokia 6310i works well on O2 at the moment.
The Anonymous Widower 
The commonwealth games here in Manchester had a very positive impact on the city.
With the excellent public transport facilities to the Olympic site, volunteers should not need a car parking space unless they are disabled!
Comment by liz | July 12, 2012 |
They didn’t sort the transport system out in Manchester. There are no decent maps at bus-stops, no on-board information o the buses and no information booth at Piccadilly Station or Piccadilly Gardens. The tram information is poor compared to Sheffield, where the central bus station is by the train station.
I’ve met this guy in a wheel-chair, who goes all over London, in his chair on the buses. Tubes are generally difficult, but buses are good. However all of that will change as in a few years, all public transport must be wheelchair accessible. It would be helpful if places like Manchester, adopted the London standard for buses, which now is at least two doors, independent wheel-chair ramp, completely flat floor and hybrid drive.
Comment by AnonW | July 12, 2012 |