Olympics Countdown starts now
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AverageJoe
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LOGOC have let this clip stay up. It doesnt feature the Olympic Stadium, but it does give a tantalising peep of something that is booked to happen tonight in a different part of London sometime between 9 and 10....
Johnny Canuck3
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You know, JC, something you said ages ago about the grumps realising they'd 'missed the biggest party ever thrown' really spoke to me. It supported my saguinity and now I'm excited
I'm not sure what you mean by that last part, but yeah, it was sort of funny. The naysayers bragged about how they were going to leave town for the Games, and they did. Then, after what happened, and everyone else was talking about it so glowingly, the naysayers sort of took on the expressions of whipped dogs. They turned defensive in their explanations of why they skipped the biggest party ever.
claphamboy
The wheels on the bus go round and round....
Lots of TFL announcements telling everyone not to travel from where they live to where they work
It's not just Transport for London, at least one of the train companies, IIRC South West Trains, have been advising people heading to some Olympic event to travel by car!
Yep, it was South West Trains:
claphamboy
The wheels on the bus go round and round....
Of course you are!
Oh, I am - the 12th of August, I have absolutely no interest in the Olympics or indeed any sports or sports events whatsoever.
I may make an exception and watch the ladies beach volleyball, not that I have any interest in volleyball.
Johnny Canuck3
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That's good: at least you have a pulse.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
At peak times, the tube is often at the max already. At my station, Bethnal Green, I get irked if I see four minutes' wait for the next train at peak times, not just because I'm spoilt (though there's that too), but because that train will invariably be much fuller than usual - you just can't get on. I usually just hang on till the next train a minute later or sometimes the one after that (or the one after that). But they're saying we'll have to wait an hour to get to platform. This is what they're planning for and expecting people to live with.
This station, btw, currently has works underway for a memorial for 140+ people who were killed in a stampede during an alert in WWII. It still has exactly the same infrastructure; the stairs are the same narrow ones where babies got trampled underfoot. At peak times it always feels overcrowded and it's hot and stuffy on the coldest of days.
Yesterday at this station, of the three ticket machines, only one of which actually takes notes, one was working. No members of staff around to help, humungous queue for the sole manned ticket office, meaning three of the seven or so barriers were inaccessible.
FFS - I thought they'd actually make sure at least the ticket machines were up to scratch.The tube journey itself was fine though, so there is hope. There weren't actually many more people than usual, it was just that the station was borked. A station two stops from Stratford. Stratford itself was carnage, my friend who works there says.
My point wasn't really that the transport system will be so overloaded - I do still think it might not be as bad they say because maybe they're not taking into account all the people who've been allowed to work from home or who've taken leave when they might not have done usually, and surely a few people will give up and walk or something? But that there has been SO much advertising saying that it'll be terrible that it has increased the doom and gloom.
Johnny Canuck3
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Yesterday at this station, of the three ticket machines, only one of which actually takes notes, one was working. No members of staff around to help, humungous queue for the sole manned ticket office, meaning three of the seven or so barriers were inaccessible.
Again: somebody's fucking up. Here, they had extra machines, special low portable fencing to create queues if crowds got too large and to separate egress from ingress; and a horde of worker/volunteers in color-coded jackets, some with bullhorns, to help with questions and to facilitate crowd movement.
...and the crowds were large:
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Again: somebody's fucking up. Here, they had extra machines, special low portable fencing to create queues if crowds got too large and to separate egress from ingress; and a horde of worker/volunteers in color-coded jackets, some with bullhorns, to help with questions and to facilitate crowd movement.
...and the crowds were large:
TBF, the Olympics haven't officially started yet, so there might be some of that stuff in place, but at Bethnal Green there just won't be room for much of it. There's a park behind one of the entrances so they should be able to queue some people up there if they're organised enough to think of it, but the other entrances are pretty narrow and the station itself is too (as most tube stations are, really). And, like I said, the wait times might be doom-mongering anyway. Making sure all the ticket machines are working will help.
claphamboy
The wheels on the bus go round and round....
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
The local paper, or something else? In the local paper I either bin it or go straight to the local history bit, which can actually be OK.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Nah, an actual letter. I've scanned it ... Let's see if I can work out how to post it.
claphamboy
The wheels on the bus go round and round....
Of course they are, this isGreatBritain!
TBF, I expect a fair few minor cock-ups right up until the last day, these will generally be blown out of proportion by the media and provide some mildly amusing moments along the way.
I don't expect any major cock-ups and I expect overall it will be viewed as a great success, despite having no real interest in it I don't, like some, hope anything major goes wrong - I've never been one to piss on someone else's party.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Oh crap! It's raining in east London!!
Fear not. The weather gods say it won't last
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2643743
I'm up way earlier than normal. Too excited
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
AverageJoe
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Maybe he does both....
Numbers
an ting!
22c in East London with sunny intervals on a Friday night, a few beers, opening ceremony of the Olympics,
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
The scriptwriter was on earlier and said there were a load of comedy segments that nobody has seen yet. Maybe Mr Bean will be in the motorboat?
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Yes, it takes forever for all the athletes to march onto the ground and you have to wait right 'til the end for the British
mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
Ah, well we'll watch the fancy opening but there's no way the kids will be awake that late (even I will struggle
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Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Ah, well we'll watch the fancy opening but there's no way the kids will be awake that late (even I will struggle
Record it for them. You can stick it on on Saturday morning and then go back to bed for a lay-in
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