The Olympic 'Zil' lanes: 250 miles of road will be coned off for 2012 'VIPs'

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Originally Posted by Saurav

I actually did my university report on the Olympics Games. Here is a quote from it:

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Which should end in:

"If there is any interest in the host country after the games."

China is an interesting country for production, it always has been. The UK isn't that interesting to the outside world in terms of development, it's too costly. It's only [partially] of interest to business offices and the commericial sector, rather than the industrial/production sector. Although tourism would be up, other factors like development wouldn't be that effected, as there is little reason for them to be. China got a boost because the world saw something different in China. Britain is a consumer country, we're not for the developing of such consumer items :P

An interesting snippet of your report though.

So far the games just seem to be just that, the games. There have been few hints to what's actually going to happen. So far what's happening is a huge stadium which won't have many uses afterwards (Wembley Stadium gets few uses as it is, so two big stadiums won't really work well together). It does make you wonder what show they'll put on :P Boris standing on a huge stage in the middle just being "Boris"? :P

I cannot honestly believe that you can complain about a general practice, that is NEEDED. If you ever actually went to London -:undertaker:- you would see the roads are often really congested already (and just so you know I go pat a lot of the Olympic stuff every week to watch football). If we then add thousands (well hundreds of thousands) more people for a few weeks, imagine how bad it will end up.

Do you seriously believe UKIP would not do the same thing? Do you really think i UKIP were in power, they would not demand to get a quicker route which no one else has? Get real!

This road is fine, and to be honest you would have to be quite silly if you ever believed that sacrifices would not have to be made for the SHORT TERM games, then you would have to be stupid.

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Originally Posted by GommeInc

So far the games just seem to be just that, the games. There have been few hints to what's actually going to happen. So far what's happening is a huge stadium which won't have many uses afterwards (Wembley Stadium gets few uses as it is, so two big stadiums won't really work well together). It does make you wonder what show they'll put on :P Boris standing on a huge stage in the middle just being "Boris"? :P

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The Olympic Stadium is a temporary stadium though, after the Olympics (or the 2018 World Cup depending if we get that), it will be reduced from something like 80,000 to 30,000 capacity and sold to a football or rugby club.

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Originally Posted by Intel

If you ever actually went to London -:undertaker:- you would see the roads are often really congested already (and just so you know I go pat a lot of the Olympic stuff every week to watch football). If we then add thousands (well hundreds of thousands) more people for a few weeks, imagine how bad it will end up.

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That's the point I'm trying to make, they're already congested so if you put more road users on there and add in Zil lanes (Effectively removing one lane), you have a traffic nightmare! What kind of a portrayal is that to the world?

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Originally Posted by Jordy

The Olympic Stadium is a temporary stadium though, after the Olympics (or the 2018 World Cup depending if we get that), it will be reduced from something like 80,000 to 30,000 capacity and sold to a football or rugby club.

That's the point I'm trying to make, they're already congested so if you put more road users on there and add in Zil lanes (Effectively removing one lane), you have a traffic nightmare! What kind of a portrayal is that to the world?

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yeah but it's unlikely that people from abroad will be using cars (apart from those in near europe) to travel to london and i'm sure the transport policy will have been already sorted out for the olympic games. to be honest jordy if youre coming from nottingham to london it is faster to take the train than drive anyway, the same from manchester, derby, birmingham.

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Originally Posted by alexxxxx

yeah but it's unlikely that people from abroad will be using cars (apart from those in near europe) to travel to london and i'm sure the transport policy will have been already sorted out for the olympic games. to be honest jordy if youre coming from nottingham to london it is faster to take the train than drive anyway, the same from manchester, derby, birmingham.

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Yeah I always favour the train to London, I will at the Olympics too as they've got an innovative system. Trains from the East Midlands arrive in St Pancras, and there's a bullet train service between St Pancras and Stratford taking 7 minutes to whiz you right into the games :)

Either way though, it's inevitable to say that some will drive and many tourists will be using Taxis to get around, it's going to be a traffic nightmare but possibly a public transport miracle :P

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Originally Posted by Jordy

I think it will be a spectacle yes, no doubt it'll show that London has the best public transport system in the world. However I do worry for the roads, the M25 is congested enough as it is, if you take away a lane from it and put even more cars on it, you're heading for disaster.

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Forget about the roads. Everyone should get naked and walk to London while we blast London Calling by The Clash into the atmosphere.

I'll reply in simple terms why i'm annoyed with this and why its wrong, then anyone wishing to repond can pick up on it. The British motorist (the taxpayer) is charged a road tax which is supposed to be spent on roads thus avoiding congestion, only 1/5 of the road tax we pay is spent on the roads and the rest goes elsewhere (EU, foreign aid - you name it). Ontop of all of this, we have the costs of regulations on cars, eco-taxes aka legal theft on the price of petrol which is only worth a fraction of what we pay at the pumps and to the government. So my point is very simple, seeing as we pay for an already too-large burden and as we are paying for the Olympics which these politicians are attending - why should we be made to sit in our cars on even-worser congested roads while the politicians whizz past?

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Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-

I'll reply in simple terms why i'm annoyed with this and why its wrong, then anyone wishing to repond can pick up on it. The British motorist (the taxpayer) is charged a road tax which is supposed to be spent on roads thus avoiding congestion, only 1/5 of the road tax we pay is spent on the roads and the rest goes elsewhere (EU, foreign aid - you name it). Ontop of all of this, we have the costs of regulations on cars, eco-taxes aka legal theft on the price of petrol which is only worth a fraction of what we pay at the pumps and to the government. So my point is very simple, seeing as we pay for an already too-large burden and as we are paying for the Olympics which these politicians are attending - why should we be made to sit in our cars on even-worser congested roads while the politicians whizz past?

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Don't get me wrong but I don't agree with the way road tax etc is done.

However, I think it is spent on far more things. They don't just aim to spend it on things to annoy you Dan lol.