Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
How's your Olympics travel upheaval looking?
If the authorities have got their calculations right, we're about to be in for a rough time of it traveling into Town and around many parts of it.
TfL's own calculations estimate for example that passengers starting their journey at King's Cross might experience a wait of more that half an hour at certain times of day, unless people change their travel plans.
And, as you've no doubt heard, the Olympic Route Network will take it's toll on road traffic. Whilst we shouldn't be too badly affected up this way, travelling into or across London ain't gonna be so easy for a while.
More about public transport on the Get Ahead of the Games site.
More on road travel on the Get Ahead of the Games site.
So how's your journey looking?
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Fowler on
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As good citizens living in London, it is our Seb-Coe-ordained duty to "Get out of the way, disappear, and make room for the Olympic 'family', ie the international sports mafia". I think it will be best to stay indoors as much as possible. There will be tens of thousands of extra police, private security and military, and they might well be fairly trigger-happy. As the Olympics is one of the few sporting events in the UK that Murdoch has not been able to buy in its entirety, at least sports lovers can stay in and watch it on telly.
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Permalink Reply by Andy H on
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well, I'm being forced to work nights because the road restrictions mean we cannot have deliveries except between midnight and 5am.
i am going to have a bloody awful olympics.
i dont even like sports.
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Permalink Reply by Anette on
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I'll have major problems getting to and from West London where I work. I use the A40 every day, and that's now got an Olympic Lane so that the Mafia can get too and from Heathrow easily, it's not even taking them to the games, it's RIDICULOUS. I really object to this "get out of the way, muggins, just shut up and foot the bill" mentality.
I'd love a bit of civil disobedience here, a human chain blocking the Olympic lanes would be fabulous!!!! It's gone too far, we are not being considered in the slightest. I could not care less about this glorified sports day that's being put on at great expence. When we have no money at all. Hotel bookings are not what they thought they'd be, a lot of people are staying away because of the Olympics, and the whole thing is a massive waste of money and a completely disgraceful disruption to Londoners lives.
I don't like sports much either.
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Permalink Reply by Katy Mendes on
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I also travel to West London each morning (via bus - don't use the tube any more) and the last week has been terrible, not sure whether it's due to the impending Olympics (possibly the trial runs) but if this is a sign of things to come I'm in for a difficult few weeks. Considering that I have to be at Allison Road by 6 each evening to collect my daughter from nursery I suspect I may end up working from home, I'm very grateful that I have a job in which this is possible.
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Added to the transport disruption, latest revelations as a result of G4S falling down on the job mean there will be more troops providing security at the "games" than are fighting in Afghanistan. At a time when the government is cutting numbers in the Army. Military reportedly not happy.
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Permalink Reply by Shaun walsh on
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Time to take a leaf out of Bradley Wiggins' book and get on our bike
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Everyone was making the same doom-and-gloom predictions for the Sydney Olympics re: transport and it was actually wonderful. I feel confident London will be the same. And the weather will be amazing.
I don't like sports either, but the Olympics is special
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I admire your optimism, Claire D. By the end of the month, we'll know whether you are right or not. You're right that the Olympics is special, however. It is the first time in my lifetime that London has effectively been taken over as a playground for the international sports mafia and their sponsors.
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I'm with Christopher Fowler. I hope it's all going to be ok, but I do object to our city being taken over to this degree, and I am not convinced it's not going to be chaos. It's a glorified sports day as far as I am concerned.
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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Remember the Millennium bug that didn't manifest into one big crisis?
No better time to get on your bike, walk, use a B*****ys Bike or work from home.
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