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 Alan Stanton on
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"Zil Lanes". Wonderful! I missed this first time round. Thanks, John, and Christian Wolmar who seems to have first noticed the comparison.
Though isn't it a bit self-defeating if the rest of us can use these lanes on payment of a £200 entry fee?
Can I link this to the House of Lords issue? As there's one solution I don't think anyone has yet suggested: Universal Peerage.
Everyone in the UK would have the option of being a peer for fifteen years - of their own choosing. Without an allowance of course, but with the right to attend debates, say, once a month, wearing fancy dress.
As part of this essential "reform", we would retain the Zil lanes post Olympics. And non-peers would be banned from using them. While in their fifteen lordly/ladylike years, the Universal peers would be banned from using any lane other than the Zil lanes. That would apply if they are actually in a Zil; or another vehicle; or on a moped, bike, skateboard, running; or on foot.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Alan many thanks for the ZIL Lane link!
The ZIL was used by Soviet nomenklatura and it was one of the largest cars made. It weighed three and a half tonnes. Wikipedia claims that "The car is so wide that the centre console can stand parallel to the gear selector"
The 100 miles of London ZIL Lanes will be used by Olympic fat cats. "ZIL Lanes" manages to encapsulate the spirit and dimensions of the big modern Olympics in two syllables.
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Will it be Lord Carter of Oakfield-Bridge for fifteen years? Or Lord Ally of Pally?
So when you get full access to the Zil lanes you may want to try acquiring one of these beauties. You see. I'm really getting into the Olympic spirit.
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Permalink Reply by Charlotte on
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I am choosing to be an optimist with respect to travel during the Olympics. A lot of people are going away, a lot of tourist who are not interested in the Olympics are choosing to come at different times, a lot of people can do their job just as well from home and will take the opportunity to do so, it is school holidays, etc. so I am hopeful this will cancel out with the additional visitors in relation to the Olympics. I do feel very sorry for the many people who have been kicked off central building sites, markets, etc as these are closed down for the duration of the Olympics.
Yes there are issues around organisation and security but arent there always. Still they managed to pull off the Royal wedding and jubilee so maybe they can do it with the Olympics too.
Most of all I am also hoping that Haringey Council will improve our roads and local environment and resolve the bin problem before the Olympic flame travles through. If they don't I hope that some smart journalist covers the local environment and as well as the flame.
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A blog entry earlier this evening by Izzy Koksal describes what sounds like an over-reaction by police to the threat by . . . . cyclists pedalling round!
As Christopher Fowler suggested, Londoners without tickets are expected to "Get out of the way, disappear". Except for carefully planned and scripted "events" like the torch parades.
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Fowler on
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Alan - Thank you for noting this. It was also reported on the BBC News website. If I understand correctly, the cycle ride was a regular event, and the Met police diverted them down a side road, which they then blocked off, so "kettling" the group of cyclists. The report cites heavy-handed tactics. And there was silly old me thinking that one of the few good things to emerge from the Olympics and the need to find alternative ways of travelling was the increase in cycling in London. Obviously the apparatus of the new police state disagrees. I suspect we can look forward to a lot more of this kind of thing over the coming weeks of the "games".
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So how is everyone's journeys? I have managed to commute to work in Central London, have a day out in Battersea Park and another day at the Olympic Park. All journeys were on public transport and they have been quick and with no overcrowding.
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