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AS WE NEAR THE OLYMPICS IT MAY BE WORTH CHEKING ON YOUR LOCAL COUNCIL TO SEE IF IT AFFECTS YOU
ROAD CLOSURES ALSO TUBES AND TRAINS.SOME TUBE STATIONS ARE CLOSED,
WE HAVE THE ROAD RACE NOT FAR,BUT WHAT A KNOCK ON EFFECT,THEN SAILING ABOUT TWO MILES AWAY,
TRANSPORT IS DIRECTED AT GETTING PEPLE TO AND FROM VENUES,,BUT WHAT ABOUT RESIDENTS.

ANY FREE HOLIDAYS TO AUSTRALIA GOING,,,,,,,

Looks like it has made you stutter...LOL

LOL Dizzi, :-D :-D

Excellent spam fest Dizzi :-D :-D :-D

Sorry Dizzi, could you repeat that please :-D :-D ;-)

Oh Dizzi. You have posted this thread 16 times! Did you keep pressing the submit button because you thought it hadn't gone?

You don't want to be RR'd for posting about the same topic more than once!

Jacky ;-)

I have just sent her a message by Pigeon Post. ;-)

bless ya dizzi, ya defo got the message acros haha,

x

LOL
FUDDY LAPTOP
POSTED FRED BEFORE I DID,,

AND WHY DIDNT YOU POST ON EVERY FRED,

LEAST IT WOKE YOU ALL UP :-D :-D :-D :-D :-| :-| :-| :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P

JOAN

YOUR LUCKY
IM LESS THAN TEN MINIT WALK
FROM HEATHROW

Joan,
Your comment brought a vision of Dad'd Army!!

The roadworks have been affecting us for months now :-|

I was just talking to my mum and one of my daughters about the torch relay, she had us in hysterics, she thought it was the same torch that was carried, she honestly thought it stayed alight all that time, bless her :-)

We will have parking restrictions as we are near several stations. not supposed to effect residents though........ Oh Yeah!!!

Still overall looking forward to the games :-D

i live on top of the olympic park and every think will effect me
i just carnt under stand why thay have shut the A13 rounderbout off at one end and thay have diverted the traffick on to the little roads
its a night mear all ready

im staying in when the games are on

My friend lives not far and is already severely fed up. Thankfully we are away on holiday together for one week of the games.

Like you Dame Shelly, I think that she and her son will be staying in.

lol Dizzi - I have a spare room with a queen size bed........ but you'll have to pay your own air fare

You won't need an alarm clock... get woken up at crack of dawn by kookaburras :-D

I'll be watching my cousin compete!!

I live in Vancouver, where the 2010 Winter Olympics were held


and I can tell you that it affected EVERY area, even those that were nowhere near the venues.


Every major road had parking restrictions. We had "no go" areas everywhere

There were dedicated traffic lanes for the "Olympic family" ................... ie, the IOC members.

Couldn't have them held up could we?? Forget the poor bl***dy athletes!!


When any IOC member wanted to go to any venue, or his hotel, or the airport .................. traffic was held up all along the route, he had a police escort, and a rolling escort of police motorcycles that closed all side roads in turn as the cavalcade proceeded down the road.


I can tell you, quite honestly, that it was not much fun getting around, even though the Winter Olympics are much smaller than the Summer ones.



You'd be even sicker if you knew what the IOC members HAD to be provided, versus what the athletes got.


Start with 5 star hotel accommodation vs 2 star




sylvia

Hurray - no roadworks now until next Tuesday.

Sylvia - there was a TV programme about the IOC, and their 'requirments'. One thing that stuck in my mind was that part of the roads in London were to be changed in to dedicated Olympic lanes, and not to be used at any time by anyone else...even after events had ended in the evening.

The programme also exposed companies who were selling high priced packages including sort-after tickets, AND use of the Olympic lanes. :-|

Although we live many miles away, we are close to an intermediate high speed railway station which takes you close to the Park. OH is concerned that the roads are going to get clogged with people trying to get to the station.

'They' said it would bring much need tourist money into the UK. Well, at the beginning of the year, there were reports that London hotel advance booked bed numbers were down. Ordinary tourists were avoiding the period.

When the Olympics were first announced, various London based financial institutions block booked hotel rooms for their key workers. Even this doesn't appear to have made up for the short-fall.

Sains are selling official souvenirs - alll made in China

I didn't want it in England to start with, and I still don't - too late now.

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