Completely contradicting beloved husband, I think it's going to be a bloody nightmare.
I very rarely go into London-proper, so hopefully the inevitable tube nightmare won't bother me too much, but I do drive, pretty much daily, out of London, in order to look after GB, along a road that's going to have a zili lane on it.
It's only going to cover a bit over half a mile, but it's a busy road anyway, and the fact that they've closed the side roads is already causing chaos. Even more annoyingly (for me, anyway: I'm still a little uncomfortable with central-London-agressive-driving, so I like to take a while and change lanes when it's quiet) the Games Lane that I'll need to pass is made up of about 200 yards in the right hand lane, then a 200 yard gap, then 200 yards in the left hand land. So that's two streams of traffic having to cross, on one of the busiest bits of road in the area.... (Edit: oh, and past a missile launcher. Lovely, just what you want to see on the Common!)
Maybe I'll just go the long way around, along with everyone else!
(I say "it's going to": a couple of weeks ago, they put up signs saying "overnight road works, 2/7/12". The second came and went, no work had been done but the signs remained, flashing their time-travelling warning. A few days ago, in the middle of the day, they did do some work: removing the central reservation and replacing it with fold-down poles, presumably so that the Olympic traffic can do a U-turn if the roundabout completely backs up. They still haven't actually painted the lines, though.)
(There's a-probably-unsucessful attempt at a grass-roots protest, involving gluing a blue bucket (to 'mimic' emergency lights) to the roof of the car. It would be amusing, though. And, you know, what if one happened to run out of petrol and had to pull over in an Olympic lane...?)
Plus, there's the whole chipfry chip we're English!thing. And then the utterly ludicrous attempts, backed up by the police, to stop shops from having Olympic-themed displays, to stop (haha) spectators from posting to social media, and so on. Utter nightmare. I can't imagine what made people think it was a good idea. I just hope that it rains the entire time: half the summer shows have been cancelled, maybe the Olympics can too?
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I very rarely go into London-proper, so hopefully the inevitable tube nightmare won't bother me too much, but I do drive, pretty much daily, out of London, in order to look after GB, along a road that's going to have a zili lane on it.
It's only going to cover a bit over half a mile, but it's a busy road anyway, and the fact that they've closed the side roads is already causing chaos. Even more annoyingly (for me, anyway: I'm still a little uncomfortable with central-London-agressive-driving, so I like to take a while and change lanes when it's quiet) the Games Lane that I'll need to pass is made up of about 200 yards in the right hand lane, then a 200 yard gap, then 200 yards in the left hand land. So that's two streams of traffic having to cross, on one of the busiest bits of road in the area.... (Edit: oh, and past a missile launcher. Lovely, just what you want to see on the Common!)
Maybe I'll just go the long way around, along with everyone else!
(I say "it's going to": a couple of weeks ago, they put up signs saying "overnight road works, 2/7/12". The second came and went, no work had been done but the signs remained, flashing their time-travelling warning. A few days ago, in the middle of the day, they did do some work: removing the central reservation and replacing it with fold-down poles, presumably so that the Olympic traffic can do a U-turn if the roundabout completely backs up. They still haven't actually painted the lines, though.)
(There's a-probably-unsucessful attempt at a grass-roots protest, involving gluing a blue bucket (to 'mimic' emergency lights) to the roof of the car. It would be amusing, though. And, you know, what if one happened to run out of petrol and had to pull over in an Olympic lane...?)
Plus, there's the whole
chipfrychipwe're English!thing. And then the utterly ludicrous attempts, backed up by the police, to stop shops from having Olympic-themed displays, to stop (haha) spectators from posting to social media, and so on. Utter nightmare. I can't imagine what made people think it was a good idea. I just hope that it rains the entire time: half the summer shows have been cancelled, maybe the Olympics can too?