London Olympics - massive loss of money!

[Ben Lessani]

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in

[dTEA]

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in

All policiticians should be forced to wear formula one gear so you can see who their corporate sponsors are

[Ben Lessani]

[DubFan]

Olympics has ruined everything for me, trains will run less frequent due to more loading and unloading at each station, no changeover services at Dartford and limited service to Gravesend... oh plus this year south eastern said, the ticket fair will only go up for people traveling within greater London not further afield. So living next to Gravesend means my commute to work will be ruined! Also due to nature of my job no annual leave is allowed during Olympics and train travel went up 9% which south eastern lied about again 

Oh and Woolwich dockyard will be shut during the games.

Tell me about it. SE Trains are rubbish even when conditions are absolutely perfect. Thats why I drive to work in central London when I can (nights and weekends).
I got my 2 Olympic weeks booked off though, so I won't have to deal with the main disruption.

I read something that said it works out cheaper to live in Greenwich (zone4) and commute a shorter distance rather and live out in Kent or Essex and commute in, even though houses might be cheaper, you pay so much more in train fare.

[golf-sib]

Olympics has ruined everything for me, trains will run less frequent due to more loading and unloading at each station, no changeover services at Dartford and limited service to Gravesend... oh plus this year south eastern said, the ticket fair will only go up for people traveling within greater London not further afield. So living next to Gravesend means my commute to work will be ruined! Also due to nature of my job no annual leave is allowed during Olympics and train travel went up 9% which south eastern lied about again 

Oh and Woolwich dockyard will be shut during the games.

Tell me about it. SE Trains are rubbish even when conditions are absolutely perfect. Thats why I drive to work in central London when I can (nights and weekends).
I got my 2 Olympic weeks booked off though, so I won't have to deal with the main disruption.

I read something that said it works out cheaper to live in Greenwich (zone4) and commute a shorter distance rather and live out in Kent or Essex and commute in, even though houses might be cheaper, you pay so much more in train fare.

Its true...

My brother lives in Bexleyheath which is zone 5 I believe, his "travelcard" is cheaper monthly than my train fare between; Northfleet to Woolwich Arsenal, which is a shorter track distance and it also means I use a non congested part of the router. Also lets not forget his travelcard allows him to use trains, underground, overground, DLR and Buses where as my seasonal ticket is purely for the train.

Piss take to be honest, but I do actually prefer where I live in Northfleet compared to buying in most parts of abbeywood/thamesmead even if it is zone 4.

[jockgti]

i work for stagecoach in the n/e of Scotland and we are sending buses and drivers down to be used at the Olympics,we recently got a new fleet of 20+ double deckers so there being driven down there stripped of all there livery and painted or wrapped white,used for 3 ish weeks then the reverse happens,so sir soutar must be making a pretty penny from that

[bobotheclown]

I'm finding the whole Olympics to be totally bonkers.

1. No food vendor is allowed to sell just chips other than McDonald's. The exception being when served with fish.
2. The whole transport for London campaign where they are encouraging their core users (commuters who use the network to get to work and generally have paid up front for this service in the form of a season ticket) to walk, cycle or use any other method to get to work. Why not provide a service that can cope with the influx of extra people? Bloody shambles this Olympics. Can't wait for it to be over. Complete waste of money and inconvenience to everyone who lives and works in London. I have requested that I work from home but was refused.

[golf-sib]

Don't understand the whole chip thing at all!

I commute to London and the worst thing is we have been told no annual leave due to heightened security due to my job, which has lumbered me with having to commute. I love what they have said rather than running more trains, less will be running as they will have to account for longer stops for letting people on and off the 10carriage trains! Secondly my entire line was meant to be upgraded for 12 carriage trains, but over a month ago we got a letter saying upgrade is not going to be done in time and will only recommence after olympics. Even though the upgrade could of easily been done in time! Also they knew how many years ago that they won the olympics? Only to commence upgrade work 8months ago!

Bloody joke isn't the word, will dread the commute for the next two months. They can barely run a day to day service so this is just asking for trouble.

[Jack3559]

It's true, absolutely no jobs have or will be created as a result of the Olympics. It will bring no tourism money in whatsoever, or help promote the UK on a global stage.

Let's just do nothing and go back to reading the Daily Mail. God I miss Diana.

This.

According to the figures in the first link the games cost £14bn and are going to recoup £10bn directly...

I don't know why everyone is getting their knickers in a twist, as I'm sure you realise that £2.2bn is lottery funded and £2bn is privately sponsored.

[Jimble]

It's the security issues in the news yesterday that pisses me off! Surely security should have been paramount with our reputation in the world atm and they haven't even sorted that out, instead they draft in off duty armed forces personel of which more than a couple will be losing their jobs due to cuts!

Some days i fcuking hate this country and the people that run it!