John Williamson wrote
Rod Speed wrote:
John Williamson wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Brian Gaff wrote

I think despite the critics, people are telling me that the
organisation of the Olympics has been very good so far

Like hell they are on the number of empty seats alone.

Seats which were "sold" by the organisers (as required by their
contract) to the OIC and various sports federations.

Another bare faced lie.

Then you obviously think that the BBC, the IOC and LOCOG are all lying.

The BBC are just repeating the lie from those other fools.

Even someone as stupid as you should have
noticed those last two lying about that.

The provision is in the original bid documents, just as they were for the
Sydney Games in 2000.

But is nothing like your lie.

Complete and utter shambles in fact.

Far from it.

Complete and utter shambles in fact.

Even the press here have been impressed by the organisation of the Games,

So ****ing what ? Even just all those empty seats is a complete and utter
shambles.

and all it takes for The Sun to have a go is a hint that something *might*
have the possibility of going slightly wrong...

Corse none of them even mentioned all those empty seats, eh ?

Of course there has been the odd breakdown on the underground,

Shouldn’t have happened if the system had been designed right.

(1) The underground was never "designed" as a unit,

Irrelevant to whether it would have happened
if the particular bits had been designed right.

Like the Sydney equivalent?

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s162615.htm

You have a short memory, don't you?

Nope, I know what happened with that. Another shambles.

(It's a link to a story about the problematic rail transport for the
Sydney Games in 2000)

Another:-

http://partners.nytimes.com/library/...oly-rails.html

Bear in mind that the Sydney system is less than a quarter of the size of
the London Underground, was carrying less than a fifth of the passenger
load and still didn't get fixed in time... After four days, we had already
passed the total passenger numbers for the Sydney Olympic and Paralympic
Games.

Hardly surprising that a few more find it easier to be in London, stupid.

(2) It is better than 99.9% reliable,

Pity other rail systems had no failures at all during their olympics.

Short memory you've got there, or weren't you alive during the Sydney
Games? They had rail and bus problem on most days.

Plenty of others didn’t.

I could, no doubt, come up with similar stories about *every* Olympics or
other major event.

No you can't with their rail system.

which is pretty good, given the average age of its parts,

The fools running that system should have considered that
and fixed what problems there were before the olympics.

Is speechless (Knowing very well that *all* public transport systems
break down in some way every single day).

Pigs arse they do in a way that needs buses on standby.

(3) There are enough buses on standby to cover any public transport
breakdowns within very tight schedules. Which is why a lot of bus and
coach drivers are being paid loadsamoney to sit round all day waiting
for a phone call...

Still a complete and utter abortion.

Described by at least one person I know who has been there as "London
Transport at its best",

More fool him.

when he walked out of the Stadium to the nearest railway station after the
event he was watching and got straight onto a train, which got him to his
destination on time eactly as expected. Just like 99.9% of the others.

That number is straight from your arse, we can tell from the smell.

The only problem that's made the headlines here was when a coach driver
from out of town got lost, and took too long to get a group of American
athletes to their accommodation. That's thirty or forty passengers out of
about three million so far with a minor problem.

Another bare faced lie.