Being a franchised word, I shall refer to Lympics.

Did I imagine it , or some time there was word to build and join up traffic free
cycle routes to the Lympic city ?

I hear from my spy in the South , that last Monday there was a 32 mile traffic jam from the West and that the environs of Royal Kingston upon Thames were impossible to leave from by motor vehicle.
Step forward the cycle routes, do they exist, will they join up East and West and worse still will they be a Lympic legacy ?

Hey Nick, have you not been following the London Cycle Campaign postings reporting Cycle Routes around the London 'Sports Day' field being CLOSED for 'Security' reasons?
Whatever made you thing any useful legacy would come out of the whole thing, apart from G4S being shown up for what they are?
Rob
wrhpv.com

So far the 'problems' have shown up the UK as bumbling fools. It's the LONDON games not the UK games but foreign observers will see Boris the Clown and associate the foul ups so far with all of us.

"I thought of that while riding my bike." --Albert Einstein, on the Theory of Relativity

2007 ICE QNT
2008 Hase Kettwiesel AL27
2011 Catrike Trail.
1951 Engine in need of partial rebuild.

Hush peasants!!!! This is the greatest cultural and world event to hit this country.
Never before have so many paid for so few.

It's a chance to see , not only how we cock things up, but our wonderful transport system, which must be the envy of the world.

I shall be otherwise diverted.

n-ick Wrote:
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> Hush peasants!!!! This is the greatest cultural
> and world event to hit this country.
> Never before have so many paid for so few.
>
> It's a chance to see , not only how we cock things
> up, but our wonderful transport system, which must
> be the envy of the world.
>
> I shall be otherwise diverted.


GET YOUR PEPSI HATS HERE!

"I thought of that while riding my bike." --Albert Einstein, on the Theory of Relativity

2007 ICE QNT
2008 Hase Kettwiesel AL27
2011 Catrike Trail.
1951 Engine in need of partial rebuild.

A favrate quote of mine is this: "Have to laugh that the main route from Heathrow to London in Olympic year is screwed. Let's welcome the world to our shot infrastructure" -- refencing the M4 motorway which is having problems with failing welds and concrete cancer

As for 'Cycle Routes around the London 'Sports Day' field being CLOSED for 'Security' reasons?' don't try to visit Edinburgh Castle - when I did the "security" guard rushed out and stopped me and said I MUST NOT CYCLE in the car park area where there were a couple of hundred pedestrians wandering about - now at this time, as well as several cars manoeuvring, there were two coaches and a large articulated lorry reversing, but apparently a cyclist on a Brompton is a much greater danger to pedestrians.

John Turvey

Historic Scotland do not like bikes much at the castle.

Their main interest is to deliver people by car to various attractions - often commented on the local City Cycling forum. Holyrood Park which is also in their care has the lowest cycle rate of almost any part of Edinburgh. That's because it's full of cars, illegal HGVs and buses. (technically banned but stopping a bike is much easier than a ten ton truck)


They do not even allow military charity rides into the castle. So teams that have cycled from London to Edinburgh have been denied cycling access! It's a military base too - albeit the front end is managed by HS.

Meanwhile in the nearby streets you'll find tour buses, taxis, Ferraris and pedestrians happily mingling. The council can't bring itself to properly pedestrianise streets as the tram fiasco has created a reactive mind set always keen to encourage driving. Car ownership in Edinburgh is less than Amsterdam.