Olympics overspend

[dawesome]

You're claiming the park is temporary.

This is how the 500 acre park will look in 2030:

http://www.stratfordlondon.info/sit...ds/N - Future of the Park launch brochure.pdf




Doesn't look temporary to me!

The bit I'm looking forward to is Sarah Price's contribution:

In all 4,000 semi-mature trees, over 300,000 wetland plants and 15,000 square metres of lawn have been planted and millions of nectar-rich annual and perennial flowers sown in huge meadows timed to flower during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. A riverside garden created by leading designer Sarah Price stretches for ½ mile along the Thames and celebrates centuries of British gardening and plant collecting, with 120,000 plants from 250 species around the world.​

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http://www.rhs.org.uk/News/Planting-finishes-at-Olympic-Park​

 

[sheddy]

No sign of new programmes from the BBC trying to help us get active in 2012.
Complain here https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/?reset=#anchor

 

[Ludwig]

You can see the way Barcelona was catapulted from a crime ridden run down sea port to a fashionable global city as a result of the 1992 Olympics and helped to regenrate the whole Catalonia region. The general negativity on this forum about everything and anything highlights the genaral mental state of the average British cyclist. If the Olympics was in the USA they would be really enthusiastic. I can still remember the 1984 Olympics from Los Angeles and staying up till 2 and 3 in the morning to watch the heats of the 800 metres. The Oylmpics aint going away so put up with it or shut up!!

 

[Vapin' Joe]

£9 billion is a drop in the ocean compared to the amount spent each year on welfare, defence, clapped out universites and legions on public of sector jobs. I was inspired by watching the Olympics in 1972 and 1976 and became an athlete for may years. A huge part of East London has been regenerated and the Olympics will put Britain on the global map and it is a once in a century event so we have to make the most of it as the Chinese did at the last Olympics.

I think you will find that Britain is already on the global map.

A huge expensive ego trip for politicians and freeloaders, let some other mugs bankrupt themselves hosting it.

 

[dawesome]

[QUOTE 1697925, member: 45"]

Go and view it from high up in the Docklands. The surroundings are a very different picture to selective glossy brochures.[/quote]


I lived next to and cycled past the olympic site for 11 years. The park isn't temporary. That's the beauty off mass landscaping, you see the end results in a hundred years or so:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnfaKazUONk

 

[dawesome]

[QUOTE 1697989, member: 45"]I made clear to you what is and isn't temporary. .[/quote]

No, you didn't, which parts of the park are you claiming are temporary?

[QUOTE 1697989, member: 45"] Any hint at what's the other side of the fence? Of course not, they don't want you to see the grotty, sub-standard housing.[/quote]

You mean The Carpenters' Estate? The Victorian terraces? What are you talking about?

 

[derrick]

That's what the propaganda says, but the reality is different. The part of the East End which was SUPPOSED to be regenerated is no longer to be involved in the Olympics and will not be regenerated as it is "Not attractive enough" fpr TV. Even though it was the inclusion of areas like Whitechapel, Bethnal Green &c which won us the Olympic bid.

I wish I could say what I would liek to do with SeB Coe and a spork, but I think I may be booted off the forum....

No you would not,
I would like to stick sebs head up his own arse.

 

[dawesome]

That's not a very sensible answer. The park certainly is not temporary. Some buildings are temporary, when they are taken down the plan is to create meadows prior to ongoing construction. I live there, I know what I'm talking about, telling me to go and walk there isn't sensible, I asked where you think the "grotty housing" is. You're being a bit snobby about East London, it's got its problems but it's not the slum you seem to think it is.

 

[dawesome]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMb1a-eFHWg&feature=player_embedded


Biggest party London's ever seen.

 

[dawesome]

Limehouse is nowhere near the Olympic Park, and it's full of yuppies, you know nothing about East London you frightful snob. Westfield's had a million and a half visitors since it opened, ultimately 17,000 jobs for local people before the fashion, IT firms and Channel 5 move to the IBC at Hackney Wick and UCL move their campus to the east of the park, and that's all before Stratford International starts up. This is the biggest thing to hit East London since the luftwaffe.

 

[snorri]

The general negativity on this forum about everything and anything highlights the genaral mental state of the average British cyclist.

Really?

 

[dawesome]

[QUOTE 1698054, member: 45"]Commercial Road full of yuppies? It wasn't when I was being burgled and threatened with knives sonny.
[/quote]

Guffaw. Let me guess, you're white and middle class and you moved into East London because it's so GENUINE darling, authentic and edgy. You must have been the only yuppie there!

I dunno why the white cubes, saves painting in doors and windows I suppose. As an argument against investing £25bn in East London it seems a bit weak.

 

[biggs682]

and you are surprised people dont like goverments

 

[dawesome]

[QUOTE 1698104, member: 45"]
You know why the white cubes are there. It's because Britain doesn't want the world to see what's the other side of the fence.

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I live the other side of the fence., So do lots of normal, hard-working people. There are no ghettos, slums, or whatever you imagine exists. During the games there are loads of cultural events on the park periphery, communities coming together and celebrating. Just, for once, let's be positive about the utter transformation of a derelict, polluted swathe of London.

 

[dawesome]

Biggest shopping centre (by area) in Europe, actually.