Originally Posted by Paul Corfield

On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:27:26 +0100, Robin9
wrote:


It is now evident that most motorists in London including taxi and
emergency services drivers have no idea when Olympic Lanes
come into force and during which hours and on what days they
will be in operation. This afternoon Petrie Hoskins - I hope I have
spelled her name correctly - has conducted a phone-in programme
on this subject and no-one, absolutely no-one, knew what was
going on. Anger at TfL was general and unlimited.

As Ken Livingstone and David Mellor were also pretty critical
yesterday, it is quite likely that this is going to be a very
hot potato in the next few weeks.

I hope Boris gets dragged in. He won't have a clue. He'll
flounder and flop and be shown up for what he is.

If they don't know then it's because they've ignored the endless
adverts about "Get Ahead of the Games" or have opted not to find out.
I know not everyone has web access but many, many people do.

After all there are only pages and pages and pages of info and maps
available.

http://www.getaheadofthegames.com/th...e-network.html

I've struggled to find out some aspects of public transport info on
that website but if you dig around there is a lot of info. I don't
drive so Games Lanes are very unlikely to affect me in any direct
sense.

I think you'll find the media are winding themselves up into a state
of complete frenzy and if a Jubilee Line train is "delayed" by 10
seconds it will be front page news. People in the land of "tweets"
will also be zapping their 140 characters of "news" and "photos" any
time there is a queue or any sort of station management in place.
Prepare to collapse under a torrent of unmitigated useless news that
is completely and utterly out of proportion to what actually happened
(if anything did actually happen).

If something very serious does happen then that would be valid news
and worthy of reporting but I do think we will struggle to spot the
difference. At that Boris would be in the spotlight but I rather
suspect it will be shared by whoever in TfL, Network Rail or a TOC is
responsible.

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Paul C