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Grauniad story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012...-company-sinks

- Not surprised at those prices - £95 a ticket for a trip up a scummy
-stinking ex-industrial river aka Lee.

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- So I'm not surprised that the water taxi's gone bust. But I wonder who
- was running the company and who the drivers were? I bet they were
- greedy speculators out for a quick buck and were not river-folk.

If by "river-folk" you mean ex lightermen and tugboat crews then no,
they would have had more sense to start with.

Only the other week there was the story of all the small traders who'd
laid out thousands on pitches in some Olympic Food Market and sold
hardly anything.

Like the people behind this, they were foolish enough to believe
marketing projections produced by the Olympics Marketing Bull****
Directorate. That and Local Council and British Waterways PR.
Rather than commissioning their own independent research. The market
traders were promised a passing trade of thousands of customers daily -
instead of just one or two, and matey here commissioned 15 specially built
vessels and was hoping to make 120 trips a day. With little it seems by
way of a back-up "legacy" plan.

I don't know the history of this but maybe the prices were cheaper
earlier on until they discovered very few people were interested
at any price.

The real success of this Olympics has been the reams of bull**** both before
and after the games. Just so long as enough people keep repeating that they
are going to be and in fact were a triumphal success that has put
Britain back in her rightful place as a world leader then
people may actually start believing it.

Unless that is you've got a few skips full of unsold food, or 15 boats
coming up soon in a bankruptcy sale.


michael adams

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