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Old November 1st 06, 11:51 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default "The Olympics will be late and over budget"


Marc Brett wrote:
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:17:47 -0000, "John Rowland"
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http://www.nceplus.co.uk/news/news_a...il_engineering


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Last night, Derek Wyatt, the Labour MP who chairs the all-party Olympics
committee at Westminster, agreed that building costs were likely to be far
higher than original estimates.

But Mr Wyatt dismissed Mr Lemley as "out of his depth" and said it was
commonplace for Olympic project costs the world over to increase.
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Nice to see such complacency from somebody spending MY MONEY.


Well, according to a programme on television last night ("London Inside
Out" or a similar name), the Olympic Delivery Authority or whatever
they're called don't even own all of the land required yet! Right in
the middle of the site is a plot of allotments which, although no doubt
subject to compulsory purchase, has not actually been purchased yet and
would not be purchased until an alternative site has been found for the
evictees - something that is far from being concluded even at this
stage!

If building and other costs soar over the estimates originally
provided, as is bound to be case, why should already hard-pressed
London taxpayers pay any of this? Surely those who campaigned to have
the Olympics, and those who provided inaccurate estaimates should pay
for their deceit and/or negligence.

Marc.