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Westfield and the DLR
Yes, I know that the Olympic stadium arena is sunken, but would that
provide enough material to raise the far larger Olympic park area that surrounds it? ISTM the issue is a bit more complex than that as the area was not flat to start with. There is a map showing the contours at http://planning.london2012.com/publi...=JD3JF2SZL0000 but I'm not up to computing if it's enough (or more than enough) for the final contours. Living near the site I can say they have had some pretty big temporary hills as they moved stuff around. -- Robin PM may be sent to rbw0{at}hotmail{dot}com |
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"Robin" wrote in message
Yes, I know that the Olympic stadium arena is sunken, but would that provide enough material to raise the far larger Olympic park area that surrounds it? ISTM the issue is a bit more complex than that as the area was not flat to start with. There is a map showing the contours at http://planning.london2012.com/publi...=JD3JF2SZL0000 but I'm not up to computing if it's enough (or more than enough) for the final contours. Living near the site I can say they have had some pretty big temporary hills as they moved stuff around. Yes, I've noticed those large 'temporary hills' on my infrequent visits and wondered if they were to be made permanent, only to notice they'd disappeared on my next visit. On this visit, I was surprised just how much construction still seemed to be going on around the park, given that the venues are all supposed to be more or less complete. Even the temporary warm-up track on top of the DBS sidings seems to be almost done (it was still a concrete plant when I last walked along the Greenway). I assume that some underground services have to be laid (including the new water main) and the area landscaped after the major buildings are complete. |
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On this visit, I was surprised just how much construction still seemed
to be going on around the park, given that the venues are all supposed to be more or less complete. Even the temporary warm-up track on top of the DBS sidings seems to be almost done (it was still a concrete plant when I last walked along the Greenway). I assume that some underground services have to be laid (including the new water main) and the area landscaped after the major buildings are complete. Oh they have an awful lot of other people's money to spend yet - eg on the coach park, that wonderful bit of "legacy" which means they tarmac over several playing fields on Hackney Marshes and then remove it all to reinstate the playing fields. -- Robin PM may be sent to rbw0{at}hotmail{dot}com |
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"Robin" wrote: On this visit, I was surprised just how much construction still seemed to be going on around the park, given that the venues are all supposed to be more or less complete. Even the temporary warm-up track on top of the DBS sidings seems to be almost done (it was still a concrete plant when I last walked along the Greenway). I assume that some underground services have to be laid (including the new water main) and the area landscaped after the major buildings are complete. Oh they have an awful lot of other people's money to spend yet - eg on the coach park, that wonderful bit of "legacy" which means they tarmac over several playing fields on Hackney Marshes and then remove it all to reinstate the playing fields. I was talking to a Hackney Marshes user recently - they weren't all that fussed about this, as the thinking was that the playing fields in question would end up with rather better drainage after reinstatement than they have now. (Worth noting that it's by no means all the playing fields either.) |
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