"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.)