It's London!

[Spiffor]

Do you really think you'll sort out your transportation hell in the coming 7 years?

[Provost Harrison]

Not a snowball in hell's chance

[Provost Harrison]

I tell you what the major problem is too, too many fat cats and layers of bureaucracy involved in running and maintaining public transport in this country. Subcontraction after subcontraction means spiralling cost and no responsibility. No wonder the f**king place is falling apart

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Don't get your panties in a bunch though

The Brits used youth as a communication tool, it's not like the 12-18 year-olds were active in this campaign. Kinda like those ads featuring a passive woman, whose massive bosom is a very good commercial argument nonetheless

Ah, good point.

Exploitation of youth

[Bereta_Eder]

see neither MikeH or PH are living in London. That's why they can afford to be all happy and everything. If they were they would stop being so after a while

[Spiffor]

I thought it was also about a very inadequate infrastructure. I heard there would be 11 billion € put in transportation infrastructure alone. All bureacuratic sleaze aside, what changes should this money bring?

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Well we should have no problem surpassing our predecessors

a propos, the chinese were asked to "slow things down" because they had started building stuff so fast they'd have everything ready in a year or so and by the time the dope corrupted international money grabbing elite sorry the "olympics" came to town the infustruction would already be old.
nothing like the ingineous greeks who waited for the last minute in order for the terrorists not to know where to plant the bombs. but not everyone can be that intelligent, it's true

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by paiktis22
see neither MikeH or PH are living in London. That's why they can afford to be all happy and everything. If they were they would stop being so after a while

Actually I live in London nowadays. In fact in one of the host boroughs (Greenwich).

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by paiktis22


a propos, the chinese were asked to "slow things down" because they had started building stuff so fast they'd have everything ready in a year or so and by the time the dope corrupted international money grabbing elite sorry the "olympics" came to town the infustruction would already be old.
nothing like the ingineous greeks who waited for the last minute in order for the terrorists not to know where to plant the bombs. but not everyone can be that intelligent, it's true

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison


Actually I live in London nowadays. In fact in one of the host boroughs (Greenwich).

Moved to the "big town" eh? good for you

[Provost Harrison]

That's old news...you ought to keep up

[Spiffor]

PH, I thought your transportation problem was also about a very inadequate infrastructure. I heard there would be 11 billion € put in transportation infrastructure alone. All bureacuratic sleaze aside, what changes should this money bring?

[Provost Harrison]

London actually has a very extensive public transport system but it is it's age and condition (and thus it's reliability) that is the problem - it's lack of maintenance that is the problem (Thatcher managed to completely neglect it as well).

What changes should be made? There are a lot of track upgrades that need to be made so that the trains can run faster with less problems. Signalling and control upgrades to allow a higher throughput of trains. Some of the stations are in tatters too. And some kind of thought for SE London which has nothing apart from the train service which is pretty irregular compared to the tube. It doesn't sound too big, but probably requires billions of pounds...

[reismark]

/me weeps for New York.

[Provost Harrison]

Let's face it, New York made an utter dogs dinner of their application with that business over approval for the stadium...