OLYMPICS

Tube officials publish London Olympic travel map

Sports Apr. 23, 2012 - 02:07PM JST ( 7 )

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TigersTokyoDomeApr. 23, 2012 - 06:29PM JST

Ah,ha,ha! My Monday commute this morning (still 100 days to go) involved sitting on the train for 30 minutes at Kentish Town with not even the driver knowing the reason for the hold up. I then decided to get off and catch a taxi, which was a stupid idea (anyone from London will know it's a stupid idea to think you can find a taxi) as there were no taxis in sight and when one did arrive he said he wasn't 'on' despite being empty.

My tourist advice for the London Olympics? Don't go, or if you have already bought tickets just watch it in your hotel. As for the local commuters, we experience this every single day so the Olympics will not make much difference.

The chief organiser of the Olympics Seb Coe, is chauffered around everywhere with a private driver so what does he know about public trasnportation for the games??
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Peter ShawApr. 23, 2012 - 07:35PM JST

i second that, i'm getting out of london the week before - to japan naturally! but i come back just before the end of the games and it will be chaos.
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JonathanJoApr. 23, 2012 - 09:08PM JST

Good luck with getting back into the UK - passport queues of 2+ hours at London airports are typical and will be worse in August. An hour's delay on the tube is nothing.
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nandakandamandaApr. 23, 2012 - 09:11PM JST

Hate to agree but I had to catch the tube to a very important service in London on March 25th. Got on the tube at Southfields and waited and waited and waited. Every time the driver started talking, the woman on the station loudspeaker talked over him. You could not concentrate on either message and they seemed to be saying different things, about a blockage or signal failure at Putney Bridge. Eventually I got out and walked out of the station but hundreds of people were pushing towards the bus stop, not that I knew which bus would be going where. And as Tigers says above, not a taxi to be seen.

Eventually I walked home got in the car and drove into London. So much for public transport...
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smithinjapanApr. 23, 2012 - 11:56PM JST

Why should people who live and work there change their schedules to benefit the Olympics? It should be the other way around -- and if London cannot provide for the Olympics they should not be host.
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gelendestrasseApr. 24, 2012 - 01:17AM JST

I don't even want to think of what London will look like with the Olympics. I thought it was bad enough on a Friday evening...

Don't forget the tax if you drive a car into central London now. I'm glad I left before that started.

Maybe bicycles are the best way? No problems, I won't be there anyway.
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TigersTokyoDomeApr. 24, 2012 - 07:23AM JST

...oh, and did I forget to mention the full-on gang fight involving 15 to 20 teenagers on my local bus the other evening (still daylight) in a once-smart part of suburban London? People might think I'm making this up.

The UK is a backward, violent, poorly-run country with no functioning public transportation in it's capital. And now the hours of queues at Terminal 5 and Gatwick and the Olympics is still 3 months away.