On 12/11/05 22:45, "Tony Polson" wrote:

Stimpy wrote:

My company does a lot of transport planning and strategy work with TfL and
the widespread feeling within TfL (and outside) is that the whole Olympic
thing is a gravy train just waiting to be jumped on. There are now many
interrelated projects regarded as *essential* to the Olympics where money is
being hosed around with gay abandon...

One day the truth will come out and it won't be pretty

Nothing linked to "New" Labour is remotely pretty. :-(

The vibe within TfL is that if you can, by whatever means, associate your
project with the Olympics and talk it up to the point where it becomes
'essential', then budgetary constraints seem to evaporate away.

The *really* sad thing is that it's obvious which way things are going and
we, like many other companies, are faced with a choice - do we turn down
lucrative contracts on the grounds that money is being spent unnecessarily
or do we just jump on the gravy train?

Business is business :-)