In article , Stimpy
writes
On 12/11/05 17:37, "Tony Polson" wrote:

Great safe prophecies of our time:

1) The London Olympics will be a complete screwup, many times over
budget,

2) The supposed regeneration of depreived areas won't happen.

Ian

You could be so wrong Ian - I certainly hope so.


Unfortunately, Ian is very likely to be right.

The trade unions will make sure that the work doesn't get finished on
time unless their members are paid massive "bonuses", and the costs
will skyrocket.

Every landowner will screw the Olympic organisation for every million
they can get.

The money set aside for regeneration will have to be raided to pay for
all of the above.


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

With any luck, they will find that the only way to fund it all is to
appropriate the money now pencilled in for the West London Tram.
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Thoss