Stimpy wrote:

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?


Simple. You jump on the gravy train, otherwise someone else will.

Business is business :-)

Exactly.

;-)