On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Stimpy 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.

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?

Well, you ought to at least bear in mind that once the landowners have
been bought off, it's likely to be downgraded to a gravy tram. Or, horror
of horrors, a gravy trolleybus.

tom

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