Tom Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 wrote:

The draft plan is now available at

http://www.london2012.com/en/ourvisi...sport+Plan.htm.

Weymouth? Why on earth are they having the sailing at Weymouth?

I was puzzled by that too, but then I haven't dinghied in years.

Apparently it's an excuse to do up the National Sailing Academy the
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/av...00/5075766.htm

and not simply because Heathrow-Woking-Weymouth lets the competitors
avoid the transport nightmare that London will become.

No idea what a "dual-aspect slipway" is (water at both ends?).

....
Bah. It's probably because it's too hard for all these continentals,
raised on the tideless Med.

What's wrong with the Welsh Harp - the Firefly has an Olympic pedigree,
after all!

Henry

Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Paul Scott wrote:

"solar penguin" wrote in message
oups.com...

I hope they improve the point where the Greenway passes under the
GER/DLR at Pudding Mill Lane. Last time I was there, it was _the_ worst
eyesore in all London!

If you mean the grotty waterlogged passageway under the outfall, that
you follow if walking the towpath, I definitely agree.

Ah, where it goes past a breaker's yard and round the back of a warehouse?
Yes, unbelievably awful.


Yeah, that's the one I meant.

Hmmm.... this must be the first time that anyone on Usenet has posted
"This is the worst..." and no-one's disagreed!

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, solar penguin wrote:


Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Paul Scott wrote:

"solar penguin" wrote in message
oups.com...

I hope they improve the point where the Greenway passes under the
GER/DLR at Pudding Mill Lane. Last time I was there, it was _the_ worst
eyesore in all London!

If you mean the grotty waterlogged passageway under the outfall, that
you follow if walking the towpath, I definitely agree.

Ah, where it goes past a breaker's yard and round the back of a warehouse?
Yes, unbelievably awful.

Hmmm.... this must be the first time that anyone on Usenet has posted
"This is the worst..." and no-one's disagreed!

I'm not sure i'd say it was the worst eyesore in all of London (although
nothing worse springs to mind), but it's certainly the worst bit of the
greenway, and dramatically so. I appreciate that there's not a lot they
can do about a mainline railway, but it is bloody awful.

Oh, except the bit where it crosses an arterial road somewhere in Bow (Bow
High Street?) is pretty ridiculous too - if you're on your bike, you have
to get off, walk quite a way down the pavement, cross a couple of sets of
lights, then walk back up.

One of the railway bridges (LTSR?), on the other hand, is ace - there's a
collection of really good graffiti.

tom

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