www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18850578
Sport Minister Hugh Robertson said the authorities had plans to lift the restrictions on the Games Lanes if there was gridlock.
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How will drivers know if restrictions are lifted temporarily? And aren't these streets often 'gridlocked'?
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The lanes are put in streets that get gridlocked. Thats why they are there, to get the knobs through the traffic,
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>> The lanes are put in streets that get gridlocked. Thats why they are there, to
>> get the knobs through the traffic,
Knowing your wilfully casual attitude to spelling Zero, I'm not sure whether you really mean nobs or you actually do mean knobs!
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He thinks nobs are knobs. Quite a few are of course.
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>> Knowing your wilfully casual attitude to spelling Zero, I'm not sure whether you really mean
>> nobs or you actually do mean knobs!
Its a convenient catch-all. And probably accurate.
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Olympic Route Network
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16583939
The first route network map I have seen.
I have the Surrey cycle routes but other roads are being shut and guess what not a lot of info.
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Drivers coming into London have faced delays of up to two hours after lanes were shut in the run-up to the Olympics.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18953088
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I think the BBC are going looking for trouble.
Ian had a number of drops all around Bromley by Bow, Leyton and Hackney today and despite having to go a slightly altered route because of the Olympic lane restrictions, he's just reported that he's empty and had less trouble than usual.
Pat
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Don't tell 'em Pike !
( I'm heading back in tomorrow...)
:-)
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>> around Bromley by Bow, Leyton and Hackney today and despite having to go a slightly altered route
>> because of the Olympic lane restrictions, he's just reported that he's empty and had less trouble than usual
Yes, I was in that area today as well. Radio 2 traffic said the ORN was now active on the A12 and A13 with a 1 hour delay to traffic on both routes - the matrix signs on the M25 and M11 confirmed this. But when I got onto the Green Man section of the A12 there were no queues and the wheeled temporary matrix signs were giving a start time of 0600 on Wednesday 25th.
Was Ian in a Renault today Pat? I saw one coming the other way near Mile End Road just before lunchtime.
Last edited by: Dave_TDCi on Mon 23 Jul 12 at 21:05
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Yes, that was him Dave;)
Pat
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Wednesday may not be the ideal day to be making a swoop on the capital. Nevertheless we have to. Herself is going to the theatre in the afternoon and I want to slut about in the old manor the while.
I told her we'd better allow four hours for the trip just to be on the safe side. What a nightmare, she said not unreasonably.
We decided that she would go by train and I would make my way there by car, then we would meet in Camden Town in the evening where I could go to the World's Best Pub for a small tipple before we slope back.
If there's no traffic congestion I will be really disappointed. Of course if there's much I will absolutely hate it.
On tenterhooks. What is a tenterhook by the way?
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Tue 24 Jul 12 at 01:52
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Wikipedia:
Tenterhooks were used as far back as the fourteenth century in the process of making woollen cloth. After the cloth was woven it still contained oil from the fleece and some dirt. A fuller (also called a tucker or wa[u]lker) cleaned the woollen cloth in a fulling mill, and then had to dry it carefully or the wool would shrink. To prevent this shrinkage, the fuller would place the wet cloth on a large wooden frame, a "tenter", and leave it to dry outdoors. The lengths of wet cloth were stretched on the tenter (from Latin tendere, meaning "to stretch") using hooks (nails driven through the wood) all around the perimeter of the frame to which the cloth's edges (selvedges) were fixed so that as it dried the cloth would retain its shape and size.[1] In manufacturing areas tenter-fields full of these frames were once common.
I did know this, coming from the border between the cotton and wool regions, but Wiki says it most succinctly.
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Wonder if that's where the word Tent originates from ?
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Remembering my youth, when we had a textile industry here, there used to be job adverts at the mills for doffers, tenters, spinners and many others. All jobs now gone away, except for a few small specialist fabrics, and very high quality tailoring materials.
Sorry for the drift!
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>> Sorry for the drift!
Thank you for the drift neiltoo.
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French Olympians foxed by Games Lanes
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18984862
A convoy of cars carrying French athletes and officials crawled through central London, enmeshed in a fiendish traffic jam.
To their right: a pristine Games Lane set aside for the exclusive use of the so-called "Olympic Family"
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Went to London and back yesterday - just back in fact. There was congestion in a couple of places but on the whole there was a bit less traffic than usual. About 6 last night set off from Notting Hill area along Marylebone Road. My usual lane, the outside one, had the Olympic logo painted on the road here and there. It was empty, the other two lanes nose-to-tail crawling although the bus lane on the nearside has been opened to normal traffic.
Being able to read I had noticed the large illuminated signs saying ALL TRAFFIC USE SPORTS LANE. Indeed I had seen several such signs on the way into London and had been looking for a sports lane to drive down, but hadn't seen one until Marylebone road. So I joined a couple of vans and taxis whose drivers could also read and cruised happily along my usual lane passing everything. It got a bit sticky around Tottenham Court Road underpass as it quite often does on normal days at that time, and from there towards King's Cross it didn't look so good. But I was able to peel off northwards to Camden Town so no problemo.
The illiteracy rate, or the wimpishness level, or the herd instinct , or all three in this country are truly remarkable.
YEE-hah! Not going there on Friday though.
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If other companies do the same as my employer the plan is to avoid London and some other areas/offices near Heathrow. Either work from home or go to different offices. So if other companies do this then I would expect there to be reduction in traffic.... and then after the games one wonders what the impact long term is... Some probably never needed to go into these offices anyway.
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M4 Olympic lanes start 0500 - 2200 Mon 16 Jul - rtj70
