According to the Daily Mail ambulances wont be allowed use the VIP lanes.
Just discovered this, according to dispatches, if you’ve got enough money, you can use the Olympic lanes all you want. Typical.
http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/dispatches-reveals-olympic-lanes-for-sale
question : have you seen how much they are fining people for “straying” into the olympic lanes?(go on…google it…u know u want to lol) …and people are planning to do this deliberately? without a care in the world? and in blissfull ignorance to the fact that the councils wont fook about and will have a letter on your doorstep demanding reddy’s before you get home from the protest?
hmmmmmmm loool
don’t give a rats ass about the games…well…not true…i like the winter olympics with the bob sleds…ski long jump…ski downhill ect…but this sh1t we’ve organised?..naaaa…keep it…
like whats her chops said…soons as we’ve fallen flat on our asses nobody will care…
god i love being me sometimes…
smiled.
^^^ I agree shane…if given the choice…a)keep the extra council tax I as a londoner have had to pay for it… or b) have the olympics here with its dedicated driving lanes(soon to become toll roads…watch this space lol )
I would keep the money…oh but hang on…we werent given a blasted choice in the first place lol
I am no scrooge but we are being screwged lol
This thread reminds me a bit of Viz Comic and Farmer Palmer: "Get orrfff moy laand!” “Get those Olympics orrfff moy London!” 
I’m really looking forward to the Olympics and hope to see an event. I think it’ll be a positive move for London, despite the issues with the Olympic lanes. Protesting over the few weeks of the games won’t actually solve anything - if people are concerned about lanes, there have to be better tactics to resolve the problems.
The Olympic games have been around since700 BC, they happen every 4 years and as they have moved out of Olympia, some country has to host them. So why not us? The Olympic Games themselves, the Para Olympics and the winter Olympics aren’t just about elitism, if you look at the athletes, most don’t come from wealthy, over privileged backgrounds. They are also about dreams and inspiration - that ordinary kids with sporting talent can think well that could be me too (and it makes a change from aspiring to be a Premier league footballer for one 
).
The Olympic Village is going to be converted into housing following the games – which means thousands of extra homes, it’s a boost for the economy of the area, plus there’ll be a lot of (albeit temporary) new jobs during the games, which has got to be a good thing during a recession. We’ll also have loads of tourists – which will mean crowds, but those people willalso be shopping, visiting the sights, renting out Londoners’ homes and spending their money in the capital.
And there are the improvements to transport, which is a long term benefit.
At least this thread has made me think about re reading my back copies of Viz:D
Decided to skip the entire show and have just got through my tickets to leave the Uk on 18th July and return 14th aug !!
Seemed the best option!
I assume you feel the same about speed cameras?
Yet there was a story awhile back about a speed camera set up on a piece of motorway, it was an average speed camera, they had so many people break the speed limit that they couldn’t fine them all, the sheer numbers of offenders overwhelmed their system.
Plus, you have a legitimate human right to express yourself which can take the form of peaceful protest, under the Human Rights Act it is unlawful for any public body to act in contravention of those rights, entering the lanes for the sake of travel is one thing, entering them for the sake of protest is completely different. Any attempt to fine people would result in cases of human rights violations, that could go on for years and go all the way to the European Court of Human Rights, current wait time for an ordinary case would be between 4 and 6 years, as you have to pass through the entire British Legal system first.
People are very defeatist and look for excuses not to do something rather than using the power of large groups of people to take action. Which was the point of this thread in the first place and which has been born out time and time again with the posts in it.
Your reply has no bearing on what the complaint is.
I take it from your positive and optimistic outlook that you won decent tickets? Got one of the main ceremonies in there, or some track or field or equestrian or swimming? Looking forward to seeing it?
I was looking forward to the olympics. I submitted thousands of pounds worth of requests for tickets (family of five) to have a decent chance of “winning” the right to pay huge amounts of money for them. Out of all of those, I only won one set - for Greco-Roman Wrestling.
I then spoke to a friend in Poland who bought tickets for the games. She chose the events she wanted to go to (including the opening and closing ceremonies), paid for her tickets and that was it. No crazy lottery, no having to bid huge amounts of money (without knowing how much of it would actually end up on a credit card and need to be financed for months on end before even knowing what you have!) and no danger that you’d only end up with the tickets you least want.
If it was the case that everyone around the world had been screwed as I had, I could live with it. The knowledge that I could have simply bought the tickets in a foreign country (for the same prices) and not got fucked over is truly galling.
I was very pro the games. Right now, I couldn’t give a damn.
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Then why is it that the uk has spunked all this money on the olympics just to be bigger and better than the last? when really the money would be better spent eleswhere say the NHS?
And am sure i read somewhere that some big company had already bought up the olympic village? and it may be extra housing…YEAH with rents so friggin high that only more poxy immigrants can move into them and get the local council to pay their housing benefit…Me personally think its all crap and a huge waste of money…but hey thats my opinion and yep i am entitled to one.
Your complaint has no plan of action, strategy or methodology - it’s just a statement - so I doubt it will come to anything - it does not seem to have caught on more widely than LB to date.
It was not meant as a plan of action.
I’m not really interested in it to be honest: the Olympics.
Wasn’t interested in that Millennium thing either as all it meant to me at the time was working on a deeply understaffed ward during a lateshift in a busy ITU/HDU so managers could drink tea with cakes on an overstaffed night shift. All I can remember was the pain and exhaustion after the shift, I couldn’t ever get off me bike when I got home I was that shattered.
So my commiserations during the Olympics are to all the poorsods whoever they are who end up suffering hardships so a few rich gits get richer flogging this event. My only complaint is I suppose is knowing now that none of this was really for the everyday person who will be excluded, they should have charged triple the prices or more and then used the money for local schools sports and the like.
I wouldn’t advise protesting anywhere near the place as I can just see you getting jailed without charge for being a terrorist or some **** like that.
I would love to say yes to this for the wasting money reason but there is one Big Big issue for me and im not sure if anyone else has bought it up yet - DO you know the kind of dedication it takes to become one of these athletes, what they sacrifice and have to go though??
There not millionaires in fact most of them have day jobs and so they have to train around there work, for this reason and this reason only i would not want to see the games interfered with. Imagine working for 4 years of your life towards one goal then not making it there beacuse of some bikers who are pissed off over how much money there goverment spent!! I cannot do that to someone who has worked so hard to achieve a goal or dream!!
It isn’t about what was spent Rixxy, and it isn’t about stopping the Athletes.
It is about using the lanes for sponsors and dignitaries, and apparently the rich who can buy access to them, not those that make the games happen, not the officials or the athletes.
If the sponsors and dignitaries don’t make it to the games…the games will be just fine without them.
Let them take their chances in the traffic and on public transport like everyone else.
One thing that ive always thought, is that we put in bids upon bids to get the football World Cup held here in London, and that gets the backing of nearly everyone!.. id imagine the sort of travel “chaos” were going to see with the Olympics would be similuar to that of the World Cup being held?!
I don’t really care about the tickets but I still think we should protest about the Zil lanes. They are an affront to the British people becuase the roads belong to us all and we should all have equal access to them.
As others have said, they are not primariliy for atheltes who are housed in the Olympic village close to the venues but are for officials, sponsors and the so called Olypic family - this includes bloated and corrupt figures such as Seb Blatter of FIFA.
Blocking them would be a suitable symbolic protest at the self-aggrandisement of these pompous prats.
I do not watch or get involved in any sports that involve shiney shorts or/and communal showers or vaseline .
The blatant way in which the government is pushing aside everyday londoners is wrong. Even the trains are having a special time table written for them so that they cater more for the traveling olympic guests than London workers… of which the trains are already over crowded with!
I love there new campaign of have a beer after work to help in easing travel congestion! They gonna pick up the tab?