call me unpatriotic,call me a sour puss etc....i dont care.
why should it take the olympic games coming to london for the government and local authorities to make a desparately needed overhaul of the tube system,the railway network etc....
why should it take the olympics coming to london for the government and local authorities to build new sporting centres and arenas,to encourage our children to take up sporting past times and lead a more healthy,active life.
this government has ripped us off left,right and centre with its taxation policies....all these things should be here already,payed for with our hard earned dosh!!!
our railway network is an absolute joke....tracks are crumbling away,trains are forever being delayed etc...ticket prices are a scandal and alot of trains are over crowded.
only the other morning,i heard on the radio that its being suggested that londons underground network should be closed down for a total of 10 years while urgent repairs and rebuilding etc is carried out.now you can read into that what you want but i say,how long before there is a major accident with alot of fatalities under the streets of london???
as for the roads in and around london....
the m25 and the north circular can at best be described as shite!!!
i`m afraid that the only people this is going to benefit are the future labour government and the labour backed mayor of london that will no doubt be in power when the olympic cicus arrives in town.
congestion charges have just gone up by 60%,labour are proposing a pay as you drive scheme and have put aside i believe 18 million pounds for some local authorities to trial it already!!!i wonder if it will be brought in properly after the olympics have gone???
one other thing,good old red ken has said that the olympic village will be used as housing after the athletes have buggered off....i wonder how many eastern european immigrants and assylum seekers have been earmarked to live there???