Olympic Lanes in London
Discussion
I have searched so if this has been done then apologies - blame the search engine.
Quick question : how are they going to enforce the usage of the Olympic Lanes? Erect loads of additional cameras / police? (both v expensive options with the later likely to cause chaos)
Do people think they will be able to be generally used as a filtering lane for motorcyclists?
Quick question : how are they going to enforce the usage of the Olympic Lanes? Erect loads of additional cameras / police? (both v expensive options with the later likely to cause chaos)
Do people think they will be able to be generally used as a filtering lane for motorcyclists?
fulham911club said:
I have searched so if this has been done then apologies - blame the search engine.
Quick question : how are they going to enforce the usage of the Olympic Lanes? Erect loads of additional cameras / police? (both v expensive options with the later likely to cause chaos)
Do people think they will be able to be generally used as a filtering lane for motorcyclists?
No, no-one can use them during their hours of operation except those vehicles permitted.Quick question : how are they going to enforce the usage of the Olympic Lanes? Erect loads of additional cameras / police? (both v expensive options with the later likely to cause chaos)
Do people think they will be able to be generally used as a filtering lane for motorcyclists?
As far as I understand it, they'll be monitored and enforced by CCTV, police and others which I assume includes local parking enforcement officers.
I would imagine there are quite enough existing cameras to cover them and you can be sure that TFL will be vigilant against us minions using them. The one that goes from Embankment to Limehouse is going to be a scream once they're in use.
Edited by StoatInACoat on Wednesday 4th July 13:50
Oh and good mate of mine is to be an aide to the Belgium team as he's originally from there. He will be using the Olympic lanes and has strict instructions to keep to them and the prescribed route dictated by the on board sat-nav.
He's been warned that even if he is stuck in traffic and knows a short cut, not to take it. Apparently, any official Olympic vehicle that leaves its route - the vehicles are all chipped - will be regarded as possibly hijacked!
He's been warned that even if he is stuck in traffic and knows a short cut, not to take it. Apparently, any official Olympic vehicle that leaves its route - the vehicles are all chipped - will be regarded as possibly hijacked!
ewenm said:
CampDavid said:
How to get about during the games? Try walking. Thanks for that.
There won't be any choice - roads will be gridlocked and the Tube drivers will be on strike as Comrade Crow will have told them they "deserve" quadruple pay and TOIL.vit4 said:
I'm going to be cycling in; don't see any other way to be honest.
Ditt; I'm quite looking forward to it, though, laughably, the TfL website seems to think that cyclists won't want to use the Olympic lanes that aren't right next to the kerb. They really need to look at the faster cyclists - we use any available lane. The Mail (who else?) ran a scare story about cyclists being fines £200 for using the lanes, but thankfully that appears to be a load of bold ollocks.Gruber said:
It seems far more likely that the ORN lanes will be taken over by cyclists, immune from enforcement.
It would make some sense for them to be allowed to be used by cyclists, given that cycling is being encouraged to reduce the burden on public transport and considering that the other lanes are likely to be gridlocked. But I would think they would be fairly heavily enforced other than just by cameras.will_ said:
Probably, many don't seem to have any concerns in using the mandatory cycle lanes, so I doubt they'd give a damn about the Olympic lanes either.
It's not mandated that you have to travel in cycle lanes, just that other traffic are prevented from using them.Other than buses, of course. Which is one of the reasons that cyclists tent to use other lanes, 'cos when a big, red, badly-driven (yes, all of them) box stops right in front of you, you're going nowhere
will_ said:
It would make some sense for them to be allowed to be used by cyclists...
With the greatest of respect - not really. It would completely defeat the object of the exercise - i.e. to get officials and athletes through the city as quickly as possible. The IOC has set pretty demanding criteria about the time taken for officials to get from their digs (mostly around Park Lane) to the Olympic Park - hence the dedicated lanes. Official vehicles being held up by a gaggle of cyclists doing 15-20mph won't enable LOCOG to keep its pledges to the IOC.
longblackcoat said:
It's not mandated that you have to travel in cycle lanes, just that other traffic are prevented from using them.
Other than buses, of course. Which is one of the reasons that cyclists tent to use other lanes, 'cos when a big, red, badly-driven (yes, all of them) box stops right in front of you, you're going nowhere
Really? Pavement seems to be the usual route.Other than buses, of course. Which is one of the reasons that cyclists tent to use other lanes, 'cos when a big, red, badly-driven (yes, all of them) box stops right in front of you, you're going nowhere
Ps. This and my previous post aren't meant to troll, it's just what I see every day riding in town.
Gruber said:
will_ said:
It would make some sense for them to be allowed to be used by cyclists...
With the greatest of respect - not really. It would completely defeat the object of the exercise - i.e. to get officials and athletes through the city as quickly as possible. The IOC has set pretty demanding criteria about the time taken for officials to get from their digs (mostly around Park Lane) to the Olympic Park - hence the dedicated lanes. Official vehicles being held up by a gaggle of cyclists doing 15-20mph won't enable LOCOG to keep its pledges to the IOC.
TfL have already been very helpful and asked whether I could consider using a station other than Euston.
You know what, TfL? I can't. That's where my train comes in, so unless you can helpfully stop it half a mile from Euston, or build another mainline station that my train can come into, the answer is no, I can't do that.
So I'll travel around London the best I can; if that means using the Olympic lanes, so be it. I wish I could say otherwise, but I couldn't give a monkey's about LOCOG or their pledges, or the fact that a bunch of athletes have all decided that they'd like to stay in Park Lane rather than, ooh, I dunno, somewhere a bit closer to the stadium. I love the idea of the Olympics, but the reality appears to be a massive freeloading machine, with even the smallest team having many times more officials than athletes, all of whom will be ferried around in any number of chauffeur-driven BMWs
Edited by longblackcoat on Wednesday 4th July 15:27
Gruber said:
will_ said:
It would make some sense for them to be allowed to be used by cyclists...
With the greatest of respect - not really. ...Some b
ks he just made up..."Arrangements will be made to allow cyclists to travel in most of the nearside Games Lanes."
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