Things that make you go hmmm…

Yesterday (3^rd August) the transport minister said that Londoners should walk or cycle to work during the 2012 London Olympics to ease congestion on London Transport.  This made me laugh out loud and spew my cereal over the table!! 

The Transport Minister and the Mayor should come with me on my daily commute on the lovely Victoria and District lines and see how feasible that suggestion really is.  Could it be that the penny has finally dropped, and the powers that be realise London Underground can barely cope with the hundreds and thousands of Londoners commuting to work on a daily basis without the addition of millions of tourists coming to town for the Olympics?  Not a day goes by that there isn’t some form of delay or overrunning engineering works on any one of the 12 LU lines.  And let’s not forget the stopping in tunnels and on platforms to regulate the service coupled with the overcrowding. 

Since we won the Olympic bid back in 2005, a lot of time, effort and money has gone into regenerating East London and the building the Olympic Park, but only a cosmetic upgrade has been slowly taken place on the London Transport Network which really should have been at the forefront of the whole operation.  How else do they expect all the people coming to the city to get around?

The fact that many Londoners and UK residents (me included) missed out Olympic tickets only adds to the farce that this is descending into.  And the latest titbit of advice from the Transport Minster is a joke worthy of any comedian on 8 out of 10 cats.

Hmmm indeed!!