I’m trying not to become a GB (Games Bore) but this I could not resist. London Olympians are being treated to ‘Olympic Lanes’ – dedicated traffic lanes only officials and athletes can use when driving to and from events.
Like it isn’t hard enough to get round the Capital anyway! However the chaps and chapesses that have come up with this amazing logistical solution seem to have cut a few corners:
As usual the Daily Mail picked this little tidbit up pretty quick.
Where the hell is the average driver going to go (the lane for normal traffic is the bit in the middle)? Down the left? Can’t its a Bus Lane (£130 fine). Down the right? Can’t – will crash into oncoming traffic. Down the centre lane? Can’t its the Olympic Lane – £130 fine.
But its okay – what you do is just keep driving and as you reach the point at which the two dashed lines converge you are transported via a portal to your destination. Apparently.
Its quite fun – up until a week ago all preparations for the Games have gone according to plan and the media has been quite disappointed – no disasters, no cock-ups. But now with a week to go the security firm has admitted its security staff don’t exist and chaos is building on the roads.
Bring it on!
As usual, a very funny image! Doubt you’ll be spending much time with the tourists in London the next couple of weeks.
We had to endure this, too, during the Summer Olympics in Atlanta in 1996…and someone failed to mention that it gets to be around 100 degrees F here in the summer..OOPS! The best part of hosting the Olympics is all of the neat “stuff” that is left behind like our Dancing Water fountain, and the new baseball stadium that was built, etc.
We may well be getting a little heatwave now after months of rain. Good timing! The pave where the Olympic Park is used to be a massive wasteland – go 100m outside the Park and it still is!
That’s funny. I am sure traffic will be an even greater during the Olympics. However, hopefully, the excitement of the event will overcome the challenges.
Well lets hope so. Tomorrow the road which my office is on is closed for the torch relay – happy days!
Do you get the day off or are they flying you in?
No we’ll all have to sit in a jam for a couple of hours then give up, turn round and work from home!
Well, that sounds productive.
London has perfected transportation technology?! When will this be available in the US, I wonder…
God if only London had perfected it! We are now in the midst of closed roads and who knows what for two and a half weeks!
The Games will be great – but good to see all these bloated tossers being brought down a peg or two as well
Like the ENglish cricket team who today proved that they undoubtedly are not the best team in the world
Regardless of the obvious inconveniences I will bet that London will be a great host to the Olympics. Enjoy the world being in your home!
You know sometimes it feels like the world is already here!
Perhaps the new skinny lane is for Londons own Kate Moss! Rumoured to be making a catwalk appearance at the closing ceremony!
She’ll go well with the Morris Dancers and the Field of Sheep at the opening ceremony
Those car lanes are hysterical! Of the two, maybe it’s easier to pass as an Olympian. I would claim to be a coach or someone equally as associated with the Olympics without the onus of actually being fit!
Glad I don’t live there. It’s going to be chaotic for the workers.
I can’t imagine what traffic will be like downtown…
Ah you see its so bad alredy in London it wont feel any worse – like when they say in the Arctic it -40 but yesterday it was -50 – who cares its still mind numbingly cold!
That’s true – it’s pretty bad in London – especially for those of us who would routinely look in the wrong direction
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I love the warnings printed on the road eg ‘Look Right’. Not very helpful for someone like me who doesn’t know his left from his right…
Me too!! I never get those correctly…much to my husband’s delight, for it provides much fodder for his teasing..
Hahaha.. There’s always chaos and then it seems to go off without a hitch. This is hilarious!!
Fingers Crossed!
Maybe that “lane” is for Olympic wannabes.
I think if you go really really fast, your car gets thinner & you could drive down the white line between the bus lane & Olympic lane. I think it’ll work because I once saw that happen in a cartoon so it must be true.
Yes its like a black hole! What a great bit of thinking! Maybe the whole thing will get sucked into a singularity
Like Harry Potter’s Night Bus!
Or the invisible platform at King’s Cross Station
Yes, I keep bonking my head on that one
I have to admit that, other than the impending feeling of doom over the traffic, I’m starting to get pretty excited!
I know – I promised I wouldn’t are but I can’t help it!
well, there has to be one way for the city to get their investments into stadiums and ‘gifts’ to IOC exec members back
Good luck and all the best to your patience during the next weeks!
Yes thanks – think I will stay on the fringes in South London!