Olympic Organizers, Sponsors Demand 3,000 Chauffeur-Driven Cars For "Green" Games - Times Of London

[hatrack]

London’s ambition to hold the first car-free Olympics in 2012 is being undermined by the International Olympic Committee’s demand for more than 3,000 chauffeur-driven cars for dignitaries, officials and corporate sponsors.

These cars will have access to a network of dedicated lanes, which will be closed to other traffic for up to two months. Up to 3,000 sets of traffic lights will also be adjusted to ensure that the IOC’s fleet has fast access to all venues.

Those whom the IOC insists need cars, in addition to receiving free access to public transport, include the 110 IOC members, 400 presidents and secretary-generals from the Olympic committees of the 200 competing nations and 450 senior executives from corporate sponsors. None of the 10,500 athletes will have access to the 3,145 cars and will instead travel on a dedicated fleet of coaches.

The eight million spectators will not be able to travel by car because the Games venues will have only a small number of disabled parking spaces. The London 2012 Organising Committee confirmed that the coach service would operate every few minutes between the hotels where the VIPs were staying and the venues but that it would be powerless to make them use it.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/london_2012/article3492521.ece

[GliderGuider]

1. A shining illustration of "Why the collapse of civilization is unavoidable."

:banghead:

Actually, why not give them 3,000 rickshaws, each one pulled by an athlete in training?

[DS1]

2. It's long past the time the Olympics was ditched

2000 years (give or take) was a good run. Fuck it. It's all ego-stroking for the profiteers.

[Nihil]

3. One more "I told you so" to chalk up.

> Those whom the IOC insists need cars, in addition to receiving free access
> to public transport, include the 110 IOC members, 400 presidents and
> secretary-generals from the Olympic committees of the 200 competing nations
> and 450 senior executives from corporate sponsors.

Get off your fat arses you lazy gluttonous parasites!
400 presidents and secretary-generals from the Olympic committees?
450 "senior executives" from corporate fucking sponsors?!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

This is why many of us were opposed to London "winning" the games ... :grr: