London 2012 Olympics

Oh, and I feature in part of it as does my american wife.

What's your British wife up to?

Yet more ridiculousness. Trains are not going to stop at Stratford because it's too hot.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/24/too-hot-trains-olympic-stadium?CMP=twt_gu

Why does heat prevent stopping at a certain station?

I can comprehend leaves on tracks resulting in skidding and requiring slower speeds, thus resulting in compounded delays on a journey.

But heat? And heat affecting one station and no others?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/sports/olympics/olympics-leave-british-complaining-even-more-than-usual.html

well, I can imagine that over miles of metal track, high temperatures cause fairly significant expansion, but they should really be designed to account for that. trains run in spain and other hot hot countries. perhaps the design allows for a certain amount of expansion and above 30c causes problems, but why it should just happen to be Stratford, seems a bit suspect...

Yeah, that's the weird bit. Just Stratford? Someone's having a laugh.

they don't want their nice trains flooded with forruns do they

the west end is bliss

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london-2012-olympics-thousands-stranded-in-stratford-by-crippled-tube-7972469.html

That's a bit unfortunate for those people, but kind of predictable. I vaguely remember a similar thing happened at the opening night of the Dome (and didn't one of the ministers, Prescott probably, remark that it amused him seeing all the 'toffs' stuck there )?

They've spent all this money, but as far as I can tell, none of it has gone into transporting people.

and that was only 40,000 odd people
once the games are in full swing there'll probably be triple if not more people on the olympic site

it really is gonna be grid lock round stratford isn't it

they deserve it

don't remember the opening night of the dome but do remember the transport carnage when they used to hold 'super clubs' at NYE - thousands of people stranded in north greenwich with no way home apart from buses and taxis, at 3 in the morning, in january....

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london-2012-olympics-thousands-stranded-in-stratford-by-crippled-tube-7972469.html

Fucking amazing how they manage to have railways in Italy and India the south of France and other places with regular 30+ degree heat without having their rails buckle isn't it?

moreso, we had hotter and I don't recall such problem occuring during those years.

Fucking amazing how they manage to have railways in Italy and India the south of France and other places with regular 30+ degree heat without having their rails buckle isn't it?

It's all to do with the temp difference.

"Why British rails buckle in heat"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2003/aug/06/weather.transportintheuk

Try to avoid doing anything that might end you up in hospital in the near future; Olympics and heatwave is beginning to turn the screws on A&Es.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEDFMKjhLRw

Heheheheh

"Pepsi-drinking, Nike-wearing, MasterCard-using customers to receive 30% off as part of anti-Olympics Oddbins campaign"

http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2012/07/24/pepsi-drinking-nike-wearing-mastercard-using-customers-receive-30-oddbins

I need to travel back to London tomorrow :(

Was rather hoping I could sit this one out.

It's all to do with the temp difference.

"Why British rails buckle in heat"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2003/aug/06/weather.transportintheuk

I was rather hoping that the article would simply state "because they are shit"

I'm boycotting the Graun so will continue to assume they are of inferior metallurgical qualities whilst blaming forruns in equal measure.

none of this is good enough.

ftfy

My forum name is Peter Carter

Go and watch A Matter of Life and Death by Powell and Pressburger and you will understand the reference.

If I really was Peter Carter, then I would by now be dead again and my wife would have been called June.

You're Portuguese right? Just checkin...

Who da fuck r u?