Olympic Games Lanes

So it seems cyclists and taxi drivers will be reading from the same hymn book for once:
http://lydall.standard.co.uk/2011/06/cyclists-face-200-fine-for-using-olympics-games-lanes.html

My advice would be, make sure you don't have any ID on you if you ride in one of these ridiculous Olympic Games Lanes

https://www.lfgss.com/post2223308-363.html

I'm guessing this may get changed, for the greenest of Olympics.

Catch me first. I'll be taking my pursuit bike off the wall before the Olympics.

get your false addresses and fake date of births ready
maybe we should all use the same one
b. johnson
bojo's house
nr tower bridge
london

critical mass style slow ride protest anyone?...

1.mocker

critical mass style slow ride
protest anyone?...

1. mocker
   
2. conker (unless anyone in a serious looking uniform turns up, at which point I will scarper!)
   

Jim Walker, chairman of the London 2012 active travel advisory group

I read as far as that and then I lolled. remember vaguely a crap sitcom aimed at taking the piss from all the daftness in organising the games with daft department titles, but for the most part thought it was exageratted.
But honestly a *London 2012 active travel advisory group *WTF?you better not be spending my tax dollargh on that shit.

Ride round in Team GB replica kit during the olympics to avoid the fines?

^ given that in the real world most folks default to car is king thinking, an active travel advisory group is entirely necessary, albeit unfortunately ridiculous at the same time.

^ And in this case it appears that this is exactly the kind of thinking that ATAG is encouraging. Ordinary people who couldn't get tickets to the olympics trying to get on with their lives? Pffff, we've got a collection of guest list chancers from all over the world to prioritise the limos of! I bet Addy Lee get the contract.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Martial-Arts-Ninja-Ninjustu-Tashibi-Caltrops-10-Pack-/320696678364?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aab02f7dc

^
Can someone buy them for me? I'd like to solve the parking problem on my street where some wankers who don't even live here leave their cars during the day to avoid paying for residents parking.

^^ love the description:

...Picture #2 shows the size of the item compared to a U.S. Quarter (not included).

I know our US cousins are a litigeous lot, but bring a law suit for a missing quarter?

also - not that I'm recommending these or anything - these are much better value, even if only a few finish point-up:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/20-Office-Indicator-Map-Pins-20mm-Assorted-Colours-/170656798489?pt=UK_BOI_Office_Office_Supplies_Stationery_ET&hash=item27bbf01719

Why do they need this express way? Lots of important people travel through london everyday and they don't demand this. Actually they probably do.

And it's not for althletes right? the olympic village is near the main venues. Who will be using it?

I like Mocker's idea. I'd had the same thought. We couldn't organise it in public though, for obvious reasons, but realistically they wouldn't be able to deal with a mass show of public disobedience.

The Standard on Thursday came out with an editorial against it, by the way.

As I didn't get any Olympic tickets, I shall be cycling in the opposite direction to the leafy Surrey countryside to watch the road race, for free.

critical mass style slow ride
protest anyone?...

1. mocker
   
2. conker (unless anyone in a serious looking uniform turns up, at which point I will scarper!)
   
3. Beanpie
   

Why do they need this express way? Lots of important people travel through london everyday and they don't demand this. Actually they probably do.

And it's not for althletes right? the olympic village is near the main venues. Who will be using it?

One of the comments on the article mentioned it will be almost solely used by the major sponsors' corporate guests.

knew I should have got that GB team skinsuit Kingcutter was selling.

I read as far as that and then I lolled. remember vaguely a crap sitcom aimed at taking the piss from all the daftness in organising the games with daft department titles, but for the most part thought it was exageratted.
But honestly a *London 2012 active travel advisory group *WTF?you better not be spending my tax dollargh on that shit.

Jim's a good guy and ATAG did some very good work, but unfortunately the scope of getting the Olympics to actually be sincere about modal shift was always going to be severely limited.

^ given that in the real world most folks default to car is king thinking, an active travel advisory group is entirely necessary, albeit unfortunately ridiculous at the same time.

I'm not sure why it's ridiculous--it's obviously jargon for 'cycling and walking', and some people may find that funny, but that's just the way it goes. No-one in a transport environment would bat an eyelid at the name. I have to say, though, that I probably would have preferred 'Olympic Cycling and Walking Group' or something like that, but then I only went to two or three meetings. The people who did most of the work deserve credit.

^ suggests that "motor vehicle is king" thinking is so deeply embedded that walking and cycling thinking still needs to be packaged up separately, even after many years investment (scale of which aside). Slow progress indeed, and much more work to be done to shift thinking.

Reactions like that of Brickman highlight that some members of public feel such advisory groups are open to ridicule, as if perhaps a creation of Chris Morris and comedy friends.

Bikes are banned from the Olympic park and the nearest borisbike station will be 20mph, plus Newham has refused to allow the cycle superhighway to enter the borough.

I have adopted the position of 'meh'

I was prepared to pay £1200 for track tickets.

I'm going to use that instead to buy "Olympic Lane time".

Ealing to Stratford TT

Problem solved. Just cut this out and affix to your bike