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Originally Posted by Rob
I find nothing to excite me about the Olympics and indeed find that the whole thing is overhyped. In our area roads will be closed much of the weekend for a cycle race. Yet the cyclists will be through in less than a minute. Is that inconvenience justified? Roads are being dug up so that a few cyclists will spend less than a second traversing a junction, yet we suffer traffic congestion and diversions for a week. Many events that would normally be run over summer but are now cancelled because of closures, staff and security issues. We are lead to believe the Olympics is a benefit, but has anyone really considered the real costs of disruption to everyday activities?
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You think you have it bad. My office is next to an olympic venue. We've been told that there will be major disruption to the transport in the area for the whole duration of the Olympics and Paralympics. So, we are at risk of disruption for the whole of August and nearly half of September. Our campus is also part of the route for people entering or leaving the venue, so it will be handling up to 50,000 extra visitors a day.
Because of this, we are not allowed to accept deliveries during this time (which is normally when we do our major upgrades as students are not around). Because of a combination of this, and the fact that we have been told that we cannot be sure we'll be able to get in to work every day during that period, our boss has asked us to get as much of the work we normally do during the whole period of the summer holidays before the end of July.
On the plus side, if we manage it, there should be very little to do during the Olympics and Paralympics.