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Originally Posted by martyh
Then i stand corrected .With an operation as large as the Olympics was i can't see how everybody could benefit but as the greater good i still say it was the right to do
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Originally Posted by Osem
Yes that was a problem but with such a major event I think things like that were always going to happen because things could so easily have ground to a halt and they had to err on the side of caution. In an effort to ensure London didn't grind to a halt, the authorities did such a good job of warning off potential ad-hoc visitors about congestion that quite a bit of trade was lost by taxi drivers, restaurants etc.
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Don't get me wrong, I understand why they did it, and I suspect, had they not done it, chaos would have ensued. Thankfully I don't work in the market or the shops, so I just got the benefit (assuming you could get in it, the market does excellent food and for those two weeks at least, there was no queues).