Weymouth Esplanade Closed for the Olympics (if you live here)
Plans have been revealed to close the Weymouth esplanade from 10am to 10pm each day during the Olympics unless you are the holder of a so called ‘golden ticket’ allowing access, enforced by ‘hard checkpoints’ (Baghdad anyone?). Since the announcement of Weymouth being an olympic host there was always rumors that something like this would happen and this report by the daily echo confirms yet more chaos will be caused by the Olympics, other measure include:
-no parking infront of weymouth train station
-Swannery car park to be a ‘transport hub’
-Park street to be ‘accessibility hub’ with 60 disabled spaces
-‘golden tickets’ to be handed out to seafront hotel owners, their guests and no doubt anyone competing in the Olympics or connected to it
-official volunteers to escort the estimated 60,000 visitors per day along the ‘last mile’ from the station/transport hub to the seafront and nothe gardens spectating areas.
Did anyone tell them we are hosting just the sailing? I seem to remember the test events passing without any real impact of the town, and that was which half the roundabouts were being dug up to put in our ‘intelligent’ traffic lights
Posted: November 25th, 2011 under Uncategorized.
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