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Title: London Olympic Stadium .
Post by: Olympia5776 on 10 November 2012, 16:03:10
This is utterly incomprehensible . >:(
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/london-2012-olympic-stadium-stay-shut-four-four-114027038.html

Six years and £500 million to build ,used for four weeks and then shut down for another four years and another £300 million spent .
How on earth could the cretinous designers and architects not build a stadium in six years ,that with minor alterations if need be , be immediatly put back to public use after the Olympics. I mean , what can you use an Olympic Stadium for that will attract the numbers required to sustain it's viability  apart from football and athletics ? ( Formula 1 ? ..... Oh FFS  ! )
So by the end of 2016 ish... you'll have,  Eh lets see , Oh yeah, a ten year old  £ 800 million Olympic Stadium. ::)
Title: Re: London Olympic Stadium .
Post by: the alarming man on 10 November 2012, 19:16:46
i thought westham fc were moving in??... :y
Title: Re: London Olympic Stadium .
Post by: symes on 10 November 2012, 22:10:48
shame to leave the Boleyn :'( :'(
Title: Re: London Olympic Stadium .
Post by: albitz on 10 November 2012, 22:28:46
Having been there on more than one occasion I honestly cant see what needs altering or what they could possibly need to spend all that money on. Its a magnificent venue,and short of laying a load of astroturf in the middle for footballists to kick a pigs bladder around on,its a mystery to me as to what they need to do. :-\
Title: Re: London Olympic Stadium .
Post by: cleggy on 10 November 2012, 23:19:23
Who's money  ??? >:( >:(

Another white elephant like the dome, it will be given away for pennies for someone to profit >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: London Olympic Stadium .
Post by: Entwood on 10 November 2012, 23:35:07
Wasn't planning permission only granted on condition that the top x number of rows were removed after the games ??

If so then this was always going to be the case, so the present headlines are just spurious journalism ... yet again making a story out of nothing........and being believed ....  :(

Title: Re: London Olympic Stadium .
Post by: albitz on 10 November 2012, 23:44:17
The top x rows are above ground level,with the rest being below,so that may be the case.Even so,for it to take that amount of time and cost that amount of money still beggars belief.
Title: Re: London Olympic Stadium .
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 11 November 2012, 01:04:42
I'd have thought that the sensible thing to do would have been a stadium designed for multiuse right from the start....  ::) 

They could have been really innovative with things like a football pitch below ground level and the seating going right down to the pitchside to seat say 60,000.  Then at ground level they could have had another level that slides over the football pitch and much of the seating, that had the running track and athletics field and that could be used for many different sports and events like cricket, concerts etc  ::)

Sometimes I feel like a lonely little lightbulb shining away in the darkness...  :-\
Title: Re: London Olympic Stadium .
Post by: razzo on 11 November 2012, 17:09:23
I was at the aquatics centre last week & told it won't be open to the public until late 2014 or early 2015 & all the pools, training, diving, swimming & others are still kept up to temp. Must be costing us a fortune  >:(

(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa297/razzo_photo/NRCWk46-12Brownconstruction3.jpg)
Title: Re: London Olympic Stadium .
Post by: Olympia5776 on 11 November 2012, 20:35:18
As I said , utterly incomprehensible .
Title: Re: London Olympic Stadium .
Post by: omega3000 on 11 November 2012, 21:20:32
I was at the aquatics centre last week & told it won't be open to the public until late 2014 or early 2015 & all the pools, training, diving, swimming & others are still kept up to temp. Must be costing us a fortune  >:(

(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa297/razzo_photo/NRCWk46-12Brownconstruction3.jpg)

They keeping that quiet  ::)