Jennifer James examines the controversy surrounding the Olympic Games
The Insider is looking forward to the London 2012 Olympics; the Italian less so. He works in the pulsating hub of East London commerce that is Canning Town—an area so sketchy that UPS will not deliver there, but they will deliver to Basra. However, the reason why he is not thrilled about the start of the Games, is that in order to get to work in the sunny reaches of warehouseville he has to go through Stratford and he is expecting the next month or so to be sheer transport hell, as thousands of spectators clog up the trains, Tubes, DLR, buses, river boats and even (ye Gods) the Emirates Air Link/Cable Car which we have mutually agreed we are not going near until it has been “run in” for at least a month or two.
Road to hell
Olympic officials, athletes and staff are not (despite Transport for London’s humorous posters featuring City types unable to board a Tube due to two huge beefy weight-lifters) expected to be taking up space on public transport,
