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Olympics; even taxis will have to be delivered at night

Published: 08 June 2012 10:55 AM

Black cabs will have to be delivered at night during the Olympics to avoid the congestion caused when the Olympic Route Network is closed to traffic.

Acumen delivers cabs from LTI Vehicles in Coventry to its London dealership in Brewery Road in Islington, which is on the border of the ORN.

Acumen director Peter Raybould said: “With access and delivery times restricted along the ORN and surrounding areas, it was necessary to work with LTI Vehicles to change to night time deliveries. We have briefed our drivers that they should plan ahead so that they minimise the noise they make so as to avoid disturbing local residents”.

Acumen said drivers would abide by Transport for London’s code of conduct for firms which requires drivers to turn off reversing alarms and radios, shut doors quietly and avoid shouting or whistling.

The code will apply when the ORN comes into force on the 25th July until the end of the games on the 14th September.

Source; http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Article ... night.html

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Bloody olympics..that damned torch relay is clogging up towns and villages the length and breadth of britain. even out here in the sticks theres No parking allowed anywhere in the villages, bugger knows where the locals will put their cars, nor the visitors who might be daft enough to want to see the torch, where do they park? In one local village the police even asked the local shop keeper if he'd mind closing the shop for a few hours to make security easier...crazy.

Its so commercialised its nauseating, its not like a single torch being relayed over every inch of the route, it's 8000 torches being carried only a few yards through any given town by a select group of runners....the rest of the time its ferried between towns by a fleet of four buses all sponsored by Coke.

stuff them...we'd be better off without this carry on.

Well said. The whole bloody thing is one almighty pain in the arse.


It's here next week BTW

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It just lost it's magic to me when I found that out, it's more like a 'pass the flame' than a torch relay

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Just think how much money it would have saved if they had just made the one torch. Mind you they were probably making a profit on them before they went on ebay.

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Grandad,

But the original flame has come all the way from Olympia in Greece and never goes out.

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Just think how many jobs would have been lost if they had only made one torch and not the 8,000 or so that they did make.

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Do you think that the company that made them took on extra staff just for this job or that by having this job, some staff were saved from redundancy?

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Grandad,

It's not just the making of the torches is it.

It's all the others stuff too.

Perhaps I should have written, 'just think of the extra work and jobs that have been created'.

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such as?

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Grandad,

Amended post above.

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How many permanent jobs do you think the Olympics will have created?

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Grandad,

How long do you class employment in a job before you regard it as permanent?

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Zilch!!!

If you class 50 years as permanent employment then you're probably right.

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