So doing my usual browsing through news sites and reading this site along with hearing stories from friends etc...
To me it seems on one hand we have pretty much all of the infrastructure in place for the games...Heathrow aside as who knows what the queues will be like there!
But at the same time the ticket sales have been shambolic. Some friends bid for 30-40ks worth of tickets and got around 3ks worth and others got the 1st ones they bid for. Plus with all the sales in the foreign websites which was just first come first serve it has made getting tickets for the hosting country very difficult.
And now we are seeing that the security firm behind the Games will need to now use the army and as many as 3.5k extra troops are to be bought in. - Plus the training they have been providing was apparently inadequate and they were drafting in teenagers from Collages
So with all that in mind I just wanted to get a few opinions from you all as to whether you believe that the games will or will not be successful, will you be attending and did you manage to get tickets. I'll add some poll options.
Personally for me I will not be attending (watching from home) and I think London Transport will not be able to cope with it all.
To me it seems on one hand we have pretty much all of the infrastructure in place for the games...Heathrow aside as who knows what the queues will be like there!
But at the same time the ticket sales have been shambolic. Some friends bid for 30-40ks worth of tickets and got around 3ks worth and others got the 1st ones they bid for. Plus with all the sales in the foreign websites which was just first come first serve it has made getting tickets for the hosting country very difficult.
And now we are seeing that the security firm behind the Games will need to now use the army and as many as 3.5k extra troops are to be bought in. - Plus the training they have been providing was apparently inadequate and they were drafting in teenagers from Collages
So with all that in mind I just wanted to get a few opinions from you all as to whether you believe that the games will or will not be successful, will you be attending and did you manage to get tickets. I'll add some poll options.
Personally for me I will not be attending (watching from home) and I think London Transport will not be able to cope with it all.