Olympic Legacy

[jake-the-peg]

So the Olymics are claimed to have paid for themselves

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23370270

Well living outside of London I don't see much that's changed where I am.

Anybody have Olympic legacy where they are? and if you have are you in London?

Does this exist and has it perculated out of the capital?

[emmie]

i don't see it here at all, the legacy hasn't happened where sports facilities are concerned for children specifically.

[emmie]

as much as i enjoyed the Olympics, the Paralympics especially, i can't see that has changed anything, it's still hard for disabled people to get around town, try getting on many of the tube stations in a wheelchair, you can't, or need a good deal of help, the buses are a bit better, that is if the parents with prams haven't taken the spaces.

[missnemesis]

I'm not in London very often so I'm afraid I see nothing of the legacy of which they speak. I'm pretty sure a lot of Londoners don't either unfortunately.

[LazyGun]

Seems to me to be an extremely optimistic assessment of a positive economic benefit. Many of these large investment projects - such as the Battersea Power Station redevelopment would have gone ahead regardless of the Olympics.

The main benefit to us as a country has been the event itself, which was marvellous to watch and attend, and the feel good factor it engendered.

Cannot comment on extra people playing sport, but if true, thats good. And I have seen precious little evidence that they have been able to utilize that army of volunteers in any follow-on community projects, although that might be just because of where I live....

[tonyav]

Nope, nothing here.

[Octavius]

Did you ever think that they would say, 'bugger, we've made a loss'?

As said in the article - and I agree "it's impossible to know how much of the £9.9bn can be attributed directly to the Olympics. Much of it may have happened anyway."

[emmie]

we as some know i live here, and nope have seen precious little of this legacy.

[douglas9401]

Apparently all factories are working at full capacity and the workers have never been so well fed, patriotic or happy.

Long live the leader!!

Nick Clegg said......nothing of consequence.

Utter botox.

[Boto]

Noting here, but didn't expect any benefits to extend far from London.

[jno]

a lot more tube stations have disabled access to trains than previously - platforms were raised so they're the same level as the train floors. A tube map should show how common this now is. (Still a long way from 100% of course, btu definitely an improvment.)

That's an answer to em, not to jake. I can't comment on outside London. Do you still have the nice gold letter boxes?

[emmie]

jno, as i know the tube pretty well, the newer stations are the ones they have fitted in better access for disabled, some of the stations cannot be fitted with anything to help. Some of the stations also have a problem with lift access, one i know is having an upgrade, but that will take another year or more, and its not uncommon for lifts, escalators to be broken down.

[emmie]

on the day i went to the paralympics, one woman who was in a wheelchair asked for help from station guard, to be refused, there was no one to safely lift her and wheelchair down the stairs onto the platform, the stairs being the drawback. So she unsteadily got out the wheelchair propped up against me and the partner she was with and we got her down that way, not much change from what i have seen in large parts of the underground, and i try not to use it, has changed.

[ToraToraTora]

You just cant bear it can you, you and all the other whinning anti Olympics nayasyers were wrong, accept it, own up , move on. Why would you expect to see much in the way of changes in the outer Hebrides? It was called London 2012, the clue is in the name. It wasn't called Wigan 20120 or Hull 2012 was it? I for one was delighted when we got the Olymipics and was equally delighted when we amazed the world with our production of it.

[Gromit]

Non of the Olympuc legacy reached Manchester. In contrast to the 2002 Commonwealth Games when we gained a world class velodrome, the Coty of Manchester Stadium (home of Man City), Hockey and Swimming facilities.

A lot of the Olympic venues were temporary structures, and the Olympic Stafium was botched from start to finish.

[dave50]

There isn't one.

[Gromit]

Apologies for typos. Either me or iPad are too hot :-)

[Sqad]

Would one expect to see discernible changes in 12 months?

[jake-the-peg]

Well actually Tora - I was pretty ambivalent about the Olympics - not being in London I wasn't really affected by the traffic or temporary measures etc.

I'm just interested to see whether people in London or other parts of the country can see any of this Olymic legacy.

London was the main Focus but activities went on from Hampton Park to Weymouth

The Government plans for the legacy quote say:

//This is a plan produced by the UK Government. However the Games’ legacy is being driven across
the UK //

Last I checked Wigan was in the UK - although why you've picked that I've no idea.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78105/201210_Legacy_Publication.pdf

[ToraToraTora]

random, could just as easily have been Tiverton 2012!

[ichkeria]

I don't really know, but in any case "legacy" isn't something you necessarily spot in the street ... Unless it's the Olympic Park, for example, soon to be re-opened I believe...