For Those Of You So Inclined

[Ken4155]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/bbc-to-live-stream-queens-lying-in-state-when-and-how-you-can-watch-it/ar-AA11Oja9

[jno]

virtual respects, that's my kind of respect. They've been talking about five-mile queues. Mourners might have been better off going to Edinburgh, where I believe they were only one mile.

Hang on, Bermondsey? That's downriver, not up.

[naomi24]

They do seem to have their ups and downs in a pickle but they're talking about Lambeth too. Queues from all directions.

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[jno]

I don't think they can afford to have lots of queues, naomi, the police will have enough trouble looking after just one. I can see them having to harmonise them all somehow.

[naomi24]

With a queue of that length I can't see how it can work if they don't have queues merging at a central point, jno. Say, for example, you're coming from west London. Where do you go to join the end of the queue? How would you know where the end is? Bermondsey's a long walk from west London - and by the time you get there the queue might have stretched to Rotherhithe. It must be a logistical nightmare.

[Ken4155]

They've had a good few days to work it out, Naomi. Providing there aren't too many attempting to 'queue jump' things should run smoothly-ish.

[naomi24]

I'm sure they have worked it out, Ken, but with people coming from every direction I still don't know how it will work in practice.

[jno]

the head of a queue is at the end point, so all the organisers have to do is decide in advance where they want the queue to go and direct people to the current tail end, just as they do in Disneyland. It shouldn't matter whether you arrive from Polperro or Norwich, but it's important that the current tail end be publicised so they know where to go.

They've been planning this London Bridge Is Down thing for years. I'd be surprised if the planning included "Oh, just let people queue anywhere they feel like."

[roadman]

they should compensate us about forty three pence because i pay my tv licence and they should not be financially benefiting from live streaming our dearly departed queen on that day