A couple of small items relating to London 2012, and the use of Greenwich Park.
- Members of local amenity societies met with representatives from London 2012 on Wednesday night at Blackheath Halls. What occurred inside the meeting is a bit of a mystery as this was a strictly members only event, with local journalist, Darryl from 853, being barred from entering at the door.
- NOGOE (who have a shiny new website), have announced that they will be forming a “ring around the park” on Sunday 11th October at 3pm. They are inviting people to go along and take part in the event to show support for their cause.
- NOGOE have posted a video showing comedian Arthur Smith, who was brought up in Greenwich, having his say about the plans to hold the equestrian events in Greenwich Park.
LOCOG have now (belatedly) confirmed the full park closure has now been cut to four weeks:
http://853blog.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/greenwich-park-2012-closure-cut-to-four-weeks/
I don’t know why people are still being taken in by this.
Any fule can see that you can’t build the stadium, cut-out-and-fill the cross-country course “footing” AND hold the Olympics all within four weeks.
There are going to be part-closures of the Park, comprising large areas of the Park that will be for nearly all practical purposes FULL closures of the Park. If you went to the Park one day and found that it was “partially closed” but the only part you could go to was the children’s playground near the Park Vista gate, or you could only walk up the path on the western side to the formal rose garden (all of the rest of the Park being closed), would you return home content that you had not had your silence bought now by being DELIBERATELY misled about what a “closure” meant?