Comments on: Will London 2012 be ‘The Green Olympics’?

By: sticklandjm

sticklandjm — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:37:32 +0000

Great article – really interesting point of view.
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By: hark

hark — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:56:53 +0000

13 millions could feed the hunger around the world.

By: pc256

pc256 — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:50:15 +0000

Hmmm…I cycle past the 2012 site most days and over the past 2 weeks they’ve been chopping down lots of old trees round the temporary bus park site (which is being built on-top of hackney marshes) – can’t make an omlette yada yada yada but their destruction seemed somewhat unnecessary so makes me think it’s all PR rather than actually making them sustainable. Also, with the post-Olympic park only due to be completed in 2014 I suspect it’ll just be left as they’ll run out of money. (though I really hope not!)

By: PJ

PJ — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:48:48 +0000

the ground on which the Olympic site is being built is toxic ….. nobody is talking about it … but u dont have to dig too far to find out …

By: nivison

nivison — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:53:06 +0000

“The only question is will it be finished in time?”….. another bogus comment about possible delays to London 2012. London is not Athens or Delhi and the Olympic facilities although costing way more than they should will be on-time and hopefully impressive and green,

The Olympic budget for many reasons (including political) was estimated far too low. But the UK has a pretty decent track record regards large construction projects on time (think about the tunneling for Eurostar…) And the Olympic association have no concerns regards the Olympics being ready well in time (unlike most recent games including Sydney)

The Dome was over budget but on-time…..and the Footbal Association(!) was in charge of re-building Wembley stadium which was an over budget and delayed project.

By: Garage Doors Luton

Garage Doors Luton — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:09:58 +0000

Don’t get me started on the olympics, every time some large scale project is put under way in england it’s budget doubles and it’s always late. but do apprecaite the effort in trying to be green

By: siansophia

siansophia — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:09:55 +0000

I can’t see it being finished on time, but its nice to see they’re trying to be ‘super green’

By: Clare Evans

Clare Evans — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:03:16 +0000

Good idea in theory but with the massive increase in price it doesn’t seem so ‘green’ and ‘economical’

By: Patrick33

Patrick33 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:30:03 +0000

If the budget has exploded, it may be because it has been badly evalueted at the beginning. The budget was an important point for the choice of the city…
Now, we already now that a lot of things will not be done because they are too expensive. I really think the “green” aspect will be reduced too…