Really, for what 4 weeks of lime light?
Now most of the venues are white elephants, money wasted which could have been better spent elsewhere.
Sorry but I'd rather have a duelled A1, more transport infrastructure, more and better public transport, schools being invested in/rebuilt.
Well apart from the fact that would cost about ten times more, the Olympics were class and partly paid for with increased taxes in london which wouldnt have happened otherwise.
Also without things like the Olympics happening a highlight of your lifetime remembered forever, what is there to live for? roads, schools, cars, for what.. a sad life with nothing out of the ordinary
Increased taxes in London?, only increase in council tax because they were living next to a whole new regenerated area. The same would have applied elsewhere across the country, increase in public transport, other amenities would have resulted in an increase in house prices and as a result an increase in council tax. You have to also remember that council tax also gets invested locally and not nationally so all that revenue through increased taxes is again spent in London.
They would have cost 10 times as more, chirst almighty, what scaremongering have you been reading?
Read any respectable national newspaper on what that money could have been spent on instead of the Olympics before the Olympics happened and they went into "Olympics media" mode. Read the FT articles afterwards that say the job creation was short lived an it didn't even bring in the revenue the government said it would bring in never mind what that money spent elsewhere could have brought in.
Go on Skyscrapercity forums and check out the leading minds of construction, infrastructure, job creators have to say on the matter and where they would have spent the money.
That's like asking us how Ashley should spend his money.
