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Danny P

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15th Oct 12 at 19:09

Off to London in a couple of weeks and was wanting to go up and have a look round the Olympic Park. I'm not arsed about going inside the stadium but it would be nice to have a look round the park itself to pass an hour or so,

Does anyone know if you can just walk up and have a look round now everything has finished? I've looked on the site but all the info is from when the games were on so its talking about having tickets for events etc.

Cheers

Ben G

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15th Oct 12 at 19:17

From what i've read, no you can't.

You coupd only go for a walk around the park until the athletics events started in the stadium. Then they stopped it as it was too busy.

I'd like to do the same.

Danny P

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15th Oct 12 at 19:38

Really?

Thats a bit shit.

Haimsey

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15th Oct 12 at 19:55

You have to pay post-games to do it. £20-25 iirc

During the Olympics you could only walk around the village if your event venue was inside. ie athletics / swimming.

[Edited on 15-10-2012 by Haimsey]

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Ben G

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15th Oct 12 at 21:05

the first week i.e swimming events, you could go and walk around the park without an actual event ticket.

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16th Oct 12 at 10:38

You could only ever get in with a valid pass.

The park is now closed for a year while it gets converted into it's post-Games state.

Budgie

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16th Oct 12 at 10:57

I heard the bmx park is staying there...

Dom

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16th Oct 12 at 11:14

There are still a handful of walking tour companies that will take you around.

spencer88

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16th Oct 12 at 11:57

Excuse me if my information is off, but they have used tax payers money to build it, yet tax payers have to then pay to walk around it.

Sounds fair....

stuartmitchell

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16th Oct 12 at 12:13

I think it was only Londoners that paid for it mate through hikes in Council Tax - some sort of Olympics uplift or something along those lines.

Perhaps someone can verify thats the case?

Dom

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16th Oct 12 at 12:51

quote:
Originally posted by stuartmitchell
I think it was only Londoners that paid for it mate through hikes in Council Tax - some sort of Olympics uplift or something along those lines.

Perhaps someone can verify thats the case?

Majority of the funding came from government; lottery was the next biggest contributor i believe. IIRC (there was an article in the Independent about it), the increase in Londoners council tax only totalled £900m or so, roughly 10% of the total funding.

[Edited on 16-10-2012 by Dom]

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16th Oct 12 at 13:03

The funding came from a wide range of sources:

http://www.london2012.com/about-us/funding/

You pay for quite a few things things with you tax and still have to pay to use them. Public transport being one example, it's much better that large projects are part financed/managed by public and private organisations. Good documentry on projects like this at the moment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01ngs45/Built_in_Britain_Episode_2/

[Edited on 16-10-2012 by ed]

stuartmitchell

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16th Oct 12 at 14:48

quote:
Originally posted by Dom

quote:
Originally posted by stuartmitchell
I think it was only Londoners that paid for it mate through hikes in Council Tax - some sort of Olympics uplift or something along those lines.

Perhaps someone can verify thats the case?

Majority of the funding came from government; lottery was the next biggest contributor i believe. IIRC (there was an article in the Independent about it), the increase in Londoners council tax only totalled £900m or so, roughly 10% of the total funding.

[Edited on 16-10-2012 by Dom]

Thanks for clearing that up mate!