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July 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - £130 fine for driving in Olympics lanes between July 27 and August 12
- Fast-track V.I.P lanes cover 30 miles of road in the capital
- The public faces gridlock as athletes and officials breeze round the city
- At least 100 workmen carry out painting across the capital before rush hour
By
Rick Dewsbury
10:17 EST, 2 July 2012
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12:19 EST, 2 July 2012
They came in the the night… and changed the face of the capital’s road.
This is the army of workmen putting the final touches to London’s streets for the Olympics as they paint fast-track lanes reserved for V.I.P.s.
Dozens of men in fluorescent jackets were dispatched along 30 miles of road around east and central London to daub the iconic rings and white lines on the tarmac.
By the early morning rush the workers – believed to have numbered at least 100 – had disappeared.
But in their wake they left fast-track lanes that ordinary drivers will be hit with £130 fines if they dare to venture in to.
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Paint job: Workmen start marking Games lanes along the Olympic Route Network in central London last night. Members of public cannot drive in them from July 27 to August 12
As Londoners slept, workmen marked the
30 miles of tarmac which will be out of bounds to motorists between July
27 and August 12.
Although not operational until two days before the Olympics, the Games Lanes are shaping up to be one of the biggest irritants to those living in the capital.
Used to crawling along the city’s clogged narrow streets, motorists will now have the added insult of watching 80,000 athletes, officials, sponsors and media moving freely in chauffeur-driven vehicles on the specially designated lanes.
The high-profile guests will travel glide through the busy streets using the Olympics Games Lanes. Adjustments to traffic lights will begin this week.
‘I think it is unreasonable to expect London to have road closures and places closed off – people still have to get around,’ said Steve Dixon, 45, a retailer from south London.
‘I don’t think London is being considered.’
The fight for space is likely to be so keen that some taxi drivers are threatening to leave their car keys at home and go away.
‘I think it’s going to be a nightmare – I won’t be able to get around, the roads will be blocked,’ said taxi driver Scott Rawlings, 45, his black cab idling as he waited to pick up a customer in central London.
Workmen peel off a stencil used to paint the markings and underneath the iconic rings are revealed
A hard nights work: Workmen peel off the last bits of white paint from the markings, and right, stand back to admire their work
Sprint finish: The men pack up their tools as some members of the public look on at the lanes, which they will be fined £130 for driving in
‘People don’t like sitting in the back of a cab when it’s not moving.’
The Olympics Rings-marked lanes, which run alongside lanes for general traffic, will only come into operation on Wednesday July 25 – two days before the Olympic opening ceremony, with ‘ordinary’ drivers allowed to use them until then.
The lanes have been dubbed ‘ZiL lanes’ after the Russian-built ZiL car that carried Soviet Union leaders around.
There will be 30 miles of Games Lanes in London, with the lanes forming part of the 109-mile Olympic Route Network (ORN) which links Games venues.
OLYMPIC ROUTE NETWORK: WHAT THE COLOURS MEAN
Yellow route:
Roads on this route will have a dedicated ‘Olympic-only’ lane for
athletes, officials, VIPs, sponsors and media. The lanes will be in
force from 6am until midnight.
Red route:
Roads on this route, the busiest “core section” of the VIP network,
will be affected by major restrictions to speed up traffic but will be
fully open to the public. Measures could include bans on parking and
right-turns, suspension of pedestrian crossings, phasing of traffic
lights and no public entry from side roads.
Blue route:
Roads on this route will only be affected on competition days. They
will run from the athletes’ accommodation to venues such as Wembley
Arena, Earls Court and Wimbledon.
Variable message signs along the lanes will state that drivers will be able to use them until July 25, although Transport for London (TfL) is advising motorists to avoid central London around the ORN and Games venues from mid-July.
The exception to the free-to-use rule will be the Games Lane on the M4 near Heathrow which will start on Monday July 16 as the ‘Games Family’ – athletes, officials and the world’s media – begin to arrive in big numbers.
Before that there will be a reversal of traffic flow in the Kingsway Tunnel at Aldwych in London to assist traffic flows while on Friday July 20 further ORN work will be carried out, including the installation of barriers to simplify junctions.
When the ORN and Games Lanes come into full operation on July 25, they will be enforced from 6am to midnight daily.
Fast-track: A car zips along one of the lanes in front on the London eye. The roads will certainly not be this clear during the Games
V.I.P fast lanes: A car drives in an Olympics Games Lane on Upper Thames Street after workmen painted on the markings last night
Up to one million extra visitors are expected in London on each day of the Games and there will be up to 1,300 ‘Games Family’ vehicles an hour travelling between key venues.
A penalty charge of £130 will be issued to owners of vehicles who break the regulations, including driving in Games Lanes or stopping along the route, and any illegally parked vehicle will be removed to a vehicle pound and may incur a release fee of £200.
The Games Lanes will end around two days after the Olympics finishes on August 12 and will not be in operation between the Olympics and Paralympics.
A smaller Paralympic Route Network will come into operation shortly before the Paralympics start on August 29.
Having dedicated routes to events became an Olympic priority after difficulties in the 1996 Games led to the venue in Georgia, USA, being dubbed ‘the lost city of Atlanta’.
London Mayor Boris Johnson said: ‘Following the unveiling of the Olympic Rings on Tower Bridge, the Rings on London’s roads really bring home how London has begun its transformation into a massive sporting and cultural venue.
‘The ORN is a requirement of all host cities and is vital in ensuring athletes, officials and the world’s media get to their events on time.
‘My team slashed its length by one third of what had been planned and we’re working hard to introduce changes to the road network as late as possible, to minimise the impact on Londoners and businesses.
‘But with the Games less than one month away, we’re into the home straight and are working flat out to ensure we are ready to welcome the world.’
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Let’s be honest……Ordinary working people are an inconvenience for the likes of Lord Coe and his hangers on. It would be far better if they all went away until it is all over. Us mere plebs should all know our place in life and not rise above our station…(tugs forelock), aint that right guv’nor?
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Who the hell do they think they are telling me I can’t use a road I paid for with my Taxes and Road Licence?
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Er…wouldn’t it have been far easier, far cheaper, and caused far less disruption to the public, to put these so-called VIPs in hotels or accommodation in the general vicinity of whichever Olympic event they needed to be at, rather than chaffeur them in from Central London? Or would that not inflate their sense of self-importance enough?
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Are they actually legal?
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I would seriously question the legality of this both in preventing the use of roads paid for by road users and as a legal traffic symbol. Why should I recognise this bit of bureaucratic dictatorship?
– Nobby, Notts,* * * – – Quite. Has there been an amendment regulation, or cal legislation. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if they had “forgotten: to do it.
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It says “Highway maintenance” more like “Highway Disturbance” and in few weeks time the clean crew will have to remove all these markings ! all under budget ……
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That many men to do this menial job, if there had only been the normal two the unions would have been calling them out on strike, to cause more chaos in the run up to the olympics
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…and yet they’ll cone off 10 miles of busy motorway and have just 3 people holding a clip board working on it…well, I use the word “working” in it’s most stretched context
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One for each ring, one supervisor, and one van driver, so 7 in total.
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RIDICULOUS!!!!!
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