Olympic legacy

This picture in yesterday's Guardian caught my eye. The train of thought being how on earth does one cope with what looks like an enormous number of people - near 55,000 of them at a sell out inaugural match at West Ham's new stadium, the newly converted Olympic stadium in east London.

I associate to the lady we heard a little over a year ago at the Royal Institution and noticed at reference 1, a lady who would certainly know how to do the sums which convert number of people and duration of event into capacity of fresh water and waste water systems. Probably also the number of St. John Ambulance people and the number of policemen. And then I wondered about how long it took to empty such a place - associating from there to stories about the tube trains at Wembley, shifting maybe 1,000 people to the train with a train every two minutes after a big match. So answer, not long. Assuming that is, that the Docklands Light Railway can do the same sort of job as the tube network...

While the Guardian is much more concerned about the cushy deal the West Ham is supposed to have got from the government. Not to mention the diversion of much Lottery money from more worthy causes than the London Olympics.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/a-sanitary-engineer.html.