KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!

By © Muhammad Haque 2150 Hrs GMT London Thursday 5 February 2009 Khoodeelaar! is part of the movement against poverty. Primarily sited in the inner cities in the UK and in principle including all of the ‘same’ society. Khoodeelaar! has said every day for five years now that the London Crossrail scam is a Big Business scam, contrived to facilitate the further impoverishment of the ordinary public and the simultaneous enriching of the already over-rich.. Construction conglomerates Military Industrial Complex agencies. Khoodeelaar! has said, with continuous daily updated evidence that Crossrail as a project is the perpetuation of the same wrongs that had been done before . That CRASSrail would come apart and be exposed as such… Khoodeelaar! has cited the contemporary instance/s of wasting public resource and of the mass-media hype and fabrication towards zombifying the already zombified population into accepting the wastes as ‘acceptable’. One ‘arena’ [‘pun’ ‘is intended’] has been VERY adjacent to the field of the Khoodeelaar”! battle against Crossrail hole scam… The ‘site’ and the related parts of the 2012 Olympic Games Hosting promotions… There is confirmation that the Stratford, ‘East London’ [Newham London borough] site is suffering multi million £ costs overruns. This is the case every day…. Today is no exception. Thursday 5 February 2009. The ‘NEWS EXRA’ edition [in fact the ONLY edition] Of the EVENING nostandards STANDARD that has been in circulation in the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ‘south’ ad Stepney London E1 area, has the front-page ‘news’ saying as follows:





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2012 stadium bill goes through roof
Matthew Beard
05.02.09

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The cost of the 2012 Olympic stadium has soared again — by almost £50 million, the Government admitted today.

The bill for the centrepiece of the Games in Stratford has increased by nearly 10 per cent and other venues will also cost more to build.

In a major embarrassment for Olympics bosses, the stadium, aquatics centre, velodrome and other venues have gone up in price by nearly £100 million in the last year. Olympics minister Tessa Jowell was admitting the scale of the budget increases to MPs today. Games chiefs will blame various complications for the cost increases, ranging from engineering difficulties and changes of design.

They also say that suppliers are holding the Games to ransom because of a lack of competition when contracts were put out to tender. The annual report took a snapshot of the budget at September last year and calculated likely increases by 2012. These include:

● The cost of the main stadium to rise by £43 million to £547 million.

● Aquatics centre to go up by £5 million to £251 million.

● “Other Park venues” to rise by £25 million to £446 million. The cost of the velodrome, the cycling stadium, has risen from £80 million to £105 million because of land contamination.

● “Non Park venues” to rise by £24 million to £123 million. The increase is thought to include the rising cost of the artificial white water canoe venue in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.

The total construction budget stood at £1.27 billion but is now £1.36 billion, an increase of £97 million.

The report blamed the stadium rises on “the development of the design, and the lack of competitive tension in therisen from £80 million to £105 million because of land contamination.

● “Non Park venues” to rise by £24 million to £123 million. The increase is thought to include the rising cost of the artificial whitewater canoe venue in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.

The total construction budget stood at £1.27 billion but is now £1.36 billion, an increase of £97 million.

The report blamed the stadium rises on “the development of the design, and the lack of competitive tension in the procurement”. It added that there were additional costs from “structural amendments” to the roof to meet the requirements of the opening and closing ceremonies, and provision of a temporary fabric wrap that will serve as the stadium wall.

The lack of competition is thought to have been caused by a booming construction sector when the contracts were awarded. Builders could find work easily so did not place bids. They also feared getting involved in a major government project after the Wembley stadium fiasco, in which construction firms lost out on profits because of penalty clauses.

The cost of the aquatics centre has risen in cost partly because of the “potential scope changes, such as additional athlete facilities, and increases in scope to allow for enhanced community use”.

The Government Olympic Executive carries out quarterly assessments of the 2012 budget and the latest is included in today’s annual report.

Today’s report stresses that savings have been made elsewhere, saying: “In a programme of this size, it is inevitable that there will be upwards and downwards movements within the funding package over the life of the programme.”

The budget for site preparation and infrastructure is expected to rise by £16 million to £1,881 million while the transport budget will fall by £47 million to £817 million. Other major budgetary pressures have affected the Olympic village and the media centre, which failed to attract private investment during the recession.

Last month the 2012 chiefs made a £496 million raid on the Olympic contingency fund to keep these two projects on track. Games chiefs have now spent around 40 per cent of their emergency fund but insist they will remain within the overall £9.3 billion budget.

Accountants today put the “anticipated final cost” of building the Olympics at £7.413
billion.

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