Guy Debord and the Olympic Route Network

Guy Debord mapped the mental unities of areas  of Paris, the distance between them and the routes between them, in the 1957 Guide Psychogeographique de Paris . The mental disjunction between areas, the dislocation to city life and the consequent alienation of citizens from their hometown were often the result of Baron Haussman's boulevards deliberately driven through districts, and then the growth of traffic making passage between areas difficult, dangerous and time-consuming.

So now, Olympic chiefs are demanding the removal of pedestrian crossings on the  (Ratcliffe) Highway, as part of the Olympic Route Network. See GLA-member John Biggs press release on Transport for London's callous disregard of Wapping residents concerns for the safety of children and old peple, in particular John Bigg  . These proposals will effectively cut Wapping off from the rest of London for pedestrians (and prevent my access to the river from Stepney/Whitechapel areas). Can the Olympic Games be so divisive, desructive, negative, dangerous, so ignorant, reckless, so smug, so CAR-BOUND! Prisoners of their privilege their stop-free glide in limousines at the expense - potentially - of children's lives. See also 100 days on Wapping Island