I'm struggling to know how to react to this as, on the one hand it seems like a very trivial complaint from a very small section of the public while on the other I wanted to take my kids geocaching in Newcastle City Centre today and discover that I can't because of 6 football matches at St James' Park finishing on 4th August but lasting till 10th September. I'm furious, as I have little interest in the Olympics and have been utterly dismayed at the levels of sycophancy and collective hysteria surrounding it (60,000 people turning up to see a flame? Really?)Whilst agreeing that there is a heightened security risk (though we aren't being told whether this is an actual threat or paranoia) it seems draconian to shut off a source of exercise and enjoyment for an admittedly small section of the population. What is most annoying is knowing that there is absolutely nothing I can do, just suck it up and hope that everything else isn't similarly disrupted.
