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No deadlines, Delhi will be ready for Games before Oct 3: Dikshit New Delhi, Aug 27 – Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Friday confirmed that the Aug 31 deadline for completion of Commonwealth Games-related projects will not be met but said that Delhi will be ready for the mega sporting event before Oct 3 or 15 days earlier, provided the sun shines and the rains stop. After inaugurating a parking site at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium here, Dikshit acknowledged that the incessant rains have been an obstacle in meeting the deadline, but at the same time refuted rumours that the venues will not be ready in time. ‘We have full faith in our authorities that they will ready the venues on time, but incessant rains are hampering the progress of preparations of the venues. And we pray to the rain gods to have mercy on us,’ Dikshit said. The chief minister asserted that the Oct 3-14 Games are a national and not a political issue. ‘We have beautifully engineered the city, not only in areas in the vicinity of the Commonwealth Games village and venues, but also areas lying far outside,’ she added. On removal of debris from across the city, she said the work will be done by Sep 10 and so far 145,000 tonnes of debris have been removed from various areas of the city. Earlier, Dikshit had set Aug 10 as the deadline to remove the debris.

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and thats final

I am already looking forward to these Games. I suspect it will have the scale of Manchester with the hosting elegance of Australia.

Those sightlines aren't the greatest. I suppose they will have to do given that its an existing structure,

So where do we see these detailed section plans, seating plans, scope of works, subcontracts etc?

I assume that means the final design is now in place and the entire scope of works for the precinct?

A 2 year old on a construction site?

I just remember that many workers died building the Athens venues, and in any rush there are sure to be things that were not quite kosher.

I'm still doubting the visitor numbers they invented.

here we go again.

Find a large plot in New York. Put up temp seats. Hire the pool. Bring on the ratings, and late night swimming.

Foro Italico, isn't that the whole complex?

Ok fine. Cape Town will swop 2015 and we get 2017.

You are all Qatar-haters. Doha can have 8 venues...so what!!

Cape Town 2026! 3.5 million people!

I'm all for the Port Area upgrade, they just need to figure out how to get athletes to the site without major travel times. Why not use a fleet of helicopters between venues?

38 minutes! 5-10 minutes extra maybe, but 38 minutes is just ridiculous. Its already 25 minutes to the Opening Ceremony for all athletes and track and field athletes for their events.

I see all the views but a cluster has a purpose. i.e. to reduce the security and other logistical resources, which a spread out concept requires. making planning very difficult. If there are no synergies or "economies of scale" offered by a cluster well then its not really a cluster but a "Zone". Basic requirements would be that venue are within a reasonable radius but more importantly that they ARE linked, through dedicated lanes, s.t. it is essentially a well connected space, not only from other clusters but within the cluster. Spectators should be able to arrive the "Cluster Transport Hub" and then easily transfer between venues withing that cluster, or even walk. I have superimposed Rio's plan to a Cape Town cluster plan and will share it later.

I'm not saying its a bad thing at all. Each city has its own topographical /geographical characteristics. I'm just saying that in a cluster e.g. Maracana, not divided by a mountain or a geographical feature, that venues 3-7km away can form a cluster, just means that in Cape Town e.g. venues in the Southern Suburbs, could be considered a cluster.

If 3-7km away can form a cluster, then in Cape Town we could have lots of venues in a "cluster".

Thats a very spread out "cluster".

What is the distance between each of the venues in this "cluster"

Cape Town will crush you! ahaha

So its totally impossible to add a track to Maracana? But then you lost out on the large capacity for the ceremonies.