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Dee Doocey writes… Getting Olympic ticketing right
March 12, 2011 11:42 AM
• [Mar 12] Dee Doocey MLA* writes: AT one minute to midday on Tuesday 15 March, applications for tickets for the 2012 London Olympics will open. Over the past twenty years, ticketing arrangements for every Games have created bad headlines. Controversy has ranged from empty seats to excessive prices, ticket touting and counterfeit tickets.
It's a tough challenge to get the right balance between maximising income to cover the costs and ensuring that each event is accessible - especially as the actual running of the Games by the London Organising Committee for the Olympic & Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is paid for entirely by non-public money. As ticketing is such a key issue, I was delighted this week to present the London Assembly's latest report 'Just the ticket' . .
We believe that public confidence in the Games will be undermined if an unreasonable number of tickets are made available to VIPs at the expense of the general public. So we have written to the DCMS, the Mayor and all London boroughs asking them to show restraint when bidding for tickets and calling on them to ensure there is transparency and accountability for each ticket they receive. We have suggested that they publish a register, showing who the tickets have been allocated to, why the allocation has been made and how they were funded.
Now if we can get this right, we really will be on track for an Olympics we can be proud of.
* Liberal Democrat London Assembly Olympics Spokesperson.
• Dee Doocey writes… Getting Olympic ticketing right [Lib Dem Voice Mar 12]
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