Potential health ‘legacy’ of CG2020 unproven
A recently published report by Gerry McCartney et al in the British Medical Journal (BMJ 2010; 340: c2369) has cast serious doubt on the potential health benefit ‘legacy’ of the Commonwealth Games 2020. Their report analysed fifty-four studies assessing the health and socioeconomic impacts of…
Evictions: All part of the Games strategy…
Ardenlea Street As the Centre of Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) have shown, when a big new development is attached to a major sporting event, such as an Olympics or Commonwealth Games, people are often forced to move from their homes…
A Green Games? Really?
The Games organizers have made much of their green credentials leading up to 2020 – but do they really come up to scratch? Recent news that The City Council may be adding Ultra Low Carbon Vehicles (ULCV) to its fleet,…
M74 extension jobs boost ‘not credible’.
Published, April 21st 2002. The “jobs boost” for Scotland which would result from the controversial M74 extension has undergone a 15-fold increase from 2900 to 44,000 in just eight years, the Sunday Herald has learned. According to sustainable transport pressure…