WARNING: - the author of this thread does give a toss about any individual lamenting about this post and to those complaining about the repetitive nature of the topic and also for those who hurl their fly-by comments about whether to wait till December 2nd.
@Genesis....
I am sorry but I think you are of the opinion that I am supporting the bid. Sad to bring to you but I am not because I can think not because I am a puppet as rightfully and ironically you put it correctly.
I have read the findings report on the FIFA website, and I must say on the Qatar report, as objective as the author is supposed to be, was hinting towards cynicism in the linguistic setup of the report. Anyone who can read between the lines can note that. Because of the radical change it would have in what is perceived as the expected norms for a host nation of the World Cup.
Forgive me all for I will deviate from the topic at hand for a little while. For the benefit and awareness of the blind supporters and the “Puppets” of the bid, for whatever reasons that you are supporting. Let me break it down to you on what has been stressed about in the report.
• Concepts that are generally taken such as city headquarters for national teams will be abolished, meaning there will be only one headquarters for the teams and thereby (although beneficial for transport and logistics) might prove to be a nightmare in space, mobility, and various other complications arising from such confined compact spaces.
• 3 to 4 games a day in a radius of 20kms within Doha. Major (MAJOR) security and crowd management issues. We are talking about 80,000 people attending and also about 100,000 people in the so called “fan zone” areas. If you do the math that’s more than half a million people reveling around the city and also attending the matches. Hmmm what about the rest of the people. I leave your imagination to include the rest of the people, authorities and volunteers, citizens, residents, oh yeah… and cats (don’t forget the cats!) etc, etc, :
• Most of the structures and buildings are sure to be “White Elephants” when they are used up after the world cup.
• Various technologies and the transport situation (although it was illustrated when the delegation came) are still in design stage and also are difficult to engage in operational testing for a World Cup scenario because of non adequate figure of people here in Qatar to test it.
• Single point of entry (New Doha Airport), which is also a major concern for FIFA
• Infrastructural and civic preparedness towards the excess inflow of people converging in the city. Now of course the city in the mean time will be growing, (according to “Statistical dept of the urban development authority” estimates vary up to a further 4 million people by 2020. NOW……let’s see what that translates to!
The current population density is about 123 per km2 …..(And yet we complain of overcrowding!) By 2020 that figure will go up to 5 fold. So that is give and take about 615 per sqkm2. Ok now that’s just the people here. Now give and take from pervious world cups, rough assumption would mean about 2.5 to 4 million EXTRA people. That means a further (approx 500 people per km2) now all of them mostly to be concentrating on the city and its limits. That means compounding the overcrowding situation. Don’t forget the “un-natural onslaught” bulk of people who will come because of the PR of the country bid as a residence destination and to those arriving from all over in order to commit to the projects and the like.
WARNING: - the author of this thread does give a toss about any individual lamenting about this post and to those complaining about the repetitive nature of the topic and also for those who hurl their fly-by comments about whether to wait till December 2nd.
@Genesis....
I am sorry but I think you are of the opinion that I am supporting the bid. Sad to bring to you but I am not because I can think not because I am a puppet as rightfully and ironically you put it correctly.
I have read the findings report on the FIFA website, and I must say on the Qatar report, as objective as the author is supposed to be, was hinting towards cynicism in the linguistic setup of the report. Anyone who can read between the lines can note that. Because of the radical change it would have in what is perceived as the expected norms for a host nation of the World Cup.
Forgive me all for I will deviate from the topic at hand for a little while. For the benefit and awareness of the blind supporters and the “Puppets” of the bid, for whatever reasons that you are supporting. Let me break it down to you on what has been stressed about in the report.
• Concepts that are generally taken such as city headquarters for national teams will be abolished, meaning there will be only one headquarters for the teams and thereby (although beneficial for transport and logistics) might prove to be a nightmare in space, mobility, and various other complications arising from such confined compact spaces.
• 3 to 4 games a day in a radius of 20kms within Doha. Major (MAJOR) security and crowd management issues. We are talking about 80,000 people attending and also about 100,000 people in the so called “fan zone” areas. If you do the math that’s more than half a million people reveling around the city and also attending the matches. Hmmm what about the rest of the people. I leave your imagination to include the rest of the people, authorities and volunteers, citizens, residents, oh yeah… and cats (don’t forget the cats!) etc, etc, :
• Most of the structures and buildings are sure to be “White Elephants” when they are used up after the world cup.
• Various technologies and the transport situation (although it was illustrated when the delegation came) are still in design stage and also are difficult to engage in operational testing for a World Cup scenario because of non adequate figure of people here in Qatar to test it.
• Single point of entry (New Doha Airport), which is also a major concern for FIFA
• Infrastructural and civic preparedness towards the excess inflow of people converging in the city. Now of course the city in the mean time will be growing, (according to “Statistical dept of the urban development authority” estimates vary up to a further 4 million people by 2020. NOW……let’s see what that translates to!
The current population density is about 123 per km2 …..(And yet we complain of overcrowding!) By 2020 that figure will go up to 5 fold. So that is give and take about 615 per sqkm2. Ok now that’s just the people here. Now give and take from pervious world cups, rough assumption would mean about 2.5 to 4 million EXTRA people. That means a further (approx 500 people per km2) now all of them mostly to be concentrating on the city and its limits. That means compounding the overcrowding situation. Don’t forget the “un-natural onslaught” bulk of people who will come because of the PR of the country bid as a residence destination and to those arriving from all over in order to commit to the projects and the like.
Major YIKES!!