A self-fulfilling prophecy

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/9889734.Weymouth_Bayside_Festival_Organisers_apologise_for_flop/?ref=mr

ORGANISERS of the failed Bayside Festival have apologised for leaving people out of pocket.
Joe Hall, managing director of Mainsail, the company that ran the stricken venture, spoke to the Echo as administrators for his firm announced it will go into voluntary liquidation at the end of the month.

from DORSET ECHO: 19th July 2012.

"Weymouth and Portland Olympic travel advice row

It comes after hoteliers and traders told the Echo that radio adverts telling people the area will be congested has put visitors off. Weymouth taxi driver Eddie Hawkins fears the ‘fiasco’ will destroy summer-time trade as people will be put off from coming to the area at all.
He said: “The council have been telling people not to come in their cars and now South West trains are telling them to drive as the trains will be busy.

It is absolutely ludicrous. This advice really sums up the whole fiasco of the Olympics"

Putting up signs on practically all main roads in Dorset advising motorists to avoid congestion in Weymouth and Portland, was never a good idea, because tourist and visitors did exactly that. Weymouth Council and the event organisers made a complete mess of the whole "Olympics event" , which the traders and people will be paying for over many years to come.

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