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London traffic lights rigged to win International Olympic Committee's favor

Reported by The Verge on Monday, 14 May 2012 (on May 14, 2012)
The Verge
London traffic lights rigged to win International Olympic Committee's favorA Vanity Fair articleext profiling the political journey that Britain took to secure the 2012 Olympics reports that the bid committee went as far as messing with traffic singles to ensure that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) visitors were impressed with the city's infrastructure. In a story that sounds worthy of a political thriller (or a Bourne film), CEO of the London bid committee Sir Keith Mills says that the team planted GPS trackers in each of the IOC evaluator's vehicles, planned their routes through the city, and followed them using London's infamous CCTV system to make sure that they were not hindered by traffic. The operation took place in the London Traffic Control Center and "when they came up to traffic lights... we...

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