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All is not quite lost. A letter from today's Telegraph...
"SIR - There will be 70,000 volunteers working all over the country to make these Olympic Games work. Some will be experts in a particular field, others will do any task assigned to them. Some have been involved in events in preparation for the Games.
All, whether or not they live in London, have attended a half-day orientation course, a role-specific training day, a venue-specific training day and will have collected their uniform and accreditation for each event at different venues in London.
Some shifts at the Games begin at 6am and last for more than eight hours, others finish after more than eight hours at 11pm. Some shifts are days apart so require an extra journey home. Virgin Trains will provide one first-class return journey to the Games, and one meal per shift is provided. Other than that, all travel and accommodation is the responsibility and at the expense of each volunteer.
I am one of these volunteers and was involved in interviewing potential volunteers in the North West. I met the most wonderful people, young and old, and they will be among the unsung heroes of 2012.
It restored my faith in human nature.
Catherine Waring
Chorley, Lancashire "
And yet we hear that many of these volunteers are set to be stranded in London with very little by way of joined-up-thinking and less action on the late night/early morning public transport front. Some volunteers who have undergone all the training are yet unsure if it is possible for them to carry on and do what is asked of them, and what they dearly wish to do, because so little thought has gone into the logistics of getting volunteers to and from the games.