Millennium Place crowds
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Millennium Place crowds
Image: © E Gammie Taken: 2 Jul 2012
Crowds gathering in Millennium Place at a little before 7am to watch the first runner of the day leave at the start of the Coventry to Leicester day 45 leg of the Olympic torch relay. The pigeons on the Whittle Arch are getting the best view. From here the runner went via Fairfax Street to Priory Street and past the cathedral to Broadgate. Visible beyond the arch is the old fire station and, to its right, the bus station entrance. In the foreground is the green of a pocket park created on the site of the Smithfield Hotel, demolished a few years ago as part of a development that never materialised. The large spheres dotted about are part of new traffic calming measures to declutter the roads of signs and traffic lights and create traffic/pedestrian shared spaces. It's not quite working yet, vehicles being bigger and harder than people.
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