Apparently London isn't quite the nightmare mob scene previously anticipated:
After Warnings of an Olympic Crush, Businesses Suffer in a Deserted London
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"Trains and subway lines have run smoothly....Normally crowded sidewalks in areas like Knightsbridge, Oxford Street, Bond Street, Piccadilly and Soho have looked much as they do when the city empties for summer weekends....Cabdrivers complain that business is down 30 percent from normal at this time of year....[yet] Transport for London... warned on Thursday that 200,000 people were expected to head to Olympic Park on Friday for the start of the track and field competition, double the number who showed up on any previous day of the Games so far."
Here's hoping the eerie calm continues for Maestro's Olympic leg.