London, Jan 02 : The London Olympics have been touted to be the ‘greenest’ Olympic games to have ever taken place, but the decision to whisk VIPs around London in 4000 BMW’s during the Olympic games isn’t going doing well with green activists. Even the spectators for the event were urged to ditch their personal vehicles and use the public transport during the Olympic games.

But the decision to import 4000 BMW brand-new luxury vehicles to escort high profile dignitaries has been termed as ‘lunatic’ by critics, the Daily Mail reports. ‘Most of the athletes will be staying in the Olympic Village and won’t need to travel to events, so the BMWs are really for the politicians and dignitaries,” said Jenny Jones, a member of the London Assembly for the Green Party. “Four thousand vehicles seems lunatic when we have such a good public transport system.

I can understand a few officials need secure transport but 4,000? Shipping new cars in from Germany is also extremely bad news for the environment,” she added. The enormous fleet will include more than 3,000 BMW 3 and 5 Series saloons. It is understood that around 250 VIPs would be given their own designated BMW cars and a group of officials, dignitaries, atheletes etc would share the rest of these plush cars .

Caroline Pidgeon, who chairs the London Assembly Transport Committee, claimed that the BMW fleet went against the culture of the Olympic games. She also stressed on the fact that only electric vehicles should have been used. (ANI)