Meanwhile, Boris Johnson (who may or may not be mayor of London by the time of the opening ceremony) is merrily insisting that transport will be the 2012 dog that doesn't bark and that fears of gridlock will turn out to be this year's Millennium Bug scare.
During the sticky summer months of July and August, it begins to resemble a giant, out-of-control sauna complete with temples, lady-boys, delicious street-food and gridlock.
"I want to get out of this gridlock of nothing happening.
Police began routing cars down the bank to get them out of the gridlock; one car got stuck.
If some smart leader is going to help us get out of ideological gridlock, that leader will reframe politics around this end.
Mr Peres, who is 85 and has, in his long career, suffered his share of hung elections and unworkable governments, may well have some ideas of his own to get today's politicians out of their gridlock.
That's not insuperable in Indonesia's deeply transactional political system, but, as an outsider to both Jakarta and the political élite, the President finds it hard to wheel or deal his way out of the gridlock that the opposition gleefully drives him into.
The Cuban medical teams reportedly worked constructively and positively with personnel from the US and Europe – and this kind of collaboration, even if informal, could be the kind of confidence-building narrative to move US-Cuba relations out of the gridlock they have been in for decades.
